Seventies style rock - no melody just a lot of noise…..

Bedrock

VREMYA LYRICS

POUR some sand into a glass
and marvel at each grain that pass
the deserts of the world are brimming over
SO much slipping through our hands
it's strange we ever speak of plans
or have the nerve to make demands
we measure seams to make the man
just dressing up a drunken world as sober
ALL our children, laugh and play
and dream of growing up one day
that day might be the saddest of our lives
BIRTHDAY trickster might just tell you
with nothing up his sleeve to sell you
rabbit lost and top hat empty
mirror broken, smoke all blown
the magic lies in all those naïve eyes

LYRIC, prose, posture, clothes
smiling eyes and bleeding nose
we'll build ourselves with all the things that break us
GALLOWS, fears, bottled beers,
ceiling fans and chandeliers
we'll hang ourselves from anything might shake us
TENDON, tissue, malt and hops
a drunken night for mom and pop
we're made of more than all the things that make us
CONDOS, castles, prison cells
wailing walls and wishing wells
hangman calls, wedding bells
it bleeds, it leads, there's sex to sell
we warm our shoulder blades on hell
it feels like heaven, we tell ourselves
don't matter just as long as something takes us

Vremya

Song written in March 2013 and recorded Jan 2014

1

Maybe I’m a weirdo but I’d rather it that way
I prefer to switch the TV off and read the night away
I like to study mystics, philosophy and life
And meditate on everything beneath the candle light

2

I don’t drink much booze no more, a tipple the odd time
Steer clear of carbohydrates as I watch the old waistline
Indulge in fresh raw broccoli, Kenya’s finest tender stem
Don’t even own an Xbox I prefer the mighty pen

Chorus

And I’m a weirdo…Maybe I’m a weirdo
Baby I’m a weirdo… Maybe I’m a weirdo

3

You don’t need to be what others are, another fucking sheep
Stop craving their acceptance, be a shepherd on the beat
Show off your uniqueness for the entirety to see
And with it will come happiness; an inner harmony

4

Anyway, who the fuck are they to tell us what to do?
Sat behind their desks working out whom next to screw
Who are they to tell us what is wrong and what is right?
Just follow natural law which they keep hidden out of sight

Chorus

And I’m a weirdo…Maybe I’m a weirdo
Baby I’m a weirdo… Maybe I’m a weirdo


5

We all have fear of failure, but really what’s the point?
You only hurt yourself and put your psyche out of joint
Your present is your future; the field is yours to plough
Reality is relative, so live within the now

6

See the hardest things are easy, however silly that may sound
A simple little paradox can seem so damn profound
“Do onto others as you would do onto yourself”
Will save you reading all those books upon your shelf

Chorus

And I’m a weirdo…Maybe I’m a weirdo
Baby I’m a weirdo… Maybe I’m a weirdo


7

You know what I would do if I was Queen for just one day?
I’d hand over all my palaces for the homeless folk to stay
Now that would be a gesture, a note for all mankind
But instead they bend them over and fuck them from behind


Chorus

Am I the weirdo? Maybe I’m a weirdo
Baby I’m a weirdo…Maybe I’m a weirdo

Maybe I'm a Weirdo

Original in Memory (see lyrics below) 2014 (BMI)
Lyrics by Tony Harris - Vocal & Guitar by Phillip Clarkson 

AS I DROVE UP THE DRIVE WAY
I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG
MY WIFE CAME RUNNING OUT
SAYING HURRY WE DON'T HAVE LONG

I CAN BARELY REMEMBER THAT DRIVE
CARS KEPT GETTING IN OUR WAY
FINALLY WE ARRIVED AT HIS HOME
I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT DAY

HE WAS SO VERY YOUNG
THAT'S WHY I'M WRITING THIS SONG
LEAVING US A FEW MONTHS AGO
WHY...WE WILL NEVER KNOW
OUR HEARTS ARE BROKEN
BUT HE WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN
SOME CALL THIS...THE GOOD HURT

HE NEVER KNEW FATHERHOOD
AND HIS LIFE WAS VERY SHORT
HE WAS LIKE A FATHER TO MANY
THE MEMORIES BRING US COMFORT

(REPEAT CHORUS)

GO REST HIGH ON THE MOUNTAIN
IS ENGRAVED IN HIS HEADSTONE
NOW HE'S RESTING ON THAT MOUNTAIN
SINGING WITH THE ANGLES AND NEVER ALONE

(REPEAT CHORUS)

SOME CALL THIS THE GOOD HURT

The Good Hurt (Lyrics by Tony Harris - Vocal/Music by Phillip Clarkson)

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Astronausea

Written and recorded on my iphone on a muggy hazy day in Kumeu. Don't think I could play it again exactly the same. See what happens when you listen to Bert Jansch when you're younger.

