Hey James,

I have just given this a blast and it's a fun little number you have there, a great one to play by fingerpicking. The only problem I had was I found myself automatically playing a G instead of a C at the end of the chorus. I will 'badeye' it and see if I can get it right this time.

Roger

Glad you like my tribute to these (previously) unsung heros of modern mass retailing.  Roger, thanks for pointing out the chord error at the end of the chorus. 

The idea for this song amuses me and I will try to add some more verses - the mundane things of today are the exotic historical trivia of tomorrow.  I think it would be fun to jump up on top of the big cart-snakes and surf.  Wonder if Guinness has a record for the longest shopping cart snake, or the longest going the farthest, or the fastest?

Perhaps there should be shopping cart cowboy rodeos?   James

hmm... it must be hard to push all those things, especially in the summer.  Sometimes at wal-mart they have electronic vehicles that the cartguy just stands on and steers, and it pushes the carts for him, i see that and i think of how terrible it is that he probably gets paid just as much as the guy at at kmart who has to push those things across the parking lot himself... o yea the song! it's great, really fun. i improvised a yodel as well, it fits in with the song pretty well lol.

they need to have cart snake downhill derbies.
~Kori

James, I've played many of your songs . This one's my favorite !

hey, the idea for this song is definately better than "they think my tractor's sexy" by kenny chesney. (it is a real song, i looked it up!) 

I see it now... rising from the alley behind Giant Eagle, at first a mear shadow in the eyes of society...

hey maybe in a couple decades you'll have people gossiping like
"they say he could wrangle 300 carts, and thin slice the deli meat by hand without looking..."

yup, this could definately go places

James
I love the song you wrote, the lyrics, but I don't have a clue about finding a melody.
Me and my best friend, just composed 3 songs, I will probably put them here on a bright sunny day.
Is there a way to find "the melody" starting with the lyrics? I can't play a song in E or C, if I don't have the melody in my head.I asked it already, if there is a kind of program on chordie, to put the melody? Or to hear songs do you need to go to the world famous, youtube, or myspace wich brings me to the following point: IS IT possible, when a "chordian" writes a song to hear the melody???
I told I wrote 3 songs, with a friend, there is a song more hardrock style, another is a kind of samba-jazz, with FRENCH lyrics, I even found a site http://www.arkade.com/, I don't know if it's a good one, but I just wanted to show the construction of the french song we made.
I will try to put here the chord to start with.
Barre on 5th fret

f   f   f   f   f   f barre on the 5th fret
x  x  x   f   x  x
x  x  f   x   f   x

and once you have this chord in your fingers, you start a blend of strumming and fingerpicking.
Big E-string, alternate with A-string, and with this chord you can go up, you can go down. When I play it I go from the 5th fret to the 3th fret, FINGERS ALWAYS in the SAME POSITION. No matter where you are on guitar, the chord remains, but you can move it up and down, with alternate strumming, big E and A string. It ain't very easy, but I play already a long time.
The "rough" lyrics, still a lot of work is needed goes like: je t'attends, j'ai le temps, meme dans la neige, du très mauvais temps, je me mets a mon aise et je t'attent, bienque je sais que cette semaine, je ne t'endant pas, mais j'attends, et blabla bla bla. I still need a lot of work to work it out, and it is also quit difficult to take these chords (I even don't know the name of the chord), and once I can play them properly myself, the music is resulting in a kind of jazz-samba, and the only thing to do is playing it and trying it out going up and down the frets. We also have that same chord down, and I think it is Amaj7, down on the guitar, or should I say up, you can figure out that those chords played in a correct way, you have the beginning chords of the George Harisson song "something" A  Amaj7 and A7

Hey James,
Rooster3 here and i really like this song....reminds me of a personal experience i had once and i know a few guys that appreciate this shoutout!  Keep puttin out good songs man, love to read em'!

I like this song...it's got a cool little spark to it. It's fun to play and I enjoy singing it!

hi james nice to see you back in the posts ,i've found a local website and put some songs on ,not brilliant ,need polishing up but its a start....stay cool