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It's what every songsmith wishes to write. Or is it? An old quasi-political crooning.
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F Em
I have always wanted
Dm Cmaj7
To write you all THE SONG.
F Em
The song to stir your soul
Dm Em
Right our every wrong
Dmin7 Cmaj7
The song you'd never forget
Dmin7 Cmaj7
The song you'd wish you had written
F Bb C
I wish this were The Great American Song
2.
Am G
You'd hear strains of Guthrie
F G
Of Adderly and Keyes
Fmaj7 Em7
Of Scott and Janis Joplin
Dm7 Em7
Quite a few from overseas
Fmaj7 Em7
The song to stir up your heart
Fmaj7 Em7
By muses I'd be smitten
F Bb C
I wish this were The Great American Song
Mindful Webworks | Short and Tall Tales | The Great American Song, page 2
3. C It would sell more copies than D "I Want to Hold Your Hand." E Retire with cash and fame Am Power at my command! F The song to put into neon! Em The song to become a religion! Dm Bb C I wish this were That Great American Song
4.
Ab
When the song and I are famous
A
I run for King of Earth
Bb
At my glorious coronation
C#3 C
I realize what it's worth
Am
The song to conquer people
G
("Of course, that would be wrong.")
F
I'm just as glad this isn't
G F Ab Bb C
The Great American Song
["Oh Beautiful, for spacious skies..."]
Performed in The Great American Song, 2012 March 27.
Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #11, 2016 Oct 21.
Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #11, 2016 Oct 21.
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1.
F Gm
O! I hope we're not late for the theater
Bb F
O! I hope we're not late for the bar
Bb
O! I hope we're not late for the restaurant
F C F
But if we are, we are.
2.
F Gm
O! I hope we don't get in a car wreck
Bb F
O! I hope we're not stopped by the fuzz
Bb
O! I hope that our car doesn't run out of gas
F C F
But if it does, it does.
3.
F Gm
O! I hope we weren't....
Bb F
O! I hope we weren't....
Bb
O! I hope we weren't....
F C F
But if we were, we were.
2016 Sep 23: Performed in Mindful Webworkshop Episode #7.
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1.
F
I just had a waffle,
and I'm really feelin' awful!
Think that waffle had an awful
C
lotta mold.
Gm7
My pat of butter wouldn't melt.
I think I know just how it felt.
That moldy awful waffle really
F
felt cold.
2. My maple syrup I insist, 'll tell you musta turned to crystal, 'cause the jug I lug around won't even pour. And now this crummy fork of mine has broken for the final tine and I can't use it for the what the fork it's for.
3. My chin was wet with spittle when I spied the peanut brittle with a taste I mighta died for in my youth. But when I gave a chunk a try it turned out mighty hard and dry and now I got that crummy stuff stuck in my tooth.
4. I had to melt away the toffee so I poured a cup of coffee. It did the job. I also burnt my tongue. You wonder why I screamed and flailed? It made me yell, and I inhaled. There's moldy toffee coffee waffles in my lung!
Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #4
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B
Well, it's two per cent vim
and ten per cent vigor
E
when you gotta go up against
B
somebody bigger'n' you
but you do it when you gotta
Gb
if you got no choice.
B
Half the time you'll find that
as a matter of fact
E
it's not how big you really are
but how big you act;
B Gb
you can beat 'em with both hands behind your back
B
if you can use your voice.
Gb
Keep in mind what Will or was it Roy Rogers might've said
B
Doncha argue with a fellah with a foolish head
Abm F
'Cause the onlooker can't rightly tell
Gb7
Which of you is the foolMindful Webworks | Short and Tall Tales | 2 Percent Vim, page 2
B
Well now I'm goin' on record
as a pacifist
E
but I'm a hot-tempered guy
and it's hard to resist
B
throwin' punches when a fellah
Gb
is punchin' my eyeballs in.
B
I realize there's times
when y'gotta fight
E
but let's make it not here
not with me not tonight;
B
it's not fightin' that I mind
Gb
it's just a stupid waste of time
B
is a sin.
One never knows where one will find inspiration. The title for this song came, in Chicago on 1987 Oct 6, from a milk bottle. 2% VIM label by Dean Foods Co., Franklin Park, Ill. 60131
Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #5
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