US 250

 US  250

The final blossoming of the Constitution. The founding revolutionaries could not free everybody all at once, but left a structure in place that could.

US250 or just #250, takes aim at the coercive elements in society with lessons on what a Free America, and then, by example, a free world would be like. A workshop to plan for the next 250. 2026 is Americas 250^th birthday.

Greens Progressives and INDEPENDENTS need to work together. I suggest Progressives join the Green Party that has done the work to get on the ballots of most states, but otherwise is a fish flopping on the dock. Let the Democrats have all the dinner party, city slicker Libruls they want. Conservative conspiracy theorists rarely have any true insights, but I’ve learned that t***p voters are generally nature enthusiasts and pet lovers and we can help the ones that regain their common sense.  These are regular folks, these are the people that can be lured away from the GOP by a common sense third party agenda.

         We need to be there when the Administration betrays maga working class and undermines the United States. Their USA. Our U.S. Independents need a place to go. #independentmajorityparty

 Most workers pay lip service to the loudmouth MAGA’s at their workplace and there are more independent thinkers than anyone realizes. With 25% Democrats and 25% Republicans, independent voters are 50% of voting age citizens. The maths are in your face.

250 years old in 2026. We can reclaim America for Independent, working class Americans. (That’s you, buh.) We can reject the Project 2025 that imagines the neighborhood seanhannity on the corner of your street. He’s got his A-15 loaded and checking ID’s as you leave or enter. “Waitin’ on them robot dogs” to arrive, to help him keep people under observation.

Xian nationalists consider the America we know as a secular mistake. It’s supposed to be Gods country! Christian Conspiracy theorists show aerial diagrams of Washington DC to be laid out in a pentagram! (Actually, a Goddess temple complex). Lady Liberty is an evil, demonic goddess. Did you know that? They are clearly out of their minds and #250 can be our foundation in reality.

King Arthur: Well, I am king.

Dennis: Oh, king eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever gonna be any progress...

Peasant Woman: Dennis! There's some lovely filth down here... Oh! How do you do?

[Dennis joins the Peasant Woman in the nearby filth patch]

King Arthur: How do you do, good lady? I am Arthur, king of the Britons. Whose castle is that?

Peasant Woman: King of the who?

King Arthur: The Britons.

Peasant Woman: Who're the "Britons"?

King Arthur: Well, we all are. We're all Britons, and I am your king.

Peasant Woman: Didn't know we had a king. 

I thought we were an autonomous collective.

Dennis: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship! A self-perpetuating autocracy, in which the working classes...

Peasant Woman: Oh, there you go, bringing class into it again.

Dennis: Well, that's what it's all about! If only people would--

King Arthur: Please, please, good people, I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?

Peasant Woman: No one lives there.

King Arthur: Then who is your lord?

Peasant Woman: We don't have a lord.

King Arthur: What?

Dennis: I told you, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as sort of executive officer for the week...

 

 In actuality, this is the last stand for the Constitution as intended by our Founding Revolutionaries.

My short bio. 1974. I was fetching my laundry and halfway there, I was stopped by a hooded stranger in the Connecticut Packing Company parking lot on Blue Hills Avenue. The Libertarian Party had just formed, primarily by anarchists.

Was this person a young man or woman? I honestly couldn’t tell, and why would it matter? It’s what’s in our heads and hearts that count, right? It was probably the most interesting conversation I ever had. We talked about bad leadership in government and drudgery in the workplace along with the indoctrination of the school system. “Authority is derived by the free consent of the people”, I replied quoting the Fundamental Orders of 1639. And that means for all of us. US 250 is about all of us. As citizens, voters, workers and children.

It was one of those moments where a stranger brings a major revelation for the life that lay ahead. We talked for an hour or two as my laundry sat in the dryer. Never exchanging names, The Anarchy Exchange.

I voted for the candidate they were advocating and have tried to avoid coercive elements in my life since then.

A broken treaty is a broken covenant. We start there. Repair what’s been broken. People have been herded onto reservations and cities.  Time to become an actual melting pot.

 COVENANT OF THE 99

 1        JUDGEMENT DAY FOR CORPORATIONS. Nullify corporations are people. Nature is not there for them to own. Stop calling common sense and empathy, socialism. 

    We are going to build an infrastructure for all the small farms on this planet and the illegitimately rich are going to pay for it.

2    You don’t overtax yearly income. You tax accumulated wealth. The illegitimate wealth that has trickled up during the Reagan Era of Greed. Billions and billions and billions. We work more than ever and they run the world without our input. They’re not the job creators, they are the job destroyers and community oriented economies biggest foe.

Here’s a 28^th amendment suggestion. “ Tax total assets of the wealthiest 10% OF TAXPAYERS which include value of all stocks, gold, money & property; TILL THE NATIONAL DEBT IS LESS THAN THE YEARLY BUDGET!”  The wealthiest 10 percent get taxed 10%. We built this country and all they did was create a parasite white collar economy, riddled with greedy middlemen and Mad Men selling one profit making scam after another.  Illegitimate wealth no one will feel sad about taxing. Ill gotten gains.

We need 38 states to ratify this? Let’s go! Who but the obscenely wealthy would object? Everyone else would jump on the bandwagon because all other taxes can be reduced/ When this becomes apparent it will be a tide shift.

 

3    First two agreements try to work at the mega structure and slow changes that need to start now. So many are suffering now and how can we all help? Agreement 3 has to be about everyone having water and shelter from the storm. #3 is a UBI that starts at $500. Nearly everyone in my working life would have greatly benefitted. Child care is so expensive. Instead of this crazy 4000 page tax code with exemptions and write offs and excessive tweaking, you have a flat tax system for most that has only one exemption.

People dealing with Alsheimer'd parents or a lifetime injury. Your 45 year old child has brain cancer. All I’ve seen in my life are hard working people that are underpaid at the job and overwhelmed at home.  

It all went into shareholders pockets and made local millionaires like Rock City and Hirams. Many of the homeless would find more or more decent lodging if they knew they had 500 coming in every month. Many will say 500 is not enough but I know from living paycheck to paychek it makes all the differne to lives of quiet desperation. UBI comes with a catch (see below) and eliminates a lot of government paperwork. The indigent have to declare any thing of value they own. Small business has to keep every receipt keep up with new regulations while large companies hire people to do that.

 

4    EXECUTIVE ORDER  ban clear cutting. Don’t cut down ANY more old trees. Begin the process to make paper and wood recycling viable by putting a tariff on plastic, making many future jobs possible in the US and waste reduction more probable. Clear cutting and easy profits will leave us with destroyed forest ecosystems. Earth needs ancient trees not just baseball bats.

