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More Island Haikus
03:45
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More Island Haikus
Toffs at Colwell Bay
Love seafood and dry white wine
Seafood not love them
Get on Breezer bus
Look closely at the driver
Does she have death wish?
Dutch Grannie on the hill
Hot sun, steep path, has same chance
to scale Everest
The Solent shimmers
Late afternoon sun beams down
On drowsy trippers
Jack in the Basket
Holds ghosts of long dead pirates
They guide us to shore
TJD
8/7/22
1: Em D, Em Am C B7, A B C G B7
2: 0x578x Am7 B7 98(10)0xx, Fmaj7 Em Am7
3: x540xx 540xxx Em A, x540xx 540xxx F C, Dm A7
4: 0xxx87 xx077x, 0xx78x x0545x, 0xx07x F#m Bm
5: x0x060 (6-5-4-2), Dm7 G Dm7 A7, Dm7 G A7
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2. |
August Haikus
04:24
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August Haikus
The squirrels have gone
A poisoned rat blinks at me
Eyes tell of murder
Pride and Prejudice
My comments about Keira
Not at all welcome
Rolls at Three Maids Hill
Fat Dave behind the counter
Then rolling corn fields
Swimming at Shawford
Monsters lurk in deep water
But cold scares me more
John's stereo fixed
Vinyl records spin with joy
One last chance to play
TJD 8/8/2022
1: B/E A/E Bb F, Dm Am-Dm, Am7 Bb Am7
2: Am Dm x2, Am E7x2, G E7
3: Cmaj7 G, Cmaj7 Am D, Em F Em
4: Em, Csus4 C, G F Am
5: Em A7, B7 Em, F#m B C#m
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3. |
More August Haikus
04:18
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More August Haikus
Signal failure here
Hindus smile and children laugh
Same same asian train
The driver needs break
More Important than ferry
You can go to hell
Jenny the Buddhist
The Wight will miss your wisdom
Yarmouth remembers
Ferry stops mid sea
Casts ashes of a shipmate
Neptune is confused
The old brown dog weeps
His master just reads a book
Knows not of karma
TJD
21 Aug 2022
1: 0244xx - 0243xx, 3x04xx - x244xx, xx02/4xxx Em, Amaj7 G F#m
2: A Em, Am Dm, C#7 F#m Bm C#7
3: D F/C D Am D Am DmA C/A
4: E A x5856x Dsus4 D Em7
5: xx0565 xx0553 xx0331 A7
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4. |
Holiday Haikus 1
03:50
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Tall green forest frowns
At Batu Ferringhi’s woes
When will tourist come?
Julie’s roof is gone
She gazes out at grey sea
Her eyes seem tired now
Helen likes chocolate
But is too scared to drive here
Chose Bee Hoon instead
Their dog is ‘Happy’
Rescued, with only one ear
Future now happy?
Teluk Bahang - Rain!
Drink white coffee, play with cat
Good as jungle!
1. G Cmaj7, F Am, F C E7
2. F/D (xx056x) G, Em Am, F Em G F Am
3. E A7, E A7, Em A B7
4. A Amj7 A7 F#/A, G, Em9 (xx2002) B*(x2x222), B**(x2x242)
5. Dm7 Am7, F C Am Dm, Am7 G F
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5. |
Holiday Haikus 2
05:19
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Doublespoon Cafe
Sixties folk music playing
Leaving on jet plane
Return to Thai wat
A yellow band for my wrist
Fails to bring virtue
Sit in the soft rain
Say: namo ami tab bha
Almost in heaven
I feed the stray cats
They look at me with scared eyes
Is he friend or foe?
Jalan in the rain
The red pavement tempts me: Come!
