A prime representative of what a Main Street Blues is and should be about. Very powerful lyrics indeed. So moving, and the music penetrates the heart. Your vocals are so real -- one knows you mean what you're singing!
My dad, Danville Dan the Singing Hobo, use to say, "A hobo travels to work, a tramp travels but doesn't work, and a bum doesn't travel and doesn't work." Anyway, enjoyed the thought-provoking lyrics and melody. Keep on keeping on!
Like anyone who happens to look, I see the signs of a failing economy all over the Country. This song is a effort to encourage folks to struggle for a more open and equitable system for the financial benefit of all of us.
Hadn't listen to this song in awhile, and yep, I still love it. Your one of my favorite Political Folk songwriters ever. Thanks for telling it like it is. Rock on!
In memory of my Friend who was bigger than life, and an ego the size of Lake Superior.
Lyrics:
High stepping, loud talking
Crazy S.O.B.
A self proclaimed ladies man
That know one else could see
I wish I would have had the chance
To…
Lyrics & Vocals: Paul T. Bathen
Drums: Stephen Smith
Bass: Jonathan Moody
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
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A little bit of fun. This was originally meant as an instrumental…
One of those progressions I can't get finished enough to call a complete song.In A.BTW if you load this to Audacity and seperate the stereo tracks,you can mute or delete the right hand track and add your own.
Written by Greg Connor
Lyrics:
Old Country Songs
Wooden Chair by the window
Gibson on my lap
And the time I spend strumming
Is never coming back
The sun is shining on me
Evening won’t be long
I’m living in the city
Singing…
Years ago, when I had just started writing songs, I read a novel by Terry Pratchett (Equal Rites) that inspired me to write a song which I imagined as a soundtrack for a scene from the book where Grandma Weatherwax was riding on a broom stick…
OCCUPY 0112
It's a highland I call my land
It's an island in the sun
No matter how you measure it
It's always number one
If I had a house to occupy
I'd occupy my wish
But to have a house to occupy
I must defy the rich
We buy the…
Just thinking about Happiness. Thinking about how she said she was leaving because she wanted to be happy.
HAPPY Key - C walking down...
Happy is the anvil as the hammer strikes the blade
A fleeting spark that fades as the memory is made…
Remember the waitress in the Blues Brothers saying,"Oh,we got both kinds of music. Country and western" This melody hearkens back to the day when we was raping and pillaging the land. Killing off the buffalo and the Indians and generally trying…
I met this Indian one night in Albuquerque.
I think he put something in my coffee.
CEDRICK Key G Open G tuning (GGDGBD)
Albuquerque, ’74. Pulled off the road. Opened the door
I said, “Hop in fellow if you’re needing a ride
You’ve got…
The decending line is about the coolest musical concept. Ear candy,and it can be Major or minor scale.Love my effects,but there's no substitution for plain old technique.
My "banjo-centric" arrangement of this old minstrel show tune. I recorded it for backing tracks for my live set. I kind of wanted a fiddle solo, but I don't play fiddle. So in the middle there's a little "fiddle synthesizer" - just a couple of…
My arrangement of an American traditional tune with tons of variations on title, lyrics and tune. I went for a little delta feel with some light slide on the guitar, and harmonica along with the banjo... definitely strange but I think it works.
Still waiting for the bump to hatch.....so i thought there all a sleep i’ll nip down the cellar........well heres a depressing un-trusting one....i always seem to write a real sad song when i’m really happy...i wonder why that is???...anyway i…
I found a picture in my mother's
high school yearbook that demanded
I explain my reaction to myself.
This is what i came up with.
OH, JIMMY Capo @ 3 Key C
(slow) C Em F…
Comments on terrysongs's stuff
Been there , done that ..... :) Great track Terry .......
A prime representative of what a Main Street Blues is and should be about. Very powerful lyrics indeed. So moving, and the music penetrates the heart. Your vocals are so real -- one knows you mean what you're singing!
My dad, Danville Dan the Singing Hobo, use to say, "A hobo travels to work, a tramp travels but doesn't work, and a bum doesn't travel and doesn't work." Anyway, enjoyed the thought-provoking lyrics and melody. Keep on keeping on!
Always thought provoking.
Sounds like you've been hanging out with Bob Dylan lately. "I feel like I missed a turn somewhere" I love your poetry Terry!
Nice & Easy
"A mighty long way from Wall Street to Heaven"
Ha ha! Rock on! The juice harp is a great add!
Solar Radiation and a new pair of boots. Good one Terry
This one makes you think.
Very Pretty Song. I like this one Terry/
That's some fancy banjo picking. Good toe tapper!
I love that jews harp
Your poetry rules!
Tell you what Terry....... Please keep these songs alive :)
You gotta love a song that holds the phrase: *"I got over lovin you, come out of it alive"* I really enjoyed this one Terry!
Another one of my favorite Terry "The Bear" Brown tunes -- it's so very real. Brings a tear to my eye. Love ya, man!
Hadn't listen to this song in awhile, and yep, I still love it. Your one of my favorite Political Folk songwriters ever. Thanks for telling it like it is. Rock on!
Ha ha! Rock on! "That train ain't the only thing you're on" -- what a line!
Old country the way it's supposed to be sung and played! I dig the hook... "ain't the only train you're on."
Comments made by terrysongs
This one gives me a good feeling, I hope somebody remembers me as well someday. (smile)
clever, good music and fun lyrics great pair up
I like what I'm hearing
Now that is what I call a Greg Connor song.! It pleases me no end just to know you're out there writing your heart out in these songs.
clever synth sounds , it stirs my imagination
whoo... JT memory is such a tricky thing
whiskey did some one say whiskey
ah, the poet visits the night
nice countra work
Phy-o tee juice all the way
tripin' on down D line
Z---Z---Z--- all the way home ,smile
honkin' on down
fuin opld traditional piece
It's a mighty fine piece of work G,
good tune, well done
everything but the kiss
Odipus and the hollow world
clinb the smooth wall
shadows and dark