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Crituque Req: From olddude

15 Jul 08 - 03:45 PM (#2390000)
Subject: Crituque Req: From olddude
From: Sorcha

Dan buried this in his Song for Katie thread. I think it deserves one of its own:

Subject: RE: Song I Wrote for my Daughter's Wedding
From: olddude - PM
Date: 15 Jul 08 - 01:09 PM

Thank you Pete
I just put a new one out that I wrote, trying to get back into my song writing it is a struggle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31_XjXqnKqU


15 Jul 08 - 03:46 PM (#2390003)
Subject: RE: Crituque Req: From olddude
From: Sorcha

Click here for One for the Road, by Dan O'Connell. (You tube link)


15 Jul 08 - 04:02 PM (#2390026)
Subject: RE: Crituque Req: From olddude
From: olddude

Sorcha
that was so kind of you thank you. Here is the story, about 14 years ago I broke my neck. Everything works but I lost all feeling in my fingers. They work fine but I can't feel them. I got frustrated and put my guitar away and only occasionaly would pick it up strum and put it back. Then I ran into Bruce on the email, never met him, we talk back and forth. All I kept getting was get off your ARSE and get to work again and again. For 5 months now I have been pounding the guitar and now banjo until my fingers were raw trying to recover something that I lost. Then I made the mistake of telling him I use to write songs .. so then I got .. when are you going to send me a song .. again and again.. hence I started writing again ... Katie's song was the first in quite a long long time .. now I am trying to do a CD for my kids so any comments good or bad are most most welcome. And if my music is really awful -- Blame Bruce !!   

sorry if I embarrassed you Peace but you created a monster here getting me started again ya know !!

Dan


15 Jul 08 - 04:07 PM (#2390033)
Subject: RE: Crituque Req: From olddude
From: katlaughing

Ah! Thanks, Sorcha for the thread. It does deserve one of its own. And, thanks Dan, for sending me the PM. I just sent you one. I really, really like your song, arrangement, AND picking and singing! Beautiful!


15 Jul 08 - 04:11 PM (#2390037)
Subject: RE: Crituque Req: From olddude
From: Amos

WOnderful to hear. SOmetimes that kind of badgering is the only thing that works. I appalud you for diving back in despite the pain. Keep it up!!

"ONe For the Road" is a good song.

A


15 Jul 08 - 05:29 PM (#2390123)
Subject: RE: Crituque Req: From olddude
From: Sorcha

Well, GOOD on Peace! LOL....as I said before, I have trouble getting lyrics. Damn deaf old woman...could we have them please?


15 Jul 08 - 05:48 PM (#2390140)
Subject: RE: Crituque Req: From olddude
From: olddude

one for the road
                by Dan O'Connell
          copyright 2008, all rights reserved

Walking down these empty streets
dirty side of town
Nothing in my pockets and theres no one else around
I still hear her telling me shes leaving me alone
Here's one more for a broken heart, and one more for the road


the lonesome highway's calling me and everything is changed
all I have is memories, her voice that calls my name
Life keeps on changing - so I have been told
here's one more for a broken heart, and one more for the road


Lying in the soft green grass
drunk as I can be
waiting for that south bound train, home to carry me
my minds and empty space, a pain that ever grows
here's one more for a broken heart - and one more for the road



Going back to my home town, mountains and the streams
back to where I belong, the wind blows through the trees
old guitar and backpack, I'll take what life has thrown

here's one more for a broken heart, one more for the road


15 Jul 08 - 06:04 PM (#2390157)
Subject: RE: Crituque Req: From olddude
From: Sorcha

Thanks, Dan.


15 Jul 08 - 07:05 PM (#2390208)
Subject: RE: Crituque Req: From olddude
From: olddude

Thank you Sorcha, if you have time click on the other video's I have one called Westfield nine on there also that I wrote

Thanks so much for the help
Dan