Tag: Pennsylvania

bookmark_borderThose Were The Days

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LYRICS
It’s been a long, long time
Since I laid my eyes upon her
Wonder if she’ll ponder
“Can I make him mine?”

Chorus
Back when going steady was all the craze
ID bracelets… then class rings… what’s the next phase
“Love Hurts” and Heart on the radio plays
[Barracuda guitar riff]
Baby, those were the days

It’s been a long, long while
Since graced with your smile
Still gal with lady style
The more the change, the more the same… no denial

Chorus

You’re lookin’ oh so fine
Sure aged well in time
Beggin’ for a sign
Will you please be mine?

Chorus

Those Were The Days.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
E D A E
B E
A E
E G

Inspired by the Clearfield, Pennsylvania class of 1980.

A live stereo 1-track audio recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Some-her-time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderNymph Diving

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INSTRUMENTAL

Nymph Diving Music Video.mp4

Nymph Diving.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
E A G E
E G A E

Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

Nymph: a mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden inhabiting rivers, woods, or other locations.

Daniel — Guitar

From the album Speechless
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderReunion

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LYRICS
Heard people say you can never go home again
But when I get there they say, “Where’ve ya been?”
Burning bridges mend
Comin’ round the bend
Finding a long lost friend

No surprise when ya look in their eyes
A familiar face… you realize
Burning bridges mend
Comin’ round the bend
Finding a long lost friend

There’s nothing like finding a long lost friend
Except for finding a long lost friend
Burning bridges mend
Comin’ round the bend
Finding a long lost friend

Sorry to say some have passed away
But it’s OK… we’ll meet again some day
Burning bridges mend
Comin’ round the bend
Finding a long lost friend

Reunion Music Video.mp4

Reunion.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
E E9
A A6
G A E
A G E

Inspired by the Clearfield, Pennsylvania class of 1980.

A live stereo 1-track audio recording with video from the class reunion.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Some-her-time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderClearfield, PA

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LYRICS
This is just about as country….
This is just about as country….
This is just about as country as it gets
(never forget, no regrets)

Plenty of fresh air
County fair’s right there
Backwater pleasure
Penn’s hardwood treasure

Clearfield, PA
Clearfield, PA

No four-way stop
Barely a single cop
Do the lights turn red?
Little town… bigger in my head

Blank Minqua squaw
Little in us all
Chinklacomoose
Lanterned caboose

Clearfield, PA Music Video.mp4

Clearfield, PA .mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
D C
D C G
C G G7 C
E Am

Written and recorded in Clearfield, Pennsylvania.

A live 1-track stereo recording made on a park bench in downtown Clearfield.

Chinklacamoose, spelled many ways, was an old Native American village located at what is now Clearfield, Pennsylvania. The village existed from the early 1st century up until around the mid to late 17th century. The village was about halfway along the Great Shamokin Path, which started at the old Indian village of Shamokin (present day Sunbury), along the West Branch of the Susquehanna River west to its ending point at the village of Kittanning.

Chinklacamoose kept its name up until 1804, when it became the first township for Clearfield County. Only three years later, the township began to split up into smaller townships, like Beccaria, Bradford, Lawrence and Pike by 1813, when Chinklacamoose Township no longer existed and the name was lost to history.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Some-her-time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderFiller-up

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LYRICS
More fulfilling
Less bone chilling
Bowels overflowing
Vows imploding

Do what you can do
Not a can’t nor don’t
Doing what Man can
Land the understand

Songwriting at Lake Wynonah, PA
Songwriting at Lake Wynonah, PA

Look me in the I
Not eye-for-an-eye
Giving Man will try
Vote live… not to die

Be what we can be
Be free know pity
Living under above
Overlord of love

Filler-up Music Video.mp4

Filler-up Please.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
C Am Em
Em / E
E F#

Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Some-her-time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_bordernature All ly

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LYRICS
Keeping the scenic scene free from obscene
Know what I mean? By no means mean

No sign of signs
Pollution desolation
Lover of love
Negator of the hater

Caretaker curator for the Maker
A race leaving no trace in our space

No sign of signs
Pollution desolation
Lover of love
Negator of the hater

Stave being slave. Wave on the wave
No gaudy God… Lord we applaud

Nature-All-ly Songwriting at Lake Wynonah
Nature-All-ly Songwriting at Lake Wynonah

No sign of signs
Pollution desolation
Void of hemorrhoid
Past pain-in-the-ass

Then we’ll surely endure
Once we abhor being whores
An endeavour to adore
Knocking on heaven’s door

nature-All-ly Music Video.mp4

Nature-All-ly.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
A A6 A7/Esus
Em Esus A
C Em A

Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Some-her-time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderHeavy Load

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INSTRUMENTAL

Heavy Load Music Video.mp4

Heavy Load.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
E Db walk-up to E
E7 and variations

Written and recorded at Everhart Park, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania while a work crew lifted a heavy load onto a truck.

Daniel — Guitar

From the album Speechless
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWho Do You Think You Are? (Lady? Bug!)

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LYRICS
Have you ventured too far
“Who do you think you are?”

