SOTU 603: Speed!

[wee_ginga_yin]

The music really makes a difference, haha!
that music, Rob.......

I like all slow animals. The sloth is probably my favourite.
Birds wise, the American Woodcock takes ages to get from one place to another, by feet or flying!
Have you all seen how it dance? It's awesome. Here is one grooving to Stayin' Alive.

Haha you can tell I'm a bird by the way I walk

 

[Canada Jim]

 

[Canada Jim]

Well, this is my third and final entry to Season 603, as per Sabine's request. Since my first entry was Speed and my second was Fast, I've decoded to make my third entry Slow, so here's SLOW TRAIN THROUGH GEORGIA by Norman Blake.
Thanks for a fun Season Sabine!



Just like the circle says, "Southern Serves The Souith."



I have a few more "Speed" songs which I'll drop over in The Island Of Misfit Seasonistas.

 

[TCK]

Heading back to 1964 for this one. Beach Boys wrote it, had a hit, Hondells did it too, also had a hit- fun little song about a motorcycle.

 

[joo]

here is an original I wrote in 2016, called The Icy Pop Song. (It is about icy pops, not about ICY pop songs.)
This version was recorded today. I also went out to film some footage to make the video.
It was really fun making this. :----)

When Benny the dog licked the drips from the icy pop, he did it "in a jiffy".
Hope that counts, Sabine!
Lyrics in the YT description.


This video shows a little bit of the sort of place I live in. Almost 80 percent of Singaporeans live in a HDB flat like myself.
It is public housing (which is still very expensive).

oh, and Mr T the ginger cat made a special appearance too. :---)

 

[wee_ginga_yin]

here is an original I wrote in 2016, called The Icy Pop Song. (It is about icy pops, not about ICY pop songs.)
This version was recorded today. I also went out to film some footage to make the video.
It was really fun making this. :----)

When Benny the dog licked the drips from the icy pop, he did it "in a jiffy".
Hope that counts, Sabine!
Lyrics in the YT description.


This video shows a little bit of the sort of place I live in. Almost 80 percent of Singaporeans live in a HDB flat like myself.
It is public housing (which is still very expensive).

oh, and Mr T the ginger cat made a special appearance too. :---)

Caught an American Beauty moment there with the plastic bag in the wind.

 

[Yukio]

Among her many charms, she was a fast machine....

 

[hands_on_lanzon]

'In The Curve' by The Avett Brothers.

 

[LimousinLil]

Hello, Sabine ... back with my third and last! Having decelerated to snails' pace, I decided to speed up again ... although the song itself is rather slow!

 

[dr_mitch]

Here we go... Freight Train by Elizabeth Cotten (who is well worth looking up).

 

[ukukeguy]

Here we go... Freight Train by Elizabeth Cotten (who is well worth looking up).

She's inspirational for her method of playing, certainly until Jimi Hendrix came along, anyway.

 

[Renaissance-Man]

Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness is not another one of John Prine's profound songs. You won't find any wisdom or meaning here. The words and music are plain and simplistic. The line, "I got a heart that burns with a fever" sounds like Alfalfa professing his love to Darla, of The Little Rascals. That's a dated reference, and may also be only known within the United States. Not every song needs to be a gem. Sometimes it only needs to be a song.



Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness
John Prine

You come home late and you come home early
You come on big when you're feeling small
You come home straight and you come home curly
Sometimes you don't come home at all

So what in the world's come over you?
And what in heaven's name have you done?
You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness
You're out there running just to be on the run

Well I got a heart that burns with a fever
And I got a worried and a jealous mind
How can a love that'll last forever
Get left so far behind

What in the world's come over you?
And what in heaven's name have you done?
You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness
You're out there running just to be on the run

It's a mighty mean and a dreadful sorrow
It's crossed the evil line today
Well, how can you ask about tomorrow
We ain't got one word to say

So what in the world's come over you?
And what in heaven's name have you done?
You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness
You're out there running just to be on the run

You're out there running just to be on the run
You're out there running just to be on the run

 

[Wiggy]

She's inspirational for her method of playing...

And that's not all. She covers a lot of ground, here:

 

[uke4ia]

Wow, halfway through the Season and no Taylor Swift songs yet!

 

[AlanDP]

Wow, halfway through the Season and no Taylor Swift songs yet!

I looked up "You Belong With Me" at ultimate guitar and the only way you can get the chords is the official version, which you have to pay for. She doesn't allow any unofficial versions to be viewed.

 

[uke4ia]

I looked up "You Belong With Me" at ultimate guitar and the only way you can get the chords is the official version, which you have to pay for. She doesn't allow any unofficial versions to be viewed.

Ah, that would do it.

 

[uke4ia]

This is a song by Ed's Redeeming Qualities, the first band with a ukulele player I ever heard that played something other than Hawaiian music or Tin Pan Alley. In the late '80s, they used to host Sunday acoustic nights at Boston's punk rock club. In the key I'm playing, the chords are just C-F-D-F all the way through.

 

[Canada Jim]

I looked up "You Belong With Me" at ultimate guitar and the only way you can get the chords is the official version, which you have to pay for. She doesn't allow any unofficial versions to be viewed.

The chords are not difficult to figure out. She does it in B, but if you do it in C, just use C, Am, F and G7.

 

[Canada Jim]

And that's not all. She covers a lot of ground, here:

Thanks Wiggy! I'd not seen that, but my brother and I learned to fingerpick in the early sixties by slowing down Libba's Negro Folk Songs & Tunes LP from 33rpm to 16rpm which dropped it an octave so we didn't have to re-tune. I still play songs from that LP. Maggie and I did Freight Train and Shake Sugaree at an open mic the week Libba died in the summer of 1987.
Here's my favourite photo of Libba. I had it on my wall for a number of years.



Edited to add:

Elizabeth Cotten: Negro Folk Songs & Tunes Folkways 1957, was reissued as Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs, by Smithsonian Folkways in 1989 and is still available under the title Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar.

 

[joo]

"Baby run see all the different hues...
Mama run here help me with these blues..."

A Michael Hurley song.