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I was feeling nostalgic and thinking about my mother and father in law. So I wrote this. I can't find the heart to put chords to it. If someone else could, that would be nice.

For most of the time I knew them, they fought continuously. So much so that they purposefully  bought a house with two separate living areas as they almost couldn't stand to be in the same room.   My mother in law suffered a series of mini strokes followed by a doozey of a big one that left her paralysed down one side, bed ridden and her speech was badly slurred. My Father in law spent almost every waking hour at her bedside until the night she died. I don't think he ever got over his loss.

Fifty Years

Been married over fifty years
Sometimes happy, sometimes tears
Common interests had long since died
Now they hardly even tried
Wouldn’t share a double bed
Romance well and truly dead

They used to fight most every day
Both wanting things their own way
Both fought dirty, both fought hard
Both of them were badly scarred

Then one day she had a stroke
The poor old man, his heart was broke
Not able to get out of bed
Still alive but better dead
He sat beside her bed all day
Nearly a year she passed away

The next ten years he sorely grieved
Until it was his time to leave
And join her on heaven’s fair shore
Back in love for ever more.

This one is a work in progress. I have put down the base chords but I want to do something more complicated with it due to it being a march to make it less boring.

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This was inspired by Easybeat's Stop Go Man and talking to a guy who was fixing a Van in a Courier depot. He was telling me how the people there were just throwing parcels around and not taking any care. I said thats what happens when you pay people the minimum wage, you get the minimum effort.

Dead End Job

[G] Didn’t do too well at school
[D] The teachers didn’t care
Spent [C] too much time being cool
and [G] chatting up girls there
Chorus:
[G] Got a dead end job for hardly any pay
[C] Boss don’t know who I am
[D] Do this, is what he’ll say
[G] Hanging on for end of day

[G]Don’t care if it’s done right
[D] I still will get my fee
[C] I’ll just blame someone else
[D] And say it wasn’t me
Chorus
[G] Never had a pay rise,
[C] Every day’s a grind
[D] The work can be so boring
[G] Don’t get any praise
Chorus
[G] I do the same thing every day
[D] Can hardly wait to go
[C] I’m on my feet all day
[G] Boss say’s I’m too slow

[G] Everything I do is wrong
[C] Boss says to take more care
[D] Looking forward to end of day
[G] To get me out of here
Chorus
[G] Been here for years
But no one cares
[D] If I stick around
[C] Guys like me aren’t hard to find
[G] There’s tons of us around

Have you ever noticed that if you change Rock and roll to Sausage Roll the lyrics still work in a song?
For example: I love sausage rolls by Joan Jett and It's a long way to the top if you want a sausage roll by ACDC

It works if you change love for lunch as well
I need your lunch by Shaggy or A whole lot of lunch by Led Zeppelin.

Another slightly dodgy song by me. You can tell my misspent youth was the 70's to 80's.
https://soundcloud.com/sak-26/the-sleazemp3

The Sleaze
[C]Of course I’ll respect you in the morning he said
[F]As he sat her down on his waterbed
[C]With satin sheets coloured green
[G]She was the prettiest girl he had ever seen
[C]Just relax and have a wine
[G]There’s no hurry we’ll just take our time
[F]That little black dress that she always wore,
[C]looked so much better as it dropped to the floor

[C]She said I have never done this before
[G]As he quietly lock the bedroom door
[F]No need to worry, he gave her a kiss
[C]I am also new to this

[C] And so it went on all though the night
[F] She didn’t really put up much of a fight
[C] All next week he never did call
[G] It’s like nothing had ever happened at all
[C] But something inside her had started to grow
[F] And after five months, was beginning to show
[G] It might not be mine he said with dismay
[C] When he found she was in the family way

[C]She said that’s what it says in the test
[G]I’m keeping the baby, it’s all for the best
[F]And from now on he will have to pay
[G]for what he did on that fateful day.
[F]And now together they are always stuck
[C]All because of a five minute kiss.