Nice great guitar game great tune good job Roy.👌😎🎶👍

Incredible playing and vocals are fantastic. 

Excellent alt rock ... wonderful performances throughout

Whispers through the haze of time,
Ashes fall where hearts once shined,
The desert breathes, the silence speaks,
A shadow moves where light once leaked.

Hold on, hold on, love’s not gone
Even in the dark, we carry on
Hope is a fire, burning slow
Hold on, hold on – don’t let go!

Shadows fall, but I still breathe
Your light is the thread that’s pulling me
Through the noise, through the ache
I hear your voice – it keeps me awake!

Hold on, hold on, love’s not gone
Even in the dark, we carry on
Hope is a fire, burning slow
Hold on, hold on – don’t let go!

The Angel knows the space we keep,
In the interval where the senses sleep.
It measures miles of silent dread,
The unlived life that we have fled.

We seek to be a thing unseen,
A root in earth, profoundly keen,
For in the darkness, truth is bred,
A new beginning on the dead.

Hold on, hold on, love’s not gone
Even in the dark, we carry on
Hope is a fire, burning slow
Hold on, hold on – don’t let go!

And I will not be bent by wrong,
Where I am curved, I am a lie.
I live my life in circles strong,
And seek the last before I die.

The great singing must swell and rise,
Till our God appears before our eyes,
No longer guest, but Heir and Son,
The unlived life completely won.

Hold on, hold on, love’s not gone
Even in the dark, we carry on
Hope is a fire, burning slow
Hold on, hold on – don’t let go!

Hold on, hold on, love’s not gone
Even in the dark, we carry on
Hope is a fire, burning slow
Hold on, hold on – don’t let go!

—
Arrangement and vocals: Volker Redder, Udio, GarageBand
Loops and samples: Volker Redder, GarageBand
Editing and sound design: Volker Redder, Ozone 11, Sound Studio, GarageBand
Lyrics: Volker Redder, translated with the help of Google Translate
Cover design: Volker Redder, Photoshop, FLUXpro

Hold On

A song I wrote for my father. Hope you enjoy.

Unknown album (5/19/2019 6:19:29 PM)

Halfway Home

Come April  				c. 2020 by M. A. Manetz

V1
On these four gray walls I've painted her picture with my mind.
Holdin' her in my dreams the only comfort I can find.
One more lonely winter in this cold and lonely place.
The only thing that's kept me sane is the memory of her face.

Chorus
Come April, I'll make it better,
Come April, it'll be so fine.
Come April, I'll make it up to her,
Come April, she'll be mine.

V2
Six months in this prison, six months till I'm free,
Six months since her last letter, does she still care for me?
My brother came to see me, said she's movin' to L.A.,
I tell myself come April, I'll find a way to make her stay.

Chorus

Bridge
Am I a fool to think that she would ever wait for me?
I don't blame her for leavin', but yet I still believe...

Chorus

Come April

Time’s up

I moved the capo up a couple of semi-tones, changed the tempo slightly and hopefully made it a little more upbeat. It's a great song and one that I enjoy playing. I love the downward movement between the E7th to the F. There is a subtle shift on the 2nd string which makes the E7 into an E flat 6th, on its way to the F chord.

Elizabeth "LIbba" Cotten was a self-taught, left handed guitar player who learned using a right handed guitar thus she played it, strung as standard right handed guitar, upside down. She wrote this when she was 11 years old but was only given credit for writing this tune decades later. According to records, "Freight Train" first made its way to England by way of Peggy Seeger (half sister of Pete Seeger), who had heard it from her onetime nanny, Libba, when she was young. “Freight Train” was then picked up by several singers and groups, including The Quarrymen: a skiffle band which would later become the Beatles.

BTW: I released this song about 3 months ago and realized how terrible the drum sample was so I switched to manual percussion.  It's really a plastic baby rattle but it seems to sound fine.

Freight Train by Elizabeth Cotten
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[INTRO]
Freight train, freight train, goin' so fast
Freight train, freight train, goin' so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won’t know where I’ve gone.

Freight train, freight train, goin’ round the bend
Freight train, freight train, comin’ back again
One of these days turn that train around
And go back to my home town.

One more place I’d like to be
One more place I’d like to see
To watch them old Blue Ridge Mountains climb
When I ride old Number Nine.

[SOLO]

When I die, Lord, bury me deep
Down at the end of Chestnut Street
Where I can hear old Number Nine
As she comes [on] down the line.

Freight train, freight train, goin' so fast
Freight train, freight train, goin' so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won’t know where I’ve gone.

[OUTRO]
So they won't know where I've go-one.

Road Apples in the Foothills

Freight Train (Elizabeth Cotten cover)

Wrote this during lockdown, commentary on the fear-mongering control culture that we are experiencing. (I'm not against wearing face masks--for many people this is the only way they aren't afraid to "step outside your door")

Step Outside Your Door

Vocals and Guitar only.

Touchstones (Brian Peters)

As the island lies in the sea
As the sea gives life to the land
From the waters over the deep
Like the inner world of the man

As the sky is home to the bird
As the worm lives under the sand
And they build a home in the world
Like the inner world of the man

And on me the glory of the sun
And you the moon and stars
When the twins of heaven, they are one
And each another part

As the fruit that covers the seed
As the lion lies with the lamb
When our waking world makes peace
With the inner world of the man

Touchstones

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