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Well, sorry guys, I know I'm late. But just had a few wereducks to beat - and lost... But that has not harmed my spirits!
This is just a small song, known to everyone I guess - from LotR (Chapt.1, "The Long expected Party"). We did this as young schoolboys down there the line a couple of times. We used to believe in "the real music" then, and I still do believe in it today. That's why this song now.
I have my guitar here with me. You allow me to play with it?
If not, I'm telling you, how this will go. I'll sing it into the tune of PJ's movie, but the song will develop as it goes on.
The first stanza goes with this familiarly mellow basic country-style of a man and a guitar (Donovan etc.): warm, picked guitar and the nasal-voice.
On the second stanza, the guitar will continue the same, but the singing gets gradually a bit more thorned - and in the end, reaching some "iron-irony" (you just get this the best way you can).
On the third stanza, the guitar will be getting really rough, taking in even some kind of punk-rock elements: the singing follows the arrangement, being somewhat aggressive and even rash (that's the intended effect, not a fault in singing!).
At the last stanza, the guitar will settle down to some "outlaw-country" -style of picking - and the singing will get a bit toned down: rough but gentle at the same time.
The tour goes ever on and on,
We’re just a rovin’, rockin’ band.
So far to go, before it’s done:
Until we’d reach the Western land.
We could go for it with the easy beat,
Join in the mainstream shallow ways.
While reaching that could be so neat,
Whether then? You cannot say.
But our fight goes ever on and on,
Never get away from where it began!
So far goes the scum, other people have done,
We won’t go for the sham, if we can.
So right now take hold of your seat,
And forget about your usual diet.
It’s a real Band now, that you will meet:
What for? You’ll see the light!
Surely, if my guitar is not allowed here, you should just see the notes that concern the vocals.
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