Hazy Sky

Walk With Me

Shoemansky - Walk With Me

A jangly poppy thing with Gus Goad on bass guitar

Stick With You

Tribute to Gunsmoke...the longest running Western TV Show In the US.

The Gun Fight - Lyrics by Tony Harris - Music & Vocal Production by Shoemansky - Original 2012

Words by Tony Harris (http://soundcloud.com/tonyslyrics)
Music & Vocals by Shoemansky

A Tribute to James Arness

THE GUN FIGHT

THE STRANGER THOUGHT HE WAS A MIGHTY BIG MAN
AS HE WALKED DOWN THE STREET TO MAKE HIS STAND
THE DUST WAS BLOWING AS HE WALKED THE STREET
MATT DILLION WAS THE MAN THAT HE WOULD MEET

AS CHESTER YELLED MR. DILLION HERE HE COMES
THE MARSHALL GOT UP AND PUT ON HIS GUN
MISS KITTY SAID - MATT PLEASE DON'T GO
HE COULD BE VERY FAST DON'T YOU KNOW

THE STRANGER WANTED TO BE A BIG MAN
OUT DRAWING MATT DILLION WAS HIS PLAN
MANY STRANGERS HAD TRIED BEFORE
TO ONLY END UP AT THE UNDERTAKERS DOOR

MATT SAID SON PLEASE JUST RIDE OUT OF TOWN
BUT HE JUST STOOD THERE AND DIDN'T MAKE A SOUND
MATT KNEW THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY
SOMEBODY WOULD SURELY DIE TODAY
Ending
THEN THE STRANGER WENT FOR HIS GUN
BUT ENDED UP LAYING DEAD IN THE SUN

C 2011
Words by
Tony Harris


The Gun Fight (feat. Tony Harris)

For those of you expecting to hear a Folk or Bluegrass version of this song I hope you're not too disappointed !!!

Many thanks to  http://soundcloud.com/gus-goad and http://soundcloud.com/markjbennett 
Arrangement / Instrumentation / Vocals / Backing vocals  Nigel Sanigar (NiggyQ)
Backing vocals http://soundcloud.com/markjbennett
Bass  /  Rhythm track http://soundcloud.com/gus-goad


Man of Constant Sorrow"  is a traditional American folk song first recorded by Dick Burnett, a partially blind fiddler from Kentucky. The song was originally recorded by Burnett as "Farewell Song" printed in a Richard Burnett songbook, circa 1913. 

There is some uncertainty whether Dick Burnett himself wrote the song. One claim is that it was sung by the Mackin clan in 1888 in Ireland and that Cameron O'Mackin emigrated to Tennessee, brought the song with him, and performed it.
In an interview he gave toward the end of his life, Burnett himself indicated that he could not remember:

Charles Wolfe: "What about this "Farewell Song" – 'I am a man of constant sorrow' – did you write it?"
Richard Burnett: "No, I think I got the ballad from somebody – I dunno. It may be my song.

MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW ( Adapted Lyrics )
I am a man of constant sorrow
I've seen trouble all my days.
I bid farewell to southern England 
The place where I was born and raised.

(The place where I was born and raised)

For six long years I've been in trouble
No pleasures here on earth I found
For in this world I'm bound to ramble
I have no friends to help me now.

( I have  no friends to help me now)

I'm bound to ride an Asian  railroad
I think  I'll die upon this train.

(I think  I'll die upon this train)

Maybe you think I'm just a stranger
My face you'll never see no more
But there's one promise  that is given
I'll meet you on God's golden shore.

( I'll meet you on God's golden shore)

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