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Post subject: Working On A Country Song..........suggestions?
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 10:08 am
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I know I need a chorus or bridge but here's the start.........

Remembering back when I was a young lad sitting in school.
To keep us in on a sunny day, how could they be so cruel?

Imagine this scene every afternoon, rain or shine everyday of the week
Me on a three speed Spider bike headed down to my favorite creek.


With my old cane pole I caught plenty of fish from my favorite railroad tie.
I‘d find myself just sitting alone and often wondered why.

I thought about where it started, tried to imagine just where it’d end.
Some of my best days spent right there talking bait with my only friend.


Well it’s been 40 years and I’ve returned, I feel I’ve walked back in time.
A teenage boy poured out his heart and soul, laid it all out on the line.

I think about the good times and the stories this old creek could tell.
It’s great to see my best friend alive and doin’ well.


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Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 10:10 am
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Thats not bad man, I can think of the tune but I will have to play it.


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Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 6:25 pm
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Who says you can't go home any more?
Who says you can't go home any more?
With love in your heart (for) memories which can never part...
It's high time we two go fishing again.

How's this?

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Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 10:08 am
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Good on you. People who write songs are a source of wonder.

'Have published a novel, working on others and a co-authored nonfiction with a doctor...

...but writing music is as mysterious as writing hieroglyphics, to this soul.


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Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 10:32 am
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if making the song sound country-like is any problem, just avoid following behind modern country radio or CMT, or you'll start writing in a mainstream alternative rock vein


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Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 5:00 pm
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AND AFTER ALL THESE YEARS SHES STILL SWIMMING THROUGH MY MIND
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS CATFISH STILL TUGGING ON THE LINE
BUT IIIIIIIIII CANT FIND ONE GOOD REASON WHY
THE SUN STILL SHINES-AFTER SHE HAD TO SAY GOODBYE






I will let you know where
to send my royalty check-LOL


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Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 10:53 am
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straycat113 wrote:
I will let you know where to send my royalty check-LOL



Apparently you have me confused with a "real" songwriter. LOL!


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Don't you have to have something in there about trucks or prison?

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cherokee747 wrote:
Don't you have to have something in there about trucks or prison?


That's only if you're writing "country & western". LOL!


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With a country song, you need to put in lines about drinking, nascar, wife leaving with your best friend (and you miss him), your koon dog, etc.

Here's some lines from one of my favorite country songs:

My house burned down in a flash of thunder.
My wife ran off with a one-legged plumber.
My crops fell dead when the riverbed went dry.
My dog got squashed by a pickup truck.
My son ran away and got hooked on drugs.
My daughter's knocked up by the class of '85.

I went to the store to buy some shells.
My gun went off and blew the owner to hell.
Now I'm sittin' here in jail, singin' this song.
And one guy wants to cut me with a knife.
Another guy wants me to be his wife.
Hey, I wish they'd hang me before somethin' really goes wrong!

People say that life is good,
Give thanks for what you have.
When all you have is nothin',
Nothin' makes you glad.
People say that life is fun,
But I don't know why.
As far as I can tell,
LIFE SUCKS, then you die.


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Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 9:12 pm
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My suggestion: Scrap it and write a metal song instead :P

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mrspyderman wrote:
With a country song, you need to put in lines about drinking, nascar, wife leaving with your best friend (and you miss him), your koon dog, etc.

Here's some lines from one of my favorite country songs:

My house burned down in a flash of thunder.
My wife ran off with a one-legged plumber.
My crops fell dead when the riverbed went dry.
My dog got squashed by a pickup truck.
My son ran away and got hooked on drugs.
My daughter's knocked up by the class of '85.

I went to the store to buy some shells.
My gun went off and blew the owner to hell.
Now I'm sittin' here in jail, singin' this song.
And one guy wants to cut me with a knife.
Another guy wants me to be his wife.
Hey, I wish they'd hang me before somethin' really goes wrong!

People say that life is good,
Give thanks for what you have.
When all you have is nothin',
Nothin' makes you glad.
People say that life is fun,
But I don't know why.
As far as I can tell,
LIFE SUCKS, then you die.
For some reason when I read those lyrics I hear a Misfits song in there

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