1977 

Self Help Disco? 
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Homemade Innocence & 'Lo-Fi' Charm  
Percussion Via Film Cannister
Half-Filled With Pot Seeds 
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Once Pointed Out - One Can't Unhear
Me Stepping On My Guitar Entrance At The Top
Doing A Vocal Impression Of A 'Drum Entrance' 
About 7 Seconds In...
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FYI - What I'm Improvising On The Guitar At The End
Would Later Become  'Love Calling'
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Thanks To #tracynewman for the photo! 
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A Nod To McCartney's 'Let Me Roll It' Guitar Licks
Where Paul Nods To John's Guitar Licks

HANG ON

Hang On – Don’t Let It Get You Down
Hang On – There’s Always Someone Else Around So
Hang On – You Got The Magic Inside You
But, Oh Boy – Somebody Else Is Lonely Tonight 
And, Oh Boy – Somebody Needs Your Loving Tonight 

Hang On – You Must Be Hurting But Just 
Hang On – I Know For Certain If You 
Hang On – You’re Gonna Make It In The Long Run
But, Oh Boy – Somebody Else Is Out In The Street 
And, Oh Boy – Places To Go & People To Meet
And All It Takes Is Just A Little Pain
And You’ll Be Out In The Streets Again
Feeling So At Ease  
With Your Love In The Breeze

Hang On – Don’t Let It Get You Down Just
Hang On – There’s Always Someone Else Around So
Hang On – You've Got The Magic Inside You

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HANG ON '77

2014

A Birthday Song For A Pal
That Owes Some To The Byrds "So You Wanna Ba Rock & Roll Star"

SHOOT THE CURLS

He Got A Surfboard 
At The Surfboard Store
& Then He Surfed A Lot 
& Then He Surfed Some More 
You Can See Him On Every Shore
They Say He’s Surfing Now
They Say He’s 64
Shoot The Curls & Ask Questions Later

I’ll Bet He’s Going On A Birthday Ride
He’s Got His Surfboard Right By His Side
Some People Think He Does It For The Rays
I Think It’s More About 'Making Waves'
Shoot The Curls & Ask Questions Later (3)
You Say 'Arayta'
I Say 'Arahta'

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SHOOT THE CURLS '14

Written in 1985 - Recorded In 2012 
This A Fab Sounding Extremely Early 
Version Of The Final Track 
The Dirty-Sounding Electric Guitars Are A Gibson SG 
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I Worked On This Track For A Few Months 
However 
The Bass & Drums & 2 Guitar Tracks & Reference Vocal
Took About An Hour To Record
This Is That Mix
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The Song Was An Easy One
It Passed Through Like A Storrm
A 'Minor-Chord' Verse To A 'Major-Chord' Chorus

LIEBCHEN

Our Love Ran Deeper Than The Valley, Dear
Our Kisses Could Not Be Compared
We Lived Outside The Laws Of Harmony 
You & Me
Under The Circumstances Rendezvous
Hop in & Hop Rght Out Of Love
So Irresistible I Didn’t Try 
And You Know Why
Liebchen
Nobody Hurries You
You Make The Stars Fall To The Sea
And When I Cry For Liebchen
I Know My Liebchen Cries For Me

Our Love Ran Deeper Than The Valley, Dear
Our Kisses Could Not Be Compared
We Lived Outside The Laws Of Harmony 
You & Me
Liebchen
Nobody Hurries You
You Make The Stars Fall To The Sea
And When I Cry For Liebchen
I Know My Liebchen She Cries For Me

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LIEBCHEN '85

1969 
I Was 19  
This Was My Best Song At The Time
At least I Thought So  
A NYC Music Publisher Suggested I Go To LA 
To Become The Next James Taylor
Six Months Later I Moved To LA...
As Did James 
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BTW - There Are No Seasons In LA
& 'Bird In Spring' Resonated With Absolutely No One There 
But What Impressed Was The Song's Chord Progression
Which Still Makes Me Smile
Cos It Resembles Costello's 'Red Shoes' 
Which Would Happened 8 Years Later  
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I'm Being Well-Accompanied 
On Bass & Lead Guitar By #bobclaster 
Bob Also Plays On; The Studio Version 
Of 'Sinatra's Car' & '004 DOG'

