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Like Sean I just love “train songs.”  So when he sent me these lyrics the melody immediately screamed out!  He writes from a place I fully understand but cannot articulate it in that great way he does.  I think we fully compliment each other.  Perhaps he’s my good twin!!!
Please check out Sean Doran’s sounds:  http://soundcloud.com/something-memorable
Music/Vocal: Johnny Minstrel. 
 Lyrics/Bass: Something Memorable http://soundcloud.com/something-memorable
Guitars and Harmonic: Johnny Minstrel.   
Drum Mix & iPad Instruments and Garageband  Arrangement: Something Memorable.

LONESOME WHISTLE
There’s a reason why this train sounds so lonesome, 
When you listen late at night, safe in bed, 
He’s riding tracks that can't be changed for no-one. 
Headin’ down the line, where he don't want to go.... 
That’s why you hear that lonesome whistle blow.
We cut sleepers with our talking, 
That buzzed when we first met. 
Carving out a life together, 
Deciding where we’d like to get. 
And each sleeper was a promise, 
That we gladly made. 
And we set them down together 
So young and so unafraid.
We shaped rails in the forge 
Where our burning passion sparked. 
We rolled them and we tempered them 
and quenched them in the dark. 
And each rail was commitment, 
Which would never crack 
And we laid them on the sleepers, 
Without thought of looking back.
That’s when I knew where I was going, 
So I worked to drive us there. 
And I trusted in the good work, 
In the path that we prepared. 
But that track just got longer, 
took me away from home. 
And on days when I’d come back, 
I’d hear the distance in your tone.
Hammer flashing like a curse, 
Alone I’d drive the spikes. 
Bolting down forever, 
This life I thought  you’d would like. 
But then you started talking 
Like you’d not known what we’d built. 
Wanting other ways to go, 
Where your life would be more filled.
Now I’m riding in the engine, 
Down this track that I’ve designed. 
I pull the whistle cord 
Though there’s no danger on the line, 
No Danger, No strangers, No passengers, No pride. 
I’m the driver of this train, 
That no-one wants to ride..
There’s a reason why this train sounds lonesome, 
When you listen late at night, safe in bed, 
He’s riding tracks that can't changed for no-one. 
Headin’ down the line, where he don't want to go.... 
That’s why you hear that lonesome whistle blow.
Picture care of... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saubcy.games.puzzle.Train.SteamLocomotive.gm
"Lonesome Whistle (Collaboration Johnny Minstrel & Something Memorable)" by Something Memorable is licensed under a Creative Commons License



Lonesome Whistle - A Collaboration With Johnny Minstrel and Something Memorable

SOFTEN MY HEART Demo Recording
Songwriter - Beth Williams
http://bethwilliamsmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/bethwilliamsgospelsongs
Lonnie Atkinson on 2nd guitar

Soften My Heart - Beth Williams Gospel Songs

Brenda Fassie (3 November 1964 – 9 May 2004)

Much thanks to Arkestar https://soundcloud.com/ocean-of-tunes-presents for hours of slog and oceans of brilliance!
A big thanks as well to Russell Sinfield  https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield for initiating this project and for all the encouragement and pointers

Vocals by Pravinand Maharaj aka Johnny Minstrel
All Instrumentation by The Ocean Of Tunes Arkestar
Backing Vocals by The Aquabooty City Choir

 
Brenda – Words & Music by Pravinand Maharaj 

Showstopper, pill popper
What’s it all about
Bad weather coming down
The fans sing and shout
Cry heaven, earth in ruin
A battle won and lost
Somewhere up a Muslim moon
Somewhere down a Christian cross

And oh it’s a situation
A bad situation

Survivor, revive her
She can’t die again
What will we do without her
The last link on freedom’s chain
Cities fall, madmen rise
Fear everywhere
Kids learn the facts of life
From bigots who don’t care

And oh it’s a situation
A bad situation
Oh…it’s a situation
A bad situation

Singing sweet and strong
Weeping deep and long
What voice comes to you today?
Singing sweet and strong
Weeping deep and long
What voice comes to you today?

