COME WITH A SMILE

Monday Playlist 3/2/20

Bad Moon

THE MISSING BATHROBE

I like this

BeatBuddy Covers

Monday Playlist week of 12/20/2021

Josh McAlexander

It's all Over

It's all Over (original)

Written and performed by Josh McAlexander
Fiddle (Sampled instrument)

Sonshine

Son shine (Original)

Nirvana, single by Shannon from the album Lucky
YT video:  https://youtu.be/lhqT9-RTlVM

Lucky

Nirvana

Amazon Music

Nirvana  https://youtu.be/lhqT9-RTlVM

"Alright", single by Shannon from the album Lucky

Alright

Apple iTunes

Dedicated to My Good Buddy and BandMate - Bravei!
Big Star ©
Big Beat Beach
3B Records & Production - 2021
Music - Bravei Brasil
Lyrics, Vocals, Lead Guitar Add - Riff Beach
Once there was a Young Man
And he dreamed up 
A big plan
One day..... just up and ran away
I remember….. 
He always used to say….
I'll get myself a shiny new guitar 
And when I learn to play….
I'll learn to  play it well
Just give it Hell
And then I know 
There’s gotta’ be a way
To find a little
Fortune and Fame
If I don’t
I'll only have myself to blame
(Chorus)
For no matter what we are
You know one day
I’m gonna’ be 
A Big Star
Oooooh, I just gotta’ be
A Big Star
Over time, he found some Fans
Travelled in a Big Bus
All over this Land
Him…..and his Rock n’ Roll Band
And then he heard ‘em all say
No matter what anyone says you are
You found a way
And Now……Oh, Yeah
Why, He’s a Big Star
A Big Star
Oh Yeah, 
In a Rock n’ Roll Band
Never even has to drive his own car anymore
No, No, no.....not anymore
‘Cuz he’s….
Why, he’s a Big Star
He’s a Big Star
A Big Star
No matter what we are
He’s A Big Star
Big Star ©
Praia Big Beat
3B Records & Production - 2021
Música - Bravei Brasil
Letras, vocais e guitarra solo - Riff Beach
Era uma vez um jovem
E ele sonhou
Um grande plano
Um dia ..... apenas se levantou e fugiu
Eu lembro…..
Ele sempre costumava dizer….
Vou comprar uma guitarra novinha em folha
E quando eu aprender a jogar….
Vou aprender a jogar bem
Apenas dê o inferno
E então eu sei
Deve haver uma maneira
Para encontrar um pouco
Fortuna e Fama
Se eu não
Eu só terei a mim mesmo para culpar
(Refrão)
Pois não importa o que somos
Você sabe um dia
Eu vou ser
Uma grande estrela
Oooooh, eu só tenho que ser
Uma grande estrela
Com o tempo, ele encontrou alguns fãs
Viajou em um grande ônibus
Por toda esta terra
Ele ... e sua banda de Rock n 'Roll
E então ele ouviu todos eles dizerem
Não importa o que digam que você é
Você encontrou um caminho
E agora ... Oh, sim
Por que, ele é uma grande estrela
Uma grande estrela
Oh sim,
Em uma banda de Rock n 'Roll
Nunca mais precisa dirigir seu próprio carro
Não, não, não ..... não mais
_ Porque ele é ...
Por que, ele é uma grande estrela
Ele é uma grande estrela
Uma grande estrela
Não importa o que somos
Ele é uma grande estrela

Sunny Beaches All Around Us

Big Star  ©

Big Star © - Big Beat Beach Music

Written by: Hoyt Axton, Kenneth Elvin JR. Higginbotham
Produced by: Josh McAlexander

Evangelina

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My Way

WHERE WILL I GO
I DON’T KNOW
THE FIRE OF OUR LOVE IS OUT
YOU CAN’T KEEP ME HERE WITH YOU
DON’T YOU WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME

I DON’T WANNA FALL
I JUST WANNA SHINE
DON’T YOU TELL ME
WE’LL BE FINE
I DON’T WANNA FALL
I JUST WANNA SHINE
DON’T YOU TELL ME
WE’LL SURVIVE

WHERE WILL I GO
I DON’T KNOW
THE LIFE I HAD WITH YOU IS GONE
MY BROKEN HEART WILL SOON BE FINE
I’VE FOUND MY WAY
AND I’LL MOVE ON

I DON’T WANNA FALL
I JUST WANNA SHINE
DON’T YOU TELL ME
WE’LL BE FINE
I DON’T WANNA FALL
I JUST WANNA SHINE
DON’T YOU TELL ME
WE’LL SURVIVE

