hi daddycool,
Every winter we get all the birds who have migrated from up north.  There are vast flocks of starlings that roost and scavenge together.  Very amazing except they also produce vast quantities of 'fertilizer' where ever they decide to spend the night.

These flocks will descend upon an area and blanket it while they dig around in the turf.  I have no idea what they are finding, but they seem to find plenty of it if their output is any indicator.

Hey - do you know what that white stuff is in bird poop?                    {It's just bird poop, silly!}

keep cranking out the tunes!
James

hi daddycool,
I haven't ice skated for decades - but living now in the South, there just isn't much opportunity.  Never was very graceful, but had lots of fun as kid.

Oh - I fixed the coding.  Use the 'edit' button by your original posting to see the changes I made.
James

More 'Narcissus' news . . . the song will be played this coming Friday, February 29 and also the following day in the re-broadcast of the week's show.

He mentioned he would be playing my song next week on his show yesterday.  The song he played on yesterday's show was "Call Any Vegetable" by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention (so I guess my song will be in excellent musical company).

The Gestalt Gardener shows are archived on the web.  Will post a link to the site after the song is played . . .

Thanks, everybody for sharing my excitement!

I have exciting news to share regarding my 'Narcissus' song!

Since the song is about flowers, I sent a link to the recording to a statewide public radio show.  "The Gestalt Gardener" is hosted by Felder Rushing.  Felder does a weekly show all about gardening and habitat and living with nature.  Listeners call in with questions and the show also features very interesting guests who discuss wide-ranging topics of interest.  It is really good radio.

Mr. Rushing has replied to my email and asked if he could please play the song on his show.  I am absolutely thrilled and look forward to hearing my song played on one of my favorite radio shows!

Don't yet know when he will play the recording, but I am walking around with a great big old goofy grin on my face!!!!

Thanks for the feedback, daddycool & Old Doll!
This is a strange little ditty, but I rather enjoy its quirky theme.

I used the same 1, b3, 4, 1 chord set recently on 'Food Chain' and for some odd reason it just seemed appropriate for this lyric also.

I have just posted a recording to my MySpace Music page:
http://www.myspace.com/r200james

I wrote this song and posted it here several months ago.
Just made a 'raw & flawed' recording of it put in on my MySpace Music page . . .
http://www.myspace.com/r200james

OK, so I'm eating my lunch and decided to make some up:
Electric Apples Don't Get Bitten Easily
Eva Always Does Go Bonkers Entirely
Everything Always Does Get Better Eventually
Excruciating Aches Don't Get Better Easily
Everybody Always Digs Great Big Elbows
Episcopalian Archbishops Decry Godless Babbling Elves
Evolution Allows Dubious Goofs Beautiful Exits
Existential Agony Depresses Gleefully Boisterous Executioners
Essentially, All Dumb Guys Believe Everything
Eventually, All Desirable Girls Brazenly Escape
European Aristocrats Deplore Great Big Eyesores
Enemies Attempted Devious Grins Behind Elvis
Eli Ate Delicious Green Bananas Everywhere
Evil Angels Deliberately Give Bad Education

So . . . I guess I need to get back to work now.

Hi sassy8319 & welcome to chordie!

Ummm . . . Looks like you tried to embed a YouTube video into your message.
Sorry, but that is no longer possible in this forum.
We had terrible problems with porn spammers posting lots of human anatomy videos, so videos and photos have been disabled . . .

However, you can still post regular links other sites.  Please re-post your video, but use the address in your browser's address bar (rather than the YouTube embed link coding).

There are lots of folks here at chordie who can probably help you figure out the song . . .
(Actually, Russell Harding is usually a rather helpful fellow . . .)

Very very nice, Jeff.  Would love to hear your interpretation - I like the chord pattern, but haven't yet found a melody that suits.  I realize that I haven't written a Valentine song yet for this year . . . I better get get on that because my #1 girl sort of expects something and I would hate disappoint.  James

Hi Kieth & welcome to chordie!

Yes, you can easily create new songbooks and move songs.  Log in, go to your songbook, and click 'add book' to make a new book.

To move or copy items, go to the bottom of the old songbook's listings.  There is a menu there.  You can check multiple songs and then simply 'move', copy', or 'delete'.

Glad you found the site.  Where are you from?
James

Thank You, Gentlemen!

Glad you like this one - - After hearing it several times now, I realize it might make for a pretty good rock&roll tune.  Lots of thumping drums, throbbing bass, blazing guitars, and a vocalist like Robert Plant.  I guess it's just a little too late for the big LZ reunion concert though . . .

Hi Nela - we are neighbors, sort of!  I'm in Starkville, MS here in Oktibbeha County (translation from the Choctaw dialect = 'Land of Many Trailers').

Saw your tips on transposing and that method works just dandy, but is somewhat labor intensive.

A somewhat quicker method is to use a circle of fifths transposing wheel.  I have one I made out of paper plates . . . not real fancy, but it works just fine.

Here is a printable transposing wheel I just googled up on a nifty ukulele site:
http://www.tikiking.com/circle_of_fifths.html

I might print one of these out myself - but I'm rather fond of my paper plate creation . . . used to use it all the time before finding chordie and it's whiz-bang voodoo transposing gizmo.