Your wording and verse are almost shakespearean or romantic/classical, beautiful. It will be interesting to hear your treatment as I feel its more poetic than musical. Great job.
52 2024-05-12 10:16:06
Re: Harmonica Man (3 replies, posted in Poems)
Having seen your video Pedr, I have one question; how does he find his mouth to play?
Great poem by the way
53 2024-04-18 10:11:27
Re: chordie mobile app for android? (4 replies, posted in About Chordie)
Yes I just typed in "Chordie" and I got lots of choices including the app download
54 2024-04-17 21:24:39
Topic: Another Night (1 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Here s a bare bones demo of ANOTHER NIGHT as I haven't finished the finished version.
55 2024-04-17 09:04:06
Re: quirky (4 replies, posted in Poems)
MiLord Brian, that made me stop and think. I've never taken drugs and don't drink to excess any more. But your poem is surely a warning set out in a straight and formidable way. Well done and I hope the message gets through.
56 2024-04-16 20:54:35
Re: April 2024 FSOTM - anything!!! (16 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Hi, I just tried to enter my new song "Another Night" about a stag party but PUNBB wouldn't allow me so it's not there. I cant upload the recording for at least 2 weeks. sorry if you feel as if you're missing out, I bet you're not?
57 2024-04-13 09:19:19
Re: April 2024 FSOTM - anything!!! (16 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Hi Richard. I have nothing at the moment but songs are like busses there'll be another one along in a minute.
How about a song about busses? The wheels on the bus....no I think we'll skip that one?
58 2024-04-13 09:13:39
Re: Mr. Chackrobarthi and the lost socks (6 replies, posted in Poems)
Shwmae Pedr? It seems every time I put a pair of socks in the Washing I get out one less than I put in. I suppose I could wear miss matched socks and tell everyone that I have another pair at home just the same?
It seems since I gave up gigging I have been writing at least one new song a week. Well the last couple of weeks I haven't come up with anything I want to make into a song, so I guess that's why the poems, or rhymes, have been appearing. Normal service will be resumed shortly.
59 2024-04-13 09:06:11
Re: Mr. Chackrobarthi and the lost socks (6 replies, posted in Poems)
Thank you Jim. No this one isn't based on me, though I like a drop of Irish whiskey but no Scotch whisky! And certainly not with water. In the UK we have a tradition of the corner shop or convenience store which Mr Chackrobarthi ownes several along with a few houses and flats or apartments so his deeds and contracts being mulched would, in the story at least, would leave him penniless. Any similarity to persons living or dead is accidental and the imagination of the writer. I just thought I'd add that incase I get sued...
60 2024-04-12 19:41:36
Topic: Mr. Chackrobarthi and the lost socks (6 replies, posted in Poems)
this is a sermon on the demon drink. (yeah right!) I like the name Chackrobarthi, if that's how it's spelt? and the fact that I'm always losing my socks, not both just one, read on....please remember I have a wierd sense of humour
Mr. Chackrobarthi and the Lost Socks.
Mr. Chackrobarthi
Got invited to a party
There was food; so much and varied
From pizza to cakes and cherries
And whiskey served with water
To celebrate the daughter
Of his sister's older brother
But he never spoke to either
Due to arguments and bother
So he sat there in the corner
Drinking whiskey without water
So he drank more than he aught-a
Till he swayed and fell and stumbled
In the rain and so he fumbled
With the key to his front door
Falling from his hand to the floor
When he stripped off all his clothes
Which were strewn across the floor
In the morning he was searching
For the socks he had been wearing
In the washer. In the basket. In his shoes
And in the attic
But the socks were in his pocket
In his trousers so he'd locked it
In the wall safe in his office
They were wet from last nights deluge
And they dripped and soaked his refuge
The lease for all his properties
Now papier mache tragedies
That's how Mr. Chackrobarthi
Became a pauper for a pair of sodden socks.
N.B. Sodden means soaking wet, not swearing
61 2024-04-10 10:38:27
Re: Carpark Money (15 replies, posted in Poems)
Right on the ball again Richard. A bank manager actually told me that that was the government ambition. For the likes of jobbing musicians for instance making sure the cretins in stripey trousers get their taxes. No more bartering etc. The infernal net is a two edged sword with the advantage firmly on the side of the elite billionaires. VIVA LA REVOLUTION. I don't actually mean that
62 2024-04-10 10:26:44
Re: Old man's thoughts (7 replies, posted in Poems)
Good observation Richard, maybe those old codgers in parliament have got a use after all? It's the young ones that seem to be causing all the problems, though Poo tin is no youngster.
Thanks Pedr. I think I based the old man on myself. Not that I want to hurry my demise! I should have named it early morning thoughts as it came to me almost comple at 8.15 on Tuesday morning. I typed it into my phone as I would have forgotten it by the time I got up. I pictured it in the 18th or 19th century, I almost wrote a second verse but it would have been rather bawdy!
