Original Songs
Original songs and compositions from Paul Elwood. This represents literally decades of guitar foolery.
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| Akai MPK midi | experimenting with the MPK midi keyboard and Logic Pro. It is interesting how composing on the MPK keyboard offers insights into how stuff goes together that aren’t as available on the guitar. |  |
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| All that love for you | I am struck by how much my son’s in-laws love him and here’s my take on that. |  |
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| Armadillo | Western America’s favorite roadkill! It will not make a good entré though, so please don’t eat one. Google “Armadillo” and “leprosy” and you’ll find out exactly why none of the culinary advice in this song is any good at all, nope! | |
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| Bathroom Floor | Need a place to keep your secrets safe? This will be a good one for sure. Try it out. | Lyrics | ||
| Blues at Christmas | Feeling blue at Christmas, this sort of summed it up. | |
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| Cape May Weekend | This tune is from a trip to Cape May NJ, and remembering the beautiful 19th century architecture |  |
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| Capo Man | To capo or not to capo? that is the question. | lyrics | ||
| Caribbean Moose | Don’t bring your tuba… to the island of Aruba |
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| Catzilla | …both angry and bitter ’cause for half a million years she used the same kitty litter. | |
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| Cenote Afternoon | deep in a Mexican jungle we found the most amazing place! | |||
| Chupacabra | beware the blood-sucking PuertoRican goat beast | lead sheet | ||
| Classical Peas | Do classical peas give you classical gas? | |||
| composition 011523 | small daily composition | |
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| composition 011323 | small daily composition | |
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| Crudo Manana | literally “I will be hung over tomorrow” |  |
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| Dinner at Alabardero | Dinner with the missus in Washington DC. So fine! | |||
| Doom Scrollin’ | Tired of doom scrollin’ by yourself? Well come along with me… | |
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| For Kathy | For my lovely sister-in-law | |
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| Four states converge | from a trip out to Yellowstone. I think the “fourth” state here is …magma :-) | audio | Notation | |
| Gardener’s song | Plow the same tract of land for half a century or som you get to know it pretty good. | lyrics | ||
| Guitar Hat | Don’t let anybody tell you that headgear is not important for proper guitar playing | lyrics | lyric/chord sheet | |
| Hardest Instrument to Play | it’s no secret, really… well maybe just to myself. | |||
| Honeybelle Arrives | My boss wouldn’t tell the baby’s name so I hit on “Honeybelle”. Still seems pretty appropriate. | video | ||
| If I get to heaven before you | watch out! I’ll put a bad word in the good lords ear for you. | |||
| I think Robin Williams Saw It Coming | An homage to a really wonderful human | |
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| Jackpot Toad | See above, only the exact opposite. | lyrics | ||
| Jira Jira Jira! | inspired by software with the same name. Only, once, you know? Not three times. | audio | notation | |
| Jump Jenny Jump | Caught between a rock and a hard place? Jenny was too, and New Jersey named a state park after her. | |
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| Krampus Eve | you better watch out! | audio | notation | |
| Monkey Gets in the Way | As hard as I try to do the right thing, the monkey always gets in the way. | |
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| Move On! | Why did the buffalo cross the road? | |
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| New Orleans weekend | A memento from a trip to New Orleans | audio | ||
| Ode to Johnnie Merle | My dad that is, and also Merle Travis whom I can’t imagine that Johnnie didn’t admire. | |||
| On the Bus to Galway | from a happy time in Ireland | audio | notation | |
| Operator Error | Having trouble playing your ukulele? blame it on the instrument of course | lyric/chord sheet | ||
| Persistence of Vision | Sounds pretty good on acoustic, classical and electric | |||
| Pluck it where? | About some different sounds you can get on your instrument | lyrics | ||
| Pumpkin Pie | Yes yes, my favorite snack | lyrics
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| Rolli Cannoli | part of an effort to compose at least a small something every day. | |
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| SantaRantula | A jolly old eight-legged holiday classic | audio | lead sheet/lyrics | |
| Six String Shrink | you don’t need a therapist. You need more guitars. | |
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| Tell Me How to Go | You want to do the right thing, right? Even if it happens to also be the thing you should do? | |
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| To Spend a Day with You | A song for my, well I thought it was for my wife, but it’s actually for my grandson. Cheers, Miles! | |
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| To Delphi Lodge | from a really terrible story I heard about the British occupation. This is why Ireland stands with Palestine. | audio | notation | |
| Tuning Pegs | In case you’re wondering exactly wheat they do… | |||
| Upside-down in the Boneyard | Our Uber driver told this as we were on the the way out of N’awleans. Apparently a fella fell asleep at the wheel just outside of Cemetery No. 1- and ended up “upside down in the boneyard”… | |
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| You’ll never see our fookin’ like again | A song about the fookin’ end of the fookin’ world |  |
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| You’re absolutely sure that’s not my kid? | In case there’s any doubt who’s progeny we’re talking about… |
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