Name: I'm My Own Grandpa by George D. Patrin
Duration: 3 min 38 s
Description: One-man barbershop quartet harmony version of the popular country western song, "I'm My Own Grandpa," sung with sound on sound multi-track recording. Dr. Patrin provides all the genealogy charts in his presentation to show just how this is possible!

'One Million Thoughts' is recorded as an improvisation and was performed in my basement. Hope you enjoy. 

Photo: Marcus Møller Bitsch 
www.marcusmb.com

Guitar: Clément Peres (@mindthings)

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Benjamin Gustafsson - One Million Thoughts

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One Million Thoughts

The opening song from Over The Garden Wall.
Tenor, Lead, Baritone, Bass parts and Full Score available here: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ztt0mi6cx5r987t/Garden%20Wall%20Barbershop%20PDFs.zip?dl=0

Led through the mist
By the milk-light of moon
All that was lost is revealed
Our long bygone burdens
Mere echoes of the Spring

But where have we come?
And where shall we end?
If dreams can't come true
Then why not pretend?

How the gentle wind beckons in the leaves
As Autumn colors fall
Dancing in a swirl of golden memories
The loveliest lies of all

Into The Unknown (Barbershop Quartet Style)

One-man barbershop quartet harmony version of the popular country western song, "I'm My Own Grandpa," sung with sound on sound multi-track recording. Dr. Patrin provides all the genealogy charts in his presentation to show just how this is possible! 

I'm My Own Grandpa

5-stimmiges Arrangement von mir geschrieben und 5-stimmig eingesungen. Etwas bescheuerte Stimmführung, deshalb bitte Gnade mit der Intonation, ich hab keine Nerven mehr gehabt :D

Auch auf den Text achten, er ist es wert.....:

In every heart there is a room 
A sanctuary safe and strong 
To heal the wounds from lovers past 
Until a new one comes along 

I spoke to you in cautious tones 
You answered me with no pretense 
And still I feel I said too much 
My silence is my self defense 

And every time I've held a rose 
It seems I only felt the thorns 
And so it goes, and so it goes 
And so will you soon I suppose 

But if my silence made you leave 
Then that would be my worst mistake 
So I will share this room with you 
And you can have this heart to break 

And this is why my eyes are closed 
It's just as well for all I've seen 
And so it goes, and so it goes 
And you're the only one who knows 

So I would choose to be with you 
That's if the choice were mine to make 
But you can make decisions too 
And you can have this heart to break 

And so it goes, and so it goes 
And you're the only one who knows. (whoever you are)

And so it goes...

STAGE-FRIGHT

Laid Back Frog (Blues Rock Instrumental)

Feel Good (Electric Zydeco Remix)

Pink Unicorns & Fairy Dust (Piano Instrumental)

Multitracked (alle Stimmen von mir gesungen, Bass oktaviert) mit meinen bescheidenen Mitteln. Aber mit Liebe.

Lullaby

George’s barbershop interest goes back to 1979 when he sang tenor in a champion Barbershop Society quartets - “The Great Northern Union” and “The 1980 Four.” He started his 'one-man barbershop quartet' as a way to learn all four parts after chorus practices. The “Fingersingers” were 'born' in a “Puppetry for Elementary School Teachers” course as an pre-medicine undergrad at the U of MN, where he took them ‘on the road’ singing for schools and nursing homes, demonstrating creative puppet techniques. Music has been used in countless ways in his medical practice singing for retirements, promotions, and various talent competitions.  As "The Patrinsingers," he won the 1976 “Stairway to Stardom” Amateur Talent Contest on KSTP-5 in Minnesota, and more recently, the Army 2000 “Stars of Tomorrow” contest with “The Fingersingers,” bringing prize money back to Ft Sam Houston to support single soldiers. In 2011 he retired from the Army and clinical practice, freeing up time to renew his singing with puppets as a researcher and humanitarian clown with Dr. Patch Adams and his Gesundheit! Institute. (The profile pics are from 2015 trips to Guatemala City.)  

I'm My Own Grandpa

George D. Patrin

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