Here is a list of songs along with lyrics that I have placed on Reverbation.
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Anyhow: Here is a list of songs plus the lyrics. Each page contains lyrics and a link to download:
- No Fly List — dark humorous look at airport procedures.
- Psalm 104 (a) — reflection on selected passages from Psalm 104, singing, spoken word, guitar, violins
- Dollar Store Disaster — a “rhapsody”, which means the words are delivered in a metered way, but not exactly like modern rap.
- Saint Davids Cannery — folksy, bluegrass, about a current situation in Niagara.
- Niagara Transit — old-school jazzy, commentary on glitches in the bus schedule due to the closing of Queen Street for sporadic festivities.
- Adios Noninos — instrumental, on nylon string guitar, based on Piazzola’s “Adios Noninos”.
- Vietnam — about people I knew, or knew of, who fought in Vietnam.
- Angry Achilles — about Achilles, from the Iliad
- All Is Beautiful Haiku — written for Chantelle at her event.
- Lamborghini — a rather silly thing. On the bus I overhead someone comment a Mazzorati parked outside the welfare office.
- Advertising — humorous I hope. Based on lines from advertising.
- Michelangelo — sort of antique chant, with some Latin from the prophet Jeremiah.
- Shape of a Rose — a philosophical contemplation, based on Piotr Jaroszyński’s book “Beauty and Being”
- Emmaus 2 — inspired by passages from Alphonsus Liguori’s “Glories of Mary”
- Going Slow — Lenten reflection, spontaneously composed after a jam session.
- Space Shuttle — like it says, about the Space Shuttle.
- Lincoln Townhall Car 1988 — Gord lent me his car. I am grateful, but still felt compelled to complain because I am obviously an ingrate.
- Christmas Too Early — a sonnet. Inspired by loud canned Christmas music that started shortly after Halloween from speakers on Queen Street.
- Tarantella — played lived on guitar in the spring of 2011 at the News Cafe in Niagara Falls (Friday Night Open Mic)
- Gracy Plays Fiddle — in celebration of Gracy Barnhart’s performance at the News Cafe in Spring of 2010.
- Insanity Can Do Great Things — inspired by Ovid about the Underworld.
- Strangers — (rock, sort of) — about someone in a band who travels, and finds out that life on the road has drawbacks.
- This Poem Not About You — about Carly Simon, Catullus, Rolfe Humphries, and Jobim.
- Labor Day 2010 Rhapsody — spontaneous composition, folksy bluesy.
- Swing Gitane Hillbilly — a rendition of a Django number, but I am not pretending to be Django, so don’t get your bowels in an uproar, you know who you are. Live at the News Cafe, spring 2011. Thanks to Kyoshi Nakata for the percussion.
- Fiddle Tune on Guitar — live at the News Cafe spring 2011.
- Cellobration — I just got a cello when I did this. Cello is fun.
- Threnody for Unfixables — 3 flutes, a lament for the inevitable breaking of a friendship.
- Uncle Jack in the Spitfire — in honour of my Uncle who was shot down in the Battle of Britain.
- Stupider Song — sort of a response to Clayton O’Howe’s “Stupid Song”, which you can hear at: www.reverbnation.com/claytunes
- Relax Your Mind (Remake) — loosely referring to Ledbetter’s “Relax Your Mind.”, trying to make a feel-good song.
- New Camptown Races — hearkening back to Stephen Foster, and other old stuff.
- Winter Song — more about a series of moods, than a linear content.
- City of Ghostly Heroes — reflection on realities in Niagara Falls.
- Suzuki and the Bears — satiric reflection on global warming. David Suzuki suggested before parliament some sort of legal sanction against global-warming-ism-deniers. That might mean a lot of Nobel winners going to jail.
- Fly Away Minor Blues — as for the lyrics, I was immersed in old bluegrass at the time.
- Dozen Dim Pits — I overheard a job interview while dining in a franchise restaurant.
- Adagio with Defective D string — trying to respect the classical mode. One of the strings broke, and I couldn't replace it, so I worked around it.
- Ave Maria — a new setting for an old prayer.
- Out In the Snow — composed by me, sung by Emily Andrews, for a project by Stan Skrzeszewski in memory of his grandfather, production and guitar by the Sonny Davis Project.
- Insurance Man — because they arbitrarily raised the insurance premium for things that have nothing to do with anything to do with me.
- Short Fiddle Diversion — a snippet with several violins.
- Ex Nihilo — a reflection on nothingness and somethingness, with the infinite gap between. Also performed by Stephanie Goulet, and I love her version. She’s got her own band now. Can’t wait to hear.
- Off Your Feet — inspired Gabriel Urbain Fauré and St. Alphonse Liguori’s “Glories of Mary”.
- Android Sheep Theme — with a tip of the hat to Philip K. Dick.
- Apple Tree
- Cello Panpipe Jam — sort of in a classical vein.
- Cell Phone Oblivion — rant against cellophones.
- Cello Blue Bird Blues — spontanous, rough. Sort of looks to a John Lee Hooker song.
- Refugee City — inspired by Blind Willy Johnson’s “City of Refuge”, and St. Alphonse Ligouri’s “Glories of Mary”
- Trying to Follow Rules
- Missed Turn
- First Symphony, first movement — playing around with effects and remixing
- First Symphony, second movement (gold).