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Home-Gabrielle Aplin

I'm a phoenix in the water
A fish that's learnt to fly
And I've always been a daughter
But feathers are meant for the sky
So I'm wishing, wishing further
For the excitement to arrive
It's just I'd rather be causing the chaos
Than laying at the sharp end of this knife

With every small disaster
I'll let the waters still
Take me away to some place real

'Cause they say home is where your heart is set in stone
Is where you go when you're alone
Is where you go to rest your bones
It's not just where you lay your head
It's not just where you make your bed
As long as we're together, does it matter where we go?
Home home home home

So when I'm ready to be bolder,
And my cuts have healed with time
Comfort will rest on my shoulder
And I'll bury my future behind
I'll always keep you with me
You'll be always on my mind
But there's a shining in the shadows
I'll never know unless I try

With every small disaster
I'll let the waters still
Take me away to some place real

Only wish I knew how to cut and paste! :-S :-D

Here's a tutorial GiN

http://youtu.be/RhXg4tvIft4

It's not that hard really.

I'll give you a lesson GeordieN its eazy peazy once you know how :-D

Memo to GiN - "Must try harder"! :-D

This has always been one of my favourites since I was a child

Ue o muite arukou
Namida ga kobore naiyouni
Omoidasu harunohi
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Ue o muite arukou
Nijinda hosi o kazoete
Omoidasu natsunohi
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Shiawase wa kumo no ueni
Shiawase wa sora no ueni

Ue o muite arukou
Namida ga kobore naiyouni
Nakinagara aruku
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Whistling

Omoidasu akinohi
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Kanashimi wa hosino kageni
Kanashimi wa tsukino kageni

Ue o muite arukou
Namida ga kobore naiyouni
Nakinagara aruku
Hitoribotchi no yoru


Kyu Sakamoto
Sukiyaki

:-D :-D

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ?
Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.
I wait for delivery each day until three,
So oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town ?
I'm counting on you, Lord, please don't let me down.
Prove that you love me and buy the next round,
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town ?

J Joplin

I think Jax posting is the Japanese SukiYaki song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcfdH33NdZA&list=PL416FDDBECCF8731B&index=2

Yes it is .....but this version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35DrtPlUbc

Love in a Fowlhouse

I fell in love with a pretty little hen
I've asked her once, but I'll ask her again
"Eerr Eroo! Oh won't you be my wife?"
"Buk Buk Buk Buk Buk!" she replied
"I'll be yours and I'll be true
And I'l lay lots of eggs for you.
And I'll be yours for the rest of my life."

I remember the day,
And it's not so far away
When they released you as a pullet in the pen
There were twenty others too
But none so nice as you
I wanted you to perch with me right then.

You make me so proud
When you go Buk Buk Buk out loud
After you have laid your daily egg
When to us the wheat is thrown
On the floor of our dear home
I'll be yours until the master takes my head

I fell in love with a pretty little hen
I've asked her once, but I'll ask her again
"Eerr Eroo! Oh won't you be my wife?"
"Buk Buk Buk Buk Buk!" she replied
"I'll be yours and I'll be true
And I'll lay lots of eggs for you.
And I'll be yours for the rest of my life."

When the day begins to break,
And we all begin to wake
I will Euu! Uoooo! each early morn
When our food is in the tray
You'll go Buk Buk Buk with me
We'll herald that another day has dawned

When you sit there on the nest
And you try your very best
To lay a double yolker just for me
We will raise a family
What a blessing it will be
To raise good chicks that Cock a Doodle Do

I fell in love with a pretty little hen
I've asked her once, but I'll ask her again
"Eerr Eroo! Oh won't you be my wife?"
"Buk Buk Buk Buk Buk!" she replied
"I'll be yours and I'll be true
And I'l lay lots of eggs for you.
And I'll be yours for the rest of my life."

(SukiYaki)

I wondered why I instantly recognised this posting by Jax and then it came to me ... this song was a massive hit in the USA 1963/4 and at that time I was spending a lot of time at the USAAF air force base in Wethersfield, Essex. The Yanks played it non stop. It was not much of a hit in the UK I wonder how Jax got to know of it ?

I love the lyrics Perse :-D :-D

Peeling the skin back from my eyes, I felt suprised
That the time on the clock was the time I usually retired
To the place where I cleared my head of you;
But just for today, i think I'll lie here and dream of you.

I've got you under my skin where the rain can't get in,
But if the sweat pours out, just shout I'll try to swim and pull you out.

A howling wind blows the litter as the rain flows,
As street lamps pour orange colored shapes through your window,
A broken soul stares from a pair of watering eyes,
Uncertain emotions force an uncertain smile...

I've got you under my skin where the rain can't get in,
But if the sweat pours out, just shout I'll try to swim and pull you out.

I was too young to buy it myself Rollo...My mum had the single which I stole from her and twenty years later when I left ex husband she asked for it back

Neither of us could do anything with it as we did not have a record deck

Think it reached the top ten in the UK aswell

I have gone back to vinyl there is just something in analogue which is not there with digital. There are budget LP players which will play 45s and 33s back through yr sound card ( and clean up the sound as well).

