Ascent

Cowboy at the end of time

Battle

I dreamed that Michael Buble was singing this song.  When I woke up, I checked the song didn’t exist then quickly wrote it down and recorded it in GarageBand using the standard GarageBand piano and a blue yeti mic.  I’d love this song to be recorded by someone like Michael.   The song is particularly special because I haven’t been very well and this song and another song were a window of joy for me.  I hope people like it.  Stay safe.  Look after each other and our planet.  A.

Love is all around

This is a companion piece for love is all around.  It was written the same day.

Queen of the day

I'm the resident pianist at the Electric Kool Aid cabaret in Middlesbrough.  I write a lot of music for guitar and piano.  I wrote this song after watching the Greta Thunberg doc.

i feel good and i feel strong
When I wake up in the morning I I'm singing my song and you're so wise and you're so kind. i'll stand next to you til the day that i die
Weather has turned again
Spring time arrives
Flowers in bloom again
with you again we rise
on a new wave, and a new dawn, the aquarian weather is turning us on - So we stand up and we stand tall. and we don't stand for nothing that isn't for all
Old ways unravelling, we howl for air, people are tuning in, rejecting foul for fair
but the road's hard and the road's long so we all walk together and push on as one and we make peace and we teach love for the religion of money didn't come from above
and i feel good and i feel strong
get up in the morning im singing my song
and youre so wise and your so kind
i'll stand beside you til the day that i die Weather has turned again
Spring time arrives Flowers in bloom again with you again we rise

Rise

dedicated to all the poor people who lose their lives as a result of rampant capitalism.

In 1904, a boy by the name of Randall Moore
Took his girl to the Redcar shore and he got down on one knee
And he said will you marry me.
Well she said yes and took his hand and they walked the breadth of Coatham sand
And they walked the length to see the ships
Nobody can stop us now girl, nobody can stop us now
There’s work down Darbys watch me now, nobody can stop us now.

The week before young Moore would wed a thunderstorm, the sky like lead
The powder monkey cursed the rain and blessed the subterraneans
At the face the deputy checked the sound with his bar and said to bring it down
There’s a day’s work there boys, twenty tonne, nobody can stop you now 
But all around the busting stone did cause the props and baulks to groan
The whole damned lot was on the creep nobody can stop it now boys 
nobody can stop it now, it’s on the creep you’re in too deep nobody can stop it now

Oh the work’s bred in and the work’s brayed out a boy goes down and a man comes out
That’s the way it goes …And the grass grows up and it covers the scars, is there a monument to mark 
does anybody know or even care about those bloody hills there

Well they found the keystone with the pinch and eased it out inch by inch 
That’s when young Moore’s luck ran out for he slipped when his mate did give the shout
From the wagon ledge he tried to leap but fell and landed in a heap and stared up disbelievingly
For no man can beat gravity the falling ironstone marking fate and chalking up another mate

They say they had to shovel him up onto the stretcher to the path the men downed tools and led him out on Widows Row they held him low and covered up they laid him down and put their miner’s lanterns round and they said a prayer for Randall Moore they said a prayer for Randall Moore.

Oh the work’s bred in and the work’s brayed out a boy goes down and a man comes out that’s the way it goes and the grass grows up and it covers the scar, is there a monument to mark save daffodils on bloody hills
In 1904, a boy by the name of Randall Moore took his girl to the Redcar shore and he got down on one knee and he said will you marry me.

The ballad of Randall Moore

Sea shanty about a girl from Middlesbrough dock who meets a sailor and falls in love with tragic consequences.

The Ballad of Peggy Harkness

I walked a thousand miles away in a hundred days
I met a woman on the way she smiled at me and said please stay in such a way
I asked the secret of success 
To see the moon
I asked and what about the rest
You'll know too soon for lovers come and lovers go away
I walked a thousand miles back home in a hundred days
To see the woman I've long known come through the haze and said please stay in such a way
I asked the secret of success
To see the sun
I asked and what about the rest
It's just begun
For lovers come and lovers go away

the secret of success

Back to LA.

composer, pianist and guitarist.  Currently I'm interested in the Climate Change protest.  I write in many styles but am most proud of the epic ballads I have written influenced by songs such as Isis and Hurricane by Dylan. My current aim is to be played on the BBC folk show.  I am the resident pianist at the Electric Kool Aid Cabaret and have performed with internationally acclaimed poets all over the world.  I love improvising over spoken word and using music as a way to connect with people from myriad backgrounds.   @antonflint

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