And oh it’s a situation
A bad situation
Oh…it’s a situation
A bad situation

Laid to rest, she was the best
To her grave alone
With every song she ever sung
To find a way back home
A lone wind calling, sirens howling
Somewhere someone screams
If we could lay our weapons down
And like her start to sing

Brenda - with  The Ocean Of Tunes Arkestar featuring The Aquabooty City Choir

Night Traveler

Music and production by The Glen Granthem Band
This is our 3rd collaboration together...many thanks to Glen
My lyrics that inspired Glen are listed below.

HE GREW UP IN THE DUST BOWL
IN A SMALL TOWN IN OKLAHOMA
NO JOBS, JUST DUST AND MORE DUST
DREAMING ABOUT CALIFORNIA

ONE DAY HE DECIDED TO HEAD WEST
THE ROAD WAS LONG AND HARD
HITCH HIKING WHEN HE COULD
JUMPIN FREIGHT CARS IN TRAIN YARDS

A SIGN PAINTER BY TRADE
LOST HIS BRUSHES ON THE ROAD
MANAGED TO HANG ON TO HIS HARP
THE BOY WAS LONELY AND AFRAID

HE MADE IT TO THE GOLD COAST
FLAT BROKE AND HUNGRY
WITH ONLY THE SHIRT ON BACK
NEEDED SOME FOOD BADLY

STARTED PLAYING HIS HARP AND SINGING  
ON A STREET CORNER FOR NICKLES AND DIMES
SOON THE CROWDS WERE GATHERING
TO HEAR THE BOY FROM THE DUST BOWL

HE WAS THEN OFFERED A GIG AT A BAR
WITH A BORROWED GUITAR AND HARP
HE WAS SOON ON THE ROAD TO BEING A STAR
A RECORD DEAL WAS IN THE MAKING

CHORUS
FROM THE DUST BOWL TO STARDOM
THE YOUNG MAN NEVER GAVE UP
FROM THE DUST BOWL TO STARDOM
SOME SAY IT WAS DUMB LUCK
FROM THE DUST BOWL TO STARDOM
HE NEVER GAVE UP…HE NEVER GAVE UP

BRIDGE
HE WROTE SONGS ABOUT THE WORKING MAN
BECAUSE HE CARED ABOUT THE WORKING MAN

(REPEAT CHORUS)

© 2018 Lyrics by Tony Harris (BMI)

From the Dust Bowl to Stardom - Lyrics by Tony Harris - Featuring The Glen Granthem Band - Original

A Cover Version of a CCR-Fogerty Classic. This one also features the fabulous Sax Sounds furnished by Makavox, a most gifted musician and a kind Collaborative friend. Thank you, Maka! :) Made the whole song sound so much better. I was really 'missing' that Sax from the CCR-Fogerty versions. This was a wonderful addition. Greatly appreciated.

Long As I Can See The Light - Riff Beach CCR Cover Collaboration

Words and Music by Addison Brady
Copyright 2020 Addison Brady Music
Chalk Mountain Music Publishing, BMI
All Rights Reserved
Recorded at Tree Top Studio 
Crozet, Virginia

Lesson of Love

I first heard this tune from the great Tony Rice (bluegrass flat picker). I immediately wanted to pick it and I immediately realized that I was no
Tony and just could not keep up with him.  I still love this tune and had to slow it way down and adapt.   Just picking and singing.

Church Street Blues ( cover)   Tony Rice

Cover Collaboration with Tom Adams...many thanks to him for adding his guitar work.
Words by Ada Habershon in 1908 and reworked by the Carter Family in 1935... made famous by the Carter Family and many other artist.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Cover)- Vocal by Tony and Guitar by Tom Adams

Written by John Fogerty
Performed and Arranged by me

Have you ever seen the rain

So good to get my utilities back and return to SC.  I had a bit of a time
with Hurricane Laura and Delta.  At times like this you find out how
truly strong we are.  The out pouring of so much help from family,
friends, neighbors, churches, local officials and government agencies
were tremendous.  I have been singing this along with my grand kids
lately.  A bit of encouragement, wow What A Wonderful World.

What A Wonderful World

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