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Topic: JULY 2022 FSOTM – DOOR, CHILD, GOODBYE, RAIN, LOVE

Hi everyone, here we are already well over halfway through the year!  Time is going way to fast it seems.

For the month of JULY, looking for any SONG with the following words in the lyrics.   These 5 different words are:  DOOR … CHILD …GOODBYE … RAIN … LOVE.

You can perform any song you like, so long as it has at least one of those words somewhere in it.

Some suggestions that have been made by members are:

* Early Morning Rain – by Gordon Lightfoot
* Don`t Think Twice, It`s Alright – by Bob Dylan
* To Her Door – by Paul Kelly
* The Door (Mamma`s Song) – by Jim Kenyon (our very own Chordie member TIGLJK).  The lyrics and chords to this song can be found in the SUGGESTIONS for JULY Topic.

Once again, you can perform any of the above suggestions for this month or you can do a song you have found that may not have been suggested.   As long as it has one or more of those words in the lyrics and you can perform as many songs as you like.

It can be a COVER, ORIGINAL and or INSTRUMENTAL, you decide.  Looking forward to what you all come up with.

READY!  SET!  GO! 

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https://m.soundcloud.com/graham-windle/ … r-a-change
Here's a song about rain.We get a lot over here .     

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Graham

That is awesome - great song - well played !   

I am sure there are thousands that have the same sentiments regarding urban life

Jim     

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Jim  it  was  supposed  to  be  this  one  https://soundcloud.com/graham-windle/just-for-a-change     

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Graham
Yeah, well, I liked this one too !!  smile

You are a really talented musician.

Jim     

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a quicky for song of mth
i may not be a free man much longer, due to murdering a banjo and assaulting a recording device.
threw in a few mistakes just to keep it real, best listened to after a few drinks.you have been warned!
https://soundcloud.com/rough-as-gut/autumn-rains     

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Grah1,
Very catchy, nicely done once again smile

easybeat,
haven't heard you play banjo in a long time,  good to see you mixing it up.  This one bounced along nicely with the banjo.  I still at times struggle to hear the lyrics, just wondered if you turned the vocals up when recording so your voice is above the instrument would help.   Also, can you re-enter the other song you put up in Suggestions too smile

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Jan
i know my recording is pretty slap dash(as is everything else)but i dont have a prob hearing the lyric when
i play them back.perhaps this is because i kinda know what im saying?
someone once said i had too much reverb,once again ive never heard this on my playback.
i dont know whats going on,be good if my mistakes were confirmed by a few more,then i could address them all.
thanks for having a listen.
B.     

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easybeat, nothing wrong with the reverb and nothing wrong with the recordings.  I just think as your voice is reasonably quiet, you probably need to either increase the recording volume on the  vocals or decrease the instrumental recording so it doesn't override your vocals.  Hope that makes sense.     

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Grah1 wrote:

https://m.soundcloud.com/graham-windle/ … r-a-change
Here's a song about rain.We get a lot over here .

I'm not sure which one it's supposed to be, but I listened to Wonder and liked it.     

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Grah1 wrote:

Jim  it  was  supposed  to  be  this  one  https://soundcloud.com/graham-windle/just-for-a-change

Oh.That's the one I was supposed to listen to. The recording was much better on it, and I liked it very well. The picking was really outstanding.     

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easybeat wrote:

a quicky for song of mth
i may not be a free man much longer, due to murdering a banjo and assaulting a recording device.
threw in a few mistakes just to keep it real, best listened to after a few drinks.you have been warned!
https://soundcloud.com/rough-as-gut/autumn-rains

You don't hear enough lead banjo.

I liked it. I especially liked the mention of coffee keeping you warm to rhyme with staying out of the storm.     

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Includes child, goodbye, door and it's easy to imagine rain.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/gMjKhDuGLTdEAQaL6     

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Here's rain.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ViiFk1fF8Hem91eF6     

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Zurf
some fantastic picking on these covers,im envious!     

