No work tantrum this time - just a Friday evening and a song that I've just put together whilst the other one "rests" in my mind ... hope you enjoy and, as always, thank you for listening and for any comments!

https://soundcloud.com/jamesdelsono/the-greatest-sonnet-ever-written


THE GREATEST SONNET EVER WRITTEN

[lyrics by William Shakespeare (from "Romeo and Juliet", of course), adapted by me]

If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle pain is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

You tell me I do wrong my hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this,
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
And if they are lips that they must use in prayer,
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do.
They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

And if saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake,
Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.


Voice recorded and mixed in Audacity

****** Song Summary *************
Title: The Greatest Sonnet Ever Written - 9 October 2020
File:The Greatest Poem Ever Written - 9 October 2020.SGU
Key=A , Tempo 60, Length (m:s)=4:56
No intro. 70 bar chorus, from bar 1 to bar 70. Repeat x1 chorus
No Melody
No Soloist track.
Song is saved with Volume, Pan, Reverb, Chorus, Bank0,
Song is saved with bar changes for Volume Changes,
Style is _ZAFFRE.STY (Zaffre Blue 12-8 Jazz Ballad)

RealTracks in style: 533:Bass, Electric, 12-8 Crystal Sw 065
RealTracks in style: ~743:Piano, Acoustic, Rhythm Jazz Ballad Sw 060 (A:simple)
RealTracks in style: ~937:Guitar, Acoustic, Rhythm JazzBalladFreddie Sw 060
RealTracks in style: ~1039:Organ, B3, Rhythm JazzBallad Sw 060
RealDrums [in style:Pop128^4-a:Sidestick Brushes , b:SideStick, HiHat

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