One Cigarette M2 14 2022.wav
Lyrics: Edwin Morgan
Chords and Music: David Croxford 
Flute: Karen Adlard
BPM 90, Key G

verse 1
G   Gmaj7              Fadd9    C
No smoke without you, my fire.
G              Gmaj7          Fadd9                           D7   D6  D7
After you left,your cigarette glowed on in my ashtray
Em                 Bm                          Am   D7
and sent up a long thread of such quiet grey
Em              Bm                         Am             D7
I smiled to wonder who would believe its signal
C                G                      C                                     G
of so much love. One cigarette in the non-smoker’s tray.

Chorus
Em      Dm  sus 6
As the last spire
C                     A7
trembles up, a sudden draught
G                                      D
blows it winding into my face.
Em      Dm  sus 6
As the last spire
C                     A7
trembles up, a sudden draught
G                      D
Is it smell, is it taste?

verse 2
You are here again, and I am drunk on your tobacco lips.
Out with the light.
Let the smoke lie back in the dark.
Till I hear the very ash
sigh down among the flowers of brass
I’ll breathe, and long past midnight, your last kiss.
Your Last kiss
One cigarette

chorus
G   Gmaj7              Fadd9    C        G

Lyric by Edwin Morgan, @ the Estate of Edwin Morgan, by kind permission of Carcanet Press Ltd.

One Cigarette M2 14 2022

Ozone10 Re Master 28 09 2022
Song written by Trevor Francis
Vocal & Acoustic guitar: Trevor Francis
Backing Vocal: Daniel James Colin Reid
Drums: Adam Grossman
Flute: Karen Adlard
Bass, piano, strings, production and Mastering Crox

Smile by Trevor Francis Re-Mastered 2022

MASTER 04 10 2022
I think it's going to rain tonight
Original 1973, this revision Sept 2019, again Feb 2020, Oct 2022
Actual key is Bm original key Dm
Verse
Dm                               C
I think it's going to rain tonight
Dm                                  Bb
Everything is going to be wet
      F#   
The clouds are growing bigger
       Gm7
The sky has turned to grey
Bb                      Gm                  F                 
Everything is going to be wet

Talk to me again and I will listen
Tell me what’s on your mind
The story’s getting longer
Your words are growing old
Tell me what’s on your mind

Ab                      Fm                  Eb    
Tell me what’s on your mind     
Gb                      Ebm               Db
Tell me what’s on your mind
C                        C7
F
erse
First time I’ve been through it all before
Nothing seems to be going right
Time is getting shorter
It's hard to stand back
No, Nothing seems to be going right
Nothing seems to be going right
No, Nothing seems to be going right
Chorus



I think it's going to rain tonight
Everything is going to be wet
Steam on the wall
Switch in my hand 
Everything is going to be wet
Everything is going to be wet
No, Nothing seems to be going right
Chorus
Chorus
 
Chorus
D                       F#               Bm
Don’t let the day drag on
           D                  F#     Em
I don’t think that it's very fair
          G             Em            D
When you're alone at night
F#               Em                  Bm
I will not be there
G               Em                             D
Nothing seems to be going right
       Bb                       Gm                      F 
No, Nothing seems to be going right

Ab    Fm          Eb

Rain Tonight

She's always out with her boyfriend

First prototype of "The Last Time"

It is all played on my Fender Telecaster...so far

The Last Time - Tele Guitar - Prototype

A song beautifully written and performed by Cristi C Reilly, featuring Phil Faulkner on bass and Rick Reilly on Dobro. Produced by Crox. This is a previously unpublished collaboration
Lyrics
He was driving down her street as if by chance today,
She's living living where she used to be back then,
Will she see him as a stranger, and have been too long?
Or know they had been so much more than friends?

Change and distance might erase old memories,
She cared about him in the past..and yet,
When she hears his name...will she remember him,
As the man she found not easy to forget?

And after all this time, he still thinks about her,
Is there a flicker where once there burned a flame?
If he calls her number, can they return to..the summer of yesterday,
After all these years?