I NEED TO GO
FINALLY
UNCERTAINTY
IS KILLING US
THE THREAD OF HOPE
WON’T MEND OUR BROKEN HEARTS
WON’T MEND OUR BROKEN SOULS
OUR WAY OF LIFE

WHERE WILL I GO
I DON’T KNOW
I NEED TO GO
I NEED TO GO …

Tekst piosenki : „MOJA DROGA”

DOKĄD PÓJDĘ
JESZCZE NIE WIEM
ŻAR MIŁOŚCI NASZEJ ZGASŁ
NIE ZATRZYMASZ MNIE PRZY SOBIE
NIEPOTRZEBNIE TRACISZ CZAS

NIE CHCĘ DŁUŻEJ SPADAĆ W PRZEPAŚĆ
CHCĘ ODZYSKAĆ OCZU BLASK
NIE MÓW MI, ŻE BĘDZIE DOBRZE
NIE CHCĘ DŁUŻEJ SPADAĆ W PRZEPAŚĆ
CHCĘ ODZYSKAĆ OCZU BLASK
NIE MÓW MI, ŻE PRZETRWAMY

DOKĄD PÓJDĘ
JESZCZE NIE WIEM
ŻYCIE Z TOBĄ TRACI SENS
MOJE ZŁAMANE SERCE WKROTCE WYZDROWIEJE
ODNALAZŁAM SWOJĄ DROGĘ I PÓJDĘ DALEJ

NIE CHCĘ DŁUŻEJ SPADAĆ W PRZEPAŚĆ
CHCĘ ODZYSKAĆ OCZU BLASK
NIE MÓW MI, ŻE BĘDZIE DOBRZE
NIE CHCĘ DŁUŻEJ SPADAĆ W PRZEPAŚĆ
CHCĘ ODZYSKAĆ OCZU BLASK
NIE MÓW MI, ŻE PRZETRWAMY

MUSZĘ JUŻ WYJŚĆ
NAJWYŻSZY CZAS
NIEPEWNOŚĆ
ZABIJA NAS
NADZIEI NIĆ
NIE ZSZYJE JUŻ
ZŁAMANYCH SERC
ROZDARTYCH DUSZ
NASZEJ ŻYCIOWEJ DROGI

DOKĄD PÓJDĘ
JESZCZE NIE WIEM
MUSZĘ JUŻ WYJŚĆ
MUSZĘ JUŻ WYJŚĆ …

Vocal & Violin : Magdalena Meisel
Lyrics : Michał Konopelski & Joanna Konstantynowicz
Music : Magdalena Meisel
Production, Arrangment and Instrumentalization(s) Michael Heavner
►https://michaelheavner.com/
►https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-heavner-b635b15/
Left Hand Graphic : Krzysztof Konopelski
►https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Konopelski

My Way

Little Bethlehem
Words & Music by Pravinand Maharaj aka Johnny Minstrel

All the lights burning in my eyes
Somewhere darkness makes a happy home
Persuasion’s never been a crime
Just attempts to turn you into stone
Every shelf for every foreign flag
And a million postcards I never meant to send
Welcome to Little Bethlehem

Never know one day from the next
Who can when the world is in your room
And everyone is talking to excess
Many voices with a single point of view
They look out and they look in
They say they see the world through crystal lens
They can’t see Little Bethlehem

Some forgotten graveyard waits in town
Many streets riding over death
Some forgotten flower wilts and browns
There I had drawn my first breath
The world’s a parish, John Wesley said
There must be something to it but did he lend
A helping hand to Little Bethlehem

No wise men riding
‘neath the starry skies tonight 
No company expected 
round that dying light
Just a tired old journeyman
trying to make his way back home

I can go a dozen different routes
But there’s only one way I must take
Like everyone I got to choose
I took the train running through the caves
Somewhere nativity awaits the wandering child
It won’t be long now and soon I will return
To my Little Bethlehem

Cover pic: Part of night-time Overport from our balcony. Taken by Iyra

Little Bethlehem

Don't Go Down To The River - Blues (Lyrics/vocal by Tony -  Bob Warner on the Guitars) Original

Own composition based on 2-5-2-5-1 jazz progression. All instruments (Furch and Taylor guitars) by Quartus using Beatbuddy jazz brushes. 
Cover photo by David McEnery 

Catnap

Borderland  - Words & Music: Pravinand Maharaj aka Johnny Minstrel

There’s a wire fence running east
Keeping Eden out of bounds
And he speaks unto the least
Like a Sermon on the Mount
And as the living often do
Find a million ways to die
I was born loving you
A truth I still deny

