Hello everyone,

In my post from earlier this day about a Dutch song I made ('Ik zag vogels / I saw birds') I wrote I would also post an English song. Well, here it is: https://soundcloud.com/user-296497130/a-terrible-day
This song is dealing with cause and effect of intolerant behaviour. Although the topic is sadly enough still actual, it is brought with an upbeat tempo and a Bluegrass fiddle, and it sounds almost funny. I wanted to write the song this way, because it symbolizes how these issues are mostly treated; if you don't take it too seriously a 'bushfire' will (mostly) follow.

I made the melody a long time ago, in 1975. Back then the lyrics handle nearly the same topic, but I rewrote all of it. I think only the word 'tramp' remained.

And why posting two songs at almost the same time? I was working on both of them for some weeks. When they were ready together I thought it could be a nice idea to bring them together to the forum. I'm sure you let me feel I was wrong on that...

Hope you like the song,
Hans
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The instruments:
Style: CHEATED.STY (Cheated Fingerstyle Folk Pop)

RealTracks: ~683:Bas, PopHalfNotesPush Gel 120
Loop in Song: Drums\TambourinePop8ths
RealTracks: 2932:Guitar, Fingerpicking Songwriter
RealTracks: 632:Guitar, Pop American Gel 120
RealTracks: 3163:Guitar, Bariton
RealTracks: ~428:Fiddle, Bluegrass Gel 130
RealDrums: PraiseWorshipUptempo16^1-a:Snare, HiHat, Kick , b:Snare, Ride
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The lyrics:
A Terrible Day
(c) HwBerkhout 1975/ june 2020)

When he arrived all alone
He is in need of money and he's a skinny bone
But he arrived in our town!
And he was strolling too much around
He's a tramp and that we disapprove
so he had to move

But he stayed the whole morning
and had no plans to go
He said: "I can't be leaving
until I had some food, you know"

We growled: "Hey, you better go now
and leave our little town
'cause things won't be funny,
if you don't listen to us, right now"

Aah, He only smiled, didn't gave way
And our tolerance quickly ran away
We were convinced that surely will do
The food he'll forget too!

But he rushed to the river
and jumped into our boat
He laughed very loudly  (hahaha)
Raised a finger while afloat

And we could do nothing
We couldn't come any near
We knew we were in trouble
'cause that was the only boat out here

solo

Oh, he floats on that river
And sat there on his own
But we could do nothing
He had our only boat

And the tramp, he was just laughing (hahaha)
toasting with our beer
No, we could do nothing
We had a terrible day, that day

No, we could do nothing
That tramp just stole our boat
and it was slowly drifting
We only see his back, he drifts away!


 

Hans Berkhout
(Birchwood)
https://soundcloud.com/user-296497130