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Hello Family

Been awhile since I last checked in, and I'll update y'all in another post, but for now please allow me the question in the subject line above.

After many months of not feeling like it, I finally picked up the 6 string and started learning "The Year Clayton Delaney Died" in D. Well, even after transposing to an easier chord progression, my voice still didn't feel right, so I placed my capo on the 2nd fret and there it sounded great, but......my fat arthritic fingers kept getting blocked by the capo when trying to make the D and other chords. Any way to avoid this? An "F" would be okay as I am blocking the 1st 2 strings with my index finger, but cramming 3 to make a D, seems impossible for me.

D'ya see?

Thanks

Bill

Here in the US, and example would be "Give A Little Bit", a song by Supertramp used for Amazon and a horribly sung cover of a tune by Lindsey Buckingham called "Holiday Road" which is being played ad nauseam. I think I know how this works - the artist gets paid some huge amount for the rights to use his work for a certain time, right? Even if the song is covered with different words (as the Buckingham tune is), but does he still get royalties, or are they suspended until such time as the usage of the tune  by the advertiser runs out?

How is it in the UK? New Zealand? Australia? Canada?  Do they also get paid for a  time-limit "contract" and what's the royalty system like?

Just throwing this one out for discussion if you are so inclined.

Bill

It's based on a silly little game Dondra and I play every day. If I am the first one to say, I love you, I get to say "ding" right afterward. She replies with "Love you too, *ding-ding* If she's the first one, the opposite applies.

Does any one remember Shirley Ellis' "Name Game"? I have it styled that way with a spoken part in the middle.

The chords as I imagine them are G ---D7 ----G----D7.Please try it and tell me if  this is a good progression.

BUT as usual, I have written myself into a corner and can't come out. It needs another verse and during the spoken part I have the band playing a G-C-D progression.

Here it is, please critique and help me out if you can with another verse? Thanks!

The Love Bell
(starts with a loud crescendo on drums and bass - one beat and simultaneously the singer begins with......)

Hey!!!
Let the love bell ring
let it ring, let it ring
I'm justa doin' my thing
Sayin' I love you!

It's a  game we play
each and every day
Be the first to say
"Baby I love you"

[Spoken} "Why not play along with us?
The rules are simple. You be the first one to say "I love you", and you get to say "ding" afterward. Like this: I lve you! *DING*
Your partner replies with, "Love you too" *DING, DING*. No losers in this game. Only ever-lovin' WINNERS."

So let the love bell ring!
Let it ring, let it ring
Justa doin' my thing
Sayin' I love you"

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Bill

........ used to be played in the 60's by my band "The Watchmen", but because I was only 15 at the time and it was an easy drum song, I never listened to the words, just sat there, drank my beer with one hand and a slow beat with the other. (When did you start drinking?  ;') )

But back to the lyrics: HOLY MOLY! I can't print them here so I will link you to wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Boy   (scroll down a little).

I read up on the tune later on and now know it was once called "Londonderry Air" and the words to fit the melody were written later, but man, is that song "dark" or what????

I dabbled around with that kind of song not too long ago, but nobody thought too much of it, including ME!:)

But "Danny Boy" has mine beat by a country mile!!

There are other "dark" songs, I know, and Russell's band has played the one about the water wanting to pull this guy's girl down below, and then there's "St. James Infirmary" (I'll let you look that one up) which also deals with this theme.

"DB" always filled our tip jar on St. Paddies Day. I just never realized the reason all those guys came up to the band stand to request it  Another one was "Irene Goodnight". My 15 year old self didn't question why those guys were blubbering and it wasn't until my college days that I found the  reason.

Question: Is "Waltzing Matilda" considered a sad tune?

Thanks

Bill