having the best to still contribute to living as you get old ..(if you got your health you got it all( nice one

So glad this was reported on the playlist...enjoyed so much!

reminds me when my mom use to play it brings back sweet memories

I see I listened to this 7 years ago and am so glad to hear it again. So much feeling and beautifully performed. Love it Chuck. Durge

Such a pretty song and you perform it so beautifully.

A wonderful song Chuck, and my sentiment too

Soo sweet and tender song with a lot of thoughts❤️

What a potent and compassionate message and you sing it with a great tenderness but with the strength that growing old requires. This is such a meaningful song Chuck, I feel so glad to get to hear it. Thanks for sharing

I made this for my little sister; it's a string of cameos about the town where we were born and raised - a suburb of Newcastle Upon Tyne.  Low income, but real world, real people, real troubles, real joy, real love, real communities, real humour, real music, real life.  All in gloriously rough 1960's industrial working class North East England monochrome.

For those of you not from that part of the world, lyric translations back to English are available upon request. :)

Started as a scribble, pretended to be a poem for a while, then I decided to noodle along and then.....  Ah, you know how it is.....in Byker town.
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Byker Town

Wallpaper of steam trains
Where the sweeping headlights sprawled
‘Cross the ceiling to the old piano
Up against my bedroom wall
In ‘67 the lid came down
Never played again so fair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Cross the bridge to get to school
Rope swings underneath
Bull’s eyes from the slaughterhouse 
Bombed out rail yard stark relief
Billy Smart’s big top’s coming down
But I don’t care
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Stench of old men in the Raby Arms
A bottle of dog to take back yem
Dominos and baccy tins
Were all that mattered way back then
Every retail product to be found
In Ernie’s shop just six foot square
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Quayside Sunday mornings
Champion, just the job
A week of meat to feed the bairns
For only fower bob
Scranshins from the chippy van ‘round
The side door of the Mayfair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Sent out on the Wednesday
In Charlie Shepherd’s finest rags
Over to the smokies
To get free broken kippers by the bag
Dad got paid when Thursday came around
Treats for us to share
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Front step full of babbies
Grazed knees on skinny legs
Back lane rows of nappies
Her face is full of wooden pegs
He’s on the dole no work to be found
Torn bookie slips by his chair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Nets twitching down the road
Never washed in years
Kids with mucky faces 
Almost clean behind the ears
Never seem to have a frown
Owning only what they wear
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Give up all the baggage I’ve got now
Of life in disrepair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Byker Town

SALTY

The extraordinarily talented Belial Pelegrim and I have spent the past year working on a very special project.  The end result is an EP based on nature and the changing seasons.  Here is the first single - a lille taste of what is on our "Movements of a Cloud" EP which will be released on February 25th via Bricolage.  Working with BP * https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/VZKQ3MBxyX1E2VVE6  * is always an exciting and fulfilling experience.  :) 

Check the EP out here:
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/movements-of-a-cloud-bc068


We hope you enjoy!  Thanks for listening and for your support!  :)

The Myth of Wondrous Things {Minimal_Drone*GRL & Belial Pelegrim} from the "MoaC" EP

Esta es mi última colaboración.
Está basada en la composición original escrita por Maria Bourgeois and Bryan McDaniel (https://soundcloud.com/user-217204530/glacial-melt)

Manuel de la Flor: composición instrumental y producción.
María Bourgeois: vocal y melodía vocal.

Foto: Ana Stube
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This is my last collaboration.
It is based on the original composition written by Maria Bourgeois and Bryan McDaniel (https://soundcloud.com/user-217204530/glacial-melt)

Manuel de la Flor: instrumental composition and production.
María Bourgeois: vocal and vocal melody.

Glacial Melt (MARIA BOURGEOIS AND DELAFLOR)

This composition started as an experiment in using virtual instruments and an early attempt (in fact first attempt) at orchestration. It is very rough around the edges and highlights the need for me to improve my mixing skills, but I think it has something raw about it. I hope you find it interesting to listen to.

Uprising Twenty - Two

Eterna

Written and performed by David Cooper.

Say hello to the sun
Come on baby let’s run
We gotta be number one
Where no one else has gone

Tell me how far can you see
And what will be, will be
As the tide rolls in from the sea
Why?  Please someone tell me

Chorus

What you tell me I don’t feel
Oh you told me, Oh you told me
Though in time it will heal
Let me hold you, let me hold you now

Just close your eyes very tight
Can you see beyond the light
And try as hard as we might
Not everything is black and white

Chorus x 2

Say hello to the sun x 3

Say Hello To The Sun

verBASSert

lyrics:

over
your own
conscious
over your
shattered face
oh no i cant help you
i have fun without you

something tells me
i'd prefer not to hear
you're so easy
when you came back
i shoulda just said 
no

sirens

Getting old makes me reflect.  Seeing family and friends pass on.  Seeing older people of my generation living their lives sometimes without the physical or mental capacity to remember, feel, love, seemly lost.  It is sad but that IS part of life.  IT'S OK 

Die Before I Die

It's been a while

Retired musician .  Just writing a few simple songs about
life and growing old.  Song about my childhood on a
Louisiana delta farm.  Most songs were written and composed by me on my Boss  BR8 Digital Recording Studio.  Hope to complete my first CD soon.  I have a few cover songs also.
 

Die Before I Die

Chuck Aaron

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