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Zurf, really good both of them.  The first song, Bob Dylan,  I knew well and have covered it myself quite some time ago.  But mine was no where as good as yours, your guitar skills are good in this song and I only had the ukulele.   The second song I actually don't know, so it was new to me but you sounded good in it.  Both songs you performed really well vocally and instrumentally. 

Here is my version of it done 5 years ago and sung probably way too fast smile  https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan/10010135a     

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The door opened wide and the child burst in
A tornado in a Macintosh and short pants
Shaking off the rain and clutching his nanna
I love you nan, he said and kissed her cheek
Were off now to Disney land... goodbye, goodbye
Yahoo, he screamed and was gone in a flash
We walked to the door and waved as the car drove away
See you soon, enjoy and closed the door.
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Jandle wrote:

Zurf, really good both of them.  The first song, Bob Dylan,  I knew well and have covered it myself quite some time ago.  But mine was no where as good as yours, your guitar skills are good in this song and I only had the ukulele.   The second song I actually don't know, so it was new to me but you sounded good in it.  Both songs you performed really well vocally and instrumentally. 

Here is my version of it done 5 years ago and sung probably way too fast smile  https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan/10010135a

Hey! That's cool! I really like how you started out with staccato strums and syllables and then worked into a steady strum pattern and straight singing. What a neat arrangement.     

The second song, Early Morning Rain, is a Gordon Lightfoot classic. It's been covered by nearly everyone from the 1970's folk scare, but probably most memorably by Peter, Paul, and Mary.  I love how in this song in the first portion Mr. Lightfoot almost whistfully sings about how the liquor tasted good and the women all were fast. Then at the end of the song, the woman he loves is flying home - quite some distance if it's a three hour flight in a 707 (we are left to presume "she" is a woman and not the aircraft - a beautiful bit of underwriting where the listener fills in the blanks), and he remains behind and practically spits out the phrase "cold and drunk as I can be" and we can imagine him on the ground near the airfield watching the plane leave with her and without him. And we are left to imagine the purpose in her coming was to take him home. It's such a wonderfully written song where he gives no details but provides enough hints for the listener to fill in a complete story.

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Zurf
some fantastic picking on these covers,im envious!

Thank you.     

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Phill Williams wrote:

The door opened wide and the child burst in
A tornado in a Macintosh and short pants
Shaking off the rain and clutching his nanna
I love you nan, he said and kissed her cheek
Were off now to Disney land... goodbye, goodbye
Yahoo, he screamed and was gone in a flash
We walked to the door and waved as the car drove away
See you soon, enjoy and closed the door.
Tea? Yeah why not!

Excellent bit of writing there Phill, love it smile  You used all the words and made it work, great stuff smile     

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Zurf wrote:

Hey! That's cool! I really like how you started out with staccato strums and syllables and then worked into a steady strum pattern and straight singing. What a neat arrangement.     

The second song, Early Morning Rain, is a Gordon Lightfoot classic. It's been covered by nearly everyone from the 1970's folk scare, but probably most memorably by Peter, Paul, and Mary.  I love how in this song in the first portion Mr. Lightfoot almost whistfully sings about how the liquor tasted good and the women all were fast. Then at the end of the song, the woman he loves is flying home - quite some distance if it's a three hour flight in a 707 (we are left to presume "she" is a woman and not the aircraft - a beautiful bit of underwriting where the listener fills in the blanks), and he remains behind and practically spits out the phrase "cold and drunk as I can be" and we can imagine him on the ground near the airfield watching the plane leave with her and without him. And we are left to imagine the purpose in her coming was to take him home. It's such a wonderfully written song where he gives no details but provides enough hints for the listener to fill in a complete story.

Thanks Zurf, more accidental on my part rather than skills big_smile
I looked up the song Early Morning Rain by Gordon Lightfoot.  A cool song, I have no idea how I haven't heard it before.     

