The Ghoul (Youtube)

The Ghoul (Soundcloud)

Hello BIAB community,

First things first, apologies for not being around the last couple of weeks, but there’s been one or two things happening that have distracted me from the community. I will get back to listening and reviewing songs in the near future. I’ve also been trying to work the latest group song task and getting this ready also. So the task was, to come up with a nonsensical song, comic or humourous, along the lines of “The Streak”, “Monster Mash” or “If I told you, you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me”, that sort of humorous song. So I opted to write a song about a PC Game character called the Ghoul, from the game and subsequent TV series “Fallout”. Check it out on a streaming service near you, the soundtrack is brilliant. So this isn’t the greatest song, structure wise, in fact it’s pretty straight forward standard fayre. And I must apologise because I haven’t played a single instrument. By the time I’d got the style and real tracks sorted, I felt that by adding an additional instrument it would have got too crowded and the end result would have suffered. Anyhow, all vocal is mine….as you can tell. This will be my last offering for a little while. I’m off to do a world tour at the end of the month…. I wish! No, just travelling to the UK to see rellies, and I don’t have anything in the can to offer in the interim. I will be listening and commenting to you guys whilst over there…. I understand the internet is available in the UK!!

Much love guys, I’ll be back to normal later in the year. Have fun and keep on keeping on!


Key=Am , Tempo 120, Length (m:s)=4:54

Style is _LOITER.STY (Loiter Quarter Kick Rock Shuffle)

RealTracks in style: 2749:Bass, Electric, RockShuffleHardDoug Sw 120
RealTracks in style: 2752:Guitar, Electric, Rhythm RockHeavyShuffleChopMurray Sw 120
RealTracks in song: 3266:Cello, Rhythm CelticJigChoppingSyncNatalie Sw 110
RealDrums in style:RockShuffleQuarterKick^03-a:Open Hat, Snare , b:Toms, Snare


THE GHOUL
(A theme for the PC Game “Fallout”)

INTRO: Am / / / Am / / / Am / / / E7 / / /

VERSE 1
Am
I am a ghoul, wandering through…
Dm Am
… California wasteland, gunslinging’s what I do.
Em Dm
I’ve been burnt by the old world.
Em Dm7 G# G G
Under a mushroom sky I was left to die.

Am / / / Am / / / Am / / / E7 / / /

VERSE 2
Am
Dogmeat follows me through the Mojave.
Dm Am
Sniffing out a mole-rat for another Stim-Pak.
Em Dm
He ain’t no feral freak, no runt of the litter.
Em Dm7 G# G G
A radioactive desert makes you die for a nuclear winter.

CHORUS
C
But I’m swinging through the apocalypse.
F C
High plains drifting through the apocalypse.
G C
Uranium cell decay, inhale “the fix” everyday.
G C
Rad-Ex makes me feel okay, with my cranium cell decay.

Am / / / Am / / / Am / / / E7 / / /

VERSE 3
Am
Vault thirty-one, what have you done?
Dm Am
To the overseer and the experiments that you run.
Em Dm
Bud’s buds on dry ice, a cryogenic spouse sounds nice.
Em Dm7 G# G G
Two hundred years in the making, their rad-free balls must be aching.

Am / / / Am / / / Am / / / E7 / / /

VERSE 4
Am
I am an abomination, absorbing background radiation.
Dm Am
Dropping fingers and toes, sneezed, whoops, lost my nose.
Em Dm
I don’t miss necrosis, gangrene or a dental abscess.
Em Dm7 G# G G
Any form of infection, hastens my date with natural selection.

CHORUS
C
But I’m swinging through the apocalypse.
F C
High plains drifting through the apocalypse.
G C
Uranium cell decay, inhale “the fix” everyday.
G C
Rad-Ex makes me feel okay, with my cranium cell decay….. C’mon…

CHORUS
C
But I’m slinging through the apocalypse.
F C
Wandering alone through the apocalypse.
G C
Uranium cell decay, inhale “the fix” everyday.
G C
Rad-Ex makes me feel okay, with my cranium cell decay.

OUTRO
Am / / / Am / / / Am / / / E7 / / /
Am / / / Am / / / Am / / / E7 / / / Am