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Ornery Pilgrim
Приєднався 12 лис 2009
I Pity You
Recently I was in the midst of writing a fairly simple ballad -- at least I had started on the music -- but I wasn't sure about the content. And then I heard about some of my connections participating in a MAGA party, celebrating this pernicious thing with Trump cupcakes and "tears of the liberals" lemonade. So this fairly gentle piece acquired a bit of an edge.
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Melancholy Xmas
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Challenging myself yesterday to write a song, (long overdue) I was surprised, perhaps even bowled over with the emotion I let myself in for by writing a Christmas song for people who are missing departed loved ones during the holiday season. I also am one of those. Here's the song. I had to wait for the tears to subside before I could record it.
And He's Coming in the Clouds
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I've always found Rev 1:7 a really haunting verse. Here's a song I wrote with it and lots of other Revelation passages in mind.
imagine
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I really like John Lennon's Imagine. The human longings are something all of us can relate to. However the details of what we are asked to imagine are problematic for the Christian. Here's what I imagine...
Voice Of My Heart
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This is one of my very first songs, if not the very first. I prayed maybe for a year for the ability to write songs and this was the first result. I still like it.
Give me a place to stand
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This one is aspirational. I'm on holidays just now and I'm pushing myself to write lots of music. I wasn't sure where this one was going to go lyrically. I kind of let it have it's head. And here we are...
Hometown
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Putting together that footage of Ocean Falls made me nostalgic. So I wrote a song about it. Ocean Falls alumni please comment with memories and I'll try to do a version with extra verses to mention them as well!
The Ocean Falls of my Childhood
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Scenes from British Columbia's coastal ghost town as it was in the late 60's and early 70's. Background music supplied by my brother playing on a piano that came South from Ocean Falls with us when Crown Zellerbach transferred my Dad to Elk Falls. Compare what you see with scenes from recent visits.
Easy
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An exercise in gospel telling where it isn't about how I hard I had to seek to find God, but rather how much it was a matter of admitting that all of the effort has been on his part and not on mine.
Lost In Wonder
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I wrote this with a goal in mind. Something I aimed at but only made a semblance of hitting. I wanted to write a musically clever song with mystical sounding lyrics. In short, I wanted to sound like Yes. Ha. This song sounds nothing like Yes. But it is, I think, musically clever and has mystical sounding lyrics. Ultimate goal unattained. But then, it wasn't a collaboration between virtuosi. The...
Epiphany
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A song for Epiphany, remembering that although, at the event that it commemorates, the pilgrims who sought the Christ child were rich and privileged individuals, most of us are not. Sometimes we seek on the basis of hunches and yearnings which are not as specific as the lore of these astrologers. Still, we hope for reality at the end of our journeys.
Grey Skies
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My one and (hopefully) only country song in all its derivative glory. Summer 2022 lasted too long. The west coast can't handle too many more of these.
Looks LIke...
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Recently I've been 'accused' of writing with an apparent aim toward musical theatre. This song does nothing to absolve me of that. It's an ode to flights of imaginative fancy. (In the third verse, the imaginary part is the dancing, something that my wife and I gave up on long ago something to do with having two left feet...)
Don't Make No Sense
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Written in a state of deep frustration with what much of the church seems to think we are about.
In this moment
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Writing lyrics for this song, this picture came to mind and I dove in.
My brother and I are of one mind on this one ... We pity you. Both the harm that you have pulled down on your own head, the eventual guilt you will feel at the harm you have pulled down on others, and for some of you, the shame you have cast upon the body of Christ in casting that vote and calling it religious duty.
I was born in ocean falls in 1976
Oh I wish I could show my father and aunt this film! (They have passed) They used to live there and had great memories of Ocean Falls. It surely was a different era. I have been wanting to go there for a long time.
I read the history of the ocean falls. very sad and interesting to check it out.. i wish they rebuild that town back to alive. Have fishing , Mining , Logging business going..
Absolutely loved this. I was born in Ocean Falls in 1964 (my 60th birthday is just coming up in 2 weeks). My mom and dad left to go back to Courtenay before I was 1, so I have no memory of it, but love seeing these videos. I have shared it with my mom. Thanks so much for sharing.
Amen. Beautifully written.
Watching thar plane go up the ramp gave me chills. My house was very close to that spot in 75. I wrnt to grade 7 there. Dad worked in the mill.i was a pinsetter in the bowling alley.. 😅great memories from 50 yrs ago!
I went to grade 7 there in 75. Dad worked in the mill. I was a pinsetter in the bowling alley ans we played roller hockey in the gym. Lots of salmon and bears.
I will be showing this to my mom. She was a elementary school teacher around the time the sportsday home movie was made. Miss Barton/Mrs. Niven We left in 63.
TY. A very nice look into company town life , of a bygone era. Tearing it down, and booting the people must have been a very tough time.
i miss Ocean Falls
Great film, thanks! As a pilot I was taxiing the same Goose “UAZ” up the ramp in Ocean Falls probably 50 years later. What a story that plane could tell ;). Ocean Falls has a special feel to it. You were lucky to grow up there. Cheers.
Such wonderful memories
great home movies - think I recognized Joyce Brown in the boat but that was about it...wasn't a 10th street kid so didn't know most of the kids...lol
Recognized some faces....south memory of my childhood Too!
Some it shud say, not south.
Very interesting. The 71-73 I didn’t like. Everything getting torn down and closed. Problem with a one industry town. I think it messed up a lot of people having to leave.
Does this ever take me back home!! I lived there from 54-74. My Dad was raised there. Last name Ossinger.
drive.google.com/file/d/1XdHxmzZR0dzVOgVNr433wAQoYX1Bvmrg/view?usp=sharing Look what my parents saved after all these years. (I found your Dad.)
@@ornerypilgrimthank you so much for sharing. I lived there and our family name is in the phone book. We were 10th street kids. Our last name is Vadeboncoeur ❤
Wow. Thanks Ray. What a beautiful song about hope!