Create jobs and no more trading our health by hacking down Earths lungs for temporary profits. Recycling all wood and paper would create so many jobs. Defining clear cutting as lumbering more than three trees per acre. Not dead trees of course.

5      FLAT TAX INITIATIVE   (FT)

$500/m UBI only for the people that sign up for the flat tax initiative. CITIZENS ONLY. Sign up with your social security number.

Access to nationwide job bank.

Give up all other forms of government assistance such as food stamps.

Helping the homeless and those living in their cars. Enable the homeless in LA to move on and get something started. They just need a little scratch. You know close a foreign embassy or something.

Making taxation much simpler.

Where are you? There is only one exemption. $10,000. This is finally giving a real helping hand to the working poor.

10% for income between $0 and $99,999.

20% for income between $100,000 and $999,999

And 30% for all income over $1,000,000 which would include most corporations.

$10,000 is the only exemption, period. No more 4000 page tax code for these guys.

Tax is paid the next year. Social Security is worked out elsewhere here.

BUSINESS INCOME?

  $25,000 exemption if you sign up with the FTI

  10% flat tax for income up to $1,000,000

  20% flat tax for income between one million and one billion.

  30% for income or sales over one billion. With only the one exemption of $25,000

Finally small business gets a break

Slashing loopholes in tax code eventually gets many on FTI as write offs are slashed.

6      Cap Then Reduce military budget 5% a year. Should be easy at first. Like shooting fish In a barrel.

Close 200 military bases in Japan and Germany.

Sell 20 ambassador palaces and then create 1000 animal rescue shelters here in America.

Reducing the military budget will enable us to bring the jobs home and too bad for all those foreign cities that depend on drunken American sailors keeping their economy afloat.

The working class needs to oversee the federal budget to start cutting out the waste. #US250 aims to eliminate the corporate nanny state and sleazy companies will #getthespotlight.

7      There’s a child care crisis that is much bigger and more apparent to those in America that are not distracted by a border crisis.

 How do we help people unable to afford child care? We all need to work on this together. This is an actual American problem not re-naming the Gulf of Mexico.

 How about we tax churches to subsidize the child care industry?

Okay you watch 4 children for 100 a week. You register as a business so you get a $25,000 deduction on your $21,600 income. But you made $6000 selling bicycles. Now the income is $27,160. Your 10% tax on $2,160 taxable income is $216, due the following year.

Logically then, the companies to first sign up are those that don’t have many business expenses.

 

8    keep it ethical. Be fair to everyone, Don’t leave shit around. We want to be trusted so you have to be honest in every dealing you have. Americans are portrayed as loudmouth hucksters. Cabinet member calling us uneducated and unfit for modern jobs. You know that ain’t right.

That includes blocking roads burning cars and threatening people.

9     Does the Green Party address the needs of workers? Or just white collar virtue signaling issues? The Democratic party chairman wants to dismantle the Greens. We can’t be stuck weith these two pork-lardered corrupt parties. Crime and greed are normalized and legal. So I’m asking you to join the Green Party. With Progressives and Independents aboard we’ll be equal thirds. Progressives register green instead of

Green Party will have primaries in 2028. Please … not Jill Stein again. Primaries will draw attention to the oligarchic leaning Dems and Pubs.

If there is a rush to join the Green Party the media will light up with stories.

Be about the message, not getting money for commercials.

10    THE NEW SQUARE DEAL

a)          New Homestead Act  without the corruption of the first one where railroads were given stolen land. Real estate developers bought claims of poor homesteaders for pennies on the dollar.keep

b) FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM   speaks for itself. With a non-profit banking system encased in the Post Office, and an ongoing investigation into usurious loaning practices, foreclosures can end for two years.

BEATRX

 

BEATRX   BEATRx 

2025 SONGLIST       ICONoCLASTICS  iconOclastics

ROCKABILLY CLUB PEACE

I make mistakes.

that's why I'm not a professional

Got a New Idea to work with. 

Ten percent of musicians make enough money to live on, right?

What about the other 90%? I think they'd love an outlet for playing and I have the best forum for being inclusive of as many instruments as possible. 

All percussion is welcome on all songs.

Just stick to the beat and any particular dynamics that are BEING UTILIZED FOR THAT PARTICULAR SONG. The Beat is the Remedy.  Here is the current playlist.

1  Em    Drinking Gasoline         Baboons

2  E     Don’t Look Now   Creedence

3  F     Rockabilly Hall of Fame   B side Band

4  G     Mother of a Miners Child   Gordon Lightfoot

5   G    Jenny Are You Gay?   Hillbilly Moon Explosion

   6 Ab to A   HEY LITTLE COBRA

   7   C       New York is a Lonely Town Trade Winds

   8   D   I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU   VOLBEAT VERSION

   9  E   Blue Boat Home

10   F   I KNOW YOU       Dave Clark 5     

11 Gm  GHOST DANCE    robbie robertson

12 G   CRY BABY CRY    BEATLES

13 G  THE CHRISTIANS AND THE PAGANS   Dar Williams

Gm to G#m DARK DREAM XIANS AND PAGANS ARE SEASONAL

14 Ab to Bb   I’M TELLING YOU NOW   Freddie & the Dreamers

15 Bb  WALK LIKE A MAN   4 Seasons

16 C#  WORKING MAN   Creedence

17 D  TABACCO ROAD

18 Eb  DON’T DREAM IT’S OVER  

19 Em  ACE OF SPADES motorhead

20 Em7   HURT YOU FIRST Niia

21 E     HEADS CAROLINA  

22 E    COMING UP

23 F#   REDNECK WOMAN

24 G   TOMBSTONE SHADOW   *Replace with 

25   G   Mary Lou"

26 Am   My love forevermore

27  A     RED CLAY HALO

26   Dm-C#   Layla

                This is a prototype musical configuration that can be used anywhere in the world to bring communities back together through music. Music is what many feel is the best healer.

            Basically, I'm trying to stick with American music to preserve the good songs and forgotten album cuts, or songs never heard. And you do you. One important thing about this system is that one person in the group knows all the songs completely. Or has the proper prompt nearby.  Give old, tired songs a beat treatment with beginnings and endings. 

                    Our folk tales for future generations. 

           I’ve been a guitar hobbyist for 40 years, playing songs I like. A chair, a music stand and the Blue Oyster Cult songbook. Scanning through 50 music books but never memorizing any songs in order to perform. 

        Just playing along with the record. The fun was catching the groove. Steely Dan, Black Sabbath. Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell. I love to study a songs structure like "The Hissing of Summer Lawns," but I loathe to perform or deal with big egos in a band, so I considered myself a hobbyist. These songs with dozens of chords and difficult passages were difficult to memorize.

