From the tips of my toes
To the end of your nose
Tap to the rhythm
You know how it goes 

Wanna see all ages
from young to old
Get up on their feet
Now don't be cold 

There's a summer of fun to be had
Life is hard but best be glad
Cos it aint gonna get any easier
If we mope around it'll send us mad 

Well we all got inside the magic
That drives us forward past the tragic
Of life's ups and downs
We gotta stop the frown 

Well that's the way it goes
No time to overload
Snap to it now
Or forever you will bow


221. stop the frown (harding).mp3

I remember some advice my parents said
But I didn't take much notice then
It was to the point and that was the point
It was keep it simple and go ahead 

Keep it simple do it well
Wherever we go in life is swell   CHORUS
Complication is just hell
Keep it in the real world 

Whenever we try to do too much
Just step back from such and such
Get back to basics, back to life
And ditch all that strife 

And keep it simple do it well
Whereever we go in life is swell   CHORUS
Complication is just hell
Keep in the real world 

Just a final note to add
Complex lives are really sad
Think back to when you were young
When you weren't quite so highly strung 

CHORUS


232. keep it simple do it well (harding).mp3

It's the middle of the night
It's deathly quiet
I look out to the sea
What can you see
What can you see
It's heavenly 

We stay up so late 
For so many nights
Can we see it out again
I don't know why
I cannot sleep again

257. the insomnia song (harding).mp3

Is that typing I can hear?
Or did i imagine it my dear?
Is someone listening in?
Have they been through my bin? 

Wouldn't think it worth their while
But like a mafioso smile
They sneaking through your files
Looking for something to defile 

Can't make out what is real
It all seems so surreal
That's politics these days
Conspiratorial ways 

The more they take from us
The more they gaslight us
They say it's paranoid
To think society is being destroyed 

By the greed of the few
There's no housing for you
Sitting in a pew
Praying for a better life for you 

No healthcare 
For a cancer scare
No welfare
No food to share 

And they are typing
And they are swiping
Your concerns are logged
While you're being robbed

270. they are typing while you are being robbed (harding).mp3

The ragged trousered philanthropists
They work night and day
Work for starving pay
And give it all away 

To the rich and powerful
Who are laughing all the way
They have all the say
They take it all away 

Until there is nothing left
There nothing left
There nothing left
We all bereft
We are bereft 

Today is the same as yesterday
Edwardian yesterday
Edwardian yesterday 

So onward we go towards our feudal doom
There is no room
For any of us to live  today
And now we die away 

We die away
We die away
And the rich go on their way


302. the ragged trousered philanthropists (harding).mp3

The British press killed my family
Yes they did, yes they did
As if they cut them with a Stanley
Yes they did, Yes they did 

Corporations killed democracy
Yes they did, yes they did
"Rolling" news blinds our faculties
With bullshit, bullshit 

"Reporters" tell themselves
It's not their fault, not their fault
They ruin lives, so what
Just an unfortunate assault 

On the lives of the poor
But they don't count, they don't count
"If I don't do it someone else will
And helping the poor don't pay the bill
They don't have the clout
They're worth nowt" 

And they are right
They are right
Unless we change the system
They are right 

The public killed my daughter
Yes they did, yes they did
Her dinghy sank in the water
Yes it did, yes it did 

Foaming at the mouth
With their daily hate in hand
With the TV & phone telling them not to take a stand
They scream at anyone who is different
They scream and hate and kill 

Because it suits the corporate agenda 
To be a big spender
And distrust helps divide 
And take people for a ride.


307. the british press killed my family (harding).mp3

We're spitting out lyrics with aplomb
There's an 8 track studio in my home
I walk my dog and when I'm done
I wash the car and go for a run 

Cos I'm a hardcore suburban man
With a balding head
And a fading tan
My wife retired at 51
When we sold our souls for a campervan 

I got an easy life
An easy life at your expense

I dream of pensions and good deals
And trading shares and meals on wheels
I don't know where the money's from
But I know it's not from work I've done 

You see, we invested in property
When we already owned loads anyway
And now we don't need to do any work
It's our tenants who have to sell their shirts 

To pay for us to do what we like
And we tell THEM to "get on their bike"
Cos we never tire of telling others
To work hard, to fill our coffers

308. i got an easy life (harding).mp3

314. walk of life (dire straits).mp3

317. alcoholiday (teenage fanclub).mp3

Cork's finest punk pop band, this was their biggest hit. I tried to stay true to the original, but difficult to capture wild vocals.

