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My Song “Hellfire!” selected for radio

Posted by Patricia on June 27, 2016
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Well, there are advantages to having a split personality. When the writing of prose is a bit slow, the music perks up. “Hellfire!” will be played next week on #WOSRadio, don’t know when.

“Hellfire“ is so much fun. I’ll post the lyrics below. The link to the music seems to have landed at the top just above the text.  Hooray. It’s a fast, honky-tonky Country song. Great to dance to.Here’s the lyric:
HELLFIRE

I do my best to toe the line,
behave myself, take just what’s mine,
But in honkytonks I lose control
Country music frees  my soul
my heart begins to rock and roll–

Hellfire’s heating up my blood again
Love neon lights and boot-kicking men
Hellfire’s got me spinning round and round
Burning me up and I’m melting down — Hellfire!

Call up my girlfriend, say what’s new?
Let’s go dancing at the Blue Bayou.
A cowboy’s giving me the eye
I swing my hair and sashay by
Oh I feel that lightning strike

Hellfire’s heating up my blood again
Love neon lights and boot-kicking men
Hellfire’s got me spinning round and round
Burning me up and I’m melting down — Hellfire!

He tips his hat, says “Howdy Ma’am”
I tremble when he takes my hand
He puts his hands upon my hips
Pulls me close and I’m bewitched
Feel the fever in his kiss

Hellfire’s heating up my blood again
Love neon lights and boot-kicking men
Hellfire’s got me spinning round and round
Burning me up and I’m melting down — Hellfire!

I’m melting down, I’m burning up
Hellfire! 

 

 

‘DANCE WITH LIGHTNING” getting some play in the sky and cyberspace…..

Posted by Patricia on July 16, 2015
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One night, silhouetted against the dark sky, the lightning put on a show — not the full-screen sheet lightning but rather, the strong yet delicate flickers leaping across the sky, down to the earth, up into the heavens..and I said to myself, “My gosh, the lightning is having fun! It’s dancing!”

A few years later the line “dancing up a storm” floated  into my muse and from there came the first line of my new success: “Dixie was dancing up a storm when I walked in the bar…”

I get the lyric to brilliant musician #Jeff Severson of the DC area and he wrote a sparkling, funny song to fit.

I write all this because the song has just been selected by a Hollywood producer/studio, my fourth now. Which makes me very happy. And I want to share the song:

UK SONGWRITING CONTEST: YAY! I’M A FINALIST IN THE LUUUVE CATEGORY!

Posted by Patricia on December 27, 2014
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I’m overjoyed to be one of the few finalists in this super-prestigious international contest with my song IF I CAN LOVE YOU WITH MY SONG. It’s about a lonely guitarist who longs to hold his beloved again his heart the way he holds his guitar during this long night.  Here’s the lyric; I’ll dd the music when I learn how to place the link where it belongs I CAN LOVE YOU WITH MY SONG

IF-i-can-love-you-with-my-song

I can keep on going ’till you’re by my side

If I can hold you with my music

I’ll be OK until you’re mine

If I can touch you with my song

The melody will bring you to my arms

The lonely hours won’t be so long if I can love you with my song.

If I can hold you like my guitar

against my heart the whole night through

and I can see love in your eyes, I will find myself in you.

If I can reach you with my words

those words alone will make the night come alive

they’ll search for a place to belong,

these cries of my love in the night

The lonely hours won’t be so lonif I can love you with my song.

I see your smile in the evening star

reflected on the midnight sea

The young moonlight shines in your eyes

it will lead you here to me.

If I can love you with my voice,

You’ll be beside me until the dawn

my dream will finally come true

if I can love you with my song.

The lonely hours won’t be so long if I can love you with my song.

HERE’S ….. TA DA …. HONEY COME DANCE WITH ME!

Posted by Patricia on September 25, 2012
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My computer guru Chuck McMurtrey placed the cover of this new book on the column on the right;it is so pretty, lined up with my first two books. It goes to press later this week; still a couple of errors to fix. Over 50 of my lyrics are there in the book,a new one on every other page. Some are finny, some tell of heart-break; some are down home, others are sophisticated. One is in French. All of them have my love and my respect…golly how much time has gone into each one. Above each I’ve added a few words on how the song came into being.From time to time I’ll post one of the lyrics, and begin today with  Lyrics Winner of the 2011 UK International Songwriting Contest.

From time to time I’ll post one of the lyrics, and begin today with TOGETHER FOREVER, Lyrics Winner of the 2011 UK International Songwriting Contest.

      

Me and Janie were walking on the farm
Late in November
I was trying to find a way
To tell her I’d love her forever
We stopped to watch the white snow geese
Flying high above the lake
Then someone took at shot at them
One bird spun out of place
Well the frightened geese flew off,
But one fell in the lake to die
We saw one other circle back
to float right by its side,
And I held Janie, saying,

That’s what I call true love –
and our love will live forever
Sweet and true
Together forever with you
We’ll be together forever
I swear to you
Together forever with you

The sky grew dark, but the faithful bird
Swam close beside its mate
Keeping watch as the dying bird
Laid its head down on the lake
And as the moonlight shone on one lonely bird
Janie’s cheeks were wet
We knew that what we saw this night
We could never ever forget,
And I held Janie, saying,

That’s what I call true love,
and our love will live forever
Sweet and true
Together forever with you
We’ll be together forever
I swear to you
Together forever with you