I cogged most of these words from the poem “Where children keep their pets” by the great Irish children’s poet, Paul Cookson.
meanwhile
...some music.
I cant let a week go by without making up or recording a song.
Bursting on the Ground
I found this song on an album by and/or called The Shrimp Attack Collective. A lovely album with a pressing of a couple of hundred that came in an army surplus canteen holder along with some personalization such as a couple of polaroids and a vial of what I think were juniper berries. I assume each copy was different. I loved this and I loved the album, too.
Better Over There
To another country. Are they better over there?
Words of Wisdom
Flim Flam Men
They care for no one
Climbing this hill
As it’s tumbling down
Like a human
I actually wrote this back in the 80s sometime. I was just thinking about it today and wanted to see what it would sound like if I recorded it now.
The Lowdown
I wrote this one 20 years ago and its theme is probably not acceptable to some people anymore. I stand by it though. It’s a true story.
All My Life
I wrote this one 15 years ago while I was driving around in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. In the beginning, driving was the only way to get my baby to sleep. Lots of time to think so I found myself imagining giant robots and selling coffee to cavemen.
Its remarkably coherent considering.
Like a Clown Car on Fire
This one is from about 3 years ago. I like to think that Trump is gone but when will that happen? I recorded this the day after my father died.
One By One
Happy Halloween.
Just finished this Halloweeny song of mine.
Check it out, if you dare.
Bloody Fools
Here's a real sad one.
I'm a Little Dinosaur
This is an odd version of the old Jonathan Richman song.
I paid my son 2 euro to sing on the one section.
If you don’t know Jonathan Richman, look him up. In the seventies he had a group called the Modern Lovers. I believe they briefly tried to sell them in the UK as something they weren’t and they didn’t catch on. Basically he was a big kid who would write songs about little dinosaurs and monsters in the supermarket and sang them with a stuffed up nose like a little kid. This was so endearing that, surprisingly, he caught on with lots of punks in the US. I’d say his biggest hit was “Roadrunner”.
Home
The song is about a recent trip to the Santa Cruz mountains in California, where I lived for a year or two as a little boy. I hadnt been back there in 20 years and I was searching for memories but could find almost none.
I Bought a guitar on the very same day and, when I got back to Ireland, this is the first song I recorded with it.
Cry baby cry
I got inspired to record this Beatles cover when I was doing an image for the Illustrated Beatles show. Cry baby cry, was one of my favourite Beatles songs when I was a kid. Perhaps it was the children under the table pretending to be ghosts.
Everything
Inspired by a dream that I had. This song has one of those eerie beats that would allow you to sing the Oscar Mayer song lyric and still sound deep.