1. |
Meadows
03:38
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Meadows
Palmer field is flooded;
My cycle flounders like an old horse,
valiantly staggering along familiar tracks,
but creaking with tired spent force
Heart pounding in The Weirs,
through the Itchen's dereliction of its train
As it seeks and easier softer way
to freedom in the icy flood plains
Walkers and their dogs like lazy zombies
form legions of the damned to block my way.
My bell tolls for their repentance
But they hear not it's soliloquy.
The cafe brings me hot Greek coffee,
an ashtray, smoke, Venus shining down
Alone I can muse on this epitaph;
hot shores exchanged for this cold dank town.
TJD
26/1/23
Chords: Am blues: Am7 Dm7 Am7 E D Am7 E7
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2. |
Lent
03:36
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Lent
Trundle over to the cathedral ref
Past Thomas Thetcher, pipped by weazels
Welcomed by my robin, anointed with ash;
meet up with the old crowd, coughs and sneezes
Talk about movies, sport and scandals,
dodgy eyes, ears, bladders and knees;
Holidays abroad, restaurants and art
Who will care for us in our hour of need
Old men clinging to the ruins of youth
rich memories, legacies from a golden time
Abandoned pride and dreams of greatness
No longer scared to face the final sunset
One by one we fade away
our wisdom unwelcome with the hubris of youth
our wealth squandered, our good names slandered,
the battalions of ignorance march over our dead
TJD
24/2/23
verse 1 & 2:
D/A Am* G Am x0x77x - x0x55x
Dm E/A D/A x0645x x0423x
F#m Bm
G D/F# Em G A 2xx23x
verse 3:
Bm F#m Bm F#m
Em A Em A
D A Em A
Em G A
verse 4:
D A Em G
E/A D/A F#m Bm
G D/F# Em A
Em G A Bm
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3. |
Easton
03:20
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Easton
Am Em F Am
Rusted bikes with flat tyres
Em A Em
Cleared of weeds and saddles dried
Am Em F Am
Peddled gingerly past bare sports grounds
B
East through the Worthys by the river's side
C G F Am
We gasp and shudder, hate the main road
F#m Bm F#m
But make it up to the Watercress track
C G F Am
Chuffing easily along to Itchen Abbas
B7
Then down cross bridges, the slow lane back
Avington church, a pansied well
Sweep past the lake, ancient woods of yew
Arts and Crafts house, two fat old sows
Plain sailing to Easton, meadows soaked in dew
The Cricketers pub past its glory days
St Clements, a fag, the long hill climb
A derelict road cut off by motorway
The Winnal estate, 70's grime
A9/E (x7760x) C
Safely home before the sun came down
Bm Em F
Legs seizing up like worn out gears
F#m C#7
Everything we saw today was in decay:
D A Em
Hampshire, bikes and bodies, seen better years
TJD
4/3/23
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4. |
Reach for the Sigh
02:57
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Reach for the Sigh
Em C
Full of the joys of spring
G F Am Em
and primed with the pride of youth;
F C Eb Bb
Ready to face the world and shine
Dm Am Dm
Find fortune, red in claw and tooth.
Eb Bb Cm Gm
But I'm no Douglas Bader,
Eb Bb Cm
strutting around on new tin legs;
Eb Bb Cm D
I'll never fly again or reach the sky
Em C G
Just slosh about in the dregs of regret
F#m Bm
So many chances of stardom
C#m F#m
Sunk in Mekhong, women and song,
D F#m C#m D
as though a well-read witty tongue
F#m Bm
Could atone for a lifetime of wrong.
So I'll reach for the sigh of sorrow
under blankets, underground, eyes closed tight
watch movies of Englishmen better than I,
fade into nothingness, out of mind out of sight
TJD
11/2/23
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5. |
Birthday Haikus
04:50
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Birthday Haikus
63 today!
Let's get this over with now please
Chuff on to heaven
Car boot sale beckons
Boxwood ruler from my youth
trumps cracked fake Ming plate
Lunch Seven Stars pub
Jock Woodhouse looks over our meal
Our help not needed
Chithurst is empty
We get lost looking for spring
Nibbhana postponed
Steep narrow lane blocked
Who will reverse, them or me?
As usual it's me
28/2/23
TJD
1. Eriff F E7, Am E7 Am
2. G Em Am, G Bm C D, Em Bm C
3. C G Dm7 G, Dm7 C xx355x x3x55x, 0x978x x0555x Em
4. (x535xx x035xx) x2, Bb Am Dm, Eb Bb , (x535xx x035xx) x2
5. x0444x E A, G7 riff, Gm Cm Gm
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6. |
Oxford Haikus
04:27
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Oxford Haikus
Mad guy, flowery shirt
waits for Virgin crosscountry
Stopping at Oxford?
Old lady in panic
Am I in coach C or D?
All go to heaven
Oxford station blues
Less Adlestrop, cold wind bites;
Not same dreaming spires
Pitt-Rivers museum
Fossils beg to schoolchildren
Bury me again
Wadham is open
Rainbow flag flies high with pride
Dorothy weeps now
TJD 17/2/23
1. A7 Am Em F C Am
2. x3x03x 3xx03x Em D C G B7
3. x024xx 2x02xx Am D Em x0543x 0x545x
4. x0776x x0705x xx0755 xx0533 xx0221 xx0210 Gm F D7
5. Dmaj7 Em G A Bm, A D F#m
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7. |
March Tankas
04:25
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March Tankas
Me, J, love broken
cars and shacks lying in fields;
steeped in toxic waste,
deep in Kentucky mountains
waiting decades for kind nerds
Deep holes in jungle
dug by vietnamese girl.
Earth moves by magic;
fire burns, she cooks wild fresh fish;
we can hide there for ever
Weird songs by Jim White
drift gently through the bayou;
church rings with rapture.
Genes and poison make strange folk
Me and J are proof of this.
3/3/23
TJD
1. x7507x 77557x 55335x Bsus4, Em D C B7, x7507x 77557x C
2. G Am, G C, Em G, C D Em G Bm C, 0x440x G Am
3. x0x05x, 0xx03x, x0x02x x0x01x, Bm Em Bm Em, Em scale, Cmaj7 Fmaj7, x0455x xx0535, Am G Am
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8. |
March Haikus
04:09
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March Haikus
Mischarged for a flat white
Should I pay them back one pound?
Karma always wins
Chance meet a friend of Bill
Our good friend fell off wagon
He left the saloon
We love toxic waste
St Catherine's Hill has eyes
Me and J look down
Chat then just silence
I could hardly be ruder
Turn on heel and run
Hildeberg look harsh
Do you want milk with coffee?
Says 'Enjoy!' then smiles
TJD
7/7/23
1. A Asus4 Dmaj7 Amaj7, Eb Bb Gm Cm, Bm C G
2. xx0777 xx0555 xx0777 xx0222, Dm7 Dm7+9 G, Dm7 C Dm Csus4 C
3. 0xxx00 x0x210 xx23x E, Em D/E C/A Bm/A Em
4. xx056x x0x55x Bm C#7 C9 G Am
5. A E A D Dm7 A
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9. |
Compton trio ambient mix
04:28
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10. |
Mulgar trio ambient mix
04:42
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11. |
Weymouth Haikus
04:37
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Weymouth Haikus
Take front five coaches
Or you will be left behind
A life in Bournemouth
Design a table
Impossible to open
Southwest Trains welcomes
Walk to Portland Bill
Where I saw Roger Whittaker
Sing Last Farewell
Left my stick behind
In the five rear carriages
But it tracked me down
Squirrels friendly here
Hardy better than Austen
Dorset trumps Hampshire
TJD
17/3/23
1, Amaj7 Dmaj7, C#m D, F#m Bm A C#7
2. C#7, D C#m Bm A, A E D A C#7
3. 0xx23x 0x203x, Bm E A F#m, 0x2233 A
4. xx056x xx058x x0x55x, x0x033 x0x55x, Em x0x033 Em Am
5. Em Am, B Em, x0765x x0543x x0770x x0765x x0543x x0765x
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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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