LIKE A BIRD IN SPRING 

Like A Bird In Spring 
I Come Back To My Home
Just To Sit Here & Know I’m Alone
With A Thought For Paradise
And A Thought For You
Yes & A Thought For Me 

Like A Bird In Spring  
I’m Just Here For A While
That I Will Go Somewhere Else 
When The Seasons Don’t Smile
And I’ll Cry When The Leaves Are Falling
And You’ll Cry When You Hear Me Calling, Darling

Springtime Brings The Lord 
Back To The Earth
In The Birds  
In The Trees
In The Leaves 
& The Dirt
You Can’t Tell Me That 
Life Isn’t Fine In The Spring
In The Spring 

It’s A Certain Thing That Keeps Me 
Well Through The Years
I Leave With The Seasons But
Believe I’m Still Here
And If I Say I’m Not Coming Back
Please Believe That I’m Lying
I’ve Been Here All The Time
Like A Bird In Spring

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LIKE A BIRD IN SPRING '69

2014 - COVER Of A 1965 Dave Davies Kinks Song
And Of Course...
Somewhere Around 2002 I Ran Into Dave Davies In LA
But Momentarily Mistook Him For His Brother
We Were 15 Years Past When I Last Saw Either Of Them
It Was 10 AM At LA's Farmer's Market - Fairfax & 3rd
Most Of The Food Stalls Were Not Open Yet
The Tour Buses Were About An Hour Away From 
Dropping-Off The Lunch Crowd Of Tourists
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I'd Just Dropped My Son 
At The Public Elementary School Across The Street 
I Was Having Coffee Around 10 Am 
I Heard A 'Davies' Sounding Voice 
Talking To The Owner of The Mexican Food Stall
Where I Was A Regular & Knew The Owner 
For A Moment, I Thought It Was Ray
My Fucking Hero From Age 14 
But, 'Strutcase' Dave, Pretended Not To Be Himself 
Obviously Trying To Confuse Me To Entertain
The Charming Owner  
And I Went Back To My Coffee Thinking
I Know More Dave Davies Songs
Than 99% Of All Earthlings
And This Guy Just Missed The Opprtunity To Be Adored
By Trying To Impress Someone Else
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This Was The First Dave Davies Song I Learned 
As A Kid - Age 15/16
And Dave's First Song 
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Finally - I Love This!

WAIT TIL THE SUMMER COMES ALONG

I've been cryin' all the Winter
I've been waiting for some good to come my way
But I'll wait till the Summer comes along
Dear Lord, have I done so much wrong

How can I go on,
Wondering what I did wrong,
Can it be too much to ask?
Please, oh please, let it be.

If the Summer'll come my way,
Will I find someone to take the place of [?]?
But I'll wait till the Summer comes along.
Dear Lord, tell me what could I've done wrong.

Can it be that she,
Never wanted to,
Break some poor mother's heart?
Please, oh please, let it be.

I know my Summer'll never come.
I know I'll cry until my dying day has come.
Let the Winter roll along.
I've got nothing left but song.

Oh, oh, what's happened?
Oh, oh, what's happened?

Written by: Dave Davies
Published by: Kassner Music Co. Ltd

WAIT TILL SUMMER COMES ALONG (Cover)

1998 - Thanks To Good 'Press' From My 1997 'Girls N' Cows' CD  
Bob Boilen, Then Of NPR's "All Things Considered" 
Commissioned Me To Do A Song About An Oceanic Condition 'La Niña' 
I'd Previously Done A Song Called "Cheese"  
For A Wisconsin Dairy Story  
It's One Of My Favorites 
But Wasn't Well-Recorded  
Fortunately Through Our Occasionally Straying 7-Year-Old  
I Discovered My Music-Professor 
Chorale-Conductor Neighbor, Larry
Had A Recording Studio In His Basement  
So A Huge Thanks To Larry Farrow 
Who Recorded This & It Still Sounds Fabulous 
No, Really Larry - There's An Abbey Road Sharpness 
To Those Two-Electrics
And My Voice Sounds Good Too
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I Was A Little Musically Intimidated 
By My Engineer-Producer
But I Played Two-Guitar Parts That Were Economical
(meaning I didn't play much - but what I played... was clean)
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Finally - A Shout-Out To Koonts Hardware In West Hollywood, Ca.
Inspirational

