Sounds great! I say you have found a very valuable third member of your team.

sun gun/awesome/rare sound/well done/choo choo/country cool/N my grain/cool train

Great song and story! Fantastic performance by all!

Oh, My Word, ya'll got me right from the Intro on this beauty! How catchy and addictively hooky. Can never go wrong with a Train song, Friends.

great track, great vocal and music.love it.

Congratulations all! Classic country/folk accents, great storytelling & sounds :)

really nice work!  oughta be on the radio y'all!!

Country Gems & Gents

Copyright Daniels & Durgy 2021
Gentle Rain Records.
Produced, Written & Performed by Nat Daniels & Craig Durgy
Instrumental Track: Martin Hirsch

Lyrics:
The Train Station by Craig Durgy

It was the hottest day that summer, the sun was slow to set
13 empty bottles,  on the porch still dripping sweat
Stepping through the bottles , with a hard and icy stare
Comes a tall and sturdy cowboy, like a man without a prayer

13 empty bottles, over one full figured gal
Cause he hadn’t figured on-her, breaking out of his coral
His boots kept moving steady, down Main Street into town
Headed for the station, and the train to Galveston

Hair black as a nightmare, and eyes that laugh out loud
A smile that drives ya crazy as a, roped…and wrangled cow
She ran off with another man, but he knows where she’s gone
(pause) Waiting in the station for the train…to Galveston
(break)
And shoved into his pocket was his heart…And a gun

He gave her more than seven years, and all he could afford
He kept on falling deeper in, but lately was ignored

Hair black as a nightmare, and eyes that laugh out loud
A smile that drives ya crazy, as a roped…and wrangled cow

She ran off with another man, but he knows where she’s gone
(pause) Waiting in the station for the train…to Galveston
(break)
And shoved into his pocket was his heart…And a gun

Then the cowboy…and the pain…board the train
With 13 empty bottles…the cowboy’s gonna see, his girl again

13 empty bottles, over one full figured gal
Cause he hadn’t figured on-her, breaking out of his coral

As the train pulls from the station, in the last light of the sun
His heart’s still in his pocket…with a gun

The Train Station (with Martin Hirsch)

The train station

The Train Station  - w. Martin Hirsch

Original Song  - Lyrics 
A long ago beautiful ordinary day 
Captured perfectly in a photo of your smile
It’s the same sweet smile I still treasure today

Your smile your sweet sweet smile
Still brightens up my ordinary days
Your smile your sweet sweet smile
Still reminds me of how lucky I am

When the world leaves me feeling cold and used 
Your smiles calls back the real me
And I feel restored in the time I spend with you

Your smile your sweet sweet smile
Still brightens up my ordinary days
Your smile your sweet sweet smile
Still reminds me of how lucky I am

So many things grow old from seeing
But I still see you anew

Your smile your sweet sweet smile
Still brightens up my ordinary days
Your smile your sweet sweet smile
Still reminds me of how lucky I am

Luck

Hey, what can I say? Sometimes it gets rough. But it's still good.

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on a summer blanket
in the moonlight
with the beach stones stirring
after midnight

i am ready
and i dare

god you know you’re tired
may you rest now
many ways to try it
lay the load down

i am ready (good to go)
i am there (going)

hey hey hey who
checkout avenue

on tomorrow’s bastion
once immortal
now you sense the ending
as a portal

i am ready
honeybear
i’m not waiting 
i am there

i am ready (here’s my ride)
and i dare (good night)
we’re not waiting (good to go)
we are there

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Thanks to Jacques DiCroce, Janine Levinson, Cheesemont Paisely-Paisely, Wheelwright, and David Weiss for early listening, consultation and support.

image from Linus Nylund via Unsplash

Checkout Avenue

The Scorpio

comin’ over
to my place tonight
dressed in clover
whets my appetite

i want to know
the afterglow

slide on over
i’ll take it at the light
black bulldozer
tailin’ us tonight

i feel the flow
the undertow

cold turkey
no way
i’ll get there
someday

now it’s over
turnin’ out the light
bruised all over
exiting stage right

i feel the flow
the vertigo
and now you know
the scorpio

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Thanks to Janine Levinson, Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley, and Wheelwright for consultations various.