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I wrote this song a while ago ( I think Phill inspired it somehow - I forget  smile    - spent today totally changing it to a blues song.
got four of the words - Rain, Goodbye, Love, Door
hoping someone (maybe Graham ?) could give this a shot -
I will probably post a version later this week - I am heading out for few days.

 

Prince Edward Island by Jim Kenyon


Verse 1


.




[Em]I’ve never been to Prince Edward Island


but I [Am] hear it’s pretty there in the [Em]fall


my [Em]love left for there about a month ago


and I’m still [B7]waiting for her to [Em]call




.Verse 2


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[Em]she’s like the North Atlantic at Prince Edward


With its [Am] cold tide that ebbs and [Em]flows


So [Em] beautiful, yet can chill your heart


Just like that [B7]North Point rain that comes and [Em]goes




.


Chorus


.


Oh ya’ know [Am]heartache with time will go away


At least [Em] that’s what all the poet’s say


But I’m still [Am] hoping to get one more dance


And maybe [B7]one more kiss, and just [Am]one more [Em] chance


.


Verse 3



.




[Em ] I wonder some nights, if she thinks of me


Ya’ know [Am]Prince Edward seems so far a[Em]way


never [Em] said goodbye, as she went out my door


just like the [B7] rain that’s gone from yester[Em]day




.




Chorus


.




Oh ya’ know [Am]Heartache with time will go away


At least [Em] that’s what all the poet’s say


But I’m still [Am]hoping to get one more dance


And maybe [B7]one more kiss, and just [Am]one more [Em] chance


.


.


.




[B7]one more kiss, and just [Am]one more [Em] chance


Oh [B7]one more kiss, and just [Am]one more [Em] chance






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TIGLJK that is well written once again and yes awesome it has 4 of the words.  Look forward to hearing how you do this one too Jim.

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Here is one attempt at a song with the word CHILD in it.   I did mess up at the end but didn't change it as still getting over a cold/flu bug, so coughing
and my voice was getting a bit scratchy.    I hope I get to do another song this month, but  will see how I go with this throat.
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TIGLJK wrote:

I wrote this song a while ago ( I think Phill inspired it somehow - I forget  smile    - spent today totally changing it to a blues song.
got four of the words - Rain, Goodbye, Love, Door
hoping someone (maybe Graham ?) could give this a shot -
I will probably post a version later this week - I am heading out for few days.

 

Prince Edward Island by Jim Kenyon


Verse 1


.




[Em]I’ve never been to Prince Edward Island


but I [Am] hear it’s pretty there in the [Em]fall


my [Em]love left for there about a month ago


and I’m still [B7]waiting for her to [Em]call




.Verse 2


.




[Em]she’s like the North Atlantic at Prince Edward


With its [Am] cold tide that ebbs and [Em]flows


So [Em] beautiful, yet can chill your heart


Just like that [B7]North Point rain that comes and [Em]goes




.


Chorus


.


Oh ya’ know [Am]heartache with time will go away


At least [Em] that’s what all the poet’s say


But I’m still [Am] hoping to get one more dance


And maybe [B7]one more kiss, and just [Am]one more [Em] chance


.


Verse 3



.




[Em ] I wonder some nights, if she thinks of me


Ya’ know [Am]Prince Edward seems so far a[Em]way


never [Em] said goodbye, as she went out my door


just like the [B7] rain that’s gone from yester[Em]day




.




Chorus


.




Oh ya’ know [Am]Heartache with time will go away


At least [Em] that’s what all the poet’s say


But I’m still [Am]hoping to get one more dance


And maybe [B7]one more kiss, and just [Am]one more [Em] chance


.


.


.




[B7]one more kiss, and just [Am]one more [Em] chance


Oh [B7]one more kiss, and just [Am]one more [Em] chance






As I read that, I read it as a talking blues with a country twist.     

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