1 Topic by shoodoo (edited by shoodoo 2016-05-09 14:06:07)

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Topic: Ain't No Living Legends Anymore

Hi ya all, this is the way I feel about country music

     Ain't No Living Legends Anymore
           [Words & Music Bob McNulty]
              C
[chorus]  Ain't No Living Legends Anymore
                                                         F
ain't nobody out there like before
G
all I hear are new hats rockin' up the charts
                                                      C
Ain't No Living Legends Any-more

                           C
[1st verse] Ain't no one around like ol'e George Jones
                                 C7                  F                                                   
'cept maybe Willie Nelson & the boys
      G
ol'e Hank has gone forever but his music still lives on
                                                      C
Ain't No Living Legends Any-more

[chorus]
         
[2nd verse]-[key change][A]-[D]

       D
The new hats they have stormed upon the scene
                                                  D7                               G
they don't know where they're goin' or where they've been
             A
they've done to country music what they did to rock n' roll
                                                      D
Ain't No Living Legends Any-more
             
             D
[chorus]No there Ain't No Living Legends Anymore
                                                         G
Ain't nobody shinin' that's for sure
A
all I hear are new hats foolin' with the sound
                                           D
Ain't No Living Legends aro-und

[3rd verse]
D
Now they're sayin' country music has advanced
                               D7                   G                                                   
just because some-body wants to dance
A                           
they tell me I got to change those days are gone I'm told
                                              D
but I got country music in my soul


[chorus] [finish with the following lines]

               A
No there ain't no living legends
A                         A                 A                       A
where are all my heroes-like Willie & Waylon Johnny Kris & Merle
          A                                          D
Ain't No Living Legends Any-more
A                                                    D
Why the hell did Nashville sell her soul

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Re: Ain't No Living Legends Anymore

hi bob,

i take it this song comes from the heart. it's a shame you feel country music has souled out (pun) but every form of music has to progress...then i ask why? why cant music just keep on when it's good enough? maybe it's because a new generation has to put it's own stamp on the "new" generation. usually killing the genre!

i watched a paul simon concert on tv the other day, he played some of his old songs "boxer" etc, but he'd sexed up the arrangements, killed the songs for me...maybe i'm a traditionalist?

i like your song, recording soon?

phill

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Re: Ain't No Living Legends Anymore

Hmm i must try these notes.

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Re: Ain't No Living Legends Anymore

Nice song Bob.  I agree with your sentiments.  Most of the country music fans I work with have stopped listening to the genre because its no longer the country we knew.  I suppose the old time country fans thought that the "outlaws" like Willie and Waylon ruined back in the day too. As Phil said, times change - but that don't mean I have to like it.

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Re: Ain't No Living Legends Anymore

I share your sentiments, shoodoo.
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Re: Ain't No Living Legends Anymore

Nice Write Bob smile

The times they are a changin for sure.
I'm also a traditionalist and favor the country/western from times gone by. Somehow its heart is gone along with the great legends.

Well Done and Merry Christmas smile

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Re: Ain't No Living Legends Anymore

Sad but true,but theres always room for a good ol song because the folks who loved them are still around nice lyrics well done smile

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Re: Ain't No Living Legends Anymore

Welcome back russell!! good to see you made it. Shodoo,Ilike your song I do not know what is happening with todays music scene,I do not see any super players/singers out there. maybe we used up most of the great things up over the last five or six decades.

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Re: Ain't No Living Legends Anymore

Thanks Dino its good to be back all is well smile

dino48 wrote:

Welcome back russell!! good to see you made it.

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Re: Ain't No Living Legends Anymore

I'm impressed ; how long ago was  George Jones singing " Who's Gonna Fill their Shoes "  ?
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