 However I’ve spent the last 5/6 years finding simpler songs for my old fingers to play. Songs I can memorize and start a band with. So ... you're invited. The Arthuritis has taken its toll as it has for many other aging musicians, and so I want to make one last effort. I use a lot of "fifths". Root and Fifth. Sounds like Rockabilly or Metal.  They call them power chords.

I make too many mistakes and could never play fast enough to be a professional, and, worst of all, I’m fussy about what I want to play, so I am not a good candidate for a band. (Though I could play the Bass for pay). Got a one owner Acoustic 371 and I'm looking for a semi-hollow base with a small fretboard.

EVERYONE INSISTS I HAVE TO PLAY WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR. 

No thank you.  Not a trained monkey and I'm going to do what I can while I still can.

So here is the crux of the Bisquit. It’s said that 10% of musicians make a living at it. The big question is this: what are the other 90% doing? I'm thinking, many people would like to have a community combo that they can participate in, when they want to. 

This is what this is. Tightly managed to avoid the inevitable disagreements, but freedom to come and go as you want, so no one feels pressured or obligated.  The BEATRX MUSICAL SYSTEM allows for maximum musical expression amongst a community, and freedom for musicians. 

All percussion is welcome but please, remember the beat is the remedy. This is not a comfort zone for Boomers. Neither is it a safe space where the maudlin sentimentality of Pop music is glorified.  I'm trying to revive songs that had a lame ass beat back in the day or re-invent some really good songs that are sounding outdated. Studiously avoiding the same old same old we've heard on the radio for decades.

You got a Ukelele club Then surely a Rockabilly Club can be created. You got a song to suggest? First ask yourself ‘have I already heard this 10,000 times on the radio?’ Then, “can I teach others to play it?" No one wants homework and our underlying theme is NO CLICHES. 

Not practicing for a performance but simply making music. We can have a general assembly to vote in songs to add. Songs in the on deck circle are listed further down.

In the BEATRX musical system one person knows all the songs. Songs have a beginning and end. Instrumental solo verses are real easy to add for anyone that shows up to jam. Bring something to the table.

My particular concept aside from song selection is the songs stay in the order I have listed for a concept that needs to be tested. Instead of randomly jumping around to different keys, as per the usual, the songs progress in an ascending order of keys. The first song is in Em and the next is in E, then songs in the keys of F then G are next. Then the next song starts in Ab  ends in A.

I might say that this is a Rockabilly Club but not in the cliched way. This is where Rockabilly meets Americana, that meets folk/metal music and the boogie woogie beat. Back to when Rockabilly became rock and roll. Rockabilly Visionquest.

We’re not talking clothes fetish either. You can be rockabilly without the Halloween costume, you know what I mean? 

The Beatles used many influences from around the world, but at their core, they were Rockabilly. The Beatles didn’t do too many covers, but more than half of them were rockabilly songs. “Honey Don’t” “Roll Over Beethoven” et al. Second generation rockabilly, the Beatles stretched the boundaries of what rock and roll could be. They yearned to jam with Carl Perkins, not Sophie Tucker. 

     

 The IconOclastics. BeatRX. BEATRX

   

THE BEATRX MUSICAL SYSTEM.

               So let’s have a go at it. Here are the first ten songs.

1   Em     DRINKIN’ GASOLINE   THE BABOONS

2   E  Don’t Look Now  bpm 128

3   F  Rockabilly Hall of Fame  130

4   G  Mother of a Miners Child    138

5    G  Jenny Are You Gay?        110 rockabilly                    

6   Ab to A  HEY LITTLE COBRA   90 train?

  7   C       New York is a Lonely Town Trade Winds

  8   D   I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU   VOLBEAT VERSION

  9   E     Blue Boat Home     6/8 

10   F   I KNOW YOU Dave Clark 5 

     I had to switch out my first song. I wanted to start out with Blue Boat Home. A Unitarian Universalists theme song. They don't discriminate any faith, and this song is easily embraced by spiritual seekers. But the 6/8 beat still needs practice and I can't seem to memorize enough of the lyrics. So I made Drinkin' Gasoline as the first song so I don't stumble out of the gate.

         I did want to introduce this idea at the UU Church first. A community band? If there is a Ukelele Club, surely there can be a Rockabilly Club so people can rock and roll. SO that is honestly my intention. I want to try it at church first and we could make Blue Boat Home the opening number with a little luck. And remember. we would be making music, not preparing for a performance, yet also not unorganized jam sessions. I was thinking the last Wednesday of the month at 2:30 and we need to be gone by 4:00. I try to have my short weeks work done by then.

     

SO FOR NOW Blue Boat Home IS #9 ON THE LIST AND DRINKIN' GASOLINE IS #1

      The second song is DONT LOOK NOW by Creedence and talks about people who talk the talk, but don’t walk the walk. 

#3 Rockabilly Hall of Fame is such a fun song, but the actual Rockabilly Hall of Fame in Memphis kept deleting it when I posted it on their facebook page. Plus, I think the RHOF may also be racists with their exclusion of black people. Excuse me here is the first rock and roll song. 

      Maybe we'uns pay them a visit and see what's up. Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry not in the RHOF?

       #4 Mother of A Miners Child is a stark reality of how some people live. 

#5 Jenny Are You Gay? Recalling the fifties, this song was originally “Johnny Are You Gay” but it was gender fluid enough to work when I switched the gender from Johnny to Jenny.    This song is about young people getting married to get out of their childhood homes. “My ma is a naggy parent, Jenny, won’t you set me free?”

#6 Hey Little Cobra Car racing song with dramatic key change

#7 Trade Winds the last surf song to reach the top ten in 1965

#8 Volbeat  old Dusty Springfield song they fixed

#9 BLUE BOAT HOME  Unitarian Universalist fave 

#10 Dave Clark five     I KNow you as surf song

HERE I POST AS MUCH OF THE LYRICS THAT I NEED TO HELP MY MEMORY

theoretically I should be able to just use my phone to play

1    1  Well I'm driving down the road in my Cadillac Travelling lies me by a road turning black

Drinking gasoline is a whole lotta do Drinking gasoline to get over you
We were doing swell with a short way to hell on the hill
2   Well I met you in the desert at Sabriskey point
 
3 Well I drove ten thousand miles away from home
See no trap in jail, but ain't no desert spawn (solo) 

4 Engine started smoking and wings on fire

Big wheels started shaking and I lost a tyre my baby she exoploded drinkin gasoline 

repeat 1

2  DON’T LOOK NOW   dual note pattern

1 who’ll take the coal from the mine, who'll take the salt from the earth, who'll take a leaf       2 who’ll work the field  who'll put his back to the plough who'll take the mountain and give DON’T LOOK NOW IT AIN'T YOU OR ME    3 dual note pattern and my solo in A

 DONT LOOK NOW SOMEONES DONE YOUR STARVIN’) DLN someones done your prayin too

solos repeat chorus  repeat don’t look now  

5 who'll make the shoes for your feet? who'll make the clothes you wear?  who'll take the promise that you don't have to keep don't look now it aint you or me

      DONT LOOK NOW SOMEONES DONE YOUR STARVIN’) DLN someones done your prayin too    5   Solo    6  who’ll take the coal from the mine who'll take the salt from the earth?  Who'll take the promise that you don't have to keep? 

