Don’t Take the First Shot


Verse 1
Suppose there’s a War and no-one attended,
No children to bury, no hearts to be mended.
A line is drawn and no-one crosses it.
We see it before us but don’t see the thought in it.

Pre- Chorus 1
One cheek is slapped and you show them the other
Won’t you lay down you swords and see we’re all brothers?

Chorus 1 
Don’t take the first shot.

Verse 2
A cease fire is easy when no-one shoots first.
You don’t need the drink when you don’t have the thirst.
What if the truce in 1914
Was a Christmas where-after no more wars were seen?

Pre-Chorus 2
One cheek is slapped and you show them the other
Won’t you lay down you arms and see we’re all brothers?

Chorus 2
Don’t take the first shot.

Pre-Chorus 3
One cheek is slapped and you show them the other
Won’t you lay down you arms and see we’re all brothers?

Chorus 3
Don’t Take the First Shot
Don’t Take the First Shot
Don’t Take the First Shot
It’s easy to do when you see what you got,
Don’t Take the First Shot.

copyright 3.12.2022 David Mark Patterson (BMI)

Don't Take The First Shot 3.12.22

A wonderful Hoax indeed! Louise and Marc Voksinski never existed and class of teenagers from Courceles-Chaucy, France made a mockumentary of a lost synthesizer from 1969. Inspired by this I wrote this song for this @MusicWeeklies challenge.
Marc and Louise had a dream
On the edge of a brand new scene
There was Moog There was Buchla
Alan Robert Perlman 
And his 2600.

But this brother and sister
The Voksinskis insisted
On taking one step further
The
Loumavox Synthesiser!

Hidden in a barn 
For 53 years
Uncovered by a teenager
In Courceles-Chaucy

It worked when plugged in!
The lights flickered on
Potentiometers
held steady.

From The Loumavox
Synthesiser!

But wait! Something’s wrong.
It shouldn’t turn on and
The knobs are from a 
3D printer!

What a great hoax!
Deceiving us folks 
Who want to 
buy into secret
Electronic myths
Like the 
Loumavox
Synthesiser!!

David M Patterson Loumavox Synthesiser

I combined two emotions via two separate pieces recorded over two decades to rise to the @MusicWeeklies Challenge #OpposingEmotions
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12 Tone Row:
A D G C F Bb Ab Db Gb B E Eb
Backwards(in sharps):
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Psychedelizerness

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#oldschool David M Patterson 2023

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A multi-instrumentalist living in NYC - this page features music I've written and recorded as well as music by other artists with whom I have recorded.

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