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  • Bring a new song into the world every week… but what a ride

    Rocking it up at Sam Webb’s last night. I did a shaky first‑time performance of an old‑new song called You Can Find It in the Moon. Straight out of my Mad Hatters days, you really can’t make this stuff up. Threw in a few other tunes as well. It’s tough doing a new song every week…

    In fact, I’m thinking a song has to be over 75% there before it’s worth bringing out. By that I mean a good song is only half of it, the rest is in the performance

    Other songs included Teach Me Peace, (Currently very fitting) Come to the Ball, Waiting to Cross the Road.

    When will Route Note publish One Track Minds?

  • Hold On To Your Dreams

    Hold On To Your Dreams (Lyrics & Music by S Mc Hillbilly & Cousin Lee)

    [Verse 1]

    Hold On To Your Dreams,
    For this world is not what it seems
    There are drug dealers, mind stealers Petty thieves and potato peelers
    So hold on to your dreams

    [Verse 2]

    For the streets in this world can be mean,
    You can get coffee without cream You could be cursed by a college dean,
    There are in-betweens and sights unseen If you come clean and be a jolly old bean,
    You can hold on to your dreams

    [Chorus/Outro]
    Nobody knows what this life means,
    But there sure are things in this life obscene,
    There is S Mc Hillbilly & Augustus Goster going ’round singing songs absurdly silly,
    So hold on to your dreams

  • Choo Choo Choo Choo

    One two three here I came

    Five six seven eight for some more

    Nine ten eleven twelve, there is no floor

     

     

    American politics and law

    Autumn leaves and flowers in the fall

    Something that I can’t touch

    I am lost and in between

     

    I wish I was a bird swooping 

    choo choo choo choo

     

    Oh you don’t understand, do you

    I am all alone, far from here

    I try not to frown

    Still I am going down the pole

     

    Reason things are there

    choo choo choo choo

     

    Hey, let’s stay out late

    It will be just you and whoever

    Aah ‘ll pick you up at nine

    It is black and white, I am in line

     

    I am lover, not a fighter

    choo choo choo choo

     

    One two three here I came

    five six seven eight for some more

    nine ten eleven twelve let’s go

    Words and Music By Cousin Lee © 1993

  • Black Dog Oven

    Had an impromptu set with Alan Hess last night at Black Dog Pizza A couple of two‑chord covers and three of my own. All literally done on the spot.

    #7gig2026

  • There is lot of unused love that is not needed, it is just the way things go go sometimes.

    Perhaps this is worth investigation. Perhaps we need to be more disciplined. The undisciplined needs to be rationed.

    Or maybe we have the wrong friends, or live in the wrong place. Does that sound like love.

    To be continued.

  • Digging it out at the Bridge

    8.30pm for me every Thursday

  • Choose your mix

    Subtle or not‑so‑subtle differences, a question of mixing before mastering them….

    Track 1 Come to Ball with edited vocal (Breaths taken out)

    Track 2 Come to Ball with unedited vocal

    Track 3 Barley and oats with edited Vocal (Denoised)

    Track 4 Barley and oats with Unedited Vocal

    Let me know below or Facebook or Twitter

  • Riding up the Hill

    A little taster of some of the new songs for a little while.

  • Bring in the New Year

    Last night I did my first performance of the year at the Open Mic at The Bridge in Douglas. Just as I was about to play, my harmonica mouth holder broke 😅

    Moral of the story: always take two harmonica holders with you.

    I performed these new songs that I’ve been working on.

    Set list:

    1. Intro

    2. Barley & Oats

    3. Riding Up That Hill

    4. Where Do They Go (The Ones Not Represented)

    5. I Am Monkey

    6. Famous for Tomorrow

    7. Winter is Coming

    Working on a Manx text version of “Winter is Coming.”

    As we know it here, ‘Ta Geamyr er Gerjaghey’

  • Down to The Sea

    1.
    This is never what I intended
    Can't you see I wanted it to be free
    To flow through my mind undefined
    to take a trip through time

    But I have try
    If I have to think
    I might well just wink
    Because you know the game that is in play

    Take me down to the sea
    I want to be free
    Roll along with the sea

    Take me down to the sea
    I want to be free 
    Roll along with the sea

    2.
    I can watch the moving pieces
    That shoot in front of my eyes
    Weaknesses that you let one fly
    You think you know why

    One can come
    Along for the ride
    Into the heart of things
    That make one wonder why

    I want to go to the Sea