When you're twenty-one, who sees forever up ahead?
You bend the rules it seems, while playing the game,
Then you'll miss the way she laughed, some little thing she said,
An ember fell, the fire remained the same

And after all this time, he still thinks about her,
Is there a flicker where once there burned a flame?
If he calls her number, can they return to..the summer of yesterday,
After all these years?

If he calls her number, can they return to..the summer of yesterday,
After all these years?

After All These Years - Cristi.C.Reilly

Fairy Tales - Trevor Francis

House of Grain
-------------------------
Lyrics & Volcals: Stina Crow
Music: ExploderaMera
Remaster: David Croxford

House Of Grain - remaster

Do-do-do-do

Superb lead guitar by the fantastic Mike O'Brien. Song lyrics, all instruments, mixing and mastering by Crox
Lyric
A walk in the park
Dave Croxford (CROX)
Verse 1
You tried to breathe on me
You tried to take my life
You tried to force me down, a road
And take my liberty
Pre-Chorus
When the storm fell to the ground
It shattered peaceful souls
But resistance grew in strength
Returning freedoms that you stole
Chorus
You tried to breathe on me, No
You're just a walk in the park

Verse 2
You lied to all the world
You lied to all your friends
You lied to your own people
With your fatuous defence
Pre-Chorus
When the storm fell to the ground
It shattered peaceful souls
But resistance grew in strength
Returning freedoms that you stole
Chorus
You tried to breathe on me, No
You're just a walk in the park

A Walk in the park 2025vRelease

Tainted Lady – 2016 - ReMastered 2022
Words, music, all Instruments, mixing and mastering by Dave Croxford.
Additional help with the arrangement John Section C

The moonlight sparkles in your hair
And I feel like touching you
But you’re so far away

Umbrella in your hand
The fog is lifting
I begin to see the day

I see your face right now 
And I see right through you
As if I am in a dream?

You haunt me like a ghost 
And I can’t touch you 
Tainted Lady

In a shop near town
I notice you
Looking directly at me

You say “hello”
I introduce myself
But I can’t speak for talking

I haven’t got the right to ask you out
But if I did you know I couldn’t live without you
Tainted Lady

On a cold wet street
I see a silhouette
Reflecting on my mind?

I feel the pain of love
It goes right through me
Knowing we may never be

Why do I  have no faith in confidence?
I want to look into your eyes and make you dance
Tainted Lady
Tainted Lady






Like two comets in the night
We pass each other by
Only space keeps us apart


You shine your light on me 
Just like a rainbow
But all I see is the dark



I feel the time is right to be with you
But I don't know if I can see it through
Tainted Lady
Tainted Lady

Tainted Lady by Dave Croxford

The Emma Brown Song (Getalife.com) v15 
Words and music by Michael Cunningham
All instruments Michael Cunningham except Drums and additional guitar Dave Croxford
Produced by CroxRox

Emma Brown works in a hamburger store,
She knows it’s a dead end and she knows she wants more.
She’s taken a back seat in her life so far.
she’s waiting for something worth waiting for.

She wants a new life and she wants to have fun.
A near-life experience is as close as she’s come.
She lists all the changes she will make when she can
and dreams of creating getalife.com

Charlie was out on the tiles last night
He couldn’t remember what he went to forget
He went to college, now he works in a bar 
This is the ‘B-side’ of his life so far

He needs to take charge and to take some control,
some brightness, some volume and some vertical hold.
His life in the faff lane could be so turned around
He goes into work and he meets Ms Brown.

They make a machine where you get a new life
For 10 bucks a pop you get a stereotype
For a little bit extra you can go Larsonesque
Or keep your own life and change everyone else.

