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Just down the road from Babylon
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Gary Yeomans suggested some of his lyrics for my "Eastern Jazz Groove"...So now at last it is a song!
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Lynn. Music for people with two ears!
This site displays some of the diversity of music and musicians that I've had the good fortune to work with. There are some songs I've written in collaboration with various other artists and some demos of my own songs. I have been in as many as 6 bands at once, but at the moment I am concentrating mainly on Dicko's Boogie Band. It's nice to know I'm still in demand as a drummer. I sometimes get phone calls out of the blue from bands based up to 50 miles away, asking if I'll join them, or stand in for the odd gig. Unfortunately I have to turn most of those offers down as I don't have my own transport. There is also another band in the pipeline that I may be working with a lot more next year. I'll keep you posted. If you're wondering about the picture, that was taken on a gig with "Blowjangles", a local community streetband. I had to retire from my role as their musical director in order to concentrate on gigging with "Dicko's Boogie Band" but I may still do the odd gig with them. You can find out more about them on their website (just run the name through a search engine). I mixed and mastered some of their recordings. You can find one of the tracks on my new soundclick page - www.soundclick.com/wobbly. That site has examples of my productions of other people's songs. Most of them are recorded to demo standard.
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Genre
World World Fusion
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#11,307 today Peak #175
#1,734 in subgenre Peak #27
Author
Yeomans/Monk
Rights
Wobbly Music
Uploaded
May 17, 2003
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MP3 4.5 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Story behind the song
The original melody, and the groove, emerged from my subconcious when I was demonstrating MIDI programming to someone. I liked the groove and always wanted to write a song around it but just never got the necessary inspiration. My last attempt added some guitar by Chas and gave it an "eastern" flavour. Finally, armed with a suggestion from my friend Gary Yeomans from the RMMS newsgroup who supplied me with some great lyrics (above), I finally turned it into a song.
Lyrics
Just down the road from Babylon © 2003 G.Yeomans =============================================== Crossing the border at sunset The desert shimmers in the afterglow The wind begins to rise The sand begins to blow Keeping the sun setting left side Cool enough now to see my breath Narrow my eyes to the sand Turning my face from death Keeping my mind in the dead zone Avoiding thoughts as to right or wrong I’m Serving my Queen and my country Just down the road from Babylon Dreams in a mirage come easy The pulsating desert ebbs and flows Images of ancient times First corn in golden rows Greeting the goddess of life and love She appears as a welcome guest Turning she smiles takes my hand Inanna takes me to her breast Watching the moon in it’s crescent As a poet writes the worlds first song And Gilgamesh grieves for Enkidu Just down the road from Babylon Seeking my own immortality So many will die in the flood I shelter from uncertainty In a cloak of flesh and blood A wise old man creates his escape He labors without a word Straightening he smiles offers his hand Utnapishtim welcomes me aboard Waking from dreams of the ancients Ghostly chariots rolling on And the worldly grieve for innocence Just down the road from Babylon
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