Mix for Mitch

lyrics: edro and John Eagle
production: edro
performance: The Drunken Munchkins

Some folks need shiny gold metal
Worry 'bout rainy weather
Think their stuff is better
Well, I ain’t down with that

Some folks hate their neighbors
Worry 'bout kooks and traitors
Vote for cheats and baiters
Well, I ain’t down with that

Chorus
So…whatcha gonna do?
Stand out in the rain?
What ya gonna do?
Stand in front of a train?

Some folks live in the past.
Or only think ‘bout tomorrow!
And some can't find their ass
Well, I ain’t down with that

What’s wrong with the now?
Channel your carpe diem
Or you have forgotten how
Well, I ain’t down with that

Chorus
Whatcha gonna do?
Stand out in the rain?
What ya gonna do?
Stand in front of a train?

You gotta stand your ground
And live in the now
It’s my favorite noun
Yeah, I am down with that!

Get with the times
Life’s a bowl of limes
let’s have fun
Say let’s have some fun!

I am down with that.
I am down with that’
Get down with that!

Get Down With That  (smoking rocker)

lyrics: John Eagle and edro
Production and arrangement: edro
Performed by the Drunken Munch Kins

If you're not into this
I guess I'd understand it
You don't have to say another thing
I know all about it

You'll be gone and I will stay
Or we could do it the other way

I'll be on my way
I won't steal another second of your day
Maybe it's time
Maybe, maybe there's something else for both of us to find

Baby there's got to be
Another way that we could see
We didn't blaze a path
For us to walk apart
Maybe we'll just say

I'll be on my way
Just like any other day
Maybe it's time
Maybe, there's something else for both of us to find

I'll be on my way
I won't steal another second of your day
Maybe it's time
Maybe there's something else for both of us to find

I'll be gone and you will stay
We could do it the other way

I'll be on my way
I won't steal another second from your day

You'll be gone and I will stay
Or maybe we could do it the other way

I'll be on my way
I won't steal another second of your day
Maybe, maybe it's time
Maybe there's something else for both of us to find

Decision Time

John Eagle: lyrics
edro: production, arrangement
Performance: The Drunken Munch Kins featuring Elford on vocals
A briney breeze
is out from the east
A painted sunrise
Cloudy and oblique
Something is coming
There is no mystique

Boatyards bustle
Harbors pitch and roll
Time to move on
To a hurricane hole
A blow is brewing
Over sea and atoll

Chorus
A fish storm is coming
From out on the blue
The wind is a whipping
Time to heave to
Batten the hatches
And sheet the jib tight
All hands on deck
It’ll be here tonight

Along the storm front
Dark clouds fill the sky
Heavy with rain
There will be no sunshine
Just buffeting winds
And the smell of brine

It’s coming, it’s coming
No time for fear
Stock up the stores
Bottled water and beer
We’ll ride this one out
With good sense and good cheer

Chorus
A fish storm is coming
From out on the blue
The wind is a whipping
Time to heave to
Batten the hatches
And sheet the jib tight
All hands on deck
It’ll be here tonight

Storm A Comin'

Perdido Key: between Pensacola, Fl and Mobile, AL on the Gulf of Mexico with white sandy beaches.

Lyrics: John Eagle
edro: music and arrangement
You say rum and sun don’t mix
I guess it depends on your fix
But I like it better than beer
So, it’s Nelson’s Blood for me
Lost on Perdido Key
Staying in the shade and lee

One thing leads to another
And if I had my druthers
I’d stay here forever and a day
Just watch the scudding clouds
The surf not so loud
Least Terns skittering like ballet

Chorus
I’m lost in Perdido
Capsized my Sea-Do
And having one hell of a time
If I find myself out
And don’t discover the route
It’ll all turn out just fine

Happenstance is relevant
When you mix rum and sun
It leads to serendipity
Without regard to antiquity
And oh boy!
Are we having fun

But then you wake up
Baked as a red drum
Cursing like a pirate on shore leave
But Perdido Key still shimmers
And the blue waters glimmer
It’s here you come to believe

Chorus
I’m lost in Perdido
Capsized my Sea-Do
And having one hell of a time
If I find myself out
And don’t discover the route
It’ll all turn out just fine
It’ll all turn out just fine

