Llama drama is the worst, those shifty, even-toed, odd-tempered ungulates. Always glad to help out in a tight spot.

I haven't even listened yet but lyrically you've pulled off one of the greatest moments in SAW history IMHO.

This is so effing funny because I may or may not (read: totally did) have sent @kent-aitken-386794022 a link in a YouTube comment... from the Emperor's New Groove (when Kuzco is in llama form). This song is absolutely brilliant and a fine ode to two fantastic gents!

fun picture and very unique and different. pretty funny line about visa and everywhere you want to be...

I couldn’t agree more with Niki! This truly is one of the greatest moments in SAW. What an incredible song!

Hilarious 😆 James. I kept chuckling while following along the cleverly written lyrics.

Dee-lightful. As my dad always said "music charms the savage beast."

I still don't know what to do, think, or react to this song. Still floored.

crazy witch

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Donna Piano: https://soundcloud.com/donna-piano

Erin Wolf: https://soundcloud.com/erinwolf

Sin Or Whisky (by Donna Piano, with Erin Wolf)

"Kent Aitken Also Saved My Life" (#437, 210216)

It was dawn but also midnight
And somehow also 3am
I was moments from my last rites
Until I saw a man named Kent

It was Paris and Nova Scotia
And at the same time Annecy
He was sort of like a human Visa
Everywhere you want to be

So where's the conflict where's the drama
Where's the problem you may ask
You see I'd come across a deadly llama
That nearly ended my sorry ass

Why was he angry this crazy mammal
What was his problem his urgent strife
Turns out the llama had just been rankled
By Nik Newark's drum and fife

The creature charged me with nostrils flaring
I saw my life flash before my eyes
The lights were blinding the music blaring
I thought I just might die tonight

But then around the corner racin'
Came a man with a plan
The one and only Kent Q. Aitken
A banjolele in his hand

He lulled the llama by strummin' gently
Into a state so calm and soothed
And it got sweeter and downright friendly
Instead of freaked out by their tunes

So while I was once saved by the music
From Nik Newark's drum and fife
There came a night when in the confusion
Kent Aitken also saved my life

Week 07 - Kent Aitken Also Saved My Life (210216)

WEEK 7
Nik Newark DRUM N FIFE 
CAPO 2
Am
We all recall that moment back in time
when Nik Newark saved our lives
well hold your horses for a moment shut the gate
the songs of nik are rising up again 

his poetry it warms the coldest heart
his falsetto brings you to tears and tears you apart
he ll write an epic song just for you
                           G
on drum 'n' fife mouth trumpet or kazoo

** there’s more to life than drum 'n' fife that’s true
         G
but relentlessly he chases down each perfect tune
Am
whatever genre tempo theme pursued
                                            G
what cannot Nik Newark do

some things in life hit hard and take their toll
we need the art that serves and calms the soul
on these days oh so much more than we've ever known
no one can live by bread alone

his poetry it warms the coldest heart
his falsetto brings you to tears and tears you apart
on drum and fife on triangle and spoon
he ll write an epic song for you

NNDNF SAW 7 - 19:2:21, 8.33 am

"What Else You Got" (#438, 210218)

 * Co-written with Dan Rivers * 

Packed it all up in a rental van
Guitar a girl and a half assed plan
Heard that it's a 10 year town
Better start makin' the rounds

Fifty cold calls 'til they let me in
Tiny office and a guy named Slim
Thought my first song had a pretty good shot
Then he said, "what else ya' got"

I got mouths to feed I got bills to pay
A dog and a wife and an H.O.A.
I got high blood pressure one bad knee
And a Volvo leakin' antifreeze
To top it all off one verse and Slim said stop 
What else you got 

Hot take from my Uber driver
What I needed was a great co-writer
Said he was Tim McGraw's third cousin
Hell he'd written almost a dozen

We wrote a track just right for Garth
Got as far as the driveway guards
Sang it through the intercom
A voice came back, "what else you got"