 3  F   SIMPLE  130 ROCKABILLY HALL OF FAME   B side Band. The Rockabilly Hall of Fame has yet to embrace this song. I give it a more danceable beat      

1 found ourselves this cool    won't believe the folks we saw ....eddie cochran didnt stop     2 posters hung up on the wall perkins vincent had a ball  Johnny Cash and Elvis too  ,,....... link rays rockin didnt stop   3 Marty Robbins made us dance Elvis put us in a trance that night   won't forget the sights we saw all those rockers yelled for more

 

 4    G            MOTHER OF A MINERS CHILD   GORDON LIGHTFOOT   very nice song. I give it a harsh beat which brings out the lyrics better, I think.     138

1 she is my flower (waits for me beside the kitchen door) 2 She is my light (wash away the coal dust from my face)

 3 SOLO    4 When the night shifts done (and the promise I made to carry on) 

verse 5 sometimes I smile  in the cage where the cables softly hum I'd curse that old straw boss to the bone but the mother of a miners child is waiting for her paycheck to come home come saturday (he is just a miners boy, I hope that he will find a better way 

 6 repeat 1

5 1  Jenny, are you gay? You're so good looking But something's in the way When I look in your eyes Oh, Jenny you mean so much to me I've waited so long for you to set me free And so I ask myself each day

2  Jenny, are you gay? You've got a real cool shirt, yeah It's tight black satin Not like the other girls, now 

  They all wear plaid and corduroy I really like your style  i wanna be your boy So I ask myself each day,  Jenny, are you gay?

(Bm)Shopping malls and station wagons Ain't a lot for a guy like me

 My ma was a naggy parent,So Jenny, won't you set me free              

Take a look into my eyes, there's lots of love for you

Tell me now, is it wrong To want to get more from you?

3  Jenny, are you gay?

I didn't see you at the ballgame I heard you gone shopping

Just you and Chesty Morgan All I want is to be close to you

C'mon, give it a try, I know you'll like it too And so I ask myself each day... 

SOLO SOLO SOLO  SOLOSHOPPING MALLS AND STATION WAGONS

4 Jenny, are you gay? I saw you dancin' techno The way you move to the beat It’s supernatural

Oh, Jenny, you mean so much to meI've waited so long for you to set me free

An  so I ask myself each day,   Jenny, are you gay

Fiddle Bango Harp Beatbox xylophone or whatever. It’s about creating a community band. Lots of space for different people to solo

                                            This is what I'm talking about.           

     Connecting in a simple way with people and creating a better grade of performance because of the eschewing (to spit out in disgust) of overplayed pop music. We need to get live music out to more places than just beer drinking activities and bars. This is a rich new field to plow.  Plenty of people out there practicing their instrument or improving their voice that would want to give it a try. 

            

          Let's bring back songs that have stood the test of time; good songs that didn’t get the airplay they deserved. Truthfully the repetition on the radio has lulled Americans to sleep. Many have nuanced their playlists with various pay services, of course, but those people are generally looking for new songs too, and new musicians to groove on and add to their playlist. Though probably many listen to the baneful wail and thump of todays commercial hits.

        Radio is too busy trying to make a profit and playing the songs THEY think you want to hear. People have not heard some of these songs for over 50 years and it will fire up some neurons, you'll see. 

"Hey Little Cobra" was one of the first 45’s I purchased in 1960-something.

 6 Ab to A  HEY LITTLE COBRA 1963 140 simple The Rip Chords. Great key change third verse  do a Bluegrass version with solos after first verse

I took my Cobra 2 when the flag went down 3 around the far turn in the straightaway

7  C       New York is a lonely town             Trade Winds      The last surf song to reach the top ten. 1965 130 simp   138 SEEMS BETTER but keep it slow, not sped up in any way and I have yet to figure out the instrumental break.

1 my folks moved to New York 2 from central park to Pasadena’s such a long way 

8   D I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU  120 GROOVE BEAT keep it slow like volbeat does it live.

                 I don't know what it is that makes me love you so I only knew I never want to let you go

You started something, can't you see? And ever since we met, you've had a hold on me
It happens to be true I only wanna be with you

INTRO PATTERN
[Verse 2]It doesn't really matter what you say or do I want to spend each moment, any day with you
Look what has happened with just one kiss I never knew that I could be in love like this

It's crazy but it's true  I only wanna be with you

[Bridge] You stopped and smiled at me And asked me if I cared to dance
I fell into your open arms And I didn't stand a chance
[Verse 3}SOLO

VERSE 4  I don't know what it is that makes me love you so I only knew I never want to let you go
You started something, can't you see? And ever since we met, you've had a hold on me

It happens to be true I only wanna be with you
[Bridge]
You stopped and smiled at me And asked me if I cared to dance
I fell into your open arms And I didn't stand a chance

[Verse 5] Now, listen honey I just want to be beside you everywhere
As long as we're together, honey, I don't care
Cause you started something, can't you see? Ever since we met, you've had a hold on me
 No matter what you do I only wanna be with you

No matter, no matter what you do

 

9      

Blue Boat Home         has that nice big chimy open string E chord.BLUE BOAT HOME by Peter Mayer*

Drone  on the E note

6/8 TIME BRO

1 Though below me, I feel no motion Standing on these mountains and plains
Far away from the rolling ocean Still my dry land heart can say
I’ve been sailing all my life now Never harbor or port have I known
The wide universe is the ocean I travel And the Earth is my blue boat home

SOLO VERSE

2   Sun my sail and moon my rudder As I ply the starry sea, Leaning over the edge in wonder,  Casting questions into the deep.

Drifting here with my ship’s companions,
All we kindred pilgrim souls,
Making our way by the lights of the heavens
In our beautiful blue boat home

SOLO VERSE

3 I give thanks to the waves upholding me
Hail the great winds urging me on,
Greet the infinite sea before me,
Sing the sky my sailor’s song:
I was born upon the fathoms,
Never harbor or port have I known.
The wide universe is the ocean I travel,
And the Earth is my blue boat home.

