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Thread #139940   Message #3214218
Posted By: Midchuck
28-Aug-11 - 07:05 PM
Thread Name: What songs do you wish you had written?
Subject: RE: What songs do you wish you had written?
Hundreds of them...

The ones that come to mind at the moment:

"The First Time Ever" (by E. McColl, in the very unlikely event that anyone here doesn't know that) The best happy love song ever written.

"She Was" (by Mike Lussen, the new Woodchuck) Don Meixner, in this thread, named this (although he had the title wrong) as his favorite song of love lost. Mine too.

"He Stopped Loving Her Today" (don't have the composer identity handy; recorded by George Jones, of course) The Ultimate Sad Country Song.

"March of Campbreadth" (the former Heather Alexander) Best thoroughly-p***ed-off song since "Men of Harlech." But I'm still trying to figure out the melody (what there is of it) and proper chording (if any).

"All of the Hard Days Are Gone" (Kevin McCrell, covered by Woods Tea and by the Kingston Trio, and brought to us by Mike L. I suspect the KT made the most money off of it.) One of my favorite positive-attitude songs even if the premise is almost inevitably a lie.

"The Goodnight-Loving Trail" (Utah Phillips) and "Tonight We Ride" (Tom Russell) Two of the "realest" cowboy songs.

"No Telling" (Linda Thompson, as adapted by Tom Russell) I wish I'd have been at Kendall and Jacqui's wedding so I could have sung it.

Peter