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Thanks you two. I don't know how the rest of you writers feel, but once I get started on a song/poem/short story --- whatever ---- the people in them become like my kids or my friends and I react to them and with them the same way I would in real life.

It's got something to do with my emotionality (is that a word?), but by the time I finished this one, damned if I didn't feel like I wanted to cry because these two couldn't work it out.

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.” ----- Omar Khayyám

I always liked this quote and I especially like Peatle's and keepitreal's abilities to write prose such as we see by them from time to time. With just a few lines, they both manage to convey their messages to us just by using the minimalist approach. Maybe this literary device could prevent me from that "painting myself into a corner" thing.

Love You Guys!

Bill

I may have let myself get into big of a hurry, Ed.

It seems like every time I write a "story" song, I "paint myself into a corner" and say to myself "you have to resolve this new conflict, Bill!!!"" It is for that reason, I tend to lose the "rhythm and rhyme" of the whole thing.

The only bridge I put in there is the chorus after the first verse and the double chorus ("Gene-Less") after the last verse.

Yeah, I could use some help.

Thanks, my friend

Bill

Corrected for chords above. I hope they're correct because I'm not as accomplished at writing the music as y'all are. I pretty much have to have the tabs/chords in front of me to play anything. Sorry!

Bill

PS: If anyone can improve on what I have listed as the chords, can you help me out and I'll try to find an online tutor to help me til then.

I hope it's okay that I add one of my own, badeye?

I have always thought that these guys kinda got "covered up" as far as the blues goes by great bands such as The Allmans, Clapton and so many others I could name.

While Skynyrd had numerous hits, I don't believe they ever got credit for being a "down home" blues band such as The Allmans received. Here's what I mean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_udH4kZRDk

Bill

Hehe. Been reading my mail, easybeat?

You nailed what a bunch of us are feeling whenever we tune in to watch the draw from the Atlanta television studios. Didn't win? What the heck! Try again tomorrow night!

I never spend more than we can afford ($5.00 a week), but it's worth experiencing that little "tingle" of hope.

Loved it, my friend!

Bill

Well, since no one has taken over my little segment, and because some my best friends (who just happen to be musicians) won't let me leave a project without following it up,  allow me to "jump the gun" on Monday and present Mr. Hank Garland, one of early country music's "Golden Fingers".

He died in 2004 at the age of 74, but left behind a legacy such as this tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDSr_eG … DSr_eGX6Wo

More on Mr. Garland can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Garland

Thanks for listening and watching!

Bill

Okay here's what I came up with during the last hour. (REALLY!) I think if y'all would just give me an "assignment" to write a song about..... whatever, I could do a better job of it.

Here is "Ruth-Less" with thanks and love to all of my friends for their support. Think of this as one of those "Country-Talking- Blues" songs, such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU

As always, feel free to add, subtract and change for the better.

Ruthless
===============
G                            C                        G
Well, I know a man who liked to have fun
G                             C                       D
It wasn't like him to run from a gun
G                             C                        G
Except when the gun was the voice of his wife named Ruth.

That woman was pretty as she was mean

And all she had to do was LOOK at Gene
                                                                                                                         
And he'd commence  to beggin' and tellin' the truth   
                             

Chorus:
G                                         D
But now he's "Ruth-Less", Ruthless
                G                         D
And yeah, just a little bit toothless

But ol' Gene he WON that night (fight)

And sent  Ruthie to her folks for spite

He called his buddies up after she left

Told 'em friends, I gotta confess,

I'm ruthless.

It was late night poker Ruth couldn't  stand

And yellin at Gene to beat the band

Just never seemed to do her any good.

She tried making him sleep on the couch

But that just turned 'em both into a grouch

And you could hear 'em screamin' across the neighborhood.

But then one night it all came to a head

When Gene came beggin' to be allowed in the bed

But beg as he might it didn't help

He was so drunk he'd fart and belch

And threw up on poor Ruthie's negligee

OY VEH!!!

Well, the last straw hit the camel's back

Ruth and Gene went for the attack

And what happened then is best left to your imagination

But I will say this, if you could have seen that mess

You'd agree there were no grounds for negotiations.

And that's  the story of Gene and Ruth

Some of it's lies, some of it truth

Did they make up? Well, I hope they did

Nothin' worse than a marriage on the skids

Not takin' sides, you understand.

Just wish that game had been better planned

With some give and take on either side

Let some of it hit, let some of it ride.

CHORUS:

But now he's "Ruth-Less", Ruthless

And yeah, just a little bit toothless

But ol' Gene he WON that night (fight)

And sent  Ruthie to her folks for spite

He called his buddies up after she left
Told 'em friends, I gotta confess,

I'm ruthless.

EXTRA CHORUS:

And now she's Gene-Less, Gene-less

Beauty with a touch of mean-ness.

Their home it stinks of beer and smoke

And every now and then a "toke"

But I believe they both would say

Being "Ruthless" and "Geneless"

Is the only way.

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I wanted to "revisit" one of  the great Duane Eddy's hits to better explain what I meant in a previous post about him playing his music on only the bass strings.

I didn't mean he limited himself to only those strings, but it was his "trademark".

This tune, "Rebel Rouser" is one of his best known (probably the first - not sure) and he makes liberal use of that tremolo on that Gretsch.

However (and this is where you, my great instrumentalists, come in), I have seen him perform that song and at the end of his "intro" he doesn't bend that E string,  he takes it out of tune and back in.

So my question to y'all is: Do you trust your playing enough to do something like that? Unfortunately, this clip doesn't show him doing that, but I'm sure you have seen that little trick done before by others, right?

https://youtu.be/nS_hFfucAAs

Thanks

Bill

Comment left on the Tube, but I wanted to let you know that I had never heard this one before and loved your version. Now I don't know if I want to  listen to Queen's version or not.
Great job, UJB.