I got outta' state plates and two flat tires
And a radio tuned with needle nose pliers
I got bootleg cable and uh, Obamacare
And holes in all my underwear
Dann Huff told me son you're really good, NOT
What else ya' got

I got to thinkin' how hard could it be
To start a publishin' company
Get the writers all lined up around the block
Just so I can tell 'em what else ya' got

I got smoker's cough I got whiskey shits
And a mother in law that just won't quit
I got plumber's crack I got athlete's foot
And I'm still a long way from Brentwood
There goes the mansion, the Rolex and the yacht
What else ya' got

Look out Music Row I'm comin' in hot
What else ya' got

Week 08a - What Else You Got (210218)

V1:
I know that it's hard now
I know that it's taking all you got
Just to stay calm now
Just to be stuck here in this spot

I know that it's hard now
I know that it's more than you can bear
I KNOW it seems far now
To travel the road that'll take you where
You long to be…

Chorus:
Hang on - everything's gonna get easier
Hang on - everything's gonna turn round
This pain so raw won't hurt no more
This storm will blow itself out
Come on - there's treasures out there to be found

V2:
If you're going through hell now
It's better TO keep going than it is to stop
But you can have help now
People who’ll show you care and love

And you can be well now
You can have the time that it takes to heal
And you can have love now
To give you the strength that it takes to feel
Each part of you - the old and new,

Chorus:


Mid8
Em - Am  

If there's part of you
That doesn't think that way
If there's part of you
that doesn't want to play
Well to that part of you of you
I say it's ok, 
you can stay, 
in this hole another day

Chorus:

Everythings Gonna Get Easier

My contribution to week 7 of Song A Week 2021. The theme this week was Nik Newark's Drum & Fife, which at first I had no clue what to make of it. So, I zeroed in on the Drum & Fife. Just a side note; the song is in Eb minor simply because, being the first time playing the piano, there are less of the black keys to keep track of than the white ones. :)

Lyrics:
When I start to grumble, that's the rumble of my battle drum
and when I've stopped listening watch for the whistling, of bombs in flight
Am I about to start a fight? All because, I want to be right?

Chorus:  There is no victor at the end of a war
	only the wounded with open sores, that time won't heal
	now tell me, how do you feel, about war?

You start to sweat, perceiving a threat that isn't real
all your efforts are in vain, you need someone to blame, when nothing goes right
Are you about to start a fight? All because, you have fear inside?

(Chorus)

I have my opinions and beliefs - and you have yours, you have yours
I also have my baggage to retrieve - and you have yours, yes you have yours
Rarely do we match, so there's bound to be a clash
without negotiation, co-operation, and understanding, we would have ourselves a war

Are we about to start a fight? All because, we want to show our might?

(Chorus)
There is no victor at the end of a war

Song AND image Copyright © Claes Akerblom 2021

Battle Drum (demo)

The Words I Heard

Where the Buses don't Run

Copyright Erin Wolf 2021
Instruments featured: guitar, mandolin

Week 8 SAW Prompt: Change please
*Note about the song: A bittersweet, yet hopeful song about break-ups and new horizons written whilst on a serious Adyn Townes kick.*

how long after you left
did you try to leave
were you trying to grow
or were you running away

was it all too close
all too soon
not enough space
was the air smothering you
with the smoke from 
a love still burning
a love still burning

you wanted change
needed change, please
then the world stopped
you were stuck 
bound in a haze

did your dreams shift then
or did you hold your peace
waiting for the light to shine
through the darkness
bringing release
bringing release

and change, did she 
come in the night
like a thief, taking your heart
in her flight
she's not what you expected
or what you came for
but will you give change a 
chance for something more

and change, did she
come in the night
like a thief taking your heart
in her flight
she's not what you expected
or what you came for
but will you give change a 
chance for something more
something more

how long after you left
did you try to leave
were you trying to grow
or were you running away

Change, Please

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Week 07 - Kent Aitken Also Saved My Life (210216)

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