It’s my inheritance they say
A house with many rooms
But I be homeless night and day
Until I’m in the tomb
Behind that solid door
Something else lies in
And when you open up you know
It was the same old thing

Now you and I we learned
That freedom’s golden chains
Caused Paradise to burn
And we both took the blame
Still shaken from the fall
And I can’t get back up
They all are prison walls
Everything I touch

I’m crawling through the sands
To the setting sun
Into the Borderland
Where shadows overcome
Into the Borderland
Where shadows overcome


Borderland

Jesus We Praise Your Holy Name (lyrics by Tony Harris / music/vocals by the Speers) Original 2000

Cover of the haunting Strawbs melody The Winter Long by Quartus. Recorded with Taylor guitars and Beatbuddy drum pedal. The Winter Long was written by Dave Cousins and originally recorded by English band Strawbs on their 1974 album Hero and Heroine.
Cover art by Nadezhda Iliena - The First Snow


The Winter Long

Thick as a Brick is the fifth studio album by the British band Jethro Tull, released in 1972. The album is notable for only including one song, which spans the entire album. Thick as a Brick was deliberately crafted in the style of a concept album, as well as a "bombastic" and "over the top" parody of the then-prevalent vogue for concept albums. The original packaging, designed like a newspaper, claims the album to be a musical adaptation of an epic poem by Gerald Bostock a (fictional) 8-year-old genius, though the lyrics were actually written by the band's frontman, Ian Anderson. The album was a commercial and critical success and topped the US charts.
Thick as a Brick was considered by some to be Jethro Tull's first progressive rock offering, coming four years after the release of their first album (1968). The epic album is notable for its many musical themes, time signature changes and tempo shifts
Quartus recorded this abridged cover using Furch guitars and a Beatbuddy drum pedal.


Thick As A Brick

Being originally a very short & simple song I wrote about a traumatic event (translated lyrics below), I have been working separately on verses and refrain, then trying new ways to combine and glue them.

So, aware of changing moods along, most with tambourine in hands ;)

Free download to whom decodes the morse message !!!

Letra / Lyrics:

MI ALBORNOZ HA DESAPARECIDO  /  MY BATHROBE HAS DISAPPEARED

¿Quién sabe a dónde ha ido?  /  Who knows where it has gone?
¿Quién estará conmigo  /  Who will be with me
las noches en que tenga frío?  /  the nights when I feel cold?

Mi albornoz ha desaparecido.  /  My bathrobe has disappeared.

Después de lo que hemos vivido,  /  After all that we lived,
¿quién sabe porqué se ha ido?  /  who knows why it has gone away?
Dios sabe cuánto le he querido…  /  God knows how much I have loved it …

Mi albornoz ha desaparecido.  /  My bathrobe has disappeared.

ER32FI02 - RUIZZO©1996 – FRANCÉS RECORDS®2016

Mi Albornoz (Ha desaparecido)

Songster version was a little ‘copla’ about not being able to be with, nor without, a loved person.  As usual, I’ve ‘upgraded’ it, process from which you only get the final result, normally. 

But, following lyrics’ contradictions, I not only serve parts with different levels of (dis)order in heavy rock - flamenco sauce, but raw vs very cooked parts as well, starting with the improvised phone recording of the very first idea I had to develop the song, so please excuse my failures and noises.

Letra  /  Translated lyrics:

Te veo venir (No te vuelvas a ir)  /  I know where you're coming from (Don’t you leave again)

Te veo venir,                                                 /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes con esa carita de pena,        /  when you come with that sweet sad face,
te veo venir,                                                  /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes llorando sin que te duela,     /  when you come crying without any pain,

te veo venir (x3)                                            /  I know where you're coming from, (x3)

Te veo venir,                                                 /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando dices que quieres hablar conmigo,  /  when you say that you want to talk to me,
te veo venir,                                                  /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando quieres estar al lado mío,                /  when you want to be by my side,

te veo venir (x3)                                           /  I know where you're coming from, (x3)

Te veo venir,                                                 /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes con esa carita de pilla,          /  when you come with that sweet sly face,
te veo venir,                                                  /  I know where you're coming from,
cuando vienes con esa sonrisa, chiquilla,    /  when you come with that smile, little girl,

te veo venir (x3)                                            /  I know where you're coming from, (x3)

ER33FI03 RUIZZO©1996 – FRANCÉS RECORDS®2016


Factor Integrante

Te veo venir (No te vuelvas a ir)

