Space Songs

Written, recorded and produced by Jerry Grannan
to my little man..


Lyrics:
I'm a space man,
Anchored to a dot in the middle of an ocean with some good friends,
Thinking I could spark a little fire in some people make a difference,
Imagining the things that we could do if we could do them with intention..
To the space boy,
Believe in all your journeys there's a light inside its telling you the truth boy,
Don't forget about it when you're growing and you're spreadin all your truth boy,
There's voices that don't want you gettin stronger lovin harder bein you boy,
Because it's true boy..

Space.Man

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Shadows -
I've found something sleeping inside of myself that needs to come awake,
And it's not inside of the water the well,
I need to come over.
So many times, 
your belief, your beliefs..
So many times.
Looks like God's here today, going here today,
Listen up baby now, I'm here to stay.
People in the shadows, lookin out their windows..
There's people all around you, envisioning what you could do..
You feelin it?
So many times, 
your belief, your belief..
So many times..
Dance with me.

Shadows

People looking at me thinking what of all questions about everything that I am trying to say,
Everybody;s listening and everybody's watchin me and I'm just describing a perfect day.
The world keeps on turning round, the people gonna keep burning down,
Walking through the ashes in the wave,
Lyrical empirical, constructive in my destruction,
Now I'm doing everything my way...And I'm a monster.
And I don't wanna find out where you wanna go from here..

Aether

Thinking lots of special thoughts inside my soul,
Now I'm gonna get there before I get old.
Time to share it with all of my friends,
We are going up now, wait til we ascend.
The secret to what you're gonna do..
Everybody knows you gotta have an attitude in pursuit of the things that you gotta do.
Man a nice little crew from the 812 dancing in the forest what I learned I love to do.
And I'm replacing it with positivity and attitude..
Gonna mess around get around and go on get what you wanted,
Go on mess around get around, go on tell everybody bout it.
But it's the things making wheels of life..
I don't know which, but it sure feels like I'm losing all my patience.



Something new I'm working on.

HeaL (not done)

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Lost Inside

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Jaywalkin'

Fools Gold

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Over Yonder - COMBSTEAD / R Grigg

Outside

This is an original tune “Tears” that I recorded at home on my 4-Track cassette recorder and recently converted to digital. It features my 70’s Westwood acoustic, my 1968 Fender P bass, Fender Telecaster and my vocal track. If you dig it please feel free to comment or repost! Thank you, Tim 🙏🏻✌🏻

Tears (original analog track)

Trippy instrumental
(c) 1998

Guitar, Bass, Vocal, Harp Programming, mixing, producing and mastering by Robert Grigg
Recorded at home.

Put The Johnson To It

Springs Songs (for Tenor and Chamber Ensemble)
Duration: ca. 20'

MOVEMENTS:
I. English Sparrows (Washington Square) (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
II. April 5, 1974 (Richard Wilbur)
III. Done With (Ann Stanford)
IV. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime (William Carlos Williams)
V. Spring Rain (Sara Teasdale)

Performers: American Modern Ensemble; Alok Kumar, Tenor
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/spring-songs
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/composers/robert-paterson/
Purchase Sheet Music: http://billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?keyword=spring%20songs%20-&main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1
Also available as a version for tenor and piano: https://robertpaterson.com/spring-songs


PROGRAM NOTE
Spring Songs for tenor and chamber ensemble or piano is my third song cycle celebrating the seasons. As with the first two, Winter Songs for bass-baritone and Summer Songs for soprano, this cycle contains settings of poems by various American poets.

Whereas both Winter Songs and Summer Songs end with scenes in New York City, Spring Songs begins with New York: a setting of English Sparrows (Washington Square) by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a poem about a scene that takes place in the morning in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood in New York City where Millay lived in the early 1900s. The second movement is a setting of April 5, 1974 by Richard Wilbur, a poem Wilbur wrote in honor of Robert Frost’s one-hundredth birthday, and I interpret as being about overcoming self-doubt through wisdom, and about understanding the change of seasons, but also a change of mind. The third movement, Done With by Ann Stanford, I interpret to be about death and rebirth. Stanford symbolizes this by a house being torn down and the ground paved over, the now suffocated plant life yearning to break through. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime, the fourth movement, is a setting of a poem by William Carlos Williams. I interpret this poem as a modernist, pastoral elegy that uses images of nature to lament the death of a loved one. The final movement, a setting of the poem Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale, is about a happy memory of a lover brought about by an evening thunderstorm.

Spring Songs was commissioned by Rick Teller for the American Modern Ensemble.

AME ARTISTS
Robert Paterson, Conductor
Alok Kumar, tenor
Grace Law, flute
Nuno Antunes, clarinet
Samuel Z. Solomon, percussion
Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Victoria Paterson, violin
Peter Sachon, cello

The Four Seasons

Spring Songs - V. Spring Rain (Text by Sara Teasdale)

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Jerry.
Indiana, US

Enjoy sumn.

Contact :
jerry.tuneage@gmail.com

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