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- Posted: November 5, 2007Spend My Time With You
Credits/Backstory:
This song was recorded a couple of years ago by Greg DiCrosta at TNA. It features the same line-up of goof-ball greats that played so nice on July's SOTM, "Trick Of The Light". Dean Falcone, electric guitars, Johnny Java, bass, Jon Peckman, drums, Beatnik Ed Leonard on Conga drum, and me, JV, on acoustic guitars, vocals and wheezy desk-top harmonium.
This is the only pop tune I know of with a paraphrase of a Eudora Welty text, although surely there must be others.
Listen/Download:
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Lyrics:
I come here on my own today
I might walk and I might pray
but when these autumn skies turn gray
I want to spend my time with you
spend my time with you.I still recall one summer eve
with new magnolia on the breeze
you came to me in desperate need
I pulled away just out of reach
now I’m down on my knees
I need to spend my time with you
spend my time with you.Time is the thread of revelation
unwinding year after year
it goes its own way
and it gets the last say
I wish you were still here.
I wish you were here.So when these autumn hills grow cold
every year as I grow old
I bring these flowers to soothe my soul
I come to
spend my time with you
spend my time with you.
- Posted: October 1, 2007Me & My Girl
Credits/Backstory:
Back in the '80's my fellow Lonesome Sparrow, Johnny Memphis, and I were known as The New Haven Radiators. We played the State Street circuit frequently.
We wrote this song together, nose to nose, and recorded it at River Street Studios, a very cool demo studio of the time run by Glen Gallo and Don Comeau, and frequented by such local notables as Stevo, Mark Mulcahy and Jon Brion.
Mikey Reynolds, left-handed to the core, plays drums. We knew him 'cause he played in The Geardads, with Johnny Java and John El. Andy Jarcho plays sax. (These guys can also be heard on the "Local Bands!" theme song.)
The tune was mixed very nicely (we were up to 8 trax by then!) by A.J. Gundell.
Live, as a duo, Johnny played the hi-hat and electric guitar. I played bass.Listen/Download:
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Lyrics:
Me and my girl drive the car
drive too fast, drive too far
see the sun shine the hood
makes me and my girl feel so good
we sing yeah yeah, yeah yeah, we sing
we sing yeah yeah, yeah yeah, we sing yeah. . .Me and my girl walkin' around
no place special, walk downtown
plate-glass window couple holdin' hands
makes me and my girl feel so grand
we sing yeah yeah, yeah yeah, we sing
we sing yeah yeah, yeah yeah, we sing yeah. . .Well think what you may, think what you might
but my baby and me will be together tonight
time may come and things might pass
but me and my girl, we're gonna last.Me and my girl far apart
it's not a matter of miles, it's just restless hearts
day after night after day after night
have to keep on movin' gonna be alright
we sing yeah yeah, yeah yeah, we sing
we sing yeah yeah, yeah yeah, we sing yeah. . .Me and my girl. . .