TASCAM DR-22WL

Richard Houston - Shining Star Jam (w/Beatbuddy).mp3

No Diggity - Studio. BeatBuddy on Drums

Jim Croce's last concert was only a few miles from my home at NSU, Natchitoches, La.  His plan crashed upon take off killing all on board on Sep 20, 1973.  Mark and I love Jim's work and feel like, in a small way, honored him with our rendition.  It was so great to work with Mark on this project.  He sure captured Jim Croce's style and feel with his vocals.  If you don't know Mark or haven't heard his music, you must do so on his Sound Cloud ( Mark Mayes)  Mark is such a talented singer and truly great songwriter.  Thanks so much Mark

TASCAM DR-05

Operator by Jim Croce (Cover by Mark Mayes and Chuck Aaron)

The Last Paranow

SEND THE RAIN  - A Song of Prayer.  If you or someone you love are in a drought: Emotional, physical, mental, financial or just need rain, this song is for you.  SEND THE RAIN YOUTUBE Videos: : https://youtu.be/0aFLE0XnU58
https://youtu.be/a2yYBqmogEA
Stephen Wallace covers SEND THE RAIN https://youtu.be/Hm4krdZOGo8
(Lyrics Below)
©1994 Songwriter- Beth Williams
From the 1997 ONE EMPTY CHAIR Album

SEND THE RAIN – A Prayer
words & music by Beth Williams

The crops are in the field Lord, under your Son
In the stillness I have labored, to get my work done
Oooooh….Send the rain….ooooh…Send the rain

I pull my hat down to shade my eyes, I watch & wait
for the burning air to disappear, and the sky to break
Oooooh….Send the rain….ooooh…Send the rain

Bridge

Oh this drought makes me weary, time leaves me less wise
Oh this drought makes me weary, look down you’ll still see my eyes

Though the night falls, no relief at all, my hope remains
In the shadow of the hand that holds cool, cool rain
Oooooh….Send the rain….ooooh…Send the rain

Send The Rain - Beth Williams

All Me feat. Keyshia Cole

Chant: Juliana Paul ( Châteauroux ) Alexandre Riou ( Arcachon )
Paroles et Musique: Dominique Le Bars
Full version; https://dominiquelebars1.bandcamp.com/track/au-gr-du-vent-duo

Au Gré Du Vent ( Duo )

A song for that someone special in our lives.
Thanks for listening.
Arranged and produced & cover photo by, Mike Hilton © 28/02/20

Instruments;

Takamine 6-string
Fender Stratocaster
Synth Angelina (VST)
Vox amp

Angel

Piano : Elisabeth Dicker @https://soundcloud.com/liz-dicker
Orchestrations : Julien Morency  @https://soundcloud.com/julien-morency

Based on the book Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris

Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival.

When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp. But did she really have a choice? And where do the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was send to Auschwitz when she was still a child?

In Siberia, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she meets a kind female doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions.

Confronting death and terror daily, Cilka discovers a strength she never knew she had. And when she begins to tentatively form bonds and relationships in this harsh, new reality, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love.

From child to woman, from woman to healer, Cilka's journey illuminates the resilience of the human spirit―and the will we have to survive.

Un Triste Périple

Un Triste Périple - Elisabeth Dicker & Musicar

Written and Performed by Josh McAlexander

Why I sing Hosanna

Why I Sing Hosanna (Original)

decirte que te quiero

The reality of this pandemic outbreak is overwhelming..we are going to lose friends and family with this pandemic..brings me to tears thinking about it and can't believe it is happening..my uneasiness with this comes out in this piece..this is not a beautiful piece by any means  but a reflection of where I am emotionally locked in my house.  Maranatha!! and please pray for the victims and their families!!

OUTBREAK

Instrumentation on this one is entirely baritone uke, harmonica (chromatic, not blues) and bass (& a bit of keyboard percussion here & there).  Gotta try that again sometime.  Track originally uploaded March 2020.

I hope, world, we've learned our lesson, and never let this happen to us again.

