sentimental

Produced, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by zoom kid

Raghav Vasudeva - Drums
Jack Horton - Keys
Tatum Jepson - Saxophone
Reese Robers - Trumpet

Sentimental

This song is about my Grandpa Red, and I dedicate it to him, as he told me to "use my music as a stone, to hold me down, all my life, when things get tough." I have followed his words so much more than he would have dreamed.

Lyrics, Vocals, Production, Arrangment, Recording, and Mixing by me, Toby Tate.

Special thanks to the University of Richmond Music Department and Dr. Benjamin Broening.

My Ghost (G)
C                                                     G              Gmaj7
You were a masterpiece, my skinny ghost
C                                                     G              Gmaj7
Your sandpaper fingers your working bones
E                      D          E                 G              Gmaj7
You cut eye holes in your sheets 
C                                                     G              Gmaj7    F#m
Your great escape, no one could see

Instrumental – G, D, C, D x 2

                                                    C                                                     
They put you in a nursing home,
                                                 G              Gmaj7
The doctors said you were doing fine
                                                                    C                                                    
But there’s some things they’ll never know
                                                        G              Gmaj7
I went to see you one last night

                                                        C
All of your bags were packed to go
                                                       G
You left me with some sound advice
                                                          C
You said use your music as a stone
                                 G
To hold you down all your life


 You were cold I held your hand

Christmas band on the CD 

You whispered “soon I’m leaving here,

This isn’t any home for me “



G                           D                              C          D
After you died, I didn’t cry for a month
G                           D                              C          D
Dad taking your shirts to goodwill was finally enough
G                           D                              C          D
I smelled your camphor from our kitchen floor
G                           D                              C          D
My ninth inning grief, a monday mourning




C                G                    D              E     D
My ghost, my ghost, I’m gonna miss you
C                 G                  D                       
My ghost, my ghost, I miss you

Voicemail from my dad, Scott Tate

My Ghost

This song tells the story of my great-great-grandmother, Ethel May Brooks, and her voyage across the Atlantic Ocean from England during World War I. She was 19 when she traveled to Ellis Island on a blackout ship, the RMS Laconia, leaving behind her 4-year-old daughter, who she would never see again. On the RMS Laconia's return journey back to England, a German U-boat sunk the ship. The cover of this song is the RMS Laconia's manifest. This is a story my mom told me that I felt had to be retold, thank you for listening:))))))

LYRICS

Chorus 
F                                    C                                           
Ethel May, Ethel May, keep your light away
G                               Bb
Close your curtains quick, you’re on a blackout ship
F                                             C
There’s a U-boat close, but we’re almost to the coast
G                                         Bb
You wish you could be home, because your daughter is alone 

Verse 1 (From Ethel’s perspective)
F                               Eb
I don’t care if I die tonight because
Bb                                          Db     Eb
My 20-year life has been left behind
F                                              Eb
With my daughter, back in England, she’s my soul 
Bb                                          Db       Eb
I’ll never see her again, she’s my whole (/hole)

F                                Eb
Canada feels like a world away
Bb                                   Db                       Eb
I’d rather lose myself to sleep, and to fate
F                                  Eb
I may wake up in a flash of blinding light
Bb                             Db       Eb
Sinking into the Atlantic blackened night


Verse 2 
F                                           C
Ethel you made it safe to Canadian shore,
G                                             Bb
You’ve made a family, you’re forty-four

Bridge 
F                                                 C#dim
But somewhere in England, a young woman waits, 
Bbmaj7                                           Gmin7b5 (G half dimished)  C7
Leaving her lover to sleep, while she wakes
F                                  C#dim7
Dreaming of you and the shape of your neck,
Bb                                           Gmin7b5     C7
The smell of your love on a blanket you left 

Chorus
F                   C
Ethel May, Ethel May, don’t keep your light away
G                        Bb     Db Eb
Not too long, not too long, or all your light will be gone

SONG CREDITS:
Toby Tate - Vocals, Saxophones, Instrumentation, Lyrics, Arrangment, Production, Recording, Mixing
Lola Dragosavac - Vocals from Ethel May's perspective

Special thanks to Dr. Benjamin Broening and the University of Richmond Music Department!

Ethel May

please go vote! <3 <3
lyrics:

monster, on my tv
and it's scary, cause he leads me
like a hollow pumpkin carving
cause he's orange and awful freaky, yeah

do what he told you to do,
sit back and turn on the news, yeah
don't ever think for a second 
that they are lying to you, yeah

if you wait til it's later for things to get better, 
one day you'll wake up and the things will be over,
while the earth is burning you yell at each other,
build your own world just to have it explode 

from the monster, on my tv, 
and it's scary, cause he leads me
like a hollow pumpkin carving, 
cause he's orange and awful freaky
there's a monster, on my tv, 
and it's scary, cause he leads me
there's a monster, on my tv, 
but he needs you, and he needs me to survive.

turn it off and silence the monster,
he's only scary in the dark
he uses lies like i.e.d.s yeah
use your vote and defuse his heart.

if you wait til it's later for things to get better, 
one day you'll wake up and the things will be over,
while the earth is burning you yell at each other,
build your own world just to have it explode 

if you wait til it's later for things to get better, 
one day you'll wake up and the things will be over,
(while the earth is burning you yell at each other)
there's a monster, on my tv, 
(build your own world just to have it explode)
but he needs you, and he needs me to survive. 

lyrics and prod.: zoom kid:)

Toby Tate

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