Season 417: original favourite country shorts

Guy Clark drops a few names, in his song Cold Dog Soup
and remarks that there is no money in poetry and that is what sets the poet free.
 
2 little woodpeckers, and 1 funny toy hammer.
A John Darnielle song for bitter children!
Hope you all enjoy it!
 
An original short song about a wallaby that came to live in our backyard 2 years ago.


Hey Worcestershire the wallaby
You came here last year to hide under the shrubbery
Hopping in fright when I startled you with my secatuers
Your bad leg dangling sideways like a stick
I called them up
But they came here to take you away instead
They're gonna put you down
They're gonna put you down
They're gonna put you down
They're gonna put you down
You got a little Joey in your pouch
The wildlife rescuer said to me:
At least we can save her baby
But tears rolled down on my cheeks
I wanted to save you instead
I wanted to save you instead
I wanted to save you instead
I wanted to save you instead
 
An original short. Evening


[Dm]Now the sun is [Am]sinking low
[Dm]In the sky’s a [Am]soft, red glow
[Dm]Birds, they all re[Am]tire to [Dm]nest
[Am]Evening and it's [A7]time to [Dm]rest

Evening is a time of rest
When the sun sinks in the west
When the light becomes the gloam
That's the time to head for home

I look back over my day
At what I’ve done I done at work and play?
If today was one well spent
I can rest and be content.
 
Checked out the track listing for "Together at the Bluebird Café," looked over at the calendar, and I'm surprised there aren't more versions of this one this Season.

 
day five was an absolute ripper
kev w/ some gorgeous playing on a beautiful townes tune
berni w/ a catchy as a cold original song (no wonder you're not sleeping brother :) )
john w/ a super fun version of a Guy Clark song
joko w/ an awesome take on Steve Earle's 'my old friend' & a clip to match
ylle w/ a spare and sensitive instrumental arrangement of the unofficial Australian national anthem
and dave, working his way through one of the finest live rekkids ever...
and including in yesterday's batch, 'song for', maybe my favourite song from that set.
yep, 4 more to go Lefty.
righto, off to hit up the new stuff.
thanks everyone for the week so far, the host is having a ball.
 
Another original Jon Boy.

I'm rollin' down the highway
In search of a home
A teepee or igloo
carved from whalebone

Frank Lloyd Wright he once scorned me
with his cantilevered heart
Corbusier threw concrete blocks
At me from the start

A man needs a home
somewhere to lie in
a man needs a home
somewhere to cry in

Shank's Pony has been my friend
for many long years
From the Mountains of Madness
To the Valley of Tears

I left Southbend Rhonda
And her Peyton Place
She left me
These lines on my face

A man needs a home
Somewhere to speculate
A man needs a home
Somewhere to stay up late

Proportionally I'd got it all wrong
The angle of the dangle
Had skewered my song
Little Bo Peep alone in her scene
Sheep gone searching for the Golden Mean
We all need a home
Somewhere to lie in
We all need a home somewhere to sigh in
 
Turned the heater on and had a heck of time staying in tune...but I was warmer.

and here it is- last one. Really the best live record ever.
Thanks for the fun Pancho.
 
couldn't let the week pass w/out taking a shot at this.
in the top 1o rekkids of this ol life o mine.
 
day six and it keeps getting better
one of my favourite days so far this week
rusty w/ a lovely take on SE's 'Jericho Road'
rob w/ two superb hits on Guy Clark
joo w/ a stunning, personal, original song and a fun collab w/ her ol' sidekick on a JD short one
geoff w/ a haunting, sweet short original
ralf w/ one of the best versions of 'Valentine's Day' you'll ever hear
jp w/ maybe the most wrecking, affecting original song of the week
and Lefty. mate, you brought it home and in style. the whole damn rekkid.
thank you folks. see you tomorrow.
 
"shorts" category as this one measured at just under 60 seconds. I am still a bit rusty and should have waited another day to record, but I am still working on an original and want to spend my time on that one instead. I will also be attending an astronomy club meeting tomorrow and that will make my day a busy one.

 
My last one for the week, another Guy Clark song. Thanks for turning me onto his music, would have never known otherwise. Just learned this one today, pretty easy. I play in in C, F, G, Am chord shapes, but I dropped my low-G tenor down to B for my voice. Plugged into my little Vox Pathfinder amp, with reverb and tremolo, recorded into cellphone.

I like the lyrics "she was standin' on the gone side of leavin'", and also "she had a way of her own, like prisoners have a way with a file". So sad, just the day after Valentines! :D

 
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Desperados waiting for a train

For Robert George and mathematics at the kitchen table
 
An original inspired by a photo I recently came across.



That old chimney must've been here a long time
I bet it kept some poor folks safe and warm
Mortar mixed just right, each stone laid with care
Their fire burning bright in the winter storm
In the middle of nowhere, warm the winter storm

Why'd they come here, I guess they had their reasons
Where the prickly pear and the cholla dot the ground
I reckon they built that chimney as first thing
And then they built their house all around
They built that chimney then built their house around

Nothin' left here now but the seasons
Rollin' by long forgotten reasons
Maybe they left or maybe died
The house fell apart but Lord they tried
And left behind this lonely cairn of stones

That old chimney must've been standing here for a long long time
Cold and dark where the western coyotes moan
It'll probably still be standing when I'm long gone
A long forgotten lonely cairn of stones
The people all long forgotten by the stones
 
One of the choices for Season of the Ukulele 417 is to play a song from the album "Together at the Bluebird Café," which opens with this song by Guy Clark. I'm adding my variation to the cover already provided this season by the Cloverdale Kid, which you should also check out. Apologies to traditionalists -- I added a verse with some modern modes of transportation, and a chorus "homage" to the late great Guy Clark.

 
Hey Jon! I couldn't miss your season. Here's a Steve Earle song:


hey my brother.
this is just great Sean, the spontaneity of it, hearing you like you were next to me in the loungeroom,
the invasion of the family. it's beautiful man.
the settings though - I wasn't able to comment nor add it to the playlist thingy mate -
if you feel to change em so I can, please do. if not, k, that's cool too.
just want you to know i' listened, that I loved it & how much appreciate you making time to play me sump'n.
 
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