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Earthfolk
01:25
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Dec 23 D
04:21
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Dec 2023 D Haikus
Last day of the year
Storm and sunlight, rain and shine
What will next year bring?
Ally Pally heaves
A millimetre of wire
Between joy and grief
Seville oranges
We love their sharp bitterness
A cure for despair
Four weeks alone now
Basic standards have just been met
But not exceeded
A cat came to eat
But treats and offered cuddles
Spurned with flashing eyes
TJD 31/12/23
1. Xx547x D/B, G C9, D/B Am, G D Em7
2. D A Bm F#m, G D Em D, Em G Am
3. Xx0555 xx0433, xx0432 C9, G F Em
4. E A, E F#m, C#m G#m A
5. Am7 Dm7, Am7 E7, Am7 Bm/A C#m/A Bm/A, Am7 Em7
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3. |
Jan 24 A
04:26
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January 2024 A Haikus
Oshi has football
A late Christmas gift from me
Supports The Gunners
The Plough at Sparsholt
Steak and kidney pudding Oh Yeah
No room for dessert
My new fountain pen
Ink refuses to leave by nib
But covers my hands
Respite from the rain
Paid for with sun and blue skies
Bringing cold hard frost
In Projects cafe
Trendy ladies competing
To be the slowest
TJD 6/1/23
1, xox55x xox43x x0242x, Fmaj7 Am7 G 32020x, E9 G9 xx055 x0242x
2. Am Em x3 F#m, Bm F#m x4
3. Am E7 Am, Am Dm7 Am E7, Am G F E7, Am E7 Am
4. A9 A D/B C9 G, Em D D/B A Asus4 A
5. 07x07x x0755x, B7 C Bm Am G, Em B7
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4. |
Jan 24 B
03:56
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Jan 24b Haikus
So cold outside now
Even though I want to smoke
I’m driven back in
My fridge is kaput
Don wheezes and tries to help
Broken with good heart
Sam Cooke, Malcolm X
Two ways to fight injustice
Both ended up dead
Hope to adopt cat
There’s a Bengal called Luna
Please come to stay here
Rat in my attic
I don’t want to kill him and
Wish he would move house
TJD 8/1/24
1. Am Em x2, E7 Am Em, Bb Am Dm Am
2. Fm C Fm C, G#m C7 Fm
3. Dm7 Bb C x2, Em G A C Em G A B7
4. Xx0320 xx0560 xx0780 x2, xx0320
5. X0x55x x0x53x x0x55x, 0xx78x x0x55x, xx023x F Am
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5. |
Jan 24 C
03:45
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Jan 24c Haikus
Down on Bugle Street
A Tudor house with light show
Only we were ghosts
Luna loves to play
She thinks my toes are fat rats
Claws without mercy
Ice has turned to rain
Blue turns to grey, white to brown
Thoughts to coming Spring
My back’s a turret
On an old dreadnought long sunk
Rust on the sea floor
Dream of Nebraska
Long dusty roads and freight trains
Homesteads on bare plains
TJD
21/1/24
1. G D Am, G D C D, Em D C D Em
2. Xx0777 xx0555 xx0433 xx0432, Dm7 Em7/D F G
3. Xx654x x6504x, x0(10) 98x x(10)908x, x8706x C Dm7 G
4. Dm Am x289, E7 Am G, F Am Dm E7 Am G Am
5. Am7 Gm, Dm Bb Am G, F#m Bm F#m
6. D A G D A Em D A G D A G A. Em D Em D C G Am Em D Em D F G Am
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6. |
Feb 24 A
03:23
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Feb 2024 A Haikus
How about Thorness?
Or Ventnor? A trailer home
Anywhere but here
Poor Luna is spayed
She looks sad and not convinced
About spinsterhood
In Spring we fly South
Back to Ref, bye bye Naafi
Weazels are glaring
Citizenship test
Vague questions about Boer War
Kipling would be stumped
Looks like war again
Before a midnight breaks in storm
We are fed nonsense
TJD 2/2/24
1. G D 0xx987x Bm, A G Bm, C D Em D C
2. Xx023x Asus4 A, Em Bm, xx2444 D A E7
3. Am7 Dm7, Em7 Am7, Gm C Dm7 Em7
4. E D Bm7 C#m7
5. D. F#m, Em D/B Em A
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7. |
Into The Mild
03:45
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Into the Mild
A#/A A
Into the mild,
Dm Dm/C Dm/B Dm/Bb Dm F A7
A rundown trailer in the West Wight
Dm C F G D C G
Stacked with Mama noodles and cheap red wine
Dm Dm/C Dm/B Dm/Bb Dm F A7
A smoky boiler, fired with a flickering light
Em D A
With my dear kitten for warmth
Eb Bb F Eb
Lo-fi songs, my goose-fart rasp
Gm C
Oom-cha-cha drums and mis-plucked strings
Eb Bb F Eb
A wheezing harmonica, my failed gasps
Neighbours with big dogs and tattoos
Wary of drunken bohemians like me
Strict rules about disposal of rubbish
I’ll fit in like salt in a fresh cup of tea
I can moulder in solitude, safe offline
Venture only to Compton in the height of summer
Or Ventnor for cream tea when my family visit
