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Red Skies At Night

You Complete Me

Music and Lyrics by Jimmy Rivas @j-rivas

Sung by Mark J Bennett

Image of Loch Ness, Scotland by Doug Corrance

I was knocked out when Jimmy offered this beautiful song to me to sing, but then it took me 3 months to build up the confidence and to practice it. Jimmy is one of my favourite singers on SC (or anywhere) and he makes everything sound easy as he is so professional, so I hope you don't mind my take on this. Thank you Jimmy for sharing your skills with me.

You complete me
no matter how I feel
even with my nerves of steel
when the day is done
I know something good has begun
you complete me
when the day is warm
and the blue skies form
we sail on a following sea
far away from big pine key

You Complete Me - J.Rivas & Mark J Bennett

you changed your mind
it’s not over yet

its all over now
if you see the way
then go
but I know 
like u know 
you’ll change your mind

you change your mind
you know you'll change your mind

it’s deceiving
you and me
how we live

its so like you to say
you’ll change

So like You

So Like You

Galaxy Next Door

Reimagined this older song after being inspired in my backyard...

Firefly

Shadow's Embrace

World is sick !  Everything becomes a battlefield ... on a paradise ! Violence and disrespect everywhere, for everything... in the street, at school, in hospitals, in stadiums, on the road, at borders, on TV, in the cinema, against people nature and the planet... Stop ! There is no planet B. On its ruins, we can play the horn, no one will come !

KAOS 💥

Texas Red Neck Blues, = Lawrence Farr, and ,Gene Jumper, ( Original )

red neck texas blues

Texas Red Neck Blues,= Lawrence Farr,and Gene Jumper,( Original)

A word for word rendering of Psalm 99 ESV

“The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake! The Lord is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples. Let them praise your great and awesome name! Holy is he! The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob. Exalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he! Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel also was among those who called upon his name. They called to the Lord, and he answered them. In the pillar of the cloud he spoke to them; they kept his testimonies and the statute that he gave them. O Lord our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings. Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the Lord our God is holy!”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭99‬:‭1‬-‭9‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Musical instruction:
Capo: 3

Chords: 
Bm, G, Em, A

Performed and recorded on 4.29.24

Psalm 99

Skottevången

USA Songwriting Competition Finalist Song (2019)!!!@!

The Reefer Song
By Cowboy Billy Herron

My friends all like to do reefer
They think it’s lots of fun.
They laugh and joke with every toke.
They ain’t hurtin’ anyone.

But when they pass a joint to me,
I have to wave it away. 
I feel bad because I'm kinda harshin’ their buzz, 
But this is what I say ...

It makes me stupid as a stump.
Horny as a hound.
Woozy as a worm that’s a-wigglin’ on the ground.  
Giggly as a girl gettin' tickled up and down.
That’s what reefer does to me. 
Yeah that’s what reefer does to me.  

Now I know it’s getting legal
In a growing number of states.
Across the nation there’s a population 
Who think it’s really great.

But when it comes to can-na-bis
I have to say, “I can-not.”
'Cause when I do weed I’m guaranteed
To get dimmer than a 15-watt.   

It makes me stupid as a stump.
Horny as a hound.
Woozy as a worm that’s a-wigglin’ on the ground.  
Giggly as a girl gettin' tickled up and down.
That’s what reefer does to me. 
Yeah that’s what reefer does to me.  

Ain’t like like I never smoked it.
I had my share back when.
But then one day I got carried away.
Smoked a whole dime bag with a friend.

When I went home I was in my room
And things started getting weird.
My Neil Young poster started talking to me.
And I got really scared.

I went outside, walked down the street.
And everyone was staring at me.
Cars hit the brakes for to see me baked.
So I hid behind a tree. 

Then a psychedelic squirrel came up to me.
And he looked me in the eye. 
He shook his little head, and then he said,
"Dude, you are really high."

So I ran back to my house again.
And I didn’t know what to do,
I went to the kitchen 'cause my belly was itchin’
For some junky no-good food.

I decided to cook three hot dogs
And I smothered them with Nutella.
My Mom, she caught me in the act.
She said, “What’s going on there, fella.”

The kitchen was a mess, my Mom was mad.
So I just went to sleep.
That’s the last time I smoked pot my friends.
'Cause of what it does to me.  

It makes me stupid as a stump.
Horny as a hound.
Woozy as a worm that’s a-wigglin’ on the ground.  
Giggly as a girl gettin' tickled up and down.
That’s what reefer does to me.  
Yeah that’s what reefer does to me.

Songs of Minimal Significance and Occasional Meaning

The Reefer Song (A Cowboy Billy Herron Original)

USA Songwriting Competition Finalist and International Songwriting Competition Semi-Finalist ... someday I'll win one of these f@#kers.

Singer/Songwriter/Multi-instrumentalist ... I have two guitars.

International Songwriting Competition Semi-Finalist (2021) for "Sometimes I Want to Be a Dog."

USA Songwriting Competition Finalist (2019) for "The Reefer Song." (Not sure what they were smokin'!)

Thanks for follows/comments/reposts ... Cowboy's got more songs in the works!

The Reefer Song (A Cowboy Billy Herron Original)

Cowboy Billy Herron

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