Image by Hassan Sherif via Unsplash

The Scorpio

Mark Duffield: voice, vocal melody, lyrics https://soundcloud.com/markduffieldcollaboration
Jonathan Beckenstein: initial music, instruments, mixing
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Across the bay
Many many many miles away
See a crescent moon
Reflected in a field of poppies bloomed

Take a step into this vision, soon
Grab a flower and throw it at the moon

(YOU)
Don’t ask me how you’re gonna get there soon
(Don’t ask me, don’t ask me, do)
(YOU)
You might as well throw a flower at the moon

Throw a flower, a flower, at the moon
Throw a flower, a flower, at the moon

Save our wrecks
Oh then, say the best
Get it off your chest
Just another shipwreck

Another shipwreck
Get it off your chest
Another shipwreck
Get it off your chest
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image: Bart Ros via Unsplash

Poppies (with Mark Duffield)

BPM120
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No title.

A song about a close family member who really needs to understand that his relationship is over. 
And she as been letting him down gently without ever officially ending it. 
He continued to constantly offer his thoughts and opinions of which he considered it to be helpful but she did not appreciate or even understand it. 
He was casting his pearls before the final swine. 

CASTING PEARLS 

V1
How many times can you lay yourself bare 
make it the last as she now doesn’t care 
It’s face down in the water doesn’t wanna share 
Herself her children & this love affair 

Chorus 
I can see you were casting pearls 
Before the final swine 
It doesn’t seem to matter now
This girls made up her mind 
For the final  time

V2
Here we are yet again and again 
Riding two wheels to just to heal the pain 
Inspiring the life that feels mundane 
Ride your sunset from your hurricane

Chorus 
I can see you were casting pearls 
Before the final swine 
It doesn’t seem to matter now
This girls made up her mind 
For the final  time

Casting Pearls ~ Conscience Of Kings

Baby, here I am
I'm the man on the scene
I can give you what you want
But you got to come home with me
I've got some good old lovin'
And I got some more in store
When I get through throwin' it on you
You gotta come back for more
Boys and things that come by the dozen
That ain't nothin' but drugstore lovin'
Hey little thing, let me light your candle
'Cause, mama, I'm sure hard to handle now, gets around

Action speaks louder than words
And I'm a man of great experience
I know you got another man
But I can love you better than him
Take my hand, don't be afraid
I'm gonna prove every word I say
I'm advertising love for free
So you can place your ad with me
Boys will come along, a dime by the dozen
That ain't nothing but ten cent lovin'
Hey little thing, let me light your candle
'Cause, mama, I'm sure hard to handle now, gets around

Yeah
Hard to handle now
Oh, baby

Baby, here I am
I'm the man on your scene
I can give you what you want
But you gotta come home with me
I've got some good old lovin'
And I got some more in store
When I get through throwin' it on you
You gotta come runnin' back for more
Boys will run along, a dime by the dozen
That ain't nothin' but drugstore lovin'
Hey little thing, let me light your candle
'Cause, mama, I'm sure hard to handle now, gets around

Ya, so hard to handle now

Boys will run along, a dime by the dozen
That ain't nothing but ten cent lovin'
Hey little babe, let me light your candle
'Cause, mama, I'm sure hard to handle now, gets around
Aww
So hard to handle now
Oh, yeah
Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby

I got to have, oh yeah
So hard to handle, now, yeah

-v4.01

Hard To Handle

A song about holding on
Some moving pictures (and words) here - https://youtu.be/YfaXXG3ScHQ

Lyrics Part 1
Don’t go holding on to all of your failure
Not if you wanna reach for success
And don’t bite down on regret too soon
Because you might never get to forget
All the times when we were flailing 
And the lives when we were flawed
And all the chances that we gave up so willingly
Just so we could run away from those doors

Meanwhile losers keep on losing their time 
Yet still always they’ll find it to waste
Stuck holding onto that hopeless hope
Just to give themselves a kick in the face
So for the times when we were flailing 
And the lives when we were flawed
To all the chances that we gave up so willingly
Just so we could run away from those doors
Back then
We never thought about before
Wishing we could swap for before