La Niña

La Niña, La Niña 
Bring Your Snowboard Down To Ecuador
The Weather's Different Than It Was Before
It's Kinda Nippy On The Ocean Floor
All Because Of La Niña
La Niña,  La Niña

The Weatherman Has Got Me Runnin' Scared
The Lovely Wife She Just Stood & Stared
When I Said We Had To Be Prepared
In The Event Of La Niña
La Niña,  La Niña

I Took My Wallet To The Hardware Store
The Prices Higher Than They Were Before
I Wish I Knew What I Was Looking For
To Prepare For La Niña
La Niña,  La Niña

I Asked The Hardware Man I Met By Chance
What He Would Do If He Were In My Pants
And Then The Hardware Man Began To Dance
What I Assumed Was La Nina
La Nina,  La Nina

Down The Aisle To The Weatherstrips
He Was Swiveling His Hardware Hips
He Took My Hand & Then He Kissed My Lips
As We Danced The La Niña
La Niña, La Niña

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LA NIÑA

2010
Sounds Like A Mid-70's Wings Song
Or A 60's Stones 'Aftermath' Track
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It Involves My Favorite Beatles Chord Change 
I Believe, D - Am In This Case
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OH, LET HER GO

SHE LEFT A GUY 
WITH ONE GOOD EYE
SHE WAS IN A HURRY
SHE WASN’T SURE 
Of THE NIGHT BEFORE
HER MEMORY WAS BLURRY
OH LET HER GO
LET HER SLIP AWAY & 
NO ONE ELSE WILL KNOW
OH LET HER GO
A BETTER KIND OF LOVE WILL SURELY GROW
IF YOU LET HER GO

SHE CAME HERE 
FROM DUNISMURE
AND LIVED AMONGST THE RUBBLE
A VICTIM OF 
AN ENGLISH LOVE
STARTED ALL THE TROUBLE
OH LET HER GO
LET HER TORTURE SOMEONE ELSE 
TILL THEY EXPLODE
OH LET HER GO
LET HER FIND THE PLACE 
WHERE RUBBERS MEET THE ROAD
AND LET HER GO

OH, LET HER GO '10

2010 - ADULT 'SWIM' VERSION
It was 2010  
Two years after the first heart attack
I’m a block from my house when Cyndy Garvey
(Steve’s first wife & minor-celeb, herself - late 70s, early 80s)
We were at a 4-Way stop at Crescent Heights & Pickford
A block from my house… I was the first to enter the intersection
And Cyndy (Cynthia) drove her car... from a stop… 
Right into mine on the passenger side  
Cynthia was surprisingly vile & unkind 
as we exchanged info,
which fortunately was not hard for others/cops to see also 
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When I got home I tried to decompress from the weirdness
That a dark-barbie type celebrity from the past
Had literally driven into my car... out of anger/rage
It seemed like a Garp type moment
And I knew I needed to create something  
So I did this… but when you’re 60 
it gets easier to forget what you did yesterday…
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This track remains an incredibly fun re-discovery
It had been mislabled in my itunes library for 15 years
But fortunately now at 75 - I'm retired enough to have the time 
to stumble over 'mislabled moments' like this
And occasionally get lucky & go, wow
At times this track reminds me of a mid-70's 'Wings' cut
Or a Harrison Outtake from The White Album
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It definitely contains The Beatles "Magic Chord Change"
In This Case... D - Am 

OH, LET HER GO

SHE LEFT A GUY 
WITH ONE GOOD EYE
COS' SHE WAS IN A HURRY
SHE WASN’T SURE 
OF THE NIGHT BEFORE
HER MEMORY WAS BLURRY
OH, LET HER GO
LET HER SLIP AWAY AND 
NO ONE ELSE WILL KNOW
OH, LET HER GO
A BETTER KIND OF LOVE 
WILL SURELY GROW
IF YOU LET HER GO

