Topic: Alright By Me
This is a song written by Easy Beat, Phill Williams and myself. I hope the video does the song justice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSdwJ-cC8JA
1 2022-02-17 09:20:05 (edited by Peatle Jville 2022-02-17 09:21:38)
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yeah its great us guys working together on a song,ive invited others to
have a crack with us but to no avail,their loss.
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I'm quite proud of this song as it has not one but two storylines. A reluctant and estranged father meets son after many years on the road and in jail, who also turns out to be a gambler, I didn't realize this until I saw the video. Well done Pete and Brian.
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Nice work fellas.
Song sounds great, nice story line, video was very cool as well.
Congrats on the collaboration!
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Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke
5 2022-02-19 09:24:55 (edited by Peatle Jville 2022-02-19 09:38:34)
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Cheers Phill . Brian when he sent me the line ` ive been dealt this hand and that's alright by me``, my thoughts immediately conjured up these lyrics Some people need two blankets. I just need one. Then when you added the lyrics below, to the song that is when we had a good platform that started us on a journey to find a good story to go with it
Some live in the moonlight.
I live in the sun.
my folks jumped the broomstick.
at the end of a gun.
They tied the knot.
and then he ran.
The songs story grew naturally from there with us three throwing lyrics around. Then with your talented facilitation doing the tidying up of all of our lyrics plus composing the music backing it all came together real good. I am real pleased with way the song came out .
Thank you Phill and Brian for making me part of this project. It would be good to see and hear Brian doing some song projects with other people on chordie.
Jim, thank you for taking the time to make a comment and have a listen and checking out the video.
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Ok
so here is what I thought of when I just read that verse - I immediately thought of slavery in U.S. Slaves that ran away using underground railroad. Jumping the broomstick was how slaves on plantations got married (with owners permission or insistence in some cases - basically breeding ) of course. It's funny how a person can look at lyrics and see something completely different that the author's intent. That's the beauty of poetry.
Some live in the moonlight.
I live in the sun.
my folks jumped the broomstick.
at the end of a gun.
They tied the knot.
and then he ran.
Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine.
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke
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Cheers Jim
I remember reading a novel a few years back written by Alex Haley called Roots in that book the early slaves got married in ceremony of jumping the broom. Reading Phill’s wonderful lyrics at that point of the song made me think of that book. Though I am not sure if Phill’s use of the metaphor for getting married in the lines my folks jumped the broomstick.at the end of a gun came out of that historical context. I was born only a few months after my parents got married and it was only after I became a young adult that I realized what my relations meant when they said to me , my mum and dad jumped the broomstick when they got married. I agree with you Jim that’s the beauty of the poetry of lyrics its words can often be interpreted or conjure up all sorts of different images for the reader or the listener.
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I hate to break anyone's historical fact, but I got it from the US show called "Bones" which I enjoyed immensely, the part was when 2 of the main characters were to get married only to find that she was already married to a guy on a Caribbean island by "jumping over the broomstick".
And I believe there's a song with the line "lets jump the broomstick"? I cant wait to hear some remarks about that!
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9 2022-02-20 00:38:46 (edited by Peatle Jville 2022-02-20 00:40:29)
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Cheers Phill
Now I know where you get Jumping The Broomstick from very interesting. Using the interweb I looked up that song Lets Jump The Broomstick and this is what I found out.
"Let's Jump the Broomstick" is a song written by Charles Robins and performed first by a black Nashville group, Alvin Gaines & The Themes, in 1959, then covered that year by Brenda Lee. Her version reached No.12 in the United Kingdom in 1961. Song attached first time I remember hearing it is today but maybe others have memories of it on here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLFmHpa0m4A
I also found this on interweb about the history of jumping the broomstick.
Like many traditions, the history of jumping the broom at a wedding ceremony is complicated and difficult to trace back to one single source. Some believe the practice originated in the early 1700s in Wales, when broomstick weddings served as a Welsh marriage rite for Roma communities who were not permitted to marry in churches. In this execution, the broom was placed at the threshold of a door, and the groom jumped first, followed by his bride. The practice grew in popularity over the decades, and by the turn of the century, was quite common. It may even serve as the original inspiration for the “carrying the bride over the threshold” tradition we see practiced by modern couples of all cultures today.
Another theory is that jumping the broom originated in West Africa, in the region now known as Ghana. It’s believed that in this practice, the broom cleansed the marriage ceremony of evil spirits and represented the couple’s commitment to caring for and maintaining their newly shared home (and, metaphorically, their marriage). In some cases, the couple would both jump the broom, and whoever was observed as jumping the highest would be given the role of decision maker for the home. The practice is thought to have eventually made its way to the American South as a result of the transatlantic slave trade. Another theory for how this practice became implemented by African Americans is through cultural exchange with poor white American southerners, many of whom were direct descendants of British islanders who practiced broom-jumping as a legal wedding alternative, as described above.