Music and lyrics: John McDaid. Guitars: John McDaid, Bill Bly. Engineer and bass: Bill Neely

02 The Hands of Captain Ludd

A song about the Rhode Island House of Representatives

Held For Further Study

Punching Nazis

Winner of the Ohio Valley Filk Fest songwriting contest, October 2017

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Homage to James Tiptree by way of William Shakespeare)

Winner of the "Iron Filker" contest, Ohio Valley Filk Fest, October, 2017. Written at OVFF, October 20-21, 2017. Big tips of the hat to Leonard Cohen, Warren Zevon, and Dan Bern.

Time (Welcome To My Nightmare)

Risky Words (a Song For The CDC)

From the album, "Proverbs of Hell" available on Bandcamp.

Heaven/is falling 
The angels/lie on sidewalks in the rain. 
The serpent/calling 
Up from the lost world/buried deep within our brain. 
And the saints have piled up in the streets 
Their sacred blood staining the sheets 
Their haloes and bones have been sold 
Pried loose before the bodies were cold 
And the Rainbow disappears with the dawn 
And there's nothing left to carry us on 
And there is no salvation to be found 
Now that Heaven's underground. 

Darkness/descending 
Unending/as the chaos runs its course. 
We grind on/pretending 
Nothing/left us but remorse. 
And the voices that speak in our dreams 
Offer comforts as cold as they seem 
As faces fade off into noise 
And the lost take the Hand that destroys 
And there are no stories left to tell 
Now that Earth inhabits Hell 

Bridge 
It's forever 
and it's worse than it appears. 
This brave new world 
is just the sum of all your fears. 
And each day 
follows senseless on the last. 
With no way 
out of the demon haunted past... 
(Spoken: "Dingir.Pazuzu Qatu Dingir.Ishtar") 

The Heroes/are dead now 
Their bodies/scattered ashes in the deep. 
The Prophet/unread now 
In the sound and the fury of reason's final sleep. 
And all along the roads to the Dome 
the dead appear to carry us home 
and the angels have begun now to rise 
their screaming held back in the skies 
and the world is just the walls of a cave... 
As we look up the sides of the grave... 
And there is no salvation to be found 
Now that Heaven's underground 

Ahh oooh 
Ahh oooh 
Ahh oooh

Proverbs of Hell

Heaven Underground

First single from the new album, "Trail Of Mars," available at http://johnmcdaid.bandcamp.com

John McDaid—Guitar, vocals
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Mark Dann
Bass—Craig Akin
Drums—Eric Parker
Electric guitar, mando—Jim Henry

Trail Of Mars

Lost In Translation

Single from the new album, "Trail Of Mars," available at johnmcdaid.bandcamp.com

John McDaid—Guitar, vocals
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Mark Dann
Bass—Craig Akin
Drums—Eric Parker
Violin, vocals—Tracy Grammer
Mandolin—Jim Henry
Vocals—Abbie Gardner

Release date:
2 October 2020

Walking Off The Earth

The Future Belongs To Us

Chonyid Bardo

folk/filk singer songwriter, award-winning science fiction writer, freelance journalist

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