Song a Week 2023 – Week 15: A folk song woven from different journeys and thoughts because life is one big long journey.
Author Archives: BJD
Bye, Bye Sailboat Dreams
Song a Week 2023 – Week 14: Borrowed Sally and alley from the English traditional song but otherwise this is a story of boats, broken relationSHIPS and loss.
Unmask the Dancer
Song a Week 2023 – Week 13: Challenged to write a song about ‘unmasked dancing’ I wrote a dance song about unmasking the dancer, a seductress who is not who she appears to be.
My Top 3 Songs by You Tube Plays
Who can predict what people prefer? These three songs have nothing in common but me.
The Liger That Stood There
Song a Week 2023 – Week 12: A liger is the off-spring of a male lion and female tiger. They grow to be the largest of the big cats. This is a song about self-esteem and achieving personal success.
Fall Out in a Japanese Garden
Song a Week 2023 – Week 11: A long song in five parts (including the reprise of part 1). The story of a relationship break up which rips our narrator away from a Japanese garden and into the darkness and despair of the city streets. WARNING: This is NOT a love song.
Never Trust a King
Song a Week 2023 – Week 10 We were challenged to write a song with the prompt “Oh no! It’s the Plantagenets”. So here is a history song. It’s a bit long but it is a full appraisal of the kings from Henry II to Richard II. A horrible history of the Plantagenets. I tried some orchestration on this one. Never trust a king…………
The Space Between Us
Song a Week 2023 – Week 9 :Having written a song a week for 100 weeks I am resting up this week and delivering a cover version of Little Lore’s song The Space Between Us. I have re-imagined it as a pop song. Tricia submitted this to SaW on Feb 5th.
We Listened to Pirates
Song a Week 2023 – Week 8 :100 Songs in 100 Weeks – NUMBER 100! In the early 1960s the BBC had a monopoly on radio broadcasting in the UK mainland. In order to meet demand for continuous pop music pirate radio stations were operated from ships in the North Sea. One of these was Radio Caroline.
The Curse
Song a Week 2023 – Week 7:This is the 99th song for my song a week challenge. I’ve gone gently progressive on this one. In The Curse, victims condemn their evil oppressor to an eternity of reflection on the bad things he has done.
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