320. wheres me jumper (sultans of ping fc).mp3

As Morrissey said in those heady days
He'd like to drop his trousers in the queen's parade

I get the sentiment and it looks more pertinent
Learning more of the establishment pervertedness
We could power the national grid with  their "lost" files
Cos the States of Office are full of paper shredding trails

And those conspiracy freaks with their creepy newspapers
May be wrong but they're on to the capers
Of our so called betters in parliament
As they look down on the rest of us

From Leeds to Manchester, Brighton to Aberdeen
We now have a King, but we'd rather the Queen
The "Queen is dead" has finally come true
But the change we hoped for is not for the red, white and blue

Cos the same people that push us down
Are ramming their ideology and using the crown
There is no patriotism in doing us down
And i suspect even the Queen might frown

At the state of the country as we fall further down
The rabbit hole of Thatcherism that idolises the crown

No more, please, please no more
We cannot take it anymore
They kick us down and they take it all
We cannot take it anymore


339. no more please (harding).mp3

342. creep (radiohead).mp3

352. whitey on the moon (gil scott heron).mp3

Well, my body was aching, all the time
Well, my body was shaking, all down the line
The desert heat was burning me up
The rattle snakes were fine
So it comes to this 
Every single time

Will you be mine?
Or are you fine?

Is your life sublime?
Or is it time?

The train comes chugging past
It's never on time
The rain never lasts
The soil is dying
Just like our relationship
But not for want of trying
Never underestimate
Your other half's lying


355. will you be mine (harding).mp3

Lest we forget
We need to remember
We see the signs
And we act upon it
Why does the system
Where is the mind
Where is the world gonna be
When we are all left behind

Do we care?

What are you thinking
In that mind of yours
Do you think you could get away
From it all

Lest we forget
The crimes of the system
We never forget 
We're never in them

Do we care?

Children blown to bits
We're all in fits
What can we do?
So many miles away
Thousands of miles away
What can we do?

Do we care?

There's people 
Who will pay for these crimes
Little children blown to smithereens

It's on the news
Do we care?
I'd like to think we care...enough

To do something about it
Do we laugh at those marchers
Those marching people

Do we care?

360. lest we forget (harding).mp3

361. true love will find you in the end (daniel johnston).mp3

This is the story of my teenage years 
And perhaps it might sound familiar to your ears
Cos they were Indeed heady days
And now all seems like a haze

Well, Johnny Marr was great on guitar
And Morrissey was destined to be a superstar
And the fans all knew when we did swoon
That Rough Trade records was mighty cool

Well we listened to the Pixies on 4AD
When Throwing Muses were on holiday
And we all loved Tanya Donnelly
But Kim Deal was the real deal
Yes, Kim Deal was the real deal

We lived our life by the record store
And all the indie stars we did adore
But whether Stone Roses or Stereolab
We bounced around like we were mad
Even though we hadn't even had a tab

362. we lived our life by the record store (harding).mp3

Can we fix tomorrow
When we can't  fix today
So many problems 
 won't go away

They say it's personal not political 
But that is where we going wrong

Can we see the future
Of course we can't
But the past suggests
We going wrong

And unless we steer the boat 
From the rocks, we going down

How did we forget
We co-operate or we die
The way we compete
Is to help the weakest fly

But if we fight amongst ourselves
Our species will not survive


Throw off the shackles
Let's aspire for something better
Than just a bigger belly
And A bigger car

We used to aspire for better lives for all
We used to aspire for knowledge to inspire us all



363. cooperate or die (harding).mp3

364. cemetry gates (the smiths).mp3

365. nazi punks fxxx off (dead kennedys) .mp3

366. together in electric dreams (moroder-oakley).mp3

367. she's my best friend (velvet underground).mp3

It seems incontrovertible 
That we don't have free will
Like in the matrix, do we take the pill
What do we do with this information
Nobody has given a decent explanation

Some turn to an imaginary guy in the sky
Looking over us, dictating our lives
But when all is said and done
What do we have
Nothing but genetics and environment
And a feeling that this life is worth it all

Does life still have meaning 
When we know all of this
Is life worth the pain and remiss
How do we change things for the better
When everything is determined

Can history give us a clue
We see the patterns wax and wane
Is there something we can obtain
From all this.

368. free will (harding).mp3

Chorus 
I hate people who smoke
I hope they all fucking choke
They smell worse than old rope
I hate people who smoke 

They take away my clean air
And fill it with cancer & despair
They seem to think people like their stink
If only they would stop and think 

Throwing their detritus everywhere
Butts and packets all over the floor
They're the worst litter bugs of all
Their selfish addiction, street cleaners affliction. 

