Singing With Me

Dear Marie
Scott Culver Thomson,
Copyright 2021

 

Check it over
Front to back
While I make some final changes to my
Angle of attack
If you stand right next to me
We could bribe the maître d
And I need you here 
Dear Marie

Check it over
Look inside
There’s a fire in the stove and
There’s a place that we could hide
Pass the bucket up to me
And I will fill the place with steam
But I need you here
Dear Marie

If I showed up unattended
And were I to leave the same
It could lead to speculation on
The reason that I came. 
So to stay above suspicion
That there’s something wrong with me
I need you here
Dear Marie

Check it over
Up and down
There’s a lake out in the woods
Where people sometimes go to drown
We could both go in together
Just to see how it would be
And I need you here
Dear Marie

Dear Marie

Nothing Without You

Vihuela Conchera
Scott Culver Thomson copyright 2021

This song is about a simple guy trying to attract girls  during the Mexican Revolution.  I started to write about an armadillo doomed to  become the body of a musical instrument but this song came out instead.


He rode a caballo
They called him “Garçon”
With jewels on his bridle 
His hair in a bun
Vihuela Conchera 
Hung over his back
Which he’d play
While he sang

[Chorus}
“Cielito Lindo
Come down from that window
We’ll mount my caballo 
Away we will ride 
Right down to the harbor 
With ships in the water 
And one will be ours
And we’ll sail with the tide”

It’s not safe around here 
To be known as “Garçon”
Nor to ride around town 
With one’s hair in a bun
Much less to solicit a 
Wealthy man’s daughter
In song
Like…
[Chorus]

So they hid his caballo
His bridle and things
And took his vihuela
And cut off the strings
Now he sings a capella 
From right on ground 
And they laugh 
At his song

[Chorus]

Now Zapata is marching
The end could be near
The Americans don’t even
Want to be here
The wealthy man turns 
to his daughter and says
“We are done…So

Cielito Lindo,
Come down from that window
And pack up your things 
And be ready to ride
There’s guns in the harbor
The city’s on fire
There’s no time to lose or 
We’re all going to die. "

Vihuela Conchera

Bribery Coast

Don't Think Twice

Bye Bye Baby

Captain's Clothes

Leonard Cohen cover
Recorded with iPhone
Video on Youtube
https://youtu.be/zsPrIBjBDkot

Tonight Will Be Fine

Hypnotist

This Old Heart

From me to you

Guadalupe

Cover of Bob Dylan song that everybody knows

Tomorrow is a long time

This is soundtrack from video.  Cover of Ray Bonneville song

Funny 'Bout Love

Extract from iPhone video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtj_yEcAh3M

Glory Of Love

She even woke me up to say goodbye

Waltzing For Dreamers

Campers  

My parents were campers, we wandered around
We washed in the river and slept on the ground
With a kerosine lantern to see by at night 
And aluminum cups full of Crystal Delight

They’re all gone forever after only awhile
To me it was not about nothing
It was more than a signature style

I gave him a hundred, which was all that I got
I fired her up and I drove off the lot
She was painted by hand, but tipping the scales
Was a sticker that showed my concern for the whales

She’s all gone forever after only awhile
To me she was not about nothing
She was more than a signature style

My mind is in order my soul is inspired
In robe and in sandals I’m simply attired
And I live in this place with these brothers of mine
Where we think, and we pray, and we fast all the time

Till we’re all gone forever after only awhile
To me it is not about nothing
It’s more than a signature style

Copyright Scott Culver Thomson

Campers

Dear Sarah

Diamond In My Crown

A Whiter Shade of Pale

Guadalupe (remix)

End of the end of the world

Make you feel my love

If you were to wake up

With Paul C on fiddle. Phil Cunningham tune.

Flatwater Fran

Hasten Down the Wind

Words that you said

Peat Fire Flame

Bill Bailey

All of me

Henry trying to get at date after the demise of Catherine Howard.  From my album, Amateur Years.

Amateur Years

i'll be good to you

Alt Country/Folky musician-songwriter.  I hope these songs  are amusing.  

I also post the occasional set from Irish trad sessions recorded on cell phone,  though Irish trad is best enjoyed live. 

Thanks for listening.

Scott Culver Thomson

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