Music For Troubled Times
 

Whining juvenile lust songs or illiterate screams through the shredding speaker cones just don't do it for me. My country of birth given away cheaply to enemies worse than those we defeated in war. Songs for our times? They've maybe still to be written but here's one I found earlier.

Lyrics
See the Anglii in your face,
that seeded and grew in this land.
Home now you kneel and kiss the sand
'Cos you're the winner of the race.

See them sitting in the dark.
Two thousand years dripping rain,
always struggle, burning toil and pain.
But they're the winners of the race.

By boat and by plane they came.
Thieves in the night, as of old,
Age-old right to drop 'em stone cold.
And still be winner of the race.

In every corner strangers.
If you are not for you and yours,
Who's gonna respect you in the wars?
And still be winner of the race.

Chorus
Some hate you, steal your dreams.
Tell me if you're gonna take it?
Find yourselves, live your dreams.
Tell me if you're gonna take it?
Not you! 'Cos you're the winner of the race.

https://musescore.com/user/2613131/scores/850651

Re: Music For Troubled Times
 

No intro?

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I think I prefer a whining juvenile lust song.

Preferably one from the time when I was a whining juvenile full of lust.

Re: Music For Troubled Times
 

Well,there may not be troubled times (yet) but it is Sunday morning

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WQpq5ofcSdg

Re: Music For Troubled Times
 

The link mentions P McHugh. That wouldn't be the Phil McHugh of Tesco fame, would it?

Re: Music For Troubled Times
 

More than likely in my view.:rolleyes:

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Surely not a "Je t'aime" fan Gordon - I was and still am:D

Re: Music For Troubled Times
 

Love it Barrie but it didn't come out until 1969, I'd done my fair share of whining and lusting by then!

Lot's of other good songs to whine and lust to late 50's, early 60's.

If jj thinks that rubbish is a 'song for our times' about this country he should emigrate urgently.

Re: Music For Troubled Times
 

If hes who i suspect he is Gordon, yeh may just have his brother telling yeh off.:D

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Well, cashman, if his brother thinks he's right they'd better both emigrate.

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Is it just me who hasn't a clue what the first post is all about???
Doesn't make one iota of sense to me :confused:

Re: Music For Troubled Times
 

Me neither.

I think it's a bit rich that a man who whines about whining, juvenile songs posts those whining juvenile words.
The mind boggles thinking of what the tune sounds like!

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I am sure that Gordon is thinking similar to me - who cares, big brothers soon got sorted in our time;)

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Nor me...but I just thought it was because I am the wrong era for juvenile whining songs....by about half a century.(and Boy am I glad about that?)

Re: Music For Troubled Times
 

Under the Bridge is good song in times of trouble

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What a happy little ditty that is !!

Re: Music For Troubled Times
 

How about "Suicide is Painless" and "I Gotta Get Outta This Place"

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Or even "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place"

Re: Music For Troubled Times
 

However troubled or dangerous the times, there's always [deleted]ing.:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_oOc3Zj0KU

Re: Music For Troubled Times 'The Great Plague of London'
 

Here's a good one:
THE GREAT PLAGUE OF LONDON

In just one man's life, no more than sixty-five,
the sickness spread so far and so wide.
We dreamt we'd stopped it at the gates of Vienna;
seems that it came up the Thames on a flood-tide.
Like long ago when a horse was Troy's hammer blow,
traitors at home had them flooding in;
vile unnatural men hiding beneath Big Ben.
So millions got in, along with their next of kin.

Hey father! Hey wife! see your boy has a knife!
You talk of respect but you mean fear;
I saw you struttin' as I stode down Holloway Road.
Pity the people here that you domineer.
Lifetimes are short, why should folk put up with your sort?
How many white kids would be alive?
Take the coppers' gloves off, fewer deaths a good payoff.
And so the decent strive to see all the good survive.

It wont be very long 'til folk ask: ‘What went wrong?’
E’n tho’ cheated by the numbers game,
Four million awoke in two thousand and fifteen!
Maybe, just maybe, things wont remain the same.
I hear you sold Tom's medals on ebay I'm told;
Granpa sold himself dear I am sure.
You sold 'em so very cheap that it made me blush and weep;
And he the patriot pure, whose story you make obscure.

When Blair gets to hell, because surely he will
and Stalin boils nearby on a spit:
Stalin will say: "You moved more’n I accounted for.
Still, my country is fit while yours is split."
They will replace the road-signs by Buckingham Palace
While many men speak of civil war;
for a grubby football shirt for sale to anyone to girt.
'What a country!' they roar, sold cheap, nothing to pay for.


Some march about health and worry about wealth.
Can't they see millions of reasons why?
Whole schools and hospitals without an Englishman in ‘em.
I will show you where no white will dare to walk.
They will replace our faith and law; terror our fate;
a plain truth some will not recognise.
All for a low wage rate, leading to this smouldering hate,
our people sacrificed when we could have built paradise.

CHORUS:
Plague! Plague!
Great Plague of London.
A new dark age;
White people leaving in droves.
Plague! Plague!
Great Plague of London.
A new dark age!

You can hear it here if you like
https://musescore.com/user/2613131/scores/909031

Re: Music For Troubled Times
 

Not my cup of tea, jj1985, but I suppose this songwriting lark is keeping the composer out of trouble, much to the relief of Tesco.

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Imaginative :rolleyes: