Cripple Creek

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My son is very happy that I am finally playing music from his favorite video games. This song is so pretty I had to play it.

Original song taken from my poem "Destroyer". I was so upset about what happened in Ohio I decided to write a poem then I converted it into music. This is for East Palestine Ohio. I pray for you everyday. You are not forgotten.

Took out some of the echo my son said first version was distracting.

Played on the "D" Whistle

This song is for my mom and her love of horses.

Original unedited composition with BEE blooper towards the end. Recorded in 2020.

Played on a C whistle

One of my original songs lyrics and chords. Written during the first year of the COVID lockdowns of 2020. I was staring out my window thinking it was surreal. Nature and wildlife were continuing their daily goings on as if untouched by the human world. That is when I came up with this song.

This is a cover of a Joan Baez song. Recorded in 2020.

I recorded this song during the summer of 2020. The lyrics are mine (original). The chords and tune are from a Joan Baez song Here's To You.

I recorded this song last July. It is just the first verse. This is my go to song when I am in need of devine inspiration.

Played by me on the Tin Whistle a John Denver song.

Written in 1818 by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber This carol was a result of chaos and an affluent of a time. The continent was still reeling under the effects of the Napoleonic wars. It was a period when people were startled with insecurity and financial instability, which was further fuelled by famines, floods, and conflicts. Amidst this disarray, like a phoenix regenerating from its ashes, “Silent Night” spread its wings of compassion over a tiny Austrian town. The soothing effect that signified the conflict was, at least, finally over. https://galaxymusicnotes.com/pages/the-story-behind-the-christmas-carol-silent-night

Wk 10 the P. Whistle. written by M. Considine (1850 - 1873). He died at 23 in the California due to illness. Before his passing he sent his ballad to his six-year-old nephew John Considine. Inspiration for song: missed his girl, friends, family, Ireland. He never saw his love again.

Wk 10 the P. Whistle. This song is actually two songs. Different lyrics same tune. It started as "Do Bhí Bean Uasal" or There was a Noblewoman. The better known version is Carrickfergus. This type of song is sometimes called macaronic, meaning it alternates between two languages throughout the lyrics.

Wk 11 the P. Whistle. The text is based on a Middle Irish poem (Rop tum o Baile’) most attributed to Dallán Forgaill, an early Christian Irish poet born in 530AD. The poem was translated from Gaelic in 1905 and later adapted into verse giving us the lyrics most commonly sung today.