Anyway, here it is (click below). The backing track is Lost Souls by Lee Grizzle.

Irukandji

Irukandji you are my favourite jellyfish,
Irukandji but you are so much more than this,
Irukandji you are so small, yet so powerful,
I would not want you, in my swimming pool
Irukandji…

Irukandji you make the box one seem so weak,
Irukandji your venom is so deadly yet so sweet,
Irukandji you are so small, yet so powerful,
I would not want you, to sting my friend Paul,
Irukandji…

Irukandji you are just so poisonous,
Irukandji you remind me of the Blue ringed octopus,
Irukandji you are so small, yet so powerful,
I would not want you, in my high school musical,
Irukandji…

Irukandji the great white means nothing to me, but
Irukandji you are the reason I keep out the sea,
Irukandji you are so small, yet so powerful,
I would not want to meet you, in a whirlpool,
Irukandji…

Irukandji you should be friends with a pufferfish,
Irukandji but stay away from my favourite dish,
Irukandji even though we’ve never met…you would be my favourite water pet,
I would give you your own aquarium, your own solarium,
have you looked after by a vegetarian,
Irukandji…

Irukandji you’re not like the taipan or Beaked sea snake,
Irukandji I could not find you swimming in a lake…

No, Irukandji you are my favourite jellyfish,
Irukandji but you are so much much more than this,
You are so small yet so powerful,
I would not want u in my swimming pool,
Irukandji…

THE END!

Originally started writing this when I was travelling in 2004/5
Finally finished May 14th 2020 JR

Photograph is of an Irukandji jellyfish Queensland, Australia by GondwanaGirl, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Made this one up out of nowhere! Was meant to be another country style song, but it turned into a Wild West story type AND my first fully written song. Classify as that because the base ideas for the Cat song came from my friends Paul & Joel and was largely a standard blues progression, whereas this one contained all my own ideas, chords, lyrics + plucking strings intro. It somehow got much more serious than the epic Cat song, but that kind of just happened

Should say this all happened after seeing the excellent docu-movie Motown, when found myself somewhat inspired to write another song.

Anyways here are the lyrics…

Now I don’t know what you been told, but
Welcome to this town and it’s mine of gold

Many come this way for a brand new life
Fame & fortune have I got that right?

Well know this town is harsh and that mine is cruel
digging them rocks ain’t no game for fool

So you hear that there’s gold and treasure for free
We got a bar full of ladies and fine whiskey
10 years ago, yeah you was me
This town’ll steal away your life like you wouldn’t believe

Or you could save yourself and ride on through
Forget this place and find somewhere new…but

I see you got yourself a horse and fourty-five,
a shovel, pick axe, sticks of dynamite,
Gunna to count on your luck, just to stay alive

Know this now you’ll need more than luck
or you’ll get stuck in that drinking too much

Now I know you seen that money and you seen them stones,
but did see them graves and did see them bones?
Friends of mine from not long ago
That mine took away everything I know

Yeah this town is harsh and that mine is cruel
digging them rocks can make you fool

I don’t know what you been told, but
Welcome to this town and its mine of gold!

After many years of half-writing songs, finally decided to finish one!

Unbeknown to most, I’ve actually played the guitar for over 20 years, just not very well(blame that on not practicing properly and for being left-handed, but playing right-handed). Anyways, wanted to finish a song for a long while and today was finally managed to do that.

The theme of the song was inspired by my friend and Country Rock listening pioneer Paul Sell(who reckons Country Rock is the next big thing to hit England) and the style of the song by Joel Cross who suggested I do a blues song. oh and of course Henry and Grahamina the cat!

It’s an Old style country / blues song of how an angry lady runs over a man’s pet cat with a garbage truck.

Anyways here are the lyrics…Sing along…

It was one of days, you know what I mean, sat with nothing to do
Then a man in uniform knocked at my door
He said Boy I got you some news!
Hey man what do you mean by that?
He said a garbage truck just done over your cat!

Now I was stunned, real surprised, made me kinda low,
That cat was sat on my lap,
Not 15 minutes ago
He said Hey boy didn’t you hear the splat?
As that garbage truck done run over your cat!

Now I loved that cat, he was my best friend, even more that my ladyyy
She would moan about his fur
and when he had those fleas
She said One more time, I’ll grab my hat,
Get a garbage truck and done run over that cat!

Now I knew it was her, it had to be, but he is now up there!
Chasing mice, in cat heaven
So I guess that just leaves me,
To tell the story, how’s about that,
Of how a garbage truck and done run over my cat!