Category: dance

bookmark_borderWhen the Band Begins to Play

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Boycott Penn's Table Restaurant
Boycott Penn’s Table Restaurant

LYRICS
Thought about it once
Thought about it twice
The thought might be nice
To begin to think again
Thought there was a chance
They’d let us dance
It really is no sin… to begin
When the band begins to play
It doesn’t matter what they say
When the band begins to play
We’re going to dance anyway
Hey! What are you doing
… begin to think again
Now that I’ve thought it through
I know just what to do
Grab your hand and dance with you

When the Band Begins to Play.mp3

Boycott Malena's
Boycott Malena’s

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about West Chester outlawing playing music and dancing.

Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: E B A E / E –> A B / A G E
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in West Chester, Chester County, PA. Recorded at Everhart Park.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderThe Market Street Stroll

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Market and High Streets, West Chester, PA
LYRICS
Count the cadence
Mark the beat
Stroll and dance
Down Market Street
You might catch some heat
If you’re not discrete
Share your glow in the flow
They’ll never know
Walk the walk
Rock the roll
Stroll and dance
Down Market Street
Ohhh there’s so much
To enjoy the touch
Incorporate the scene
Into your dream
I suspect when you intersect with High
You won’t walk right by
Stop by, say High? and give it a try
In the thick of the music

The Market Street Stroll (Video).mp4

The Market Street Stroll.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: E A G / E A G E
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Piano

A song about the rhythm of the street in downtown West Chester. Written at the corner of Market and High Streets in Chester County, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderThe Closer To Too Late

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LYRICS
You can choose your own rate
Commander of your own fate
The longer that you wait
The closer to too late
Opened starting gate
Focused staying straight
Trying to participate
Before the expiration date
All the world’s a dance floor
Always room for one more
Come on, jump up, jump in
Take a shot at swingin’

All the world’s a stage
No matter what your age
You can join with the band
Makin’ music hand-in-hand

Heartbeat by heartbeat
Beat-by-beat by beat-by-beat

The Closer To Too Late.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: Capo 1 (Bb) A D G A / G D A / Ab A
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard

From the album Exoskeleton
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderRight Left

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LYRICS
Bow to the right
Bow to the left
Dough city dough
Swing to the left
Swing to the right
Come on, let’s go!
Damned to the right
Damned to the left
Am I along? Want to promenade home?

Alt. right? Demand an allemande left
Trouble cleft… bass lyin’

If we’re square dancing
How come we keep going round and round and round?
Are we just parsing
Any ole line found?

Right Left.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: E E7 B E / A E / A B7 E
Recording: stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Faux-fiddle

A square dance for a round hole.

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE

bookmark_borderJump Up And Down

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LYRICS
Get up
Jump up and down
Get up
Jump up and down
Look around

Shake it up
Rattle and roll
Shake, rattle and roll

Join in the dance
While we’ve still got the chance

Got up
Jumped up and down
Got up
Jumped up and down
We found

Jump Up And Down.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: G A / G A E / A G
Recording: digital 10-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Organ

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE

bookmark_borderA Chance

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LYRICS
Darkness descends
The day ends
Quiet takes over as night
Pierce the silent moment
Piercing the silence of my ignorance
The revelation of having a chance
You mean we might have a chance?
Watch my feet doing a happy dance

Just have faith in humanity
And our adaptability
Bring on peace and tranquility
Pierce the silent moment
Piercing the silence of my ignorance
Sure there’s bloodshed
And too many dead
Piercing the silence of my ignorance
The revelation of having a chance
I mean we might have a chance
If we’re apt to adapt the happy dance

A Chance.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Rock
Chords: E9 E6 / E E7 / A B7
Recording: digital 12-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album Technocracy
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderJump Up

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LYRICS
Jump up! Leap forward
Jump up! Leap toward
Jump up! Leap forward
Leaping forward toward tomorrow
Yesterday keeps creepin’ in

Jump up! Leap forward
Jump up! Leap toward
Jump up! Leap forward
Leaping forward toward tomorrow
While we have today to play, hey!

Jump up! Leap forward
Jump up! Leap toward
Jump up! Leap forward
Running headlong toward tomorrow
Yesterday comes near, again

Jump Up.mp4

Jump Up.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Children’s Music
Chords: E / E G A
Recording: digital 16-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album Childish
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWill

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LYRICS
But, still…
Distill ill will
Extract the mean-ing
Then, fill…
Instill the goodwill
In fact, the meaning

Before it’s too late
Only thing to hate is hate
Love to love the love
With grace from above
Love to love the love

Until…
We eliminate ill will
Eradicate the hate
… until all the hate we kill
Fire up our “still”
Create some goodwill
The ill will we’ll fill with goodwill

Will.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: G F# E / A E
Recording: digital 10-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Organ

From the album Eschatology
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderSamba 101 (lol)

