ooh this has a classic folk-roots vibe to it for sure... great fiddling and foot-tapping sing-along good stuff!!

Written by my uncle, David Brian Dooley, who passed in 2013.  Always believed this composition deserved much more attention than it received.  He was a talented violinist.  John Peck of Shreveport contributes some great violin solo textures too.

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Irishmen's Tea

Welsh valleys dream

It's taken me a while to finish this song - it's  about struggling on... up the mountain and, o.... there’s another mountain – where did that come from? 
 I’m so thankful to Patrick who played some synth and guitar tracks for this song – listen out for his awesome guitar playing which allowed me to  expand the song into new realms of emma-sonic-chaos!  Thanks so much Patrick! ! https://soundcloud.com/ghostlybeard
It has taken me a while to mix this song up – some new challenges here...  I’ve called it a ‘rock’ song, really just because I can...   

  

Carried my stone to the top of a mountain
been a long way but I pushed on through,
Carried my stone to the top of a mountain
Wind begins blowin’ through my heart

Been a long way and you’re bound to get weary,
citadel rock and the cataract pain,
Been a long road and you’re bound down, weary
Wind song, the eternal rain

Carried my stone to the top of a mountain
But there’s nobody there, the mountain has gone,
Carried my stone but I think it’s been broken
Defeat is a feeling that I’ve never known

Turning around in the echoing silence
your voice sounds strange but you have to get on,
Don’t know the words to the sad empty dream song
Slow footfalls echoing on

Carried my stone to the top of a mountain
Been a long way but I pushed on through,
Carried my stone to the top of a mountain
Wind begins blowing through my heart

Ahead in the distance, a bell started ringing
the shadowland shadow band just passing through,
Looked back behind me, so far and familiar
Shrug it off, you know what to do

You pick up a stone and you keep on walking
Your feet move slowly, it’s hard to get on
You pick up a stone and you search for a mountain,
Don’t know where the last one has gone

Carried My Stone...

Instrumental

Only one way to stop this rain                        

Dream in the mirror, a face that you just might have been,
wipe condensation, a bleary outline of a dream,
In the forest, I saw you standing in green
started running for cover, the sky it is falling, strange birds begin calling

Seems there’s only one way to stop this rain,
walk on through, as it’s falling
Seems there’s only one way to stop this falling
breathe in deep, as you push on through the sky

In the stream, watch the small fish dart by,
surprised by your silence, the air so bright still light
A dream you had folded away,
now it gnaws at your bones, you are reaching out, reaching

Seems there’s only one way to stop this rain,
walk on through, as it’s falling
Seems there’s only one way to stop this falling
breathe in deep, as you push on through the sky

The river is wide, there’s no way over
I’ve never learned the ways to fly
the path behind me, keeps disappearing
come on baby, reach for the sky

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A simple blue heartsong for voice piano and cello.
Illustration by Donn Kenn.
Written played sung and mixed up by Emma…


Only One Way To Stop This Rain...

With a storyline of false security and upheaval brought on by dark desire, this tune was inspired by the Norse legend "Iduna and the Golden Apples"

Murmur is available for £10 & pp - email me at galeritonic@gmail.com

Baddie Thiassi

Mid 70s era outsider tribute to America's Favorite Team.

Kay L. Gale - The Team Song Of The Dallas Cowboys

Dream My Life Away
DWS - 2019

I guess I dreamed my life away
I guess I dreamed my life away
That’s what all the people say
to me.

And when I dream
I dream my dreams come true
and if yours don’t
Keep on dreaming until they do    
Living in a conscious world
I know you gotta do
but give me a dreamer
and we’ll see it on through 

I guess I dreamed my life away
I guess I dreamed my life away
That’s what all the people say
to me.  

And when I dream
the best is yet to come
floating thru my dreamscape
never hurried or on the run   
Without the dreamers
We’d still be living in a cave
So keep your bored and jaded
and let the dreamers take the lead 

I hope I dreamed my life away
I hope I dreamed my life away
I don’t care what people say
to me.



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Dream My Life Away

I've recorded  this in one take, just me and my piano, singing my little heart out...  I had added a bunch of things to the production, then I took them all away again, it just is as it is...
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There Comes a Time
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There comes a time, a time to let go
a time to say yes, a time to say no
a time to rise up, stand tall and stand free
that time is not yet/has begun, come and sail/fly there with me

It’s a season of growing, it’s a season of pain
a time of direction, the pain and the gain
It’s a time to re-order, re-shape re-define
prune out all the extras, re-assess re-align

It’s been a rough ride, and it aint over yet,
but life keeps on flowing, her rivers run deep
and I guess you can leave it, just let it flow by
whether joy or sorrow, you can’t tell till you try

Yes there has been pain, you’ve been broken apart
felt the wild desolation,  the wind in your heart
but it’s time to move on now, time to leave it behind
cast aside those that hold you, let the future unwind

And there’s no use pretending, 
I know that it’s hard
but sometimes you must leave them, 
move on and discard


Written sung made and played by Emma.
Picture is a dreamscape with pastel and charcoal.

There Comes a Time...

Country/folk songwriter from Dallas.  Releases include More Songs About Drinking and Women Who Left (2007) and Additional Dysfunction (2012).  




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