Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: mousethief
Date: 31 Oct 00 - 09:25 AM

Smoles? Is that like snogs?

Lovely song, Roger! Effective use of repetition. I'd like to hear the melody sometime.

Amergin, your song is chilling. It's well crafted but I can't say I "like" it if you know what I mean! Which means you did your job well!

Alex (from home! got my modem working again! huzzah!)
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Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amergin
Date: 30 Oct 00 - 02:44 PM

Wonderful stuff, Roger!!

Here's another one of mine.....

The Game

His cousin is at her work
His mom is at night school
A 12 year old boy watches him
He must obey all the rules
His homework is all done
He tries to find something to do
But evenings with Jerry are boring
Today he learned to tie his shoe
Jerry comes to him and asks,
"Do you want to play a game?"

They go into his darkened bedroom
Curtains block the eyes of the sun
The door slams shut behind them
Jerry slavers with anticipation
"The doctor is coming," he is told
And his pants fall to the floor
"Touch me right here, like this."
Jerry smiles, his lust begins to roar
Jerry moans softly into his ear
"Now we are ready to start the game."

He lies upon his bed, face down
Feeling the heavy body crawl upon him
Pain inflames his six year old body
As the hot flesh descends within him
Jerry pants into his young neck
Gasping aloud with each burning thrust
Warm fluid mixes with the child's blood
As Jerry spends his great power lust
The mom comes home and he hides ashamed
Realising that he lost this game

Amergin....

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 28 Oct 00 - 10:38 AM

As usual, dear Lodger, you've shared a wonderful song with us. As soon as my 'slightly used brand new' PC is up and running (hopefully this weekend), I'll add your latest offering to the Book.

Smoles to you and the missus, Áine

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: The Shambles
Date: 28 Oct 00 - 10:13 AM

Lady Of Substance

I see you're gonna be a lady of substance
And you don't care what your poison will be
You hear it calling,
With the rain falling
On your window sill
You don't need it and you never will

The world is at your feet but you don't see it
The weight of the world, is all you feel
We wish you wouldn't
You know you shouldn't
But it's part of the thrill
You don't need it and you never will

So hard to please to ones who love you
Easy to please to ones who don't care
There's time for living
Time for giving
But there's no time to kill
You don't need it and you never will

Winds blow and seeds are sowing
Dreams grow or fall apart
Don't you see that
It's not that easy?
You have to pay the bill
You don't need it and you never will

Roger Gall 1996

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 11:03 AM

Those are two extra special songs there, Alex. Thanks so much for sharing them with us all.

Although I'm back online now (after being oppressed by AT&T for a whole dang week!), my PC has bitten the dust in the meantime. This means that I won't be able to upload your songs into the Songbook until I can either get a new motherboard or load the editor software onto Dear Hubby's PC. I promise to get them in the Book ASAP, mousethief!!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: mousethief
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 01:09 PM

Thanks, Cat, Praise. Y'all are sweet.

Alex
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Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Catrin
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 08:50 AM

Mousetheif - you're so talented!

Like everyone else, words fail me. Beautiful.

Catrin

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Oct 00 - 06:35 PM

Oh.... aw....

~S~

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: mousethief
Date: 20 Oct 00 - 06:34 PM

This is a lullabye I wrote before I ever had any kids.

WARNING: this is religious. People who hate religion or things with religious topics, skip to next song.

Chords are FMaj7 and C, alternating, throughout (starting on FM7), two chords per "line" of the words as written here.

this clicky takes you to a page with an embedded midi of the melody (melody is same for chorus as for verses) (It's a little rough in the timing area, for which I apologize -- I haven't quite got the midi-maker program sussed yet.)

To a Child
by Alex Riggle

(Chorus -- repeat after each verse and twice at end)
Cry a little softer now
Put your head on my shoulder
Laugh a little louder now
In love, as you grow older

Once there was a baby child
In this darkness a stranger
Lying in His mother's arms
In a straw-filled manger
He would grow to be a man
He would suffer and die
But now she held him to her breast,
Mother's love in her eye

Once there was a preacher-man
Who would preach by the sea
People came to see Him there
Asking, Who can He be?
Mothers with their babes in arm
Would come down to the sea
He would call the children near
Saying, Come unto Me

Once I was a child like you
I could laugh without care
But now the world has hemmed me in
I have burdens I must bear
Teach me how to feel your love
And the laughter you bring
I would be a child once more
A child of the King

©1983 Alex E. Riggle. All Rights Reserved.

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Once I get this midi thing figured out I'll post melodies for some of my other songs. I'll probably make pages at my site like with this one.