 

  10        I KNOW YOU Dave Clark 5   British invasion inspired by rockabilly and I use surf beat 140      1 I know you don’t  2 I’m a fool believe me

 ROCK AND ROLL IS YOUR LEGACY, NOT THE CONFEDERACY. 

SONGS

#11 to #22

11 GHOST DANCE

12 CRY BABY CRY

13 THE CHRISTIANS AND THE PAGANS

14 I’M TELLING YOU NOW

15 WALK LIKE A MAN

16 WORKING MAN

17 TABACCO ROAD

18 DON’T DREAM IT’S OVER

19 ACE OF SPADES

20 HURT YOU FIRST

21 HEADS CAROLINA

22 COMING UP

Lyrics prompt

11   GHOST DANCE 

Gm Cm Gm Cm

Gm                    Cm

Crow has brought the message to the children of the sun, for the return of the buffalo

And for a better day to come  You can kill my body

Bb               F                     Gm                        Cm

You can damn my soul    For not believing in your god Gm    And some world down below Cm

[Chorus]Eb                 Bb     C          F                        Eb                 Bb     C          F

You don't stand a chance against my prayers You don't stand a chance against my love

Gm                 C

They outlawed the Ghost Dance

F                  Bb   Cm F              Bb    Cm

But we shall live again,   we shall live again

2 My sister above She has red paint She died at Wounded Knee

By the latter day saint   You got the big drum in the distance

Bb                     F

The blackbird's in the sky

Gm                         Cm

That's the sound that you hear    When the buffalo cry

 [Chorus]Gm                 Cm

3   Crazy Horse was a mystic

Gm He knew the secret of the trance

Gm                         Cm

And Sitting Bull the great apostle Gm Of the Ghost Dance

12   CRY BABY CRY BEATLES   built for metal. SIMP 140

1 The king of Marigold was in the kitchen 2 the king was in the garden 3 the duchess of Kirkaldy 4 at twelve o clock a meeting for a seance

13  THE CHRISTIANS AND THE PAGANS   Dark Dream 

nashville groove 120

 G                C             Am                   D
Amber called her uncle, said "We're up here for the holiday,            D
Jane and I were having Solstice, now we need a place to stay."
And her Christ-loving uncle watched his wife hang Mary on a tree,
    Em                  C               Am                D           D
He watched his son hang candy canes all made with red dye number three.
He told his niece, "It's Christmas Eve, I know our life is not your style,              D           D
She said, "Christmas is like Solstice, and we miss you and it's been awhile,"
 
So the Christians and the Pagans sat together at the table,   Finding faith and common ground the best that they were able,
    Em              C                Am                  D
And just before the meal was served, hands were held and prayers were said,
 Em               C                Am                 D  G
Sending hope for peace on earth to all their gods and goddesses.
 
     G                   C                    Am                D
The food was great, the tree plugged in, the meal had gone without a hitch,
Till Timmy turned to Amber and said, "Is it true that you're a witch?"
            His mom jumped up and said, "The pies are burning," and she hit the kitchen,
    Em                C                    Am                  D            D
And it was Jane who spoke, she said, "It's true, your cousin's not a Christian,"
     G                  C                   Am                  D
"But we love trees, we love the snow, the friends we have, the world we share,
     G               C                Am            D           D
And you find magic from your God, and we find magic everywhere."
 So the Christians and the Pagans sat together at the table,
Finding faith and common ground the best that they were able,
    Em               C                  Am             D
And where does magic come from? I think magic's in the learning,
                    Em                  C           Am               D  G
'Cause now when the Christians sit with Pagans only pumpkin pies are burning.
When Amber tried to do the dishes, her ant said, "Really, no, don't bother.           C             Am                  D              D
Amber's uncle saw how Amber looked like Tim and like her father.
 He thought about his brother, how they hadn't spoken in a year,
   Em                    C                 Am                 D              D
He thought he'd call him up and say, "It's Christmas and your daughter's here."
   G                   C                  Am              D
He thought of fathers, sons and brothers, saw his own son tug his sleeve, saying,
G           C                  Am               D               D
"Can I be a Pagan?" Dad said, "We'll discuss it when they leave."
 So the Christians and the Pagans sat together at the table,
Finding faith and common ground the best that they were able,Em                 C                 Am                D
Lighting trees in darkness, learning new ways from the old, and
Em              C           Am                 D   G
Making sense of history and drawing warmth out of the cold.
 
G   G   C G/B Am   D   G

SEASONAL   

DARK DREAM OTHERWISE

Gm-G#m  20  DARK DREAM

 1 THERE was a girl I could have loved but no I left for space

There is IS A NAME FOR WHAT i DO YOU KNOW i CAN NEVER BE TRUE

gigolo YES i'M HEADED FOR FAME BUT NOW i WISH i KNEW YOUR NAME

2   SINCE IVE BEEN ALL AROUND THE WORLD NOTHING LEFT TO SEE  MILLIONS OF PLANETS MOONS AND BARS LOTS OF ladies TO MEET

iVE BEEN TO vENUS BEEN TO mARS ive even been to the black hole zoo

I've crossed a million mile void just to be here tonight with you

REMEMBER Eb E Bb E

 

3 added sedative effect measures lose their meaning sleep wins and then I start to dream

1  I was walking through the night when i heard something call was it a deathly scream of fright or was it nothing at all

2  So up the path i went f and now I know what it meant a new shipment had come by rail

 3  There I was in a strange place I had no voice at all I couldn’t see very far in front of me   

4 Connecting parts  control of them now they rule themselves

5   Electric beam bring had to life then it moves a way fight another world war our only human

 function

14 I’M TELLING YOU NOW

NAHVILLE GROOVE 120

I'm Telling You Now chords Freddie and the Dreamers G# C# Cm F#  G# C# Cm D#7

Ab to Db  I'm telling you now, I'm telling you right away.

A#m     D#          G#     Fm      A#m    D#            G#   F#

I'll be staying for many a day,I'm in love with you now.

 2   G#  C#          G#   C#                           D#?

I'm telling you now, I'll say what you wanna hear.

A#m     D#              G#     Fm           A#m    D#            G#   G#7

I'll be saying for many a year,   I'm in love with you now.

 A#m              D#        A#m    D#          G# 

Do you think I'm foolin'  When I say "I love you"?

C# Cm   F#

I love you.

A#m             D#                     A#m      D#      D#7               D#7

Maybe you'll believe me,   When I'm finally through, through, through, through.

 3   G#  C#          G#  C#

I'm telling you now, I know it's been said before.

