thanks guy's,

stransongs,

thank-you, i havent heard that particular springsteen track, but i willl certainly be litening out for it.
mouse...moose, their all loose aboot this hoooooose...it's the cold, the snot is blocking my keyboard, and my moose is covered in slime...

hi russ

how are you me auld mucka? earthy feel? you been using my keyboard russel?

hi toney,

i hadnt put the two songs together until you mentioned it, yeah i guess there would be a similarity with sheriff's and deputy's...only the sheriff lives and the deputy dies, well it must have been his turn? i actually do "i shot the sheriff" but i always thought he was talking about the sheriff of nottingham, in robin hood?   lol

well from you ark, i feel really honoured, even though i had to come home early from work that night! please dont tell the wife i lost half a shift through singing...
by the by, i just bought the book "pale rider" by bernard cornwell, you said you'd read it? going to start on it tonight.

When I was learning to play, I had re-tuned the guitar so that I could play this little song I'd written easily. So my mate...John Rodge, came down, he was helping me learn [hard work for him] and tuned the guitar properly...result...NO CAN PLAY THE SONG, can't have been that good, I can't even remember it now.

Phill

Now for clarification, My national identity is British, and I'm proud of being British as I come from the UK.
I also am proud of being Welsh as I come from a principality called Wales, which is part of the British Isles. But to isolate my-self from being mistakenly identified as say...Scottish or English [which are also British], I like to be referred to as Welsh like Tom Jones or Dylan Thomas. I hope I have not caused even more confusion?

Yechid dda a pob hwyl.

Phill

Hi Russ,

Blues, you certainly can play them...I know I've heard you...stroke sum a dem sweet lix der maan

Ken, I feel better knowing that.

This came to me today as I walked out of the factory I've worked at for the last 19 years. It's not yet closed, but has ceased to exist geographically. I'd like to blame the bankers and world leaders, but for the fact I know it's all down to two foolish cretins. Their power struggle has put over a hundred on the scrap-heap, after all we are just numbers, pawns to used and discarded as and when required...excuse me now I have to spit!

Phill

PS, sorry if it depressed you, as it has depressed me...greatly

sorry i'm totally confused, i thought it was about mcdonalds and hamburgers in a deep sort of way, and what russ said only compounded my confusion...and i thought scottish colloquialisms were confusing? i didnt understand one word of russ's reply.
wait i just read it for the 3rd time...is it about guantanamo bay?  please excuse my denseness, but i'm brittish, and we dont go in for torcher...lol

a most effusive missive mr unhuh, well written and deeply felt on a highly contentious subject.

phill

Hi Daddy,

Another great love song, but I must correct you, my fair lady Ann and my-self have been together 30 years now, it hasn't been all smooth sailing, but as I say, You've got to have troughs to know when your on the crest of a wave. And to add to that, we tell each other every day "I love you", when I'm off to work or when we're hanging up the phone. It's great to be in love, and maybe the hormones don't bother us so much any more, but when they do...it's still magic!

Phill

This song is played in waltz time...is that 3/4 Russ or 6/8? he'll tell you anyway. And it will be up on my space tonight [Wednesday] hopefully.

Oh, also I play it with a capo on the 6th fret to make the first chord Am to G etc. I will transpose if anyone asks

Phill

Hi Buvvy,

X factor has a lot to answer for. But on the other hand it has given us poets plenty of material to work with.
Still I'd like to see a return to the normal kind of talent contest where contestants are not shamed or embarrassed, deluded as they may be.

Producers have been the subject of many discussions on Chordie in the past, how they use and then throw away kids who's dreams of becoming pop stars are the main focus of their lives...

As Nik Kershaw once said "Disposable Mankind"

It's the poor that have the numbers, but it's the rich that have the power...and with money you can buy all the numbers you want...sick or what?

Phill

Thank you for sharing such a heart warming little poem with us. I have nine grandchildren now, 3 years to 15 years, and they all seem more intelligent than I was at that age...probably smarter than I am now, come to that.

Encourage and nurture...they're not young for long.

Phill

i've got to add a little ps here, as i've said my youngest granddaughter is 3...well i have another who is just 6 months old...sorry Brooke [that's her name] it's old age creeping up

thanks guys,

selso,

i wish i could play piano properly, it's an instrument i love, and just a note here, i normally write a song, then record it straight away, but this time after writing the song, i played it over and over, and it changed so much, eg; where the Gm7 is now was C7. i debated on writing another verse, then decided against it as [1] the song seemed complete. [2] it already runs for over 3 minutes and [3] i couldn't think of anything else to say!
and thank you on behalf of the principality of wales for educating others where national boundaries are concerned.

roger,

oh well if you insist....psssssst, glug, glug, glug...ah! that's better. funnily enough, i dont feel so depressed now...three times?...it must be a hit then?

hi canukey kenny

oh well if you insist.....psssssst, glug, glug, glug...dash berrra!
you guys are trying your best to get me in the good books with ann, she thinks i'm spending too mush time on-line!   and drinking...well it's better than spending all my time down the pub? did i just say that?

thanks again

phill

wow daddy, this sounds like an angry song to me? it also sounds like your on HSE? i've done health and safety myself for about 10 years while i was a shop steward, and i loved every minute, what a lot of people dont realise is that they must ensure safety and make sure that the business can keep going at the same time, all a question of balance.

keep rocking

phill

I hope you all like this one it's up on my-space [click the link on the left] I know it's a depressing subject, but that's how I feel at the moment...but it'll pass. Funnily enough I wrote another song shortly after this one and a poem, which were not depressing [I dont think?] the poem is "Song of nature" and the other song is called "Bubba McDougal" [A C/W] watch this space...