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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | OMA, I don't know your playing style (fingerpicking, strumming?) but either way, you could find the melody notes either within the chords, or as add-ons to the chords, and play both chord and melody at the same time. That's the way I have always played because for the first many years that I played, I didn't sing, and there were no other musicians around to sing or play lead for me. |
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| Don't care about the lyrics at all. It's all about the music. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | As a songwriter, the lyric's are very important...I like to tell a story and of course the music helps to move it along...I try to find different ways to say things...keep it interesting and thought provoking... |
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Location: Location Location Location | They lyrics are equally important to the tune. If a song doesn't have lyrics, then you listen, or don't, to the music. But if it has lyrics, and they suck, it detracts from the tune, no matter how good. Lyrics matter. |
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| D G
I almost felt you touchin' me just now
D A
I wish I knew which way to turn and go
D G
I feel so good and I feel so bad
A D
Wonder what I oughta do
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If I could only fly
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If I could only fly
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I'd bid this place goodbye
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To come and be with you
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But I can hardly stand
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Got nowhere to run
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Another sinkin' sun
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One more lonely night
D G
The wind keeps blowin' somewhere every day
D A
They tell me things get better somewhere up the way
D G
Just dismal thinkin' on a dismal day
A D
Sad songs for us to bear
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You know sometimes I write happy songs
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But then sometimes little things are wrong
D A
You know I wish they all could make you smile
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Tomorrow maybe we can get away
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I'm coming home soon and I want to stay
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I wish you could come with me when I go again
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If I could only fly
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If I could only fly
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I'd bid this place goodbye
D D7
To come and be with you
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But I can hardly stand
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Got nowhere to run
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Another sinkin' sun
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One more lonely night
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If I could only fly
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If You could only fly
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If we could only fly
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There'd be no more lonely nights |
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Location: Chicago | TWO MINOR LYRICAL PEEVES OF MINE:
CCR Born on the Bayou:
"My poppa said 'son, don't let the man gitcha, 'n do what he done to me.... @ 0:41 here
DOORS Waiting For the Sun: "This is the strangest life I've ever known.. " @ 2:50 here. |
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Location: Michigan | The music (melody) catches my ear but the lyrics keep me listening over and over. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...the only lyrics I pay attention to are those which provide practical information:
"...there's a bathroom on the right." :rolleyes: |
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Location: closely held secret | Good one, Tim. That's one of my favorites.
"The girl with colitis goes by..." |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I agree: cocaine is a dance tune. At least it was for me. It's only in hindsight that it seems odd. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | The blues and folk music is replete with songs of double entendres, and rock, being it's descendant does the same thing.
For example: Is John Henry about driving rail road spikes, or bonking?
Is that Who song about mama's squeeze box about an accordian?
Double entendres make it possible sing about otherwise taboo topics. If you sang on stage about actually wanking it'd be a weird audience that would hang around ... even in brooklyn. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Backdoor Man
Wang Dang Doodle
Woolly Bully
...and then there's the 'race music' of the 40's and 50's that inspired the whole thing. (thang?)
...before that, British folk music.
Roll Your Leg Over
Cats On The Rooftop
Humouresque
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by an4340:
The blues and folk music is replete with songs of double entendres, and rock, being it's descendant does the same thing.
Double entendres make it possible sing about otherwise taboo topics. If you sang on stage about actually wanking it'd be a weird audience that would hang around ... even in brooklyn. Very true. I was just "wondering" if anyone enjoyed listening to a song and after some "time" you realize what you were listening to was NOT what you thought you had been enjoying "Lyrically". |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Rock n' roll had nothing to do with music way back when the air was clean and sex was dirty. Tempo maybe, but not music...  |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I pay lots of attention to the lyrics, since I'm usually the one singing them.
When I write songs, the words always come first--sometimes it's just a phrase, or a whole line. Once the words begin to be established, then the melody lines start to flow. They usually just kind of write themselves after that point...
A really good song is where the music and the lyrics meld together so well that you can't imagine the song being any other way. (I'm not talking about arrangements, here--just the basic song itself.)
I can't be 100% sure, but I'm thinking that the ones that have stood the test of time are those where everything within the song compliments everything else. (And, yes, I know there are exceptions to every rule. ;) )
--Karen |
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Location: south east Michigan | Brian & I thought about taking a swing at the Stones' "Dead Flowers". When we heard ourselves singing about basements and silver coke spoons and decided to pass.
Then we thought about The Who's "5:15". When we got to the line "girl's of 15... sexually knowing..." , we took another pass.
And yet, without any fear or self awareness we'll plunge right into lines like.. "I really think you're groovy... let's go out to a movie". |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | You're my pride and joy etcetera... |
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Location: south east Michigan | yep Alison.. that's it! |
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O.T.: Do you really pay attn to the Lyrics?