Time it was, and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence, A time of confidences
Long ago, it must be, I have a phonograph
Preserve your memories; They're all that's left you

(deliberate misquote from Paul Simon)

Why would you want to go back to vinyl and then clean it up through a sound card?

However, I must agree that analogue sounds so much more "real" and somehow richer.

I loved this, even back before I knew that my grandmother on one side came from the same sort of fishing community further up the coast. I've left out a couple of lines at ** to avoid any upset, which can be read here

http://harrychapin.com/music/dogtown.shtml

and heard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmLAF2lB_90

Dogtown
by Harry Chapin

Up in Massachusetts There's a little spit of land.
The men who make the maps, yes, they call the place Cape Ann.
The men who do the fishing call it Gloucester Harbor Sound,
But the women left behind, they call the place Dogtown.


The men go out for whaling, past the breakers and the fogs.
The women stay home waiting they're protected by the dogs.
A tough old whaler woman who had seen three husbands drown,
Polled the population and she named the place Dogtown.


There's all these grey faced women in their black widow's gowns,
Living in this grave yard granite town.
Yeah, you soon learn there's many more than one way to drown;
That's while going to the dogs here in Dogtown.


And she speaks: My father was a merchant all in the Boston fief.
When my husband came and asked him for my hand.
But little did I know then that a Gloucester whaler's wife
Marries but the sea salt and the sand.


He took me up to Dogtown the day I was a bride.
We had ten days together before he left my side.
He's the first mate of a whaling ship,
the keeper of the log.
He said, "Farewell, my darling, I'm going to leave you with my dog."


And I have seen the splintered timbers of a hundred shattered hulls,
Known the silence of the granite and the screeching of the gulls,
I've heard that crazy widow Cather walk the harbor as she raves
At the endless rolling whisper of the waves.


Sitting by the fireside, the embers slowly die.
Is it a sign of weakness when a woman wants to cry?
The dog is closely watching the fire glints in his eye.
No use to go to sleep this early, no use to even try.


My blood beats like a woman's,
I've got a woman's breast and thighs.
But where am I to offer them
to the ocean or the skies?


Living with this silent dog
all the moments of my life,
He has been my only husband;
am I a widow, or his wife?


Yes, it's a Dogtown and it's a fog town,
And there's nothing around 'cept the sea pounding granite ground
And this black midnight horror of a hound.


I'm standing on this craggy cliff,
my eyes fixed on the sea.
Six months past, when his ship was due,
I'm a widow to be.
**

And I have seen the splintered timbers of a hundred shattered hulls,
Known the silence of the granite and the screeching of the gulls,
I've heard that crazy widow Cather walk the harbor as she raves
At the endless rolling whisper of the waves.
At the endless rolling whisper of the waves.
At the endless rolling whisper of the waves.

I remember Sukiyaki, it was regularly on 'World-Wide Family Favourites'.

Rollo, I lived in Blackmore End (just down the road from Wethersfield) in the early 80's.

:-D

So you're feeling tied up to a sense of control
And make decisions that you think are your own
You are a stranger here, why have you come?
Why have you come, lift me higher, let me look at the sun
Look at the sun and once I hear them clearly, say

Who, who are you really?
And where, where are you going?
I've got nothing left to prove
Cause I've got nothing left to lose
See me bare my teeth for you
Who, who are you?

Now you're moving on and you say you're alone
Suspicious that this string is moving your bones
We are the fire, we see how they run
See how they run, lift me higher, let me look at the sun
Look at the sun and once I hear them clearly, say

Who, who are you really?
And where, where are you going?
I've got nothing left to prove
Cause I've got nothing left to lose
See me bare my teeth for you
See me bare my teeth

Who, who are you really?
And where, where are you going?
I've got nothing left to prove
Cause I've got nothing left to lose
See me bare my teeth for you
Who, who are you?

How about this one...another single that belonged to my mum I stole...never got into the UK charts so don't know where she heard it

"Different Drum"


You and I travel to the beat of a different drum
Oh can't you tell by the way I run
Every time you make eyes at me
Wo-oh

You cry and moan and say it will work out
But honey child I've got my doubts
You can't see the forest for the trees

Oh don't get me wrong
It's not that I knock it
It's just that I am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love only me

Yes, and I ain't saying you ain't pretty
All I'm saying is I'm not ready
For any person place or thing
To try and pull the reins in on me

So good-bye I'll be leaving
I see no sense in this crying and grieving
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me

Oh don't get me wrong
It's not that I knock it
It's just that I am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love only me

Yes, and I ain't saying you ain't pretty
All I'm saying is I'm not ready
For any person place or thing
To try and pull the reins in on me

So good-bye I'll be leaving
I see no sense in this crying and grieving
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me


I found it once at a Kareoke and no one had ever heard it before...So whether I sung it well or not, they didn't know :-D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Nq48sHF8M