A#m     D#          G#        Fm

Say you love me and I will be sure,

A#m    D#            G#   F#

I'm in love with you now.

 

A|---------7-5-3-5-----------7-5-3-2-3 ----------2-3-2 -----------2-------2-3-2--------|

E|--3-3-3-------------3-3-3------------5----5-5 ---------5-3-3-5------5-5-------5-3----|

 

D7

  4]A  D          A   D

I'm telling you now, I'm telling you right away.

Bm     E          A     F#m

I'll be saying for many a day,

Bm    E            A    A7

I'm in love with you now.

 Bm              E

Do you think I'm foolin'

Bm    E          A

When I say "I love you"? D C#m  G I  love you.

Bm            E                                 Bm      E      E7               F7

Maybe you'll believe me,    When I'm finally through, through, through, through.

 5  A#  D#          A#  D#

I'm telling you now, I know it's been said before.

Cm      F           A#        Gm

Say you love me and I will be sure,

Cm     F             A#   Gm Cm     F             A#   Gm

I'm in love with you now.I'm in love with you now.  

Cm  F             A# D# Dm G# A#

I'm telling you now.

15 WALK LIKE A MAN  1  

Nashville country pop  120

Oh how you tried to cut me down to size Tellin' dirty lies to my friends
But my own father said give her up, don't bother The world isn't comin' to an end
(He said) Walk like a man, talk like a man Walk like a man my son
No woman's worth crawlin' on the earth So walk like a man, my son Oh, walk, walk, walk, walk
2  Oh Bye bye baby, I don't-a mean maybe Gonna get along somehow
Soon you'll be cryin' on account of all your lyin' Oh yeah, just look who's laughin' now
(I'm gonna) Walk like a man, fast as I can Walk like a man from you
I'll tell the world forget about it, girl And walk like a man from you

16 WORKIN’ MAN

The Working Man country train 110 4/4 130

I cant solo on this but anyone that can solo in C# is welcome and this is a song that can have as many solos as there are people

1 Well, I was born on a Sunday;     since I loined right from wrong.

 2 Mama said I was bad, 

Pattern and solo verse

BREAK   I ain't never been in trouble; I ain't got the time. I don't mess around with magic, child. What I got is mine.

3 Whatever you say, Lord, well,  Lordawww I do the job for you.   4   Every Friday, well, that's 

 

17  Tabacco Road

Tabacco Road Nashville groove  About life in Durhan NC when it was Tabacco Town. This song can be expanded with solo verses.        TABACCO ROAD by the Nashville Teens and John D Loudermilk who created the song I was born in a trunk Mama died and my daddy got drunk  left me here to die alone
Let me hear two dying crows 2 grew up in 3 gonna leave, get a job 4 Bring dynamite and a crane

18 DON’T DREAM ITS OVER

120 groove

There is freedom within, there is freedom without 
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup 
There's a battle ahead, many battles are lost 
But you'll never see the end of the road While you're traveling with me

Hey now, hey now Don't dream it's over Hey now, hey now 
When the world comes in They come, they come To build a wall between us We know they won't win

2 Now I'm towing my car, there's a hole in the roof  My possessions are causing me suspicion but there's no proof 
In the paper today tales of war and of waste  But you turn right over to the T.V. page

Hey now, hey now Don't dream it's over Hey now, hey now When the world comes in They come, they come To build a wall between us We know they won't win

3  Now I'm walking again to the beat of a drum And I'm counting the steps to the door of your heart 
Only the shadows ahead barely clearing the roof Get to know the feeling of liberation and release

Hey now, hey now Don't dream it's over Hey now, hey now When the world comes in They come, they come To build a wall between us Don't ever let them win Songwriters: Neil Finn 

19  ACE OF SPADES 150  MOTORHEAD    I do a slower version. More like “Coals” version. Hail Lemmy.   80's 150 1 If you like to gamble (the pleasure / I don’t) 2 playing for the high one, dicin’ (seven or 11 / double up or)   3 Pushing up the ante   (I see it in your eye    the only one you see) 

20  HURT YOU FIRST  Power Station style   simp 130

1 you’re too good for me 2 are you guilty is there a secret 3 gonna make you  cry gonna say goodbye  it'll be nice4 I’m gonna I’m gonna hurt you first youll be the one the only one thats a cryin'

21 HEADS CAROLINA TAILS

                        CALIFORNIA

Baby what do you say we just get lost leave this one horse like two revels without a cause   

I got people in Boston aint you r daddy still in desMoinesWe can load what we own in the back of a U-Haul van

Couple of modern day Moses' searching for the promised land

     We can go four hundred miles before we stop for gas

We can drive for a day and then we'll take a look at the map

 Heads Carolina, tails California

 Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer

 

Up in the mountains, down by the ocean

 Where, it don't matter as long as we're going

 Somewhere together, I've got a quarter

 Heads Carolina, tails California

We're gonna get outta here

 

If we have to ride a Greyhound bus

 Boy we're bound to outrun The bad luck that's been tailing us

 Heads Carolina, tails California Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer

 Up in the mountains, down by the oceanWhere, it don't matter as long as we're going

 Somewhere together, I've got a quarter Heads Carolina, tails California

22 COMING UP

You want a love to last forever

One that will never fade away I want to help you with your problem Stick around, I say
It's coming up, it's coming up
Coming up (like a flower)Coming up (yeah)
2    You want a friend you can rely on One who will never fade away
I know you're searching for an answer Stick around, I say
CHORUS
3   You want a better kind of future One that everyone can share
You're not alone, we all could use it Stick around we're nearly there
It's coming up, it's coming up Coming up (like a flower) Coming up
4  You want a love to last forever One that will never fade away I'd like to help you with your problem Stick around, pretty baby, I say
It's coming up, it's coming up It's coming up (like a flower)
It's coming up, pretty baby, I wanna say
Coming up (only hour) Coming up (yeah yeah yeah) Coming up (pretty baby)
Coming up (oh, you better believe it) Coming up (like a flower)

23    REDNECK WOMAN F#   REDNECK WOMAN  a very mean spirited parody  could be offensive to some 

Redneck Woman (Reality Remix)  [Verse 1] Well, I done never, Read words that's typed I don't like to solve problems with my words I'd rather get drunk and fight Whammy on my Grandma Or my little one Or a random passerby My boyfriend takes good care of me

And gave me these black eyes No, I ain't got no degree And I can't even rhyme Got my ‘leven kids with me And not one dad in sight Since I'm a redneck woman, never been to a mall
Just the product of the incest From my sister and my Pa And I keep them engine car parts On my front yard all year long Not that you can see 'em Since my lawn's so overgrown Callin' all you white-trash skanks In Confederate Country Get your hands off my man, bitch!
Or you got to deal with me! Cuz I'm tough Hell Yeah! (Hell Yeah!)

