Wow!  Great internet resource - thanks for the link and the topic mherbert.

I read through their listings with great interest.  Was glad to see some of my favorite books had inspired songs.  Got to admit though that Camus' "The Stranger" being the inspiration for Sinatra's "My Way" seems a bit of a stretch to me . . .

Was interested to note that Walker Percy's "Love in the Ruins" had inspired a song by Animal Logic - not familiar with the artist, but now I have good reason to give them a listen.

I submitted "Ballad of Peter Pumkinhead" by XTC to their listings - seems to me to be directly inspired by events described in the new testament gospels.  I'm sure other examples will come to mind eventually now that I'm thinking about it.  James

Hi nadine2 - I have the information you requested.  To 'de-register',  a registered user would simply request that their user name be deleted from the list of registered users.  Deleting a user registration can only be done by a person with administrator-level access.

The easiest way to make this request would be to log in and then send a private request via email to either myself, or Roger Guppy, or Admin.  As you stated, you were only curious - I hope to not receive such a request from anybody.  James

Hi again markdrago - Sorry, but I have steered you wrong.  I looked up 'Bad to the Bone' on YouTube and listened closely.  Well, it is different that I remembered it - seems the whole song is basically the same riff all the way through (with lots of dazzling fills and embellishments, of course).

So, your best bet on this one is to decipher the tabs to get the basic riff.  Sorry for the bum steer on this one (but learning basic blues changes is still a good thing to know).
James

Folks, this topic is exhausted . . . I'm closing it down since it has degenerated into pointless back and forth - keep on playing music, but this topic has run it's course.

Hi gitaardocphil - You have a couple of options for sharing your song.  The easiest would be to record it and then share it via a MySpace Music page.  You simply go to MySpace Music and register, then upload your recording.  You can also post your lyrics and chords there along with the recording.

Another option is to put your lyrics and chords into chordpro format.  For the specific licks and embellishments you can notate those in tab form.  Look at the very top of the Songwriting section for details about how to that.  It takes a little time to get it all typed up, but the end result is worth the effort.

'I Will Survive' is a great song - it got overplayed when it first came out, but it has a wonderful chord set, rhythm and melody.  Let me know if I can help - James

Very sweet love song - do your road construction crewmates know you are such a sentimental guy?

Amen, Brother!  Keep your head held high - my sentiments exactly.  James

Jeff, dogs are dogs no matter how big or small.  However, it is amazing what people will tolerate from smaller dogs.  If Chibi wrote a song about you, what would it say?  Oh no - now I've got myself thinking . . . James

Hi dakunes & welcome to chordie!  You can find tons of chord grids on chordie's 'Resources' page.  In fact, you can click on any chord and then see several alternate fingerings.  I just tried it and these images can be copied.

Another alternative is to use 'chordpro' formats for your songs.  This is what chordie uses to render the pretty songsheets (unless the source file is not chordpro formatted).  The advantage to using chordpro is that the songs are then transposable and printable.

There is a shareware application called 'Songsheet Generator' that yields very nice renderings.  You can download the software.

Hope this helps, and welcome again to chordie's forum.  James

daddycool - I came, I saw, I coded . . . . and I made it 'all purdy like'!
Very neat little song - I'll give a thrash and howl after the rest of the family is awake.  James

I know this thread is about phony accents and such, but here is my angle:

My singing range is tenor - I can sing lower but it really lacks the tone and resonance and sounds drab.  Plus my vocal chords wear out quickly if I try to sing lower.

There was a time when I tried very hard to develop a 'more macho' lower singing voice, but it was hopeless.  So, I learned to be proud of my tenor voice.

It also helped to discover that females are somehow naturally wild about a tenor voice . . . don't really know why, but it is true.  From young ladies to great-grandmas, they all respond very very favorably to tenor singing.

So - moral to the story is this:  If you also have a high/tenor voice be proud of it and learn to use your super powers wisely.  Don't try to make your tenor voice sound like Johnny Cash . . . it just won't work.