Before returning for a long winter slumber
TJD
4/2/24
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8. |
IOW Haikus
04:35
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IOW Haikus
Westerly blows hard
Winter sun lights the Solent
Red Funnel steams on
The donkeys look sad
Saved from a life of mis’ry
But not in heaven
Spyglass Inn Ventnor
Stuffed pirate gazes at the sea
Eyes closed like the shops
Appuldurcombe House
Dynasty brought to ruin
Under dark high Downs
The old crane in Cowes
Like me, former greatness spent,
Black against the sky
TJD 6/2/24
1. Em, D/B C Em, Am
2. Am D, C G D Am, Em D Am Em
3. Gm Cm x2, Eb Bb Dm, C Gm A D C
4. X0799x D, A Bm, x0799x D E D
5. A7 Dm A7, Em7 x0767x x0545x
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9. |
Friday
02:58
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Friday
Cm
First cycle of the year,
Gm
Sad flat tyres and rusty chain
Cm
Biddy-blocked all through town
Gm
Down Kingsgate, knees wracked with pain
Eb
The Itchen’s full, the meadows sodden
Eb/D
The Tonbridge’s open after a year’s repair
Eb/C
The Win Co Fo pitches are all mud-ridden
Bb
A lamentation of swans drift down towards the weir
Cm
The College is empty, it’s Lent half-term
Gm
But Projects is buzzing with Althea and Donna
A
We’ve got Exodus echoing in our ears
Gm
From Bob Marley yesterday at the cinema
Bb Fm
I’m smoking Camels brought from Basle
Eb Bb
Drinking my second flat white
Cm
Two huge poodles are sitting outside
Gm
I’m inside with ‘Stand up for your Rights’
Cm
Luna’s on speed, she won’t sit still
Bb
Pawing robins on my PC screen
Cm
My chicken pie is as dry as The Gobi
Bb
I make another coffee, hide away unseen
Cm Dm Fm Cm
I dream of Russia, anywhere but here
Fm D Bb
Give me vodka, cheap fags, Cossack’s dance
Cm Dm
Живы бу́дем — не помрём*
Fm Cm D Cm Gm
Lake Baikul is calling: Advance! Advance!
*Pronunciation: ZHYvy BUdem ni pamRYOM, Translation: We will be alive, we won’t die
TJD 17/2/24
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Mar 24 A
04:27
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March 2024 A Haikus
Noodles for Gaza
Praying that they reach them there
Buddha would approve
My knee is on strike
It tells me that hiking now
Is from a past life
Luna loves my desk
But my keyboard is rival
To her soft kind gaze
Car boot on again
Tink is young as ever, just
His jokes got older
My car’s MOT
We don’t care about defects
Only about speed
TJD
5/3/24
1. Xx022x x0x22x Bm7, D A Em, G D Em G Em D A
2. Am, C Bm Am G, C Bm, Am Bm
3. Xx07(10)x x9x7(10)x, x0355x x0244x, x0203x Dm9 Am7
4. D Gm Bb-Cm Gm, D Gm-Eb Bb-Cm Bb (traditional folk tune ‘hey ho my honey’)
5. rhythmic
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11. |
Mar 24 B
04:04
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March 24b
Rupert needs puffed wheat
I need to end this poem
Before he gets back
We went to Alresford
Drank tea waiting for Manston
Old steam from the war
Poppy the ‘XL’
I’ve been left in charge of her
Feeling very scared
March is almost gone
Maybe the Xmas market
Opening next week
Tea in Chaiiwala
Shisha pipes in Smokey’s Lounge
A kind of heaven
TJD 22/3/24
1. A, D7, A E
2. X0x55x x0x53x, 0x550x F, Em Dm Em
3. G D C D, Em D C D, Em Bm C D, Em D C D
4. Xx0787 xx0222, Em G D, Em G A
5. Em G D Em, G D Am D, G Am D, Em D C D
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12. |
Apr 24 A
03:57
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Apr 2024 Haikus
My social circle
Not so much the Garrick Club
More Cannery Row
I’m in shorts today
The most stupid choice of wear
When it’s 8 degrees
Luna’s cone is off
She gallivants like a lamb
But doesn’t say Thanks
X is killing me
I can’t take the lies and hate
Sprayed into my brain
IPL on again
I’m a bit bored of cricket
Darts is where its at
27/3/24 TJD
1. Am Em F Am x2, G Am G Dm, C Dm7 Dm7, C Dm7 Am7, C Dm7 C Dm7 C Dm7 Am7
2. Dm7 Am7 Bb Am7 x2, Am G F Am, Am Em F Am, G Am G Dm Bb F
3. C Cm C9 G Am C Dm Gsus4 x2, F C Dm Em Am Em Dm G x2
4. C Dm C Dm G F C Dm x2
5. Gm Dm Am Bb Fm Cm x 4
The themes for 1 & 2 are taken from my quartet ‘Resentment’
Themes for 3 & 4 come from ‘Largo’
Theme for 5 comes from ‘Sea Shanty’
These can be found at https://www.free-scores.com/Download-PDF-Sheet-Music-tobydarling.htm
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13. |
In Vain
05:23
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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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