2] It's ain't no secret That my stuff's real prime Get ma number offa that bathroom stall Call me for a good time
That's a real number wrote it myself So I's can find a good man No, there's no such thing as a Sothern fag 'Cuz they've all dug my clam
You might think I'm nasty And you might call me poor But in my mind and in my heart (Offscreen): You're just a backwoods whore! Hey!
 I'm a redneck woman And you stay off my land My Grampy stole it fair and square From that American Injun Stan And my family's been residing here For over a hundred years And we don't want our country filled with Immigrants and queers So here to all out here screamin' loud" The South will rise again" Let me get a big hell yeah From a  southern minute man    Hell Yeah! (Hell Yeah!)

[Verse 3] So I'm a redneck woman that's all I am Proud to be from the USA The place that brought you spam
And I go to church on Sundays Cuz I'm a god-fearin woman The preacher uses all big words
That I don't understand So here's to all the people That never cross that county line

Let's stay home in our shit towns Until the end of time Hell Yeah! (Hell Yeah!)

24 G   TOMBSTONE SHADOW   

 25 Mary Lou"

 26 Am   My love forevermore

27   A  RED CLAY HALO

28   Dm-C#   Layla

What we could do is play fund raising, non-profit, non-alcohol events for free. A way to find other musicians. Maybe a way to get paid gigsI Any money we can make at the UU we'd give 25%.

    Also I see spin offs where members get together to do their particular favorite songs with other members. A way to find your tribe. Maybe you like Leonard Cohen or some other cult singer. I surely don't. 

  The Bigger the better. The idea is if enough people are playing, no one hears mistakes other musicians might make. lol. We all cover for each other. It's a good gag when a member of the audience comes up to sing or play harmonica

        Many of the songs I do are easy to create instrumental verses like Bluegrass. Do a verse, tear off a fiddle solo. Do another verse then a harmonica solo. Any goddam thing, ya know?

      

    

   We need a jolt. A new American music is emerging. Americana, Hick-hop, crossover country, Black Metal Lounge Music.  And it's going to cpome out of the south where rocak and roll began. From thee the river flows. The scene is changing as we find out how corrupt the music industry has been. 

        Musicians not making money with the Streaming Pyramid Scheme. People looking for a new start and it's 1953 again and Hillbilly music was finally gettin' played on the radio.

        Hillbilly music and boogie woogie created rockabilly in the late 40’s. The rowdy demographic of both races created a magical musical hybrid and this is what I feel is happening again. But anything 'billy' was denigrated as years went by. Hollywood (city slicker Libruls) lambasted the Hillbillies who became national objects of derision. No one wanted to be associated with those low-class Jays. So, it became known as rock and roll instead of Rockabilly. This is the Rockabilly Club Peace.    

       Easier to remember songs, but also for guitar players: we need people who aren’t scared of a F#m7 or Am7b5. I recall my uncle Gamielle who knew 500 songs on the piano. All in the key of C. Every hackneyed, overplayed, Chesnut from 1930 to 1970. He was difficult to listen to.

      Very importantly we want to create momentum and energy and save good songs from obscurity. The momentum is derived from the sequencing of songs. Starting in E, the second song is also in E. The next song is in F and the next in G. Then a car racing song that goes from Ab to A for a dramatic effect. Then a song in the Key of C then one in D. Then “Drinkin' Gasoline” in Em and we repeat the process.

     

      Here are the next five songs as we dig into Americana. You know, surfing, car racing. With just enough lyrics in case I forget them. The key for the community band is someone needs to know every song.

      Radio is too busy trying to make a profit and playing the songs THEY think you want to hear. People have not heard some of these songs for over 50 years and it will fire up some neurons, you'll see. 

BEATRX

Rock and Roll is our American legacy, not the Confederacy. Guns guns guns! Lay down the sword and pick up a traditional instrument. What the fuck is wrong with you guys? We can agree on music, so we can agree on other things.

        Classic Rock has become so tiring. Out of 2,000 songs to choose from, it’s the same 50, all the time, wherever you go. The Beatles cover band that played in the Stones vs. Beatles show at the Emerson Center didn't choose less listened to GEMS, but the same old, same old BIG HITS! What I intend to do is break the cycle of playing what people want. Playing the hits over and over and over again. There is a large demographic out there looking for more.

    So please, let’s not do popular songs from the radio. Remember the archivist bit. Bring something to the table. So many artists and music, there is always something new to find.

         Then there’s the repetition. Songs I enjoyed the first 10,000 times I heard them, but now it’s like, enough already! If I never hear "Peaceful Easy Feeling" by the Eagles again that would be fine. We hear the same 30 songs over and over with classic rock, when the catalog for these 30 bands includes well over 1000 songs. Where's the rest of them?  This is why I'm going to be dictator on day one and have a veto so we don't get mired in the same old same old comfort zone for Boomers. Enough golden oldies.  Plenty of good songs from the 80's 90's and Aughts to choose from also though in retrospect i use a lot of 60's  songs.

          Regarding todays music, you honestly couldn't pay me to go to an Abba concert, never mind a cover band doing the suzie cream cheese drivel of Abba. Go to any free events around here and be subjected to classic rock. Waiting for my boy to get out of work at Hirams and I hear the same old AC/DC, Def Leppard type of stuff. Formulaic to a fault.

  People will take a look at the song list that we can pass out and they see a song to try and sing or solo on, where BEATRX is playing live. And also, people can tell where they are on the list. “3 more songs and I’m singing “Call Me the Breeze.””

            I have made lots of room for bluegrass type of verse solo, verse solo. Harmonica would probably work on a lot of songs as would fiddle solos.

            I’m enthusiastic about the Beat Box replacing a drum set. Takes up so little space and adds a nice bottom to the music. Many Rockabilly drummers have or had very small drum kits that they stand up with. This takes up much less space and is another alternative to the massive set up for most drums.

        Any musician can come up and play if they know the song and I would make a playlist available for people to peruse. Karaoke with live music. But not the same old same old songs we’ve heard thousands of times.

        I picked up a bass and realized I still prefer bass playing. Seems easier on the fingers. I have an Acoustic 371 for a bass player to use. I’m seeing drums, guitar and bass as the core while trying to bridge rockabilly and metal. On simple karaoke machines or 30 watt Marshalls. Some of us make too many mistakes to be professionals, but we still need to play.  Drum circle volume would be a way to put it. A Dankbilly Circle.

