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Homemade recordings from a few years ago

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"Wizard Pit," another new song being workshopped by The Blue Myself.

Lyrics:

Nightshade on her lips  Ratties on her shoulder  Been a harvest moon  Since she let me hold her.

The waggle of her hips  The shadows in her clothes  I’ll never see again  The warties on her nose.

She ascends like a bat in a bubbly fit.  I fell into a wizard pit.

A dog without its tongue,  A frog without its toe,  Part of me is gone,  And I’m sinking low.

If I were a bard,  I’d search for her in hell,  But I am at the crossroad  With no soul left to sell.

She ascends like a bat in a bubbly fit.  I fell into a wizard pit.

She ascends like a bat in a bubbly fit.  I fell into a wizard pit.

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"The Dyling Californian" - an adaptation of a 19th Century American hymn from the Sacred Harp - just a home-made demo recording with my electric guitar, mandolin, and synthesizer. Follow me on soundcloud please. The Blue Myself on facebooks. A video of this song on youtube.

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Two Feet Tall - solo demo on SoundCloud.

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Albino Wallaroo by Grainne Proinseas

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Here's a new song I wrote in Tahoe last week. It started out as a folk song, but evolved of its own volition into folk-reggae.

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Two Feet Tall - lyrics and chords

E Esus  E F#min  B7 She was fated to be eliminated.  Esus  E F#min  B7 She was bloated the day she was promoted.  A Bmin-sus C#min    She was flailin' like a Palin,  Dmaj7   A  And shining like a nickel,   Bmin-sus C#min   And feelin' like New Zealan',  Dmaj7  B7sus6 B7 B7sus6 B7  While mining for a pickle.

She was grumpy and dressing pretty frumpy, She was angry at silly Lily Langtree.  She was diving off the ivy,  Then crashing on the pavement,  And sobbing like a robin  Dmaj7  B7sus6 B7 B7sus6  D7/B     While splashing cross the raiment.

G F#min I love a girl who's only two feet tall, Bmin7       D7/B Her eggs are barren, but she cares about toaster ovens. G F# I like the curls that hide her prayer shawl. Bmin7    Her legs are buried deep in the earth's crust,  D7/B   B7   D7/B  B7  And I lost in her bust.

She was psychotic, and half-auto-erotic, She was mothering, so much so she was smothering.  She was flying neath the oceans,  While hiding from the fighting,  And crying crystal potions,  Confiding in the lightning.

I love a girl who's only two feet tall, &c.

She was gorgeous as Florida's mortgages. She could plagiarize, and she had a teenager's thighs. She's stalling to be famous, She photo-bombed on Fox News, She's crawling to Uranus, With Pluto on her socks and shoes.

I love a girl who's only two feet tall, &c. I love a girl who's only two feet tall, &c. 

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Recording for the record "Pink Mary's Consummation," song no. 6b from my song cycle The Theosaur Slayer. Please "like" / follow our band The Manna Tease on the facebooks:   Pink Mary's Consummation  - lyrics

Before they crossed the Mississippi from Missouri, on Highway 50 in their motorbike, Joe Lawrence told Pink Mary, Gee I'm hungry, let's stop maybe for a picnic,

At a military cemetery, Pink Mary was very wary.

James A. Garfield went to pee at the cemetery lavatory, & Joe laid Mary on a blanky, She felt wonderful but weird, & she stroked his beard, & he kissed her on her belly. Joe's golden eyes made her realize she was devised for awesome things. So she pulled off her clothes & placed a rose thru the ring where his nose had been.

At a military cemetery, Pink Mary was very wary. Her body sung electric, Like insects at a picnic.

They were surrounded by white vans, & told, Fornication is strictly banned on military premises. Do you know an ancient man? he's been attacked by fire ants, he's been taken to V.A. hospices. There on the river was a medical center where their elder was being nursed. Garfield had been ravaged by savage insects, he'd be dead if he wasn't cursed.

At a military cemetery, Pink Mary was very wary. Hurry, we've got to go, Said Anamnesis Joe, So they grabbed the Garfield's carcass, & escaped out the window.

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Here's a song I was practicing today from Frank Ocean's excellent new album, Channel Orange. Please like our band The Manna Tease on facebooks:  

The lyrics & chords as I was playing them: (I'm using Drop-D tuning for the bum-bum-bums.)

D6    A i wanna see your pom poms from the stands Dmin6    A come on come on

D6    A my fingertips & my lips Dmin6    A they burn from the cigarettes forrest gump D6    A you run my mind boy Dmin6    A running on my mind boy forrest gump

i know you forrest i know you wouldn’t hurt a beetle but you’re so buff & so strong i’m nervous forrest forrest gump my fingertips & my lips, &c. i saw your game forrest i was screaming run 44 but you kept running past the end zone oh where’d you go forrest forrest gump my fingertips & my lips, &c. forrest green, forrest blues i’m remembering you this is love, i know its true i won’t forget you you you, ah you you its for you forrest you you, ah you you its for you forrest forrest gump

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Proudly announcing the self-publishing of our illustrated poetry book The Story of Mary Molly the Guacamole, And Other Nonsense Poems on the Amazon marketplace. You can read it on any Kindle app, and members of Amazon Prime can check it out for free from the Kindle Lending Library.

"I loved a guacamole named Mary Molly, She went on adventures all over the city. She was clever as Kissinger & cute as a kitty, And as guacamoles go, she was tasty as gee golly."

"The Story of Mary Molly the Guacamole And Other Nonsense Poems" is a beautiful illustrated book of strange, rhyming nonsense verse in the vein of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. The stories herein are sure to delight and appall readers of all ages. Romance! Adventure! Cross-Species Love Affairs! This collection contains "The Story of Mary Molly the Guacamole," "The Story of Omega's Rampage," “The Story of the Long Distance Relationship,” “The Story of Barbara Ann and Barbara Allen,” "The Story of the Lizard Wizard of North Northumberland," and “The Story of Meghan & the Mini Megatherium.” With more than thirty original full-color illustrations by Grainne Proinseas and Maymo Mary.

Leave us a review if you read it!

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Horse Hug (2011) by Liam Golden

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Arkansas City, Song no. IXa of The Manna Tease's Epic Murder Ballad Song Cycle, The Manna Sustains!

...wherein our hero, Special Agent Francis, goes to Arkansas City and finds it unglamorous. He meets Police Detective Pete Ditty, who has been investigating the murder of the town's mayor. Ditty had heard a contrabassoon-playing dwarf sing the song "Young Manasseh's Stains." But when he interrogated the short minstrel, he was advised to seek Pink Mary, currently being held against her will at the Kaw Lake Compound.

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