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 Sep 2014
Geno Cattouse
Chord.
Dominant chord.
Diminished root note
Smooth progression
Flated
Sharpened
Poetry I n music
Music in poetry
Riff
Structure
Universal language
On the one
Back beat
Tempo/tiempo
Ooorah
 Sep 2014
Geno Cattouse
Sight up mi queeen she jus a. Rock an come een.
head pan mi chest. Mi arm round she waist.
Sweet syncopate make.love never hate

Ina dance hall jus a rub-a dub style.

One ting fi shore. Dis ridim roll sweet. Baseline smooth and the
Gial dem a dueet.

Close your eyes and open your mind. Rock from the front and roll from behind.
Lyrics. Them walk you out a you mind.
Smooth reggae beat drop in between time.

So squeeze up you love one cuddle and smile.
All massive jus a  jelly ina rub-a dub style
My lyrics to old school reggae dance hall.
Nuff respec.
 Sep 2014
chimaera
Don’t stop me now!

Baby, it’s cold outside,
tears in heaven
in a foggy day,
and mine are
the emptiest arms in the world…!

I dreamed a dream
beside an open fireplace,
entered the tunnel of love.

Don’t stop me now,
lover man!

Come softly to me,
see the shape of my heart
in my words of love.

Don’t stop me now,
let it be,
this tangled up blue,
my heart on the mend.

One step closer,
lover man,
ain’t no sunshine
if we keep
love on the rocks.

Don’t stop me now…

I’ll bring you a rainbow
with all the colors of the wind!
Follow the yellow brick road,
I’ll meet you halfway!
I’ll tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree,
by the moon river,
and we’ll
imagine
a stairway to heaven!

Baby, come to me
dance with me,
cheek to cheek,
whisper in my ear
a lullaby of birdland.

Don’t stop me now…

If you go away
when will my life begin…?

Castles are made of sand…

I can see clearly now.
Raindrops keep falling in my head
and autumn leaves are
blowing in the wind…

I say a little prayer for you
and then
something stupid,
like
I love you
and
- don’t stop me now -
I fall
asleep.
(*) A text for a poetry challenge in www.legendfire.com, using only song titles...
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LIST of song titles (and a jazz theme) and artists:
Rhapsody in blue - Gershwin
Don’t stop me now - Queen
Baby, it’s cold outside - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan
Tears in heaven - Eric Clapton
A foggy day - Fred Astaire
Emptiest arms in the world - Merle Haggard
I dreamed a dream - Les Misérables (movie soundtrack)
Beside an open fireplace - Rudy Vallée
The tunnel of love - Dire Straits
Lover man - Billie Holliday
Come softly to me - The Fleetwoods
The shape of my heart - Sting
Words of love - Buddy Holly
Let it be - The Beatles
Tangled up blue - Bob Dylan
Heart on the mend - Sylvia
One step closer - Sylvia
Ain’t no sunshine - Bill Withers
Love on the rocks - Neil Diamond
I’ll bring you a rainbow - Tony Bennett
Colors of the wind - Pocahontas (movie soundtrack)
Follow the yellow brick road - The wizard of Oz (movie soundtrack)
I’ll meet you halfway - David Cassidy
I’ll tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree - Tony Orlando & Dawn
Moon river - Audrey Hepburn
Imagine - John Lennon
Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin
Dance with me - Orleans
Cheek to cheek - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
Lullaby of birdland - Ivorysong
If you go away - Shirley Bassey
When will my life begin - Tangled (movie soundtrack)
Castles are made of sand - Jimi Hendrix
I can see clearly now - Nash
Raindrops keep falling in my head - B.J.Thomas
Autumn leaves - Nat King Cole
Blowing in the wind - Bob Dylan
I say a little prayer for you - Aretha Franklin
Something stupid - Frank Sinatra
Asleep - The Smiths (The perks of being a wallflower - movie soundtrack)
 May 2014
Geno Cattouse
He said I'll love you till I die
She told him you'll forget in time

But as the years went slowly by.
She still preyed upon his mind.

He kept her picture on his wall.
Went half crazy,now and then.

But he still loved her through it all.
Hoping that she'd come back again.

He kept some letters by his bed.
Dated 1962. He had underlined in red.
Every single I LOVE YOU.

I went to see him just today.
Oh but I didn't see no tears.

All dressed up to go away.
First time I'd seen him smile in years.

He stopped loving her today. They placed a wreath upon his door.
And soon they'l carry him away. He stopped loving her today.

You know,she came to see him one last time.
Aw and we all wondered if she would.
And it kept running through my mind ."This time he's over her for good".

He stopped loving her today. They placed a wreath upon his door.
And soon they'l carry him away.

He stopped loving her today.
The saddest love lost song I ever heard. By George Jones. A Country Icon.
 May 2014
Geno Cattouse
On banks of the Mississippi stood a young man mired...He tied his hopes and dreams to the twinkling distant lights. Lights that danced,that lay a shimmering pathway for him to walk.
Stub of a pencil and creased oily brown paper demanded with loud curses the lines hooks and verses. His guitar groaned and cried.....lamented and waited. She felt discarded while waiting she cried high on the neck."words are fickle but I love you so. So come give me your love,caresses me and I will show the way across the water the shimmering water...destiny fame...destiny demise.

He sat on the banks where big muddy ran deepest,spirits rising from deeper.he sat. He sat at the crossroads praying for sleep.
Where the words did keep counsel with the deepest of the deep...brassy green scale supended.

Judgement for the union of his instrument and his  mind to untangle lyric and chord. Fame still glimered as he.slept.....and wept in deep lament his guitar, she shivered in his warm caresses in the balmy southern fog. They slept.
His fingers did caress her in dreamsleap as the union came. .......He awakened with a start but melody remaimed as he rubbed sleep from his eyes....

Now..now the two did coincide as across her tender body his hands did glide to gently brush across her neck way up high.
The lyrics melted like butter as they grudgingly left his lips .they did depart,amessage rooted in his heart.

The notes rang sweet and.clear from her loving.frame...again an yet again.

The young man walked across the shimmering glass over and.past the Mississippi and into lore and fame.
Robert Johnson meets mussel shoals.
 May 2014
Geno Cattouse
Dear Miss Harris.
this letter is to inform you that your position in the constaltions
Is fixed and never to fade.

My dearest Eleanor.
It would be misleading if I told you that for me, it was love
                                         at first sight but you have grown on me with
                                             The passage of time.
Over the years I have come to understand what the fuss was alll about.
As me myself and I sat alone in my solitude.
I have grown to love what a little moonlight can do as I cried for you.


                                         Don't explain. Now I know that you've changed


                                         Like autumn in new york and yesterdays witout your love have made me miss you even more now as I cover the waterfront in search of my love.

You my love are. travelin light crowned with a white carnation forever

strolling through my memories.
                                          Maybe we will meet again on some other
                                          Spring.some fine and mellow sunlit morning.
                                          Till then dear,good morning heartache is the
                                          Song that I sing as I sit in my solitude.

Hush now my heart. Don't explian. What is there to gain.
All my thoughts are of you for I am completly yours.
You are my joy and pain so don't explain.

Right or wrong don't matter,when you are with me sweet.

The pointed pain
Sad refrain. Good morning heartache.
Stop haunting me love.can't. Shake you no how

The welcome sting that your love will bring
Your arm so bruised and stained.
Repulsed me at first. The wounded bird
Does sing a lovely song.
It took me so long to
Feel your pain lady.
But you are now and ......... forever in my vein
And will remain.
 Mar 2014
Geno Cattouse
In the chilly hours and minutes
Of uncertainty,I. Want to be
In the warm hold
Of your loving mind

To feel you all around me
And to take your hand,
Along the sand.

Ah,but I. May as well
Try and catch the wind.

When sundown pales the sky
I want to hide a while,
Behind your smile and everwhere l'd look,
Your eyes i'd find.

For me to love you now
Would be the sweetest thing
That would make me sing.

Ah,but I may as well,try and catch the wind.

When the rain has hung the leaves with tears
I want you near, to **** my fears.
To help me leave all my blues behind.

For standin,in your heart
Is where I longto be, and all along to be .

Ah,but I may as well ,try and catch the wind.

Ah,  but I may as well , try and catch the wind
Ten or eleven year old boy spinning the radio dial to hear this. The harmonica and guitar tearing at my heart. By.Donovan.

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