    You got your F and C harmonicas and others. Check out which songs are in these keys. Just jump in.  It’s a new concept to help rebuild communities.   These are the songs I do and the ones I’m doing. Join me and note the keys of this songlist are constantly going higher. I am testing to see if this creates sone kind of positive momentum. C#m, D , Em etc

           Am I looking for applause? No. Looking to do traditional gigs playing “songs people like”?  No.  Not at all. We have to get away from this giant comfort zone of pop culture.  I feel like a trained monkey the few times I've performed recently. It doesn’t seem natural for people who want to play and not perform. What sells isn’t what is good. What sells is easy, soft and sweet.

        I see it as more playing at events and not in front of an audience.   We want to make some authentic American music to preserve good songs, forgotten album cuts, or songs never heard. Give old, tired songs a beat treatment. We love when we play. Rockabilly was born in Appalachia and so was rock and roll and here it comes again. 

 ROCK AND ROLL IS YOUR LEGACY, NOT THE CONFEDERACY. 

24

 SONGS ON DECK

get it on kingdom come

WILLIN’

WHEN SHE SEES ME

SHUT DOWN BEACH BOYS

D      STAY GONE

Cm     UNDERDOG

C#m    KINGS AND QUEENS

E    HOLD ON LOOSELY

F      THE RUMOUR      

FASCISTS BOUND TO LOSE

SUGAR PIE GUY

      WE BUILT THIS CITY     CALL ME THE BREEZE

THE HOBO SONG JOHNNY CASH BAD BOYTHIS KISS

        KIND OF A DRAG

          SWEET CREAM LADIES

OLD YELLER.     SECOND WIND      OI OI OI,     BROWN EYED HANDSOME MAN,     TAPESTRY,   SUWANNEE, WISH I COULD HIDEAWAY

,    IT’S JUST A THOUGHT     Sugar shack  mary lou, RIDING IN MY CAR, SKATER BOI,,   DRAKE AND JOSH Eb      make me wanna die,     grinning in your face,     with a gun, Hi Hi Hi, Poor Girl Savoy Brown, surf war burzum, Hillbilly Cat, Someday Some Way BAD TO COLD TURKEY   LIFESTYLE RICH AND FAMOUS

STOMP ALL OF THE TIME DC5  oi oi oi

YEAR OF THE CAT //FINDERS KEEPERS // SURVIVAL YES//ALL DEAD QUEEN//.BUSTED RAY CHARLES// 18 ALICE COOPER
hold on loosely, I will beatles, Itchycoo Park, walking on air, under the sea, gloria 1 2 3, sAil into tomorrow sisters coming home, tired of waiting 

The worst thing about starting a band is everyone brings bits and pieces of songs they know. No one knows a complete song that they can show everyone else. Or they waste six months arguing about a band name and what musical direction to go in. And what their gimmick will be. Some people spend the first three practices figuring out what they can do together, and often find themselves incompatible.

        Therefore, We want a big beat and we appeal to all sides. If we can agree on music, we can agree on other things. You’ll see what I mean. 

Think of us also as Song Archivists for the huge demographic out there looking for something original and refreshing, not hackneyed and overplayed. We have 75 years of rock and roll to choose from but the songs on the radio have a very limited variety. No album cuts. So uncool. There are hundreds of good songs that need a modern update.

What I do here is take songs that are really good, that maybe had an insipid, uninspired beat back in the day, and I try to liven it up. Dance beats. Relatively simple chord structures making them easier to remember for musicians. On the other hand, not the same old, same old comfort zone of people dependent on a capo, or corny folkie stuff where every song has the same strummy strum rhythm and songs we've already heard thousands of times. 

I’d rather know three different ways to play C#m7 than figure out where to put my capo in order to play an Am. (4th fret?)  I don't remember any of my Jazz Guitar teachers using a capo. I remember jamming with lots of dudes who tried to learn slide guitar but can't recall anyone ever using a capo

. People seem to like songs filled with false hope and music for people who are scared to find out what’s outside the box. Songs everyone has overheard and heard and heard this last half-century.  

You know, I just can’t handle the maudlin sentimentality of boomer pop music, so there is very little of that. All the breakup and falling in love pop HITS seems to have caused the plague of infidelity in this nation. 

 Red Clay Halo}

{subtitle: Gillian Welch}
 
{c:Key of A}
 
{D:Intro}
[A][/] [A] [/] [A] [/] [A] [/]
[A][/] [A] [/] [A] [/] [A] [/]
 
[A]All the girls all dance with the boys from the city,
And they don't care to dance with [E]me.
Now it [A]ain't my fault that the fields are muddy,
And the red clay [E]stains my [E]feet.
 
And it's [A]under my nails and it's under my collar,
And it shows on my Sunday [E]clothes.
Though I [A]do my best with the soap and the water,
But the darned old [E]dirt won't [A]go.
 
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But [D]when I pass through the [A]pearly gate,
Will my [E]gown be gold in[A]stead?
Or just a [D]red clay robe with [A]red clay wings,
And a [E]red clay halo for my [A]head
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{c:Preverse}
[A][/] [A] [/] [A] [/] [A] [/]
Now it's [A]mud in the spring and it's dust in the summer,
When it blows in a crimson [E]tide.
Until [A]trees and leaves and the cows are the colour,
Of the dirt on the [E]mountain[G]side.
 
{soc}
But [D]when I pass through the [A]pearly gate,
Will my [E]gown be gold in[A]stead?
Or just a [D]red clay robe with [A]red clay wings,
And a [E]red clay halo for my [A]head
{eoc}
 
{c:Solo}
[D][/] [D] [/] [A] [/] [A] [/]   [E][/] [E] [/] [A] [/] [A] [/]
[D][/] [D] [/] [A] [/] [A] [/]   [E][/] [E] [/] [A] [/] [A] [/]
 
Now [A]Jordan's banks they're red and muddy,
And the rolling water is [E]wide.
But I [A]got no boat, so I'll be good and muddy,
When I get to the [E]other [A]side.
 
{soc}
But [D]when I pass through the [A]pearly gate,
Will my [E]gown be gold in[A]stead?
Or just a [D]red clay robe with [A]red clay wings,
And a [E]red clay halo for my [A]head
{eoc}
 
{c:Turnaround}
{soc}
I'll take the [D]red clay robe with the [A]red clay wings,
And a [E]red clay halo for my [

It won’t be about rioting in the streets it will be about commerce in the streets. We unhinge from the global market and become independent and communitarian. 

         Stage presence doesn’t make the music better, it only seems like it. I mean if you want to jump up and down when you play, no one is going to stop you. 

         Versatility and creativity. Keep in mind, this is rock and roll, not dinner party Kumbaya. 75 years of rock and roll songs to choose from. I don't know where this will lead HONESTLY.