SHE CAME HERE 
FROM DUNISMURE 
LIVED AMONG THE RUBBLE
A VICTIM OF 
AN ENDLESS LOVE
OF STARTING SO MUCH TROUBLE
OH, LET HER GO
LET HER SLIP AWAY
AND NO ONE ELSE WILL KNOW
OH, LET HER GO
A BETTER KIND OF LOVE 
WILL SURELY GROW
IF YOU LET HER GO

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OH, LET HER GO (ALT)

1989
Ouch! - The SoundCloud Algorithm Really Hates This
No Sense Of Humor
Recorded On & With A Korg Keyboard Computer
This Was A Very Enjoyable 'Korg Nite' With Jim & Tracy 
I'd Always Felt That Oxnard, California 
For Obvious Reasons, Deserved A Pretty Song  
One Night On James Dean's Korg
Jim & I Worked Out The Music 
Tracy Helped With The Words
At The Time, The Korg Keyboard Computer
Was A Home-Recording Game-Changer  
We Were In Our 30's  
And Learning How To Interact With These
New Recording Devices
We Had Fun Doing This
The Fact That It's Not 'Rubbish' 
And Still Works 40 Years Later
Makes Me Laugh & Cry At The Same Time
Which Makes Me Blow My Nose

OXNARD

Oxnard - Oxnard
We Love Oxnard
Ox – So Clean
Snard – So White
Let’s Take The Children To 
Oxnard Tonight
Ox – So Near
Snard – Not Far
Don’t Let The Children Hang 
Out Of The Car
Oxnard - Oxnard
We Love Oxnard

Oxnard - Oxnard
We Love Oxnard
Ox – So Near
Snard – So White
Let’s Take The Children To 
Oxnard Tonight
Ox – So Near
Snard

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OXNARD

2018

It's Crazy How Messed-Up Our Country Is...
When It Comes To Guns
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The Gun Lobby... A Wicked Idea Unto Itself...
Obviously Owns Too Many Of Our Politicans
The Polls Tell Us Even Americans Have A Conscience
Folks With Working Brains Know
Nobody Wants To Take Away Guns
But Most People Think We Should
Be Able to Modify How Many Bullets 
The General Public Can Shoot Per Second
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We Have Speed Limits For Driving



WE DON'T TALK ABOUT GUNS AFTER A SHOOTIN' :(

We Can Talk About Race 
After A Lootin’
But Not About Guns 
After A Shootin’
You Can Talk About Religion 
& The Flag You’re Salutin’
But We Don’t Talk About Guns 
After A Shootin’
No, We Can’t  
No, We Can’t
No, We Can’t Talk About Guns, Guns, Guns 
No, We Can’t  
No, We Can’t
We’ll Have To Leave It At That  
With A Rat-A-Tat-Tat 

We Hear A Lot About Grains 
& People Talk About Gluten
But We Don’t Talk About Guns
After A Shootin’
We Can Talk About Spies 
With Vladimir Putin
Before Talking About Guns 
After A Shootin’
No, We Can’t  
No, We Can’t
No, We Can’t Talk About Guns, Guns, Guns
No, We Can’t  
No We Can’t
We’ll Have To Leave It At That  
With A Rat-A-Tat-Tat

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WE DON'T TALK ABOUT GUNS AFTER A SHOOTING :(

There's No-Fi - Like Lo-Fi
Some 'Sound' Advice 
I've Been Writing & Recording Songs 
Since I Was 14 In 1964
When I Began 
I Couldn't Read Or Write Music
So In Order To Remember It 
I Had To Record It... 
In The 60's, It Was On A Reel-To-Reel 
By The Late '70s, I Realized 
I Had To Be My Own Favorite Artist  
And Keep Track Of The Songs I'd Written 
To Keep Me Company In My Old Age
So - This Is A Musical Diary Of My Life 
For The Last 60 Years
By Clicking "Playlists" 
You Can Follow A Progression
By The Decades

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