This is a rough mix of "Sold For A Song" © 2023 libbyworld songs
Matt Minigell - lead vox
Heidi Rodewald - background vox
Teresa Cowles - string & electric bass
Danny McGough - keys
Greg Antoniono - acoustic guitar
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Sold for a Song

Verse 1
Cold Rain
South of Champaign
Dark clouds around me
Check in
Walls newspaper thin
Harsh doubts surround me

Chorus 1
Genevieve
Darling, don’t leave
Don’t you go
Don’t sell yourself low
JulieAnn
Has told me your plan
You don’t belong
Tell me she’s wrong
Don’t sell yourself out for a song

Verse 2
Cold morn
Red skies to warn
Ice on the windshield
Drive west
On not enough rest
Through sleeping wheatfields

Chorus 2
JulieAnn
Can you try again
As a friend
Tell her how this ends
Genevieve
You’ve got to believe
Please be strong
I’ll be home before dawn
Don’t sell yourself out for a song

Sold For A Song / gregory antoniono ©2023 libbyworld songs

Song for Linda Dyer / words and music by gregory antoniono ©2023
vox / heidi rodewald
acoustic guitar & weird solo / gregory antoniono
keys & electric guitar & bass / danny mcgough
drums / nick vincent
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SONG FOR LINDA DYER / gregory antoniono © 2023 libbyworld songs

VERSE 1
"I come from a long line of drunkards and cheats"
	was the first line of a poem by Linda Dyer
	She lived just off Mission Street
	Behind an Irish bar called the Harp & Lyre
	
CHORUS
She knew music better than me
	She wrote piercing poetry
	About her fractured family
	that made my own seem mild
	
VERSE 2
We walked to the Contemporary
	Past a homeless kid who held a gold sun dial
	They had a piece that she wanted to see
	Concentric poodle rings 'round a newborn child
	
CHORUS
She knew pop art better than me
	An intellect of first degree
	Who dressed like the girl from Addams Family
	Long before it was in style
	
VERSE 3
Late one night I was searching for her
	and the news I found burned through me like a fire
	Gone too soon, what would she say
	"Well, I finally lived up to my last name 'Dyer'"

volume 1 2019 - 2023

Song for Linda Dyer / gregory antoniono ©2023 libbyworld songs

EmmaWorld / words & music by gregory antoniono ©2022 libbyworld songs
vox & bass / teresa cowles
keys & bass & backing vox / danny mcgough
electric guitar & percussion / gregory antoniono
drums / joe berardi
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EmmaWorld

Verse 1
she has a horse
Emma, that isn't true
but that's what imagination
can do …			
(can do) to a girl
lost in labyrinth dreams
nothing is quite
as it seems …. In			

Chorus
EmmaWorld
Unwinding
Her mesmerizing spell
Emma, girl
Unbinding
a book that has bound you so well …			

Verse 2
(well-) come her best-selling
fictitious friends
is she just a means
to their ends …			
(ends) with a girl all alone
with a mischievous grin
she pirouettes
then pulls the pin … on			

Chorus
EmmaWorld
It's time to
leave your writing chair
Emma girl
Behind you
Do really know what is …			

Bridge
there is a song she
sings when she's lonely
but she is the only
one who can hear			

Chorus
EmmaWorld
It's finally
something she can share
Emma girl
Remind me …
Do you really know what is there
Do you really know what is there
Do you really know …

EmmaWorld / gregory antoniono ©2022 libbyworld songs

Firefly / words and music by gregory antoniono ©2022 libbyworld songs

vox, backing vox & bass / teresa cowles
keys, backing vox, acoustic guitar / danny mcgough
12 string acoustic guitar / gregory antoniono
drums / nick vincent

Firefly
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Firefly (g. antoniono © 2022)
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(verse 1) 	In my childhood Salem summers
My father and his firemen brothers
Played “find the fox” on Friday nights
He’d park the car and cut the lights
In some secluded neighborhood
They’d try to find us if they could

They’d drive
Our signal as their guide
We’d hide …

(chorus 1)	
My firefighting father and I
Would watch his cigarette 
As it would die
Underneath the sad suburban sky
He said I was his favorite firefly