They make small people big and make big people small,
have a bad-hair day, or go do it all.
Glide the Grand Canyon and dive the Azores,
Explore the South Pole and climb the Monros

So now they’re ensconced in their own little world
their favourite restaurant and their favourite films
One or two games where they come out on top
All living sweetly in getalife.com

But all of their people work in hamburger stores
Or working in bars when they want to do more
They list all the changes they will make when they can
They dream of creating getalife.com

The Emma Brown Song (Getalife.com) by Michael Cunningham

Re-Mastered 80s Croxford-Cunningham composition performed by Mike Cunningham

All of my Day - Mike Cunningham

New Mix and updated Lyrics for YouTube video - out soon. 
Original song by dave croxford with additional vocals and guitar from David Hill.
Song originally 2008 credit crunch lyrics updated 2017.

Track also known as BossaNovaScotia

The Bottom line.
Latin/ethnic, bossanova, Var 10, Tempo 192
Intro1:
8 bars just drums
Intro 2:
 8 bars funky Bm lick
Verse 1
Bm                                                   F#                   Bm
The sun’s gotta shine , And the earth’s gotta roll
Bm                                                  E                         F#
There’s music in my blood but maggots in my soul                
Bm                                            G                      F#
What is the reason for my never ending toll?  (toll = strain)
Bm
No one knows, No One cares, 
     D               A            Bm
So go to the bottom line
     D               A            Bm
So go to the bottom line
 
Banks and the corporates take us for a ride
The government and industries are standing by their side
Where is the justice when we crumble and subside?
No one knows, No One cares, 
So go to the bottom line
So go to the bottom line
 D                                                 F#
Greed and survival are what separates our lives
G                                        E
No one expects to be stabbed with hidden knives
G                                               D
Deceit and corruption are rewarded with the prize 
              F#
What’s going on, what’s going on, what’s going on


Bm
We look out for our young and care for our old
It’s a modern social society, but are we being sold
The profit seeking individuals are not in the same mould
No one knows, No One cares, 
So go to the bottom line
So go to the bottom line






Greed and survival are what separates our lives
No one expected to be stabbed with hidden knives
Deceit and corruption are rewarded with the prize 
What’s going on, what’s going on, what’s going on

 Solo Verse

Well the sun’s got to shine , And the earth’s got to roll
The music is playing loud,  but it ain’nt got soul
Greed is the only thing that matters in this world
No one knows, No One cares, 
So go to the bottom line
So go to the bottom line
So go to the bottom line

Bottom Line v23, ft. David Hill - original song by Dave Croxford

Audio from the FB video (can be seen on YT)

Don't ask me to run away, I just want to hide  
by Dave Croxford, 1980/1990, re-work June 2020
Key Gm (capo 3rd fret)

Don't ask me to run away, I just want to hide  

Well the air is sharp and the wind is strong  
But I cant seem to breathe  
There's a thousand soldiers in my home  
‘I want you to leave’
Crossfire  bullets and a flame of fire  
Exploding fragments collide,  
Don't ask me to run away I just want to hide  
 
The light is dark the Dark is Light  
And my vision is Grey
‘The love of God can help you through’,
But has he gone away?
Death tolls rise and rotting faith
has seen heaven and earth subside  
Don't ask me to run away, I just want to hide 

in 67, All you needed was love 
and flowers were in your hair
But draining the swamp turned  love to hate 
and there's pollution everywhere
Micro plastics from bottles and bags
Will the animal species survive?   
Don't ask me to run away, I just want to hide 


Forests burn and rain storms flood
As temperatures rise
A child can often see the light
through innocent eyes
Record stats all over the globe
Dismissed with foolish pride
Don't ask me to run away, I just want to hide 

What is true and what is fake
and what is right and wrong
It takes so long to check the facts
why should we prolong
Divisive politics is the norm  
The best adverts will decide
Don't ask me to run away I just want to hide  


I love to play a game of cards  
But the joker's gone wild 
“I've been here for over a million years” 
And he's inside every child  
Crossfire  bullets and a flame of fire  
“I am the only soul to have died” 
 Don't ask me to run away I just want to hide

Don't Ask Me To Runaway - Live

I am an IT consultant trying to wind down my IT work to concentrate on my life time hobby of writing and producing music.

Crox

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