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  Songs you wish you had written
« on: October 13, 2011, 06:42:39 PM » by Bruce Hartwood
Let's do it.

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« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2011, 06:59:03 PM » by Bruce Hartwood
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« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2011, 08:44:26 PM » by Tom Riordan
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« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2011, 09:27:47 PM » by Tom Riordan
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« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2011, 02:37:31 AM » by Tiko Lewis
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...i don't eat jelly beans afterward.
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« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2011, 02:47:33 AM » by Tiko Lewis
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...i don't eat jelly beans afterward.
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« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2011, 02:51:06 AM » by Tiko Lewis




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...i don't eat jelly beans afterward.
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« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2011, 02:57:07 AM » by Tiko Lewis







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...i don't eat jelly beans afterward.
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« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2011, 02:59:44 AM » by Tiko Lewis




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...i don't eat jelly beans afterward.
  Re: Songs you wish you had written
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2011, 04:15:17 AM » by Bruce Hartwood
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« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2011, 04:53:53 AM » by silent lotus
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Gil Scott Heron "Winter In America" (1974)

From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims
And to the buffaloes who once ruled the plains
Like the vultures circling beneath the dark clouds
Looking for the rain
Looking for the rain

Just like the cities staggered on the coastline
Living in a nation that just can't stand much more
Like the forest buried beneath the highway
Never had a chance to grow
Never had a chance to grow

And now it's winter
Winter in America
Yes and all of the healers have been killed
Or sent away, yeah
But the people know, the people know
It's winter
Winter in America
And ain't nobody fighting
'Cause nobody knows what to say
Save your soul, Lord knows
From Winter in America

The Constitution
A noble piece of paper
With free society
Struggled but it died in vain
And now Democracy is ragtime on the corner
Hoping for some rain
Looks like it's hoping
Hoping for some rain

And I see the robins
Perched in barren treetops
Watching last-ditch racists marching across the floor
But just like the peace sign that vanished in our dreams
Never had a chance to grow
Never had a chance to grow

And now it's winter
It's winter in America
And all of the healers have been killed
Or been betrayed
Yeah, but the people know, people know
It's winter, Lord knows
It's winter in America
And ain't nobody fighting
Cause nobody knows what to save
Save your souls
From Winter in America

And now it's winter
Winter in America
And all of the healers done been killed or sent away
Yeah, and the people know, people know
It's winter
Winter in America
And ain't nobody fighting
Cause nobody knows what to save
And ain't nobody fighting
Cause nobody knows, nobody knows
And ain't nobody fighting
Cause nobody knows what to save

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  Re: Songs you wish you had written
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2011, 04:59:47 AM » by silent lotus


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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live

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  Re: Songs you wish you had written
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2011, 02:49:43 PM » by camel hatt
can't exactly say 'i wish i'd written' but any excuse to share this artist's wonderful songs  x

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  Re: Songs you wish you had written
« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2011, 01:27:26 PM » by Bruce Hartwood
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« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2011, 03:06:43 PM » by Lynn Doiron
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My blogs:
http://lwww.lynndoiron.wordpress.com for memoir/journal/poetry
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« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2011, 01:03:23 AM » by Lynn Doiron
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My blogs:
http://lwww.lynndoiron.wordpress.com for memoir/journal/poetry
  Re: Songs you wish you had written
« Reply #16 on: November 13, 2011, 10:20:09 PM » by Peter R
I wouldn't want to wish to have written anyone else's song :-) but seeing Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits featured earlier, makes me envious of, errr let me think... so many, Tangled Up In Blue, If It Be Your Will, and The Ocean Doesn't Want Me Today, respectively
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  Re: Songs you wish you had written
« Reply #17 on: December 01, 2011, 10:40:37 AM » by silent lotus





music written for other performers by Greg Prestopino

http://ufemizm.com/about.html


Greg is a life long dear friend of mine.

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« Reply #18 on: December 22, 2011, 08:04:37 AM » by silent lotus
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Ways To Go

the new CD from Greg Prestopino


http://gregprestopino.bandcamp.com/


also available at CD Baby & iTunes



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  Re: Songs you wish you had written
« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2012, 12:06:39 PM » by Karl Cramer
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  Re: Songs you wish you had written
« Reply #20 on: January 14, 2012, 02:49:58 PM » by Roger Fizzerton
'Eaton Rifles' by the Jam
Favourite line - 'We were no match for their untamed wit" - oh just love that!

(Eaton, BTW is the ultimate posh English 'Public' (that is, private,fee charging) school where lots of the top echelons of the British ruling class go).

Roger

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Sup up your beer and collect your fags,
Theres a row going on down near Slough,
Get out your mat and pray to the west,
Ill get out mine and pray for myself.

Thought you were smart when you took them on,
But you didnt take a peep in their artillery room,
All that rugby puts hairs on your chest,
What chance have you got against a tie and a crest.

Hello-hurray - what a nice day
For the Eton rifles, Eton rifles
Hello-hurray - I hope rain stops play
With the Eton rifles, Eton rifles

Thought you were clever when you lit the fuse,
Tore down the House of Commons in your brand new shoes,
Compose a revolutionary symphony,
Then went to bed with a charming young thing.

Hello-hurray - cheers then mate
Its the eton rifles, Eton rifles
Hello-hurray - an extremist scrape
With the eton rifles, Eton rifles

What a catalyst you turned out to be,
Loaded the guns then you run off home for your tea,
Left me standing - like a guilty schoolboy.

What a catalyst you turned out to be,
Loaded the guns then you run off home for your tea,
Left me standing - like a naughty schoolboy.

We came out of it naturally the worst,
Beaten and bloody and I was sick down my shirt,
We were no match for their untamed wit,
Though some of the lads said theyll be back next week.

Hello-hurray - theres a price to pay
To the Eton rifles, Eton rifles
Hello-hurray - Id prefer the plague
To the Eton rifles. Eton rifles

Hello-hurray - theres a price to pay
To the Eton rifles, Eton rifles
Hello-hurray - Id prefer the plague
To the Eton rifles. Eton rifles



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Patience is a virtue, they say - but then I never claimed to be virtuous!
  Re: Songs you wish you had written
« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2012, 05:00:16 AM » by Sue Lozynskyj
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Chance favours the prepared mind: Louis Pasteur
  Re: Songs you wish you had written
« Reply #22 on: January 15, 2012, 03:05:32 PM » by Karl Cramer
So easy to have sex when listening to this lady

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« Reply #23 on: January 15, 2012, 03:15:38 PM » by Karl Cramer
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« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2012, 09:13:55 PM » by Karl Cramer
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« Reply #25 on: January 26, 2012, 08:59:54 AM » by silent lotus
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