Lady? Bug! Lady? Bug!
Fly away home
Lady? Bug! Lady? Bug!
Leave them alone

Will you push them too far
Forcing them to fly
Will you push them too far
’till they say bye-bye

Chorus

Now you’ll take your own test
In your empty-nest-ness
Baby’s grown and flown
Now you’re on your own

Chorus

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
F D
A C G D

Written and recorded at Everhart Park, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Inspired by a lady screaming at her kids, “Who do you think you are?”

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Controller and Computer

From the album Some-her-time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderYou Are What You Eat

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LYRICS
There must be a reason
No matter the season
You bring out the worst in me
There must be a reason
No matter the season
Justice comes eventually

And by chance
When the scales balance
I’m around to see
Eventually be
Inevitability to reality

There must be a reason
No matter the season
The pig is ripe on the vine
There must be a reason
No matter the season
Humans turn to swine

And by chance
When the scales balance
I’m around to see
Eventually be
Inevitability to reality

You Are What You Eat Video.mp4

You Are What You Eat.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
E / E7
E A G
B7 A G E

Written and recorded in and about Blue Bell, Whitpain Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Inspired by Pink Floyd and Hank Williams.

1-track live stereo recording

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Some-her-time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderIntrigue

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Intrigue.mp3

LYRICS
Can you figure intrigue
Animosity to curiosity?
Rather explore some more
Pull the trigger! Let’s dig!

Here’s what we can do
Discover something new
Never overdue
Discover some things knew

Come pull the plug on your brain drain
Letting your conscious grow — a spiritual flow

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
Drop D tuning
Dm intro.
Dm D
G-g G
D A+f#
Bridge F C D

Written and recorded at Everhart Park, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Some-her-time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderBe-You-Te

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LYRICS
If you feel your life isn’t that great
Be glad it’s not that way every day
I can surely wait for the mundane date
So if you might… if you may….
Bring on your beauty
The likes of which I thought I’d never see
Bring on your beauty
So I know what I am free

Songwriting on the Brandywine River
Songwriting on the Brandywine River

If you feel livin’ life is too late
Realize it’s never too late to participate
The rest of your life starts today
So if you might… if you may….
Bring on your beauty
The likes of which I thought I’d never see
Bring on your beauty
So I know what I am free

Be-You-Te Video.mp4

Be-You-Te ReMix.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
A E
C E

Written on the banks of the Brandywine River, Lenape, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Controller and Computer

From the album Some-her-time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderCrying Shame

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LYRICS
Oh what a shame….
What a crying shame!
Now who ya gonna blame?

Oh how so lame
When ya try-ta-be tame
Enough being “same”
Time to pick-up your game
Now know who to blame
Now no “who” to blame

Songwriting in Ambler, PA
Songwriting in Ambler, PA

Oh what a shame
Have you gone insane
Train your brain
To step-up its game
Change the name
Come, coming, came
Now I’ll be back again
Now I’ll be back begin

No more crying what a shame

Crying Shame Music Video.mp4

Crying Shame.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
G Em
C D G

Written and recorded in Ambler, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Some-her-time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderShark Attack

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LYRICS
Setting off a spark in your brain
Sensing there’s a shark in your lane
Wow! Look at him
You’d better swim
Before you’re a snack
From a shark attack

After my board started flipping
I’m ananamumana… “I am tripping”
Wow! Look at him
You’d better swim
Before you’re a snack
From a shark attack

See that fin? I’m punching in
Ensure a lesser white will win
Wow! Look at him
You’d better swim
Before you’re a snack
From a shark attack

Oh so happy! I survive
Oh so happy I’m alive

Shark Attack.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Em A7 D6 A7
Em Em7 Em7(11)

A song about “Mick Fanning: Shark Attacks Surfer During Final of J-Bay Open Competition in South Africa”. “I just saw fins. I was waiting for the teeth,” Fanning, who was not injured in the attack, told Sky News Sunday. Following the attack, the World Surf League canceled the remainder of the competition. Mick punched the shark and got away. “I’m happy to not even compete ever again,” Fanning told a reporter after he was brought back to the safety of the beach by a boat. “I just want to let all my family and friends know, I’m okay,” he said. “I’m just tripping out.”

Written and recorded under the trees in Marshall Square Park, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Some-her-time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderUnder The Trees

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Under The Trees.mp3

LYRICS
Dreaming of a life of ease
Swinging beneath the trees
Hoping a summer breeze
Will cool me

Chorus
And that humans
Will be humane again
That all being
Will let their love begin

Scheming up how to applaud
Debunking of all the fraud
Justice from narrow to broad
Gets God’s nod

Chorus

Listening to the music play
The Message… wouldn’t ya say?
Maybe today’s the day
We may play

Chorus

ABOUT THE SONG
G7 G
G7 G C
C E

Written and recorded under the trees in Everhart Park, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Some-her-time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_border4th Of July Brandywine River Jam

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LYRICS
Do you know about the flow
And do you know where to go
Where the wine flows like water
And love? You can say I caught her

Chorus
Save me a lil’ sliver
Of jammin’ on the river
Jam along the river

It sure does feel fine
Along the Brandywine
Catch a whiff there
There’s something in the air

Chorus

There’s dancing most of the time
And the melodic flow of rhyme
A party from suck to dawn
‘tellin ya, ya can’t go wrong

Chorus

4th Of July Brandywine River Jam Video.mp4

4th Of July River Jam.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
E A add7 Em7
B7 A E

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Storyboard
by Daniel Brouse