63 2024-04-09 19:09:10
Re: Old man's thoughts (7 replies, posted in Poems)
Thanks Jim. A bit of a departure for me, cant keep writing love songs forever, can I?
64 2024-04-09 19:07:00
Re: Beach Woman (Her Heart Can't be Tamed ) (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Great story Jim, true or false, I know in your description you mention sitting on the beach with a guitar, but in the song you were fishing? Are you sure you weren't day dreaming? LOL
65 2024-04-09 10:11:45
Topic: Old man's thoughts (7 replies, posted in Poems)
There was an old man who walks in a pub
He orders a glass and some beer in a jug
He sits in a corner that's dark and alone
And thinks of a time and a place he called home
The dogs and the budgies and cats there that slept
On the rug by the fire so sad that he wept
He topped up his glass from the jug as he sat
In the pub in an alley where his thoughts could enact
Again in his mind all the joy of his youth
And the passing of persons and time oh forsoothe
May my time left on Earth be short and end in my bed
When I wake in the morning may I wake up cold dead
66 2024-04-08 09:45:18
Re: Login search login search login how do you leave a comment on a song (1 replies, posted in About Chordie)
If you don't like the way Chordie works don't use the site.
67 2024-04-08 09:38:04
Re: Carpark Money (15 replies, posted in Poems)
As an update Pedr, while these postmasters and postmistress were
Being persecuted and prosecuted the shareholders and top brass were still picking up millions in bonuses! And probably patting each other on the back. Same as when some banks were being bailled out by the government the bosses were also picking up millions in bonuses...is that fair? So your post has raised a discussion on both sides of a coin, the ultra rich and ultra poor both out to rob the hard working populace.
68 2024-04-07 10:43:07
Re: Suggestions - FSOTM for May 2024 (11 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
I know it's way off theme here but...Spike Milligan what a brilliant headcase! Read Puckoon if you can, I was lent a copy in work many years ago and read it all in the toilet, just as well as I couldn't stop laughing. And his wartime books... hysterical. If Hitler had read them he'd have given up years earlier. Another great read is the Goon show scripts, there were three of us trying to keep a straight face reading our characters and failing miserably. I used to get a lot of jyp from my parents while watching Monty Python, TV series and films then Faulty Towers.
A quote I love from Puckoon..."he looked at the church clock it had stopped at (whatever time) in 1925? And hadn't moved since, but at least it was right twice every day!"
69 2024-04-07 10:30:04
Re: Carpark Money (15 replies, posted in Poems)
Wow, so powerful Pedr. $15 I DONT KNOW HOW MUCH A PINT OF FALLING DOWN LIQUID IS IN KIWILAND but it seems a lot to me. Sorry about the caps I should look at what I'm typing!
I think the scammers are everywhere and they try to Rob you while they smile in your face. The infernalnet is like a town hall clock with many faces. One face is a great thing like Chordie and the second is an opertunity for rogues and scammers. So I'm guessing your poem is a warning to us all to be careful and aware of these faceless and heartless thieves. We'll done Pedr
70 2024-04-06 10:27:47
Re: Suggestions - FSOTM for May 2024 (11 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Free swimming is a new trend in the UK where people go swimming in rivers or the sea all year round, the water is cold all year round any way.
I think you got my meaning wrong anyway, I was referring to the last word on Richards list...Richard...lol. am I the only chordian with a sense of humour?
Oh Richard my friend
As your guitar strings you bend
May your talent never end
I don't mean to offend
So don't take offense, take a gate
Yes I have hundreds of song up my sleeve, in books and on cds, not to mention cassets, if I only had a working player!
71 2024-04-05 09:40:35
Re: Suggestions - FSOTM for May 2024 (11 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
I'm a bit confused by the bottom entry?
Bereavement
Sorrow
Happiness
Orchards
Free swimming
72 2024-04-05 09:34:50
Re: See The Light Do Right (5 replies, posted in Poems)
A lesson in verse Pedr. Nicely written. Lesson learned.
73 2024-04-03 20:23:50
Re: spammers. (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Hi Russ, hope the new aids will help you to get back to producing those great sounds I've known so well over the last few decades? I've had tinnitus for a long time now but it hasn't affected my hearing too much, what? who said that? joke?
See you soon Buddy
74 2024-04-02 19:45:17
Topic: spammers. (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
3 new messages today all spam. come on guys lets start a conversation about music, playing or recording or writing of... keep music live, keep chordie alive
75 2024-04-01 08:58:39
Re: Rosemary and red onion sausages, a song for vegetarians ? (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)
They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes? Well here's antherone, meat free food that is meant to imitate real food will not be welcome in my diet any time soon. Your song resonates well with my philosophy on life and I look forward to hearing it later today. Glad to hear you and mrs Grah are feeling better. Yechyd dda, or good health.