Chorus 

Eating a meal outside is a chore
As smokers light up, upwind from us all
Notice how they hold their smelly stick away
From their OWN face and make others pay 

They have a filter, we passive smokers don't
They made it more toxic as a result
Cos smokers complained the filter took away
The previous high they had had all day 

Chorus 

Wasting their money on their filthy addiction
The only silver lining is
They'll die before their pension 

Giving their children, partners and friends
A toxic legacy
We'll all get cancer in the end

Chorus 

Indoor smoking bans were great
Greatly reduced the hospital rates
But smokers still light up at bus stops and doorways
Their wretched smoke still permeates always 

Tobacco companies laugh at smokers
They say the young and stupid
Are receptive to these jokers
"They have a right to give themselves cancer"
And tough shit to the non smokers who endure it with no answers 

One day when I am king
I'll line all the smokers up.
And shoot the fucking lot 
Cos I hate smokers a lot

Chorus


369. i hate people who smoke (harding).mp3

Although
I sometimes let you down
When you're not around 
I miss you being around

Cos you mean everything to me
I might not let it show
But I need to let you know

The world slows down
When you're not around
When you're not around

Biggle, Kathy Biggle
I love you
I love you

Cos you mean everything to me

370. biggle [acoustic] (harding).mp3

371. crazy for you (madonna).mp3

One more little day in the life of the biggle
One more day
Get up Biggle 

Living my life at its best
As the biggle
Oh yeah 

The world is waiting for you little biggle
Oh yeah oh yeah
Get up Biggle


372. get up biggle (biggle).mp3

375. the boy with the thorn in his side (the smiths).mp3

I wore the siouxsie shirt
Without realising what it was
The coolest girl in school
Came over to ask what songs I liked 

And I felt like dirt
When I had to admit I hadn't a clue
About the band
I'd just bought the T shirt totally random

And the smile drained from her beautiful face
And her mohawk sagged as I embraced
The embarrassment 
Of it all

But later in life
I got a wife
Who wears siouxsie all the time
And she knows her 
Hong Kong Garden
From her spellbound and happy house

374. siouxsie shirt (boot-harding).mp3

Folk indie punk singer songwriter, guitars, keyboard. Jordan Watkins co-wrote 7 songs and plays guitars on those songs (as attributed).

Putting my stuff out there "where funk meets punk"- using dynamic Shure SM58 microphone and ableton 11 live recording software. Hohner Strat, Epiphone ES339 guitar, Hohner harmonica and yamaha keyboard E463.

Fave bands - L7, Lemonheads, Fat Tulips, Joy Division, Strawberry Story, The Smiths, Shonen Knife, Sex Pistols, Heavenly, The Fall, Slits, Bhundu Boys, Vaselines, The Pastels, Teenage Fanclub, Shalewambe, Jonah Moyo, Billy Bragg, Felt, Velvet Underground, Jeffrey Lewis, Jimi Hendrix....plus loads of other stuff.

Thanks in particular to Damian Smith and the Journeymen, QB Bills and The Strums for getting me into the Soundcloud community, and John Stone for listening from the start, and all those great musicians around the world listening in. Wonderful that music that didn't even exist a day, or even hours ago gets to go around the world. Always brilliant to be amongst the first to hear new stuff.

Remember, inconsistency means, even if one track is dodgy, the next might be a masterpiece. Keep listening folks, and keep making great music.

TOP 3 MOST PLAYED SONGS FOR EACH MONTH

JAN 2022
1. MCCARTHY'S GAME
2. FIELDS OF DREAMS
3. WEATHER WOMAN
FEB 2022
1. SO MANY THINGS TO DO
2. QUEASY
3. CAN I HAVE MY BALL BACK PLEASE
MAR 2022
1. PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE
2. MY NEW GIRLFRIEND
3. GCHQ
APR 2022
1. LET'S SEE WHAT YOU GOT
2. YOU ARE NOT ALONE
3. YOU WON'T REGRET DOING NOTHING AT ALL
MAY 2022
1. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS
2. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
3. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE KIDDING
JUN 2022
1. A MILLION TEARS FOR YOU
2. PURPLE ZONE
3. SWEET HOME ALABAMA
JUL 2022
1. SEVEN NATION ARMY
2. THREE LIONS
3. PASSENGER
AUG 2022
1. STOP THE FROWN
2. NITE CLUB
3. KEEP IT SIMPLE, DO IT WELL
SEP 2022
1. STOP THE FROWN
2. FEARLESS
3. EINE KLEINE PUNKMUSIK
OCT 2022
1. THE INSOMNIA SONG
2. KEEP IT SIMPLE, DO IT WELL
3. RUNNING UP THAT HILL
NOV 2022
1. HELEN
2. DON'T CHA
3. STOP THE FROWN
DEC 2022
1. LA PUNKEILLAISE
2. CHRISTMAS LIGHT
3. KEEP IT SIMPLE, DO IT WELL
JAN 2023
1. THE PRICE OF WAR
2. SHEENA IS A PUNKROCKER
3. THIS CHARMING MAN
FEB 2023
1. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET ME GET WHAT I WANT
2. JA JA DING DONG
3. BIG GAY HEART
MAR 2023
1. SONG TWO
2. I DIDN'T KNOW WHO LOU REED WAS
3. CRISPIN WAS A STREET CLEANER

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