Lost In Perdido (lyrics John Eagle)

Evil people will kill
They'll take your money
They'll call you names
But in the end you must know

Hate won't win
Sometimes it hurts and leaves blood stains
But in the end
Love reigns

Dark pretenders will take us to sad places
They'll make promises
and they'll lie straight to our faces

Hate won't win
Sometimes it surges and it's beat back again
But in the end
Love reigns

False religions will attract weak minds
Yet they'll lose over time
We've seen it before
We'll see it again

Hate won't win
Sometimes it hurts and leaves blood stains
But in the end
Love reigns

Instrumental break

Hate won't win
Sometimes it surges 'til it's beat back again
But in the end
Love reigns
Love reigns

edro: words, music, arrangement

Hate Won't Win

Lyrics: John Eagle
Music director: edro

I’ve won some
And I’ve lost some
I guess everybody has
I’m surprised how often
I get left holding the bag
But one thing I know
About this girl of mine

Chorus
She’s a sure thing
Pulls on my heart string
She’s my everything
She’s really something

I have fallen hard
Got it bad from the start
Thought I had it all figured out
Nobody knows better than me
There’s always gonna be some doubt

Chorus
She’s a sure thing
Pulls on my heart strings
She’s my everything
She’s really something

I’ve been stung many  times
Been in the dark
When the sun don’t shine
What I know and finally found
Just as sure as the rain falls down
This girl of mine
Is a sure thing
Pulls on my heart string
She's little Miss Everything
Oh, she’s something

Sure Thing

lyrics: John Eagle
Production and arrangement: edro

It was one of those nights that we had back then
The music staying with us
Long after the band had packed and gone
We stood by the river to wait for the dawn

We were quiet at first, listening to the night
The Vermillion passing in silent right
The moment filled our ears
And we started to dance

Chorus
We danced in wind, blown in from the bay
And I started singing Marina Del Rey
You laughed and you covered your face
Said…everybody wants to sing like George Strait

The old Vermillion ranged by the sleepy walk
And we leaned on the railing to catch a breath
Sitting out the song that wasn’t playing
Our hearts beating in our chest
Yes, it hardly seems a memory at all

That’s just like this old love song
What a time it was, now it’s gone
The slow Vermillion loved us that day
It couldn’t have happened any other way
Couldn’t have happened any other way
Couldn’t have happened any other way

Couldn't Have Happened Any Other Way

I remember when we used to run
Down to the Chandeleurs
Uncle Paul nursing beers
My cousin trying to steer
Chasing

Crazy days in the sun
Nothing but fun
And miles and miles of blue
Wishing you were there too
You ought to see the view

Chorus
Down in the Chandeleurs
We’ll conquer all our fears
And life will be sublime
It happens all the time
Down in the Chandeleurs
Down along the Chandeleurs

The Gulf breeze blows
So serene, so serene
And the smell of salt in the air
The gentle surf so fair
It is good to be there

Seagulls screech overhead
Swooping low
The heron wades the shoal
Such a bright day to behold
On this pristine string of islands

Chorus
Down in the Chandeleurs
We’ll conquer all our fears
And life will be sublime
It happens all the time
Down in the It happens all the time
Down in the Chandeleurs
Where normal veers

From fiddler crabs
To lady fish
Just make a wish
To be down in the Chandeleurs

Down In The Chandeleurs

edro: songwriter

And when the spaceships land
You better get on board my friend
I wish you the best wherever you land
And you’re right
I don’t understand half the things you say
But I pray like you that someday we’ll find a better world

Maybe your mother was to blame all along
It can’t be you who makes you blue
Sometimes I feel like I need a scapegoat too
Well, you know there’s us and then there’s them
And you know they’re up to something ( and it ain’t good)


You’ve been telling me that the world will soon end
You said He’s up to something
Then you look at me like I know nothing
Well I ain’t nobody’s fool and I surely won’t be yours
But I’m pretty sure you’re somebody’s

Well I read somewhere the best thing you can do is tend your garden
So I don’t worry too much about who’s doing what to whom
But I notice sometimes you got the answer even before I’ve asked the question
And you always got someone to blame for what’s going wrong 

Well I’d like to think the world is a better place than what you see
I’m getting tired of your conspiracy
Yes, I’m getting tired of your conspiracy

You're Up To Something

I remember talking to John about something fiddley, and his response were these beautiful lyrics, Acadiana. 

