The Ballad of Natalie Reilly				Bill Paul, circa 1975

This is the story of Natalie Reilly
Born on day in a laundromat
She spent her whole life in a dry-rinse cycle
Now she wants to find out where she’s at

CH:	Where are you, Natalie Reilly?
	Where do you want to be?
	What do you want, Natalie Reilly?
	Look around, see what you see.

This is the life of Natalie Reilly
A story told many times before
A mixed-up kid full of indecision
There’s lots of them, what is one more?

School wasn’t right for Natalie Reilly
Formal education wasn’t meant to be
She learned what she learned on the streets and the schoolyard
The rest she got from magazines and TV

CHORUS

Friends weren’t quite friends for Natalie Reilly
They lied and they gossiped when she turned around
But then she found a boy to call her lover
She leaped and then her feet never touched the ground

The boy took the girl who was Natalie Reilly
Used her, and dumped her, said he was setting her free
Then at school and at home at the table
They said that she had given in too easily

CHORUS
So the story goes for Natalie Reilly
She’s found her home on the road for a while
She’s helped a lot of people, she’s had a lot of lovers
I met her once myself and I like her style

CHORUS x 2

Look around, sweet Natalie Reilly

The Ballad of Natalie Reilly

The Ballad Of Natalie Reilly

The Ballad of Jericho				Bill Paul, circa 1979

There once came a stranger to Jericho
A little ghost town with nowhere to go
There’d once been gold, but the mines ran dry
And the only people left were too old to die.

CH:	Stranger, beware!
	Stranger, take care!
	Folks in Jericho stare!
	Only mad people there!

The stranger was dusty from his long hard ride
He went into the saloon to take a bottle aside
The bartender told him “no strangers allowed”
And the sheriff then showed him his face to the ground

The townspeople kicked him and tore off his clothes
And the children laughed and jeered, well, that’s how it goes
When a stranger comes to town who is different from them
He quickly finds out he hasn’t got a friend.

CHORUS

The stranger lay broken in the street that day
As horses, men and carts went along their way
But this town wasn’t finished with its web of sin
Their brushes and their pails painted over him

In a pool of his own blood the stranger soon would be gone
This tarred and feathered man would be dead by dawn.
They dragged him through the streets for all to know
An example to all strangers in Jericho!
CHORUS

The stranger had a trick or two of his own
The people should have never left him alone
This town had no heart, had no reason to live
And the chances they’d been given were all he would give

Well he got to his feet, and he got to his horse
And the people of the town saw fate take its course
He got a shiny object from his saddle to play
For this was to be Jericho’s judgement day

CHORUS

Well the stranger had a horn, and he played it that night
The twilight of this town came in soft moonlight
The sound had not been heard in three thousand years
The stranger reawakened every one of their fears

He might have stopped his playing right there and then
But he saw that in their faces, it would happen again
So the buildings tossed and heaved as he continued to blow
And down came the town of Jericho!

CHORUS

Now Jericho is a real ghost town
With real ghost people wearing real ghost frowns
If you don’t want this story to happen to you
Listen and do what I tell you to do!

If a stranger comes to town who keeps your women in awe
‘fore ya kill him, find out if he’s called, Joshua
And if you are that stranger in Jericho…
Make sure ya got a horn upon which you can blow!

CHORUS

The Ballad Of Jericho

Not everything needs multiple tracks and BPM grooves. My friend posted a video to Facebook, of her two teenage daughters playing this lovely arrangement of What Child Is This (aka Greensleeves). With their permission, I added a single track with Unify, playing the Full Orchestra Long patch from BBC Discoverstation (based on Spitfire Audio's wonderful BBC Discover), to create a concerto for two violins and orchestra.

What Child Is This?

Lyrics (c)2015 Linda E Lucas, Music (c)2015 Shane Dunne

Dreams come and dreams go, and who knows what they mean
I dreamed my sister had a baby, I dreamed she was a queen
I dreamed once, in a former life, I was dancing at your wedding
was I dancing at your wedding?

Dreams come and dreams go, I’m old and I’m a child
I dreamed that I rode in the sky, and that the horse was wild
I dreamed once, in a former life, I was dancing at your wedding
was I dancing at your wedding?

I dreamed that you were somewhere, in the ocean, in a cave
And all our friends were fishes, our memories were waves
I dreamed we hid from hooks and spears, I dreamed we never died
We breathed the sunlight through our gills, at night we never cried
I dreamed once, in a former life, I was dancing at your wedding
was I dancing at your wedding?

