Great song John, and the lyric is perfect. Think this is your best one 👏🏻

Hi John. This is really moving and melancholic. Really love it.

Here is my latest song mastered by my wonderful Sander. @wane-of-summer

Hope you enjoy! 😊💕🎵🎹🎶🎤🎼🎧🌷

TEAR MYSELF AWAY…

Just me and my ukulele: Another new song demoed with an acoustic ukulele. I don't usually include lyrics in the description but I seem to have sung this without making many of the words really clear, so just this once I have included the lyrics here.

IF I ONLY HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE AGAIN 
(Oct 2023)


Shattered Dreams
Broken promises
Map the highways 
Of my life
A broken heart
Long lost dreams 
The price I pay
For blinkered eyes

In my youth
I saw the world
A gilded path
And all that implies
But with age,
Experience
Shows the truth
Youth ever denies

If I had my life again would I make the same mistakes
If I had a second chance would I be smart
Would I come to realise
Would I see thru all those lies'
If I only had my life to live again

I believed 
What I was told
Had no doubts
Your love would last
But in time
Your love would die
Then my dreams
And hopes were trashed

If I had my life again would I make the same mistakes
If I had a second chance would I be smart
Would I come to realise
Would I see thru all those lies'
If I only had my life to live again


Main chord sequence: Am  Dm  G   C  F  E7
Chorus F  G  C  Am

If I Only Had My Life To Live Again

We released our first (and last) Album in 2019. Since then we have been working on a lot of songs, and some are online here and or on Applemusic, Spotify etc. Next year we will have our second album finished and we look really forward to it. Here is one song from the upcoming album: Don't wait for me! Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Have you been waiting for your calling again?
Well, I just like to waste my days
So please let me wake up in vain again
Just wanna be there in the race

And there are billboards full of answers
And who am I to disagree
Words of wisdom all around us, my friend
For anyone to see

Let me figure out the day
Let me figure out the week
Let me stop and have a moment
Let me stop and let me breath

Don't you wait for me
I'll be on my way
Don't you wait for me
I'll be good you see

I've ben waiting for your call again
And I can wait a million days
I can surely wait one more day in vain again
Just wanna be there in the race 

And there are billboards full of answers
And who are we to disagree
Words of wisdom all around us, my friend
For anyone but me

Let me figure out the day
Let me figure out the week
Let me stop and have a moment
Let me stop and let me breath

Don't you wait for me
I'll be on my way
Don't you wait for me
I'll be fine

Don't Wait For Me

~someone to someone~


You're on my mind every second of the day.
Could it mean, you and I are meant to stay?
I'll hold you in my arms and never let you go.
Somehow, my heart seems to know.

It's getting dark, too dark to see.
The sunlight ran out on me.
If it rains outside, I'll be your dry place.
Excuse me ... I've got anxieties.

I used to be somebody.
I used to be someone to someone. 
It's cold outside, I know there's a warmer place.
I just called to say ... I'm sorry.

It's been awhile since I've seen your face.
Maybe someday I'll find a way...
To hold you in my arms and never let you go.
Crazy how you have grown.

I know these are dumb things I need to say.
Deep inside, I feel this way.
It's cold outside but I know of a warmer place.
Some things never go my way.

I used to be somebody.
I used to be someone to someone.

I used to be somebody.
I used to be someone to someone.

 


someone to Someone

Hey man, I feel the blues a-comin' on.
Back to my back catalogue, this one written in 1975. I cannot remember what specifically moved me to write this but one of my favourite albums at the time was a Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee compilation. Hope it grabs ya!

My Guitar (Ukulele demo), original song

“4 Stars - Q Recommends” 
- Q magazine

From the album Strange Part of the Country:

w/ Grammy-winner Tchad Blake (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello), and bass legend Danny Thompson (Robert Plant, Joe Strummer)

"One of the most original artists out there"
- Blues Matters magazine

Round Midnight (Radio Edit)

Lonley

I have just completed recording a session of three more of my older songs. This time completely acoustic recording, no amp or pedals. A hint of reverb added post recording and mastered with the Sound Cloud app.
This song written in the sixties, one of my early favourites, has some unexpected chord sequences which I really liked. e.g. the last line of each verse has chords F Bb G G7 C. the Bb used is a triad using the G-open shape on the top 3 strings.

Sing Me A Simple Song - ukulele demo

The third of the current recordind session. A little unappy with this one but including it here as an impression of what it sounded like when written back in the sixties. I may decide to add some "sparkle" to the vocal, but for now it is what it is. "Not everyone is a winner everytime" and this is a little like a personal  history for me.

In The Jungle Of My Mind- ukulele demo

'1977 - This one has some Reel to Reel Magic    
I knew it was a short song 
I could see I was near the end of the reel  
But I had just writen 'positive positive'
So naturally I thought... I got this... 
By midway, I was lost in it 
And not worried about the tape running out  
By the end I'm confident... and then, wrong
and rarely has 'wrong' turned out to be so right  

DOUBTER

Here’s a welcome to the world of indecision
Or are you passing through?
When I dreamed you I was under the assumption
It was never coming true
Maybe I’ll be better off
For all the tears I cried 
If I don’t fall in love so hard this time 

God help me I don’t mean to be a Doubter
Doubter ain’t no fun
I just can’t help it when I have to live without her
And our sweet love is on the run
Maybe I’ll be better off
For all the tears I cried 
If I don’t fall in love so hard this time 

God help me I don’t mean to be a Doubter
Doubter ain’t no fun
I just can’t help it when I have to live without her
And our sweet love is on the run
Maybe I’ll be better off
For all the tears I cried 
If I don’t fall in love so hard this time

® rgoldman dragbunt music

Richard Goldman's Album

DOUBTER '77

Country Rock featuring Bruce Kernow on harmonica

Make It This Time

08 - Knock Down The Walls Ver 2

An amateur singer/song writer; in it for the fun and satisfaction. Enjoying rediscovering old recordings and sharing new original songs with friends and anyone who would like to join me on the adventure.

The songs and playlists/albums hold an eclectic mix of original material and covers; I have also recovered various analog recordings and sequenced tracks. I sing because I enjoy it and make no claims to any musical performance skills, you are warned....

If I Only Had My Life To Live Again

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