(verse 2)	
From Marblehead to Gallows Hill
The dockyards and abandoned mills
We’d drive past ancient churchyard spires
He’d tell me of the raging fires
That turned our town to ash and ember
And leveled Salem’s city center 

And I 
… was listening, wide-eyed
We’d ride …

(chorus 2)	
My firefighting father and I
Would watch the cormorants
As they would fly
Into the sullen summer Salem sky
He said I was his favorite firefly

(bridge)		
Under the shadows and shade of the eaves
His voice was strong and low
When I remember the smell of the red maple leaves
I stop

(chorus 3)	
I cry 
A summer’s night in 1985
When my father’s fire was still alive
I step aboard the homeward ferry
A memory box too full to carry
Of when I was his favorite firefly

Firefly / gregory antoniono ©2022 libbyworld songs

Kristine / words & music by gregory antoniono ©2023 libbyworld songs

vox, backing vox & bass: teresa cowles
strings: kaitlin wolfberg
keys, lead guitar, synth, backing vox: danny mcgough
6 & 12 string electric guitar: gregory antoniono
drums: nick vincent

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Kristine / lyrics


Kristine, don't go there
this flower brings darkness, danger
your sheltering chamber
the dance floor will be
your sanctuary

Kristine, be careful
of one who would choose you, use you
Not to accuse you (but)
allowed he can’t be
in the family

millions of stars above you
you know that they love you
your sorrowful eyes
cerulean skies

Kristine, be wary
the pose he is staging, sadly
this play will end badly
no tragedy
should have him leaving scot-free

millions of stars around you
their love will surround you
your guardians three
the pale trinity

they’re singing ch-changes
they’re singing inverness
they’re singing big star, back of a car

Kristine, forgive me
The song is a simple charm to
assure not alarm you
the grace that you show
a dance that you know

millions of stars burn brightly
they're holding you tightly
as long as they shine
never resign

millions of stars above
you know that they love you

Kristine / gregory antoniono ©2023 libbyworld songs

Early mix of "A Common Good" with Greg on acoustic/electric guitar; Sarah Kramer on vocals and Danny McGough on bass and click track drums

A Common Good (rough early mix)

Heidi Rodewald: vox & backing vox
Danny McGough: bass, backing vox, keys, electric guitar
Nick Vincent: Drums
Gregory Antoniono: acoustic guitar
Kaitlin Wolfberg: strings
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Jules (c) 2022 by gregory antoniono
Verse 1
Jules
She's gathering the clues
To rearrange and use
To guide her travels
Untie the ravels
Of wayward shoes

Verse 2
Like faded daffodils
Her favorite espadrilles
She walks by mansions
With marble stanchions
To Russian Hill

Chorus
And she knows and she knows and she knows
Higher is the place where she'll belong
And she goes and she goes and she goes
Finally somewhere she can sing her song

Verse 3
Night
Julie lights a light
To give her clearer sight
Of her power
Like Coit Tower
She's shining bright

Chorus
and she knows and she knows and she knows
Higher is the place where she'll belong
And she goes and she goes and she goes
Finally somewhere she is free
there Like Kerouac in '53 there
Finally someplace she can sing her song




Jules

my song in tribute to my late great friend, poet Linda Dyer

Heidi Rodewald: Vox, Backing Vox
Danny McGough: Guitars, Bass, Keys, Backing Vox
Greg Antoniono: Acoustic Guitar, Lead Guitar solo (end)
Nick Vincent: Drums, Percussion

SONG FOR LINDA DYER / gregory antoniono © 2023 libbyworld songs

VERSE 1
"I come from a long line of drunkards and cheats"
was the first line of a poem by Linda Dyer
She lived just off Mission Street
Behind an Irish bar called the Harp & Lyre
	
CHORUS
She knew music better than me
She wrote piercing poetry
About her fractured family
that made my own seem mild
	
VERSE 2
We walked to the Contemporary
Past a homeless kid who held a gold sun dial
They had a piece that she wanted to see
Concentric poodle rings 'round a newborn child
	
CHORUS
She knew pop art better than me
An intellect of first degree
Who dressed like the girl in the Addams Family
Long before it was in style
	
VERSE 3
Late last night I was searching for her
and the news I found burned through me like a fire
Gone too soon, what would she say
"Well, I finally lived up to my last name 'Dyer'"

gregory antoniono

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