John: lyrics
edro: music, vocals, fiddle

Acadiana
The way the moonlight lays
Along the blackwater waves
Such are the memories you carry
When you are so far away

Live oaks arch along the alley
Dripping with silvery Spanish moss
Wish you could smell the oleander
A tunnel of love for those love lost

Chorus
Hooooo-weeee
Acadiana is where you left her
When you started to roam
She’s right here in Louisiana
You know…you wanna go home

The crab pots soak in the marsh
We ready to make a run
Gonna pass a good time tonight
The fest has just begun

Smell the seafood boil
Across the warm summer air
Thick with spices and love
From mama’s rocking chair

Chorus
Acadiana is where you left her
When you started to roam
She’s right here in Louisiana
You know…you wanna go home

Remember the Cajun two-step
The fiddle calling your name
Dance like you’ve got a broken leg
Dosey-do at the music’s change
Hooooo-weeee

Acadiana

Lyric: John Eagle

A night like this
With the moonlight
Bright and mysterious
You listen closely
To hear its music

The faintest sound
Of a train horn looms
Sounding thin and distant
Gives the impression of time
And all the dark space

I hear the song of the night
In a whispered refrain
Just a melody of quiet
In a voice like soft rain
Hear the night’s song
Tender and sweet
Hear the night’s song
In a moonlight retreat

A ship on the river
Evokes a low drone
A musical bassline
Silently pushing home
The river falls astern

The cricket’s arpeggios
Fill the last movement
And you fall in a trance
Two owls echo
Across the expanse

I hear the song of the night
In a whispered refrain
Just a melody of quiet
In a voice like soft rain
Hear the night’s song
Tender and sweet
Hear the night’s song
In a moonlight retreat

Music And The Night (Studio Out Take)

Mitch Mitchell: lyrics https://soundcloud.com/user-983692085
edro: music stuff, including guitar

Chorus
I keep a half a glass of moonshine
In the cabinet over there.
It reminds me of the time
I used to live there

Verse 1
It washed away the bitterness of forgotten memories
Eased the pain of a thousand yesterdays
Too many nights sleeping out in the rain
Too many reasons to accept the blame

Verse 2
Driving down the road 100 miles an hour
On a one-way street
Got a gun in my pocket
A bottle in my hand

Chorus
I keep a half a glass of moonshine
In the cabinet over there.
It reminds me of the time
I used to live there

Instrumental break

Verse 3
I’ve got my head against the wall
Feet on the yellow line
I know pretty soon I’ll be doin’ time
I know pretty soon I’ll be doin’ time

That is why

Chorus
I keep a half a glass of moonshine
In the cabinet over there.
It reminds me of the time
I used to live there

That's Why

That's Why (blues version)

Steve: bass
Dave: drums 
Fred: guitars
edro: vocals & guitar

Kansas City (Live from Tampa)

Galaxy Dogs - Tampa

Rehearsal recording
edro vocals piano
Steve - bg vocals, bass
Ferdinand: Lead guitar, bg vocals
Dave: drums, bg vocals

Hungry Heart

Galaxy Dogs
edro - vocals, Gibson ES125 rhythm guitar and second  lead break
Fred Torrioni - lead and rhythm guitar
Steve Weimer - bass
Dave Little - drums

Trouble No More (Muddy Waters 1955/Allman Brothers 1969)

Hi. I'm Ed. First off, thanks for listening. 

You might notice a link below to a blog site John Eagle and I started to add a new dimension to the stories we tell. 

Once I played in a band that had two Elvises (Elvi) and adopted the pseudonym edro as a cover.  

Mostly it is me playing guitar, keyboards, mandolin, and whatever else makes sense for a song. Most of the songs are original with a few live. The originals are written and performed by edro. I have been fortunate lately to be involved with some collaborations with some real fine folks.

The intro was written when I first joined SoundCloud. While I collaborate with many fine folks, John Eagle and I have written hundreds of songs together. We are working pretty hard writing good songs these days.