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LYRICS
This ain’t no La Bamba
Let’s samba! Baa, baa, baa
With the black sheep
Dancing deep
Samba 101
Come undone
lol… oh, well
Laugh out loud
Join the crowd

Let’s samba! Baa, baa, baa
With the black sheep
Dancing deep

Samba 101 (lol).mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Dance Music
Chords: B A/B
Rhythm: 101 BPM Samba
Recording: digital 1-track stereo

Daniel Brouse — Vocals, Keyboards and Synthesizers
Bill Kucera — Guitar

From The Billy and Danny Rodeo Show album Outlet

bookmark_borderImagine

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LYRICS
Here comes the little engine
Chugging along
Imagine a little engine
That thought that he could
Imagine the little engine
Eventually would
’cause he thought that he could
A song for chuggin’ on
A song for chuggin’ along

There goes the little engine
Passin’ by again
Only a matter of when
When you think that you can
Pick yourself up… try again
And soon you’ll be chuggin’

Pullin’ Christmas toys
For all the girls and boys
Bringing holiday cheer
To those we hold dear

Imagine.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E Am / G D A
Recording: digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album Christmasness
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderNick Of Time

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LYRICS
In the nick of time
Can you spare a dime
Can you make reason
Can you make rhyme

In the nick of time
Can you spare a dime
Or can you see
The hypocrisy

It’s ripping at me
Gripping and grasping to see

Can we make reason
Can we make rhyme
Of our time
It is you… it is me… it is we

In The End
What’s the message that we send?

Nick Of Time.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Dm / Bdim C Dm
Rhythm: 100 BPM Soul Pop
Recording: digital 8-track stereo

Vocals, Bass, Ride Cymbal, Keyboards and Synthesizers (Kurzweil PC88mx, microKorg, Korg N364, Casio WK-3500, miniNova)

From the album Some Sum
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderDance Reflex

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LYRICS
There’s nothing much more that I enjoy
(Then) making you jump for joy

Moving ’round jumping up and down
Like a Mexican jumping bean
Making a smile out of any frown
Happier human being

There’s nothing much more that I enjoy
(Then) making you jump for joy

Getting down while twirling ’round
Like a pinwheel in the breeze
With moves to make you ballroom bound
A dance reflex… like a sneeze

There’s nothing much more that I enjoy
(Then) making you jump for joy

Making you move around
Jumping up and down

Dance Reflex.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: G C D / C G
Recording: live

Vocals, Martin Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets. Recorded in Chester County, West Chester, PA. Inspired by the children that have a dance reflex while I’m writing music.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderGet Up (Again)

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LYRICS
You can get up if you’re down
On your feet and runnin’ round
Days too short to abort
Feet are prancing. Spirits dancing.

You can get up if you’re down
On your feet and runnin’ round
Don’t resort to selling short
Hearts romancing. Our souls dancing.

You can get up if you’re down
On your feet and runnin’ round
Put a smile on a baby’s face
Until the world is our dancing space

Get Up.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Am A / G Em Am / Em G A/A7
Recording: digital 1-track stereo / recorded live

Vocals, Guitar

Written and recorded at Everhart Park in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Inspired by kids. A coach said to a child playing football, “You can get up again.” Another child being pushed in a stroller rolled by and started dancing.

From the album You Are On
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderRastafari Safari

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LYRICS
Rastafari
Safari
On the Rastafari safari
Rastafari!

Some sort-of spiritual endeavor
That’s going to last for ever and ever
A spiritual endeavor
That’s going to last for ever
Gonna kill you with love
Rastafari safari

Rastafari safari
Rastafarian reptilian
A spiritual endeavor
There’s no responsibility for me
No! Not ever
Rastafari
Do you know why they call it dread
Dread not
Dread locked
Dread not
Lively up yourself don’t be no dread now

Hey, Bungalow Bill what did you kill?

Rastafari Safari Country Reggae Video.mp4

Rastafari Safari.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Reggae Music
Chords: D D9 F#m7
Rhythm: 130 BPM Country Shuffle and Swing Reggae
Recording: digital 1-track stereo / recorded live

A song about killing the spirit in an effort to find spirituality.

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers (microKorg, Korg N364, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, Boss Loop Station, Boss BR-600, DigiTech RP3)

From the album The Dread Nots
by Daniel Brouse

More by Narley Marley

bookmark_borderMess Call

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LYRICS
When you hear the bugle call
Know the call goes out to all
Signal

Charge at large
Tap the taps
Reverent reveille
After all, it’s mess call
Amiss a mess
Call for all

Mess Call.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Bb
Rhythm: 102 BPM Techno and Fusion Shuffle
Recording: digital 1-track stereo / recorded live

Vocals, Trumpet, Keyboards and Synthesizers (microKorg, Korg N364, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, Boss Loop Station, Boss BR-600, DigiTech RP3)

From the album Found On Sound
by Daniel Brouse