Better Days (Will Be Here Soon)

Fluttering like a Butterfly free flowing and sheer Bliss
Music by us
for more fantastic music see my friend Shin*semia @romane5


#See you in our stars

Butterfly 5 ........ Shin & Gina

ALL THE WAY
Written, Performed, Produced & Mastered
by Andrew Borderick Copyright 2020

IT'S JUST MADE OR MADE FROM LOVE OF YOU
INTO THE WORLD IT GROWS BECAUSE OF TWO
AND THE LOVE HAS BEGUN WHEN YOU SEE THE LIGHT
YOU'LL BE HAVING SO MUCH FUN
GROWING IN THE EYES OF LOVE
YOU WONT HAVE TO MAKE A CRY

IT TAKES TWO TO MAKE THE WORLD GO AROUND
AND THE WAR BEGINS BUT THERES NO SOUND
AND THE SUN HAS GONE DOWN, I STILL SEE THE LIGHT
YOU WONT HEAR THE BABY CRY 
AND LAUGHING IN THE NIGHT
AND THERE WONT BE TWO
(chorus)
I WANT TO MAKE IT, WANNA MAKE IT COME TRUE
I WANT TO MAKE IT ALL THE WAY HOME BY YOU
I WANT TO MAKE IT, WANNA SEE IT COME TRUE
I WANT TO MAKE IT ALL THE WAY HOME WITH YOU
(break)
AND THE LOVE HAS BEGUN WHEN YOU SEE THE LIGHT
YOU'LL BE HAVING SO MUCH FUN
GROWING IN THE EYES OF LOVE
YOU WONT HAVE TO MAKE A CRY
(chorus)
I WANT TO MAKE IT, WANNA MAKE IT COME TRUE
I WANT TO MAKE IT ALL THE WAY HOME BY YOU
I WANT TO MAKE IT, WANNA SEE IT COME TRUE
I WANT TO MAKE IT ALL THE WAY HOME WITH YOU
(break)
I WANT TO MAKE IT, WANNA MAKE IT COME TRUE
I WANT TO MAKE IT ALL THE WAY HOME BY YOU
I WANT TO MAKE IT, WANNA SEE IT COME TRUE
I WANT TO MAKE IT ALL THE WAY HOME WITH YOU

IT'S JUST MADE OR MADE FROM LOVE OF YOU

ALL THE WAY

(✍ LYRICS TRANSLATION BELOW)A song written and composed in tribute to all the people who suffer from confinement, hospitalization, isolation, loneliness, to families who have lost a loved one, to our elders who we cannot visit and who are leaving alone ... To impossible love ... to Christophe who left on the night of April 16 to 17, 2020, author and performer of "les mots bleus" youtu.be/7K7KettmHR0
and many other masterpieces of French song.

Une chanson écrite et composée en hommage à tous les gens qui souffrent du confinement, de l'hospitalisation, de l'isolement, de la solitude. Aux familles qui ont perdu un proche, à nos ainés auxquels nous ne pouvons rendre visite et qui partent seuls... A l'amour impossible... à Christophe parti dans la nuit du 16 au 17 avril 2020, auteur et interprète de "les mots bleus" 
https://youtu.be/7K7KettmHR0  et de bien d'autres chefs d'oeuvre de la chanson française.

"DANS LE CREUX DE TES REINS"
"IN THE HOLLOWS OF YOUR LOINS"
*Lyrics, vocal, mix KidofEarth*

Enclosed between 4 white walls,
I was however well nestled between your breasts.
Locked up, still for how long?
How gray the weather is! I don't see anything anymore.

I want to find you at the bottom of the bed
of our endless love.
Breathe, run away from here
and feel the warmth of your hands.
Kneeling on the floor of my room
with empty walls that speak only of boredom,
I pray that it will be returned to me,
my freedom, my darling freedom ...

I was however well, in the hollow of your loins...

Sprawled on this damn white bed,
I dream of a new spring.
Still taste these divine moments
passed in the hollow of your loins ...

Written on APRIL 6, 2020
KOE 🌍

❗*Published under license Creative commons license(CC BY-NC-ND)
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
& protected copyright © France*

Written using dice, coins and other random prompts.

Vocals: my hot air balloon (@welcometotheamericas)

Music: Adrian Hallam (@adrianhallam)

Concept, bass and artwork: Wou-Wou & The Wormling (@wouwouandthewormling)

Cherry Monroe (feat. My Hot Air Balloon, Adrian Hallam & Wou)

Written and Performed by Josh McAlexander



Tomorrow will come a Sunny Day

Tomorrow will come a Sunny Day (Original)

I first heard this tune from the great Tony Rice (bluegrass flat picker). I immediately wanted to pick it and I immediately realized that I was no
Tony and just could not keep up with him.  I still love this tune and had to slow it way down and adapt.   Just picking and singing.

Church Street Blues ( cover)   Tony Rice

Thanks for visiting my page. All original and traditional tracks are downloadable. God Bless