I dreamed about a field of corn, unheard and unseen
I dreamed that I was living in the cover of a magazine
I dreamed that I was looking up, from underneath the street
and you were there and I could see the bottoms of your feet
I dreamed once, in a former life, I was dancing at your wedding
was I dancing at your wedding?

I dreamed once, in a former life, I was dancing at your wedding
was I dancing at your wedding?


Dancing At Your Wedding

Healing Time on Earth (Let the River Run)
(c)1995 John Denver
See https://youtu.be/jKc0wEmwmYc

John Denver wrote this beautiful song in 1995, but didn't live long enough to record it. I don't ordinarily post covers, but my sister asked for this one. Here it is, my love.

I added a short quotation of "Schafe können sicher weiden" ("Sheep May Safely Graze") by J. S. Bach as an introduction.

Healing Time

Lyrics ©2015 Linda Elaine Lucas. Music ©2015 Shane Dunne.

DRAGONFLY

I start in water; 
I sleep throughout the cold
wake with springtime 
‘til I’m three cycles old.
With every season, 
a silent hunger grows
for warmth and sunlight, 
shedding as I go.

I’m thirsty but the water drinks me in.
I’m hungry but my bones have been picked clean.
I’m sleeping but I wake inside my dreams.
And I breathing or am being breathed?

When I’m struggling
Breaking through my skin
You’ll think I’m beaten
You’ll think I’ve given in
This isn’t weakness
It’s awareness deep within
My eyes are open
But am I out or in?

Repeat chorus

BRIDGE:
When I’m emerging
I turn my belly to the sun
Legs growing stronger
As the sparkling river runs
If I’m lucky
If I get time to air my wings
I’ll fly by sunrise
And you will hear me sing

Repeat chorus

Dragonfly

(c) 2019 T. Anne Archer
Recorded by members of the Kingston Ceili Band
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
19 June, 2019

Wedding Waltz

Demo song for a forthcoming Omnisphere library by Tim Dale.
Also featuring PlugInGuru Unify (AIRWAVE Melodic Techno V1).

Tetra Train

A MILLION LITTLE THINGS
Lyrics (c)2020 Linda E. Lucas
Music (c)2020 Shane D. Dunne

The way you look at babies
When they’re lying in your arms
How it’s your instinct every day
To reach for your guitar
The way you tilt your head at me
Your eyes all full of stars
It’s a million little things
That warm my troubled heart

It's a million little things, a million little things
It's a million little things that make me love you.

Whatever be the reason
You’ll help our neighbours out
Always see the good in folks
You know what life’s about
Even when I don’t deserve
The benefit of the doubt
It’s these million little things
That I can’t do without

Me, I’ve never had much faith
I’ve always thought the worst
You’re such a welcome spirit
In my messed-up universe

(solo)

It's a million little things, a million little things
It's a million little things that make me love you.

This is how I try to say it
So that the love comes through
Finally I’m sure of someone
That someone is you
I’m still learning how to trust
Learning how to cope
It’s the million little things
You do that give me hope

It's a million little things, a million little things
It's a million little things that make me love you.

A Million Little Things

Kikih's Silent Night

Cold Moon in December 
(c) 2021 Linda E. Lucas and Shane D. Dunne

Cold moon in December 
Last one of the year 
Soft snow on hard ground 
Silence in my ear

Sleeping and forgetting 
Don’t mean the same thing 
Mirrors can be teachers 
Other times they sting

I hold on to your breathing 
It keeps my heart alive 
Nothing ever changes that
 It won’t change when I die

Ringing out the old year 
Ringing in the new 
Hanging on for dear life
 Thankful I’m with you

Cold moon in December
 In the silence of the snow 
Days are getting longer 
This I know

We happily remember 
To happily forget 
Ringing out the old year 
Paying down bad debt

And if you go before me 
To the place we cannot see
 I will be here waiting 
And you will wait for me

So I hold on to your breathing 
My lifeboat in the storm 
I’ll see you in the morning 
And we’ll be safe and warm

Cold moon in December 
Last one of the year
 Soft snow on hard ground 
Silence in my ear

Ringing out the old year 
Ringing in the new 
Hanging on for dear life 
Thankful I’m with you

Cold Moon In December

Many of my tracks are written for others to sing, so they might sound a bit odd with my voice.

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