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The Power Of Love ::  (COVER - Original by Frankie Goes To Hollywood)

(Written by Terry Reeves)

Hans Albers: All instruments, production and final mix.
Terry Reeves: Vocals
Jo Reeves: Starting announcement


My Mother-in-law told me that as a young teenager during the late 30’s & early 40’s, any form of entertainment was welcomed as these were, for many reasons, the hardest of times. 
There was a locally run club which had many types of performers, most of them music related, and she remembers every occasion being full of fun and laughter. There was a small entry fee and all profits went towards supporting the disabled.
Now here’s the best bit.  My Mum-in-law (who, by the way, was the seventh sister of seven sisters - not relevant but true), told me that the club did have an official name but was always known by everyone who went there as 'The Cripple Club'. Not exactly sensitive by today's standards but, personally, I loved the name for it's honest innocence.  As for our Cripple Club, there is only one rule that applies - if you are perfect, you won't get in.  So welcome, one and all.

Yet again, we have to thank Hans for his brilliant work on the track.  As you’ll hear, it grabs your attention from the very start and doesn’t ever let go...   (Terry Reeves)


There's no rhyme or reason
There's no time or space
There's no charge for leaving
There's no need for grace

Have you been down to the Cripple Club
Dancing and singing without a care
Have you been down to the Cripple Club
Screenshots and downloads everywhere 

No one will be wiser 
There will be no strings attached
You'll get no prizes given
The doors left on the latch

Have you been down to the Cripple Club
Dancing and singing without a care
Have you been down to the Cripple Club
Screenshots and downloads everywhere 

No needle in a haystack 
It's neither here nor there
No horse of a different colour
The life of Riley here

Have you been down to the Cripple Club
Dancing and singing without a care
Have you been down to the Cripple Club
Screenshots and downloads everywhere 

The milk of human kindness 
As good as a highland fling
A little bird has told me
Elvis has left the building 

Have you been down to the Cripple Club
Dancing and singing without a care
Have you been down to the Cripple Club
Screenshots and downloads everywhere 

Have you been down to the Cripple Club
Dancing and singing without a care
Have you been down to the Cripple Club
Screenshots and downloads everywhere

CRIPPLE CLUB - Cripple Club & Hans Albers

I used a Seagull 12 string to play this song, done in the key of G. I'm using 12-52 strings which give it a little better resonance and stronger base tones. The shift to the Em or later to the F are much richer in my mind with this setup.

As for the song, interestingly enough Utah Phillips really only sang the song once and only to another person: he never actually recorded it himself.

Bruce (U. Utah) Phillips fought in the Korean War and was returning to the US on a troop ship when he wrote this song. He sang this song to Rosalie Sorrels when he returned to the US and she taped the session and later sang and recorded this song. According to a taped interview, Utah said that he never sang it again after his meeting with Rosalie. In his words: "it was a hard, angry love song and I no longer feel that way anymore."  It was based on his love of a woman he would have met before the war and apparently she did not feel the same way about him. Possibly she made it clear in wartime correspondence, as referenced in the song: "The letter you wrote me".  There are many beautiful images in the song but he saved his deepest thoughts for the last line.  Now rock salt was normally using in the making of ice cream but removing lead pellets and replacing with rock salt in a shotgun shell is meant to leave a sting and is not meant to seriously harm.  Unfortunately, I could not find any reference to adding nails to the mix.  Certainly this is on the darker side of revenge but it does fit the lyrical rhyming.

I truly fell in love with the chord pattern, especially the G down to the Em and then on the last line of each verse, from the G to the F. It's fun to add some extra notes between the G and C chord changes. All in all, it is a beautiful tune and I enjoy playing it.

Rock Salt and Nails
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[INTRO]

On the banks of the river where the willows hang down
And the wild birds all warble with a low moaning sound
Down in the hollow where the water runs cold
It was there I first listened to the lies that you told

Now I lie on my bed and I see your sweet face
The past I remember time cannot erase
The letter you wrote me, it was written in shame
And I know that your conscience still echoes my name

[SOLO]

Now the nights are so long Lord sorrow runs deep
And nothing is worse than a night without sleep
I'll walk out alone and look at the sky
Too empty to sing to lonesome to cry

If the ladies were blackbirds and the ladies were thrushes
I'd lie there for hours in the chilly, cold marshes
If the ladies were squirrels with high bushy tails
I'd load up my shotgun with rock salt and nails.  

[OUTRO]: I'd load up my shotgun with rock salt and nails.

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