We ran to choices that we chose to choose from
In indecision we were always so sure
But you can’t keep on fighting circles
Cos nobody wins a victimless war

We know we gotta make ourselves our own saviours
And go find new ways to believe
Yeah let’s stand up to always being stood up
By all of life’s cruel fate histories 
So bye to times when we were flailing
Au revoir to lives when we were floored
Ciao to Chances that we gave up so willingly
Just so we could run away from those doors
We ran to
Choices that we chose to choose from
In indecision we were always so sure
But you can’t keep on fighting circles
Cos nobody wins a victimless war
The answers not to go on just live out our lives
We must forgive not forget about before
Let’s step up to the plate and feed on love
Not gonna let us die on this floor
Cos if we don’t make love our law
We’ll never learn not to fall
We’re gonna die on this floor
Yeah if we don’t make love our law
We’ll never learn not to crawl
We’re gonna die on this floor
We’re gonna die on this floor
We’re gonna die on this floor
Gonna die on this floor
We’re gonna die on
We’re gonna die on
Gonna die on
Not gonna die on

Lyrics Part 2
Let love be our law
Let love be our law 
We’ll never forget before
But we must let love be our law
From empty ashes we burn
All life’s lessons we learned
We’ll never heal that hole
Always part of our soul
Let love be our law (never forget) 
Let love be our law
Let love be our law (never forget)
Let love be our law

The Floor (holding on)

in a garden
she is gazing
at an apple

she is naked
doesn’t realize
and she wonders

in the sun
asking:

“Listen honey,
would you like some
just between us?”

perilous
picnic

she don’t worry 
she can take the heat
Mother Courage
ends up in the street

east of eden
she is toiling
for her children

fearless love
wisdom
mama’s love
wisdom

fearless love
wisdom
mama’s love
wisdom

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Thanks to Janine Levinson, Cheesemont Paisely-Paisely, and Wheelwright for early listening, support, and ace suggestions.

image by Ray Shrewsberry via Unsplash

I'am Crazy

This is the story of Junior, a hard drinking young man without a plan, following the lead of his lush of a father. Junior fancied himself a bit of a millennial cowboy and rode off quickly into the sunset, proverbial spurs a-flashing...

Junior

Lyrics from myself and David Graham (mctownmusic)
Music is an old track from Gary Carter
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Must of Been Luck
JD/DG/GC 2018
She grew up down in Texas in a little one horse town
Her daddy was a cowboy Never did come back around

Her momma didn't trust her So she drove off by herself
I saw her on the side of the road An I asked if I could help

(pre chorus)
She climbed up on my Harley We rode off into the wind
For years and years we were lovers Now we can’t even be friends

Chorus
We needed something more But I was never sure what of
I thought it was love It must of been luck
Must of been luck....Must of been luck

(music only then verse)
I loved being with her under that big Texas sky
One day my luck run out an she…told me goodbye

I climbed up on my Harley I rode off into the wind
For years and years we were lovers Now we can’t even be friends

We needed something more But I was never sure what of
I thought it was love ….It must of been luck (short)

bridge
I was lucky to learn from her   what it means to be free

I was lucky to be the man …that she  ..Use to need

I climbed up on my Harley I rode off into the wind
For years and years we were lovers Now we can’t even be friends

We needed something more But I was never sure what of
I thought it was love It must of been luck
Must of been luck....Must of been luck

Must of been luck....Must of been luck

Must of Been Luck

I wrote this song to describe a man that recalls love in the form of his nightly visions. The images come back to him in quiet moments much like photos hung on a wall that line a hallway in your home. The photos are of "her", the hall is his heart, and he takes that walk late at night when his inner most thoughts overcome his dreams, down the hallway with his memory wall. I want to thank Nat Daniels for her continued collaborations, which on this tune is her beautiful piano playing.

The Memory Wall (accompanied by Nat Daniels) by Craig Durgy

Two song writers, two kindred spirits... that found each other by pure happenstance and great fortune, to collaborate and create music together.
To see our separate artist pages, please click on the following links:
Nat Daniels   https://soundcloud.com/natdaniels
Craig Durgy  https://soundcloud.com/durge

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