But wants to break hip
The Little Things I forgot
Dm Am
The jalan I remembered
C G Dm
And green misty hills up to Zi Zai
Bm C G
I could never forget the traffic and birds
B7
And the grey-green straits, the moody sky
C D
I’d forgotten the sounds
Em Am Em
Of waves mixed with crows by the pool
F G C Am
Sudden rain falling on eager ground
B7
The clicking of chopsticks by market stalls
I’d forgotted the taste
Of TehTarikh, kuetiaw and mee
The old man who hails me with ‘All The Best’
B7 C G F G C
And the smiles of all who didn’t, forget me.
1.C F C G C F Am
2. x0565x (A7), F C Dm, Eb Bb D7
3. xx05xx Am, Dm, Em Dm C Dm Am
4. xxx030 xxx230 xx213x Em, F Em
5. Eb xx0311 Cm Gm, F Eb Gm
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6. |
Holiday Haikus 3
03:59
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Sitting at airport
Saying Goodbye Dear Penang
For the third time now
Fin'lly the sun came
Lifted clouds of depression
Too much and too late
Some looking happy
But most have worried black eyes
Airports post-covid
Leaving Penang late
More stress on a tiring day
Changi is a dream
Right now at Tabriz
Perhaps where our fuel came from
Fat use to them now
1. x0323x3x023x 2x023x 0x200x A Em7 A
2. 0xx03x Am7, G Bm7 Em, F-C-Dm-Am Bm
3. Am7 Em7 Dm7 Em7 Am7
4. x0555x x0423x C G Am7
5. xxx002 xxx202 xx0777 - 5 - 3 - 2-0-2, 0xx200 G Cmaj7
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7. |
November Haikus
04:16
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November Haikus
Covid strikes me down
Lie in bed and sleep...deep dreams
While satan laughs loud
England play football
Budweiser is not allowed
You can only yawn
My friends are dying
Soon we will all be drinking
Coffees in heaven
Black winter sunshine
Respite after endless rain
Before more downpours
Christmas market gleams
But trinkets from Minsk are banned
Ukraine's are allowed
1. 04430x Eb Cm Gm Cm Gm G# G
2. G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 G B7 Am Dm Am
3. Dm7 Em7/D F/D Em7/D, Amaj7 D F#m A Em
4. xx3010 x3x010 G Am Eb-Bb Eb-Bb x0555x
5. D G x2023x Em D C Em
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8. |
December ('22) Haikus
05:05
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Dec22 Haikus
Minus four degrees
Hardiness of younger days
Replaced with long johns
Our tree from Norway
Very hard to hang baubles
Add one two fall off
Nil all in Qatar
Croatia now play Brazil
pass, pass, foul, pass, miss
Incense should give peace
But not when it burns carpet
Brings only terror
Buy gifts for fam'ly
No idea what they would like
The usual crap
TJD 9 dec 2022
1. 0xxx55 xxx053 x0x987, 0xx434 0xx403 0xx432 0xx400, F#m Bm F#m C#7
2. x7x07x x0555x, Gm A7, x7x07x F#m Em F#m
3. (x02000 x32xxx 3x0xxx x02xxx), xx023x xx021x (), E7 Dm () ()
4. (edcbag#fe) Am, (edcbcbag#) E7, (ede) C Dm , (edcbag#fe) Am
5. Em9 (2400xx) Am7, Eb Dm Gm, Cm F D7
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9. |
End of Year Haikus
03:54
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End of year Haikus
Last day of the year
We creep and cough all day long
To Armageddon
John made me a pie
I tried to feed to robin
But he prefers worms
Now we are two tribes
Friends of many years hate me
They are sheep, me owl
Late night at Bar End
Waiting for her coach alone
Home, I'm still alone
We love to watch darts
Ally Pally fantastich!
(Deutsch TV is free)
TJD
31/12/2022
1. C Dm, C F, Am Dm Am
2. x3233x Gm, F Dm Gm, F Gm
3. riff Em, Riff C, Bm C riff B7
4. Em Bm C G Am, Dm G Am
5. riff, riff, E A-E E B E
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Toby Darling Penang, Malaysia
Amateur enthusiast.
Feel free to do anything you want with these tracks, I am not interested in making money from music.
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