Season 409: Yuletide Celebration

Xmas Credit Rag (WeeOriginal)

A little ditty I wrote for season 409

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 I get a lot of junk mail through my letter box
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 Suggesting lots of thing to put in my Christmas socks
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 50% off if I  don’t hesitate
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 There’s bargain galore just don’t wait too late
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 I need a watch to tell when to pee
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 It’s real cos I saw it on TV
 
          A7   G7   D7                 G
 And it's one, two, three, what are you waiting for?
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 Go on a spending spree, buy a cushion that goes whoopee
          A7    G7   D7                 G
 And it's five, six, seven, get yourself a credit card
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 Go out and spend money you never had, believe me t’s not too hard
 
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 I got a clock that makes me tea and toast
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 I get extra big with Viagra, though I don’t like to boast
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 I think my smartphone is much smarter than me
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 Cos just like my watch it can tell me when I should pee
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 I don’t really care if I might go heavy in debt
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 Show me the money I’ll take all I can get[/FONT][/SIZE][/B]
 
Again last night, no one showed up for my free music class. I took advantage of the interesting acoustics.

 
My greatest gift this Xmas - for which I am still celebrating - is that my wonderful "companyera" Carmen came out of the operating room safe and sound.

She had gone in for a routine operation, but with general anaesthetic nothing is truly routine. My mother's sister (my Aunt June) went in for a "routine" operation along with six other women. Seven went up for the Op, but only six came down alive. June was the one that didn't make it. :(

I had that thought uppermost in my mind as I waited for Carmen to return. The intervention took longer than expected - which did not help calm my nerves, one bit. :eek:

In the end everything went well. :shaka:

But in celebration I wrote this upbeat rock song about the experience (as you do).

Hope you enjoy:

 
thank you for this week Geoff
this, a Steve Earle song from the Copperhead Road LP

 
this, a Kris Kristofferson song
title track from the Jesus Was A Capricorn LP

 
Here is an original Xmas song written by my long time friend Steven Jay Athanas. Merry Xmas everyone, and so happy to hear Carmen had her surgery without incident, Bernie!

 
I try to avoid long introductions, but this one needed one, so I made it on the side.

 
Hello Seasonistas.

First of all my apologies for getting behind with commenting on your videos. I had hoped to get some done today but family demands intervened. I'm hoping I'll catch up by the weekend. I should have time, though we've not yet got our christmas tree up. I loved what I've listened to so far. A really good variety of well known and less well known songs.

Meanwhile, I did find time to record another song. This one comes from a mid 19th century Broadside. I've adapted it (mostly reduced the number of verses to a reasonable number) and I wrote a tune for it. I actually performed it at our choir's concert last December as a solo item - with ukulele, of course. The video uses photos I took when we visited Castle Howard's Christmas display earlier this month.
 
I don't usually write songs, but gave it a try here. It originally started out as a rather sad song about the pressures of the holiday season. Then I looked around our beautiful home, decorated for the holidays and thought, man, what are you doing? It's not about that, it's about good feelings and joy, so out went the gloom, in came the joy. I hope I didn't rip off some other holiday song, like I said, I'm not much of a songwriter, this is just what came out.

 
A Finnish Christmas song "Sparrow On Christmas Morning" (1913): a girl gives seeds to a hungry sparrow on Christmas morning and the sparrow says that he is really girl's younger brother who passed last year.
 
This is my first proper public performance on the clarinet, a sort of uke clari jam improv on Away In A Manger. Uke is tuned to BbEbGC for some extra sparkle and it stands up better to the slightly strident bark of the clarinet ,also Bb tuned, I feel. The tambourine is Z flatsharp Major General. I actually squeaked a little "stick" in September on "Other Instruments" Island ,but it was to try and id a tune not a proper performance....not that this is either:rofl::rofl:

 
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