Thanks for listening!

Alex
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Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: GUEST,mousethief (from the library)
Date: 19 Oct 00 - 09:44 PM

Thanks, MMario and Amergin!

Alex
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Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amergin
Date: 19 Oct 00 - 09:12 PM

My God, Alex, I second MMario's response....speechless...

BTW Thx for your kind words, Alex, and MA....

Amergin

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: MMario
Date: 19 Oct 00 - 08:06 PM

Alex - goosebumps....very powerful

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: mousethief
Date: 19 Oct 00 - 06:06 PM

This one is kinda dark and graphic. But it expresses something that needs to be expressed, and which is very close to my heart -- stopping and preventing domestic violence. I'm still working on the tune; it's a sort of descending-notes-of-the-scale sort of thing (cf. "Turn the Page" by Bob Seger, but different).

The Strength to Leave
by Alex Riggle

His supper's late again, he says;
Again he'll "make her pay."
Again he clenches up his fist;
Again she shrinks away.
There are bruises on her arms,
There is purple 'round her eyes
Yet tomorrow she'll protect him
With her self-destructive lies

(Chorus)
This is your mother.
This is your daughter.
This is your sister.
Who will mourn? Who will grieve?
Lord, hear my prayer.
Lord, make it stop.
Lord, help her find the strength to leave.

Again he rips her dress away
And throws her to the bed;
And brutally he takes her,
While she wishes she were dead.
And now, his lust and anger spent,
She hears him drive away.
She wonders why she married him;
She wonders why she stays.

(repeat chorus)

Once there was a little girl
With bright and shining eyes;
She loved lollipops and unicorns,
And rainbows in the sky.
She feels so very old now,
It's hard now to believe
She ever was so joyful.
Lord, give her the strength to leave.

(repeat Chorus)

©2000 Alex E. Riggle. All Rights Reserved.

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Thanks for listening everybody!

Alex
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Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: mousethief
Date: 04 Oct 00 - 12:08 PM

Wow, Amergin, what great songs, and so very different in feel. How wonderful and fragile is the heart.

Alex
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Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 04 Oct 00 - 09:18 AM

From the 'younger' heart of mousethief (circa 1983), comes his Chicago Blues, which I've added to the Songbook this morning.

Thanks mousethief, and I hope we get to hear this soon on the Mudcat Radio!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: MichaelAnthony
Date: 01 Oct 00 - 05:03 PM

Beautiful, touching songs, Amergin.

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 01 Oct 00 - 02:15 PM

Here we go, Amergin, I've put down the hammer and paintbrush long enough to put Run With Me and A Conversation In Bed into the Songbook. Check these songs out, 'Catters -- powerful doesn't even begin to describe them...

Thanks, Amergin, for another couple of winners for the Book!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Mbo
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 11:08 PM

Ah, so you know about St. Joe! Here's another tip I've heard that always works. Paint your door yellow. Trust me.

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amergin
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 10:49 PM

Ok, thanks, I was just wondering...my ISP and P/C have been acting strange lately....Take it easy. Sounds like you're having fun...glad I'm not having that much fun....

Amergin

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 09:16 PM

Dearest Amergin,

Yes, darlin', I did get your PM -- Watch this space tomorrow ;-) (That pesky ole real life is hindering the Keeper of the Book - we're finally putting this old house on the market and repairs must be made *BG*. Just picture me painting, packing, and ripping up carpet...now I just have to find a wee St. Jo to bury in the yard...)

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Amergin
Date: 30 Sep 00 - 08:07 PM

Good songs folks!

Aine, did you get my PM?

Subject: RE: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 26 Sep 00 - 10:03 AM

I've added two very thought provoking songs by newbie MichaelAnthony this morning, Death Row Caddy I and Death Row Caddy II. Both of these songs were co-authored by Dirty, who's not a Mudcatter (yet). You can learn more about him by reading this thread. A little bird told me that we could be hearing these songs on the Mudcat Radio soon -- I sure hope so. Thanks to MichaelAnthony for sharing these songs with us.

-- Aine

Subject: Part VIII - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
From: Áine
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 03:24 PM

Here we go with our EIGHTH thread listing new additions to the Mudcat Songbook - well, it just goes to show how fantastic you Mudcatters are! So, if you have an original song to share with the rest of us, please post it here or send it me by personal message or email.

Better Than You by one of our more prolific 'Catters, Amos, can be found under the Threads category. The man always has something interesting to say!!

The Streets by Dharmabum, has a lot to say, too -- a great 'thinkin' song that goes straight to the heart.

Check 'em out, 'Catters!

-- Áine