Another Original Song - And a Game to Play

 

 

 OK, I'm back again with another of my original songs (click on above Youtube video link to play).  This is the title track from my recent album collection, Borrowed Words. This one is a bit different in how it was created and has a component that you can participate in. 

I usually write the music (chords and melody) of a song first, then try to come up with lyrics that somewhat fit it, and I often struggle to come up with lyric ideas and write decent lyrics to songs. So, for this song, I came up with the idea of 'borrowing' some lyric lines from some of my favorite songs and artists.  What I did here is that for the verses I used a single lyric line from some great songs and stitched them together to make a whole new song. So, what we have here is an original song, but that has 18 individual lines from other famous songs used in the verses and outro, built around the concept of the importance of  'borrowed words'.  

And the game around the song is this:

 Can you identify the artists and songs that the lines are taken from? 

Some of these of these lines are very well-known, while some may be a bit more obscure. But for readers of this blog, they are all artists that I like and have talked about and featured on this blog. Now there is one trick, in that there are 18 individual 'borrowed' lines, but there are 20 lines in the verses and outro, because 2 lines are my own (and actually taken from an old poem I wrote many years ago, so 2 lines are ringers, but the other 18 are borrowed from other sources.  

Anyway, so check out the song if interested, listen, and play along to see if you can identify the individual lyric lines taken from other famous songs. Let me know how many you were able to identify.

If interested enough, I can give some clues. But anyway, hope you like the song, and just for fun, play along and try to identify the song lyrics I borrowed to make this song. If you do like this song, please click the like and leave a comment on the Youtube page. 

Thanks.  

 

More Original BB Chronicles Songs to Check Out

 

 

Here's a couple more of my own original songs that I recently posted on Youtube. Thee are new songs, recently written and recorded, again featuring ukelele, vocals, and keyboards, and again, these are my own home recordings, so not quite professional, but I think they turned out pretty good. These are both taken from my most recent album collection, Borrowed Words (2025), and use the artwork from the album in the videos (as above)

So, here are the Youtube videos (although not really anything much visually, these are just to deliver the songs themselves). First is Say Goodbye, which deals with saying goodbye to a longtime commitment, and as written as I am contemplating my own retirement, but that could apply to other commitments, relationships, etc.It's got a rousing tempo and beat and is quite fun.

 Next is All Your Lies, another uptempo track, this one dealing with confronting the pervasive lying all around these days (but not directed at anyone in particular...or is it? Hmm).

 

 

 

So, anyway, please check these out if you are at all interested in haring my own music. If you do like it, please click on the like and/or leave a comment on Youtube, as I'm trying to get the Youtube channel established. Once again, I will be posting some more of my own songs soon, and have a special one that involves some audience participation planned next. But if not interested in my music, that;s fine, too. 

I will be having my Fall new album roundup very soon, and then all the End of Year lists and wrap-up soon after that, so stay tuned, whether or not you have any interest in my own music. Thanks.