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bookmark_borderI Believe In Father Christmas

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Coversong originally made famous by Greg Lake
Written by Greg Lake with lyrics by Peter Sinfield

Dsus2                 G6      D   
They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on earth,
But instead it just kept on raining,
A veil of tears for the Virgin birth.

C  G           D
I remember one Christmas morning,
C            G           D
The Winter's light and a distant choir,
         D        A             G              D
And the peal of a bell and that Christmas tree smell,
    D            G6         Dsus2
And eyes full of tinsel and fire.

They sold me A dream of Christmas,
They sold me A silent night,
They told me A fairy story,
'Til I believed in the Israelite.
Chorus
I wish you A hopeful Christmas,
I wish you A brave New Year,
All anguish, pain and sadness,
Leave your heart and let your road be clear.

Dsus2                 G6      D
They said there'd be snow at Christmas,
They said there'd be peace on earth,
D            A           G6        D
Hallelujah! Noel!, be it Heaven or Hell,
     D           G6   Dsus2
The Christmas we get, we deserve.

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Christmas Music
Recording: digital 16-track stereo

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

From the album Christmasness

More Christmas

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_borderOrange Maggot

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LYRICS
#OrangeMaggot
Who forgot it?
Oh, my, my
Worse than fruit fly
We’re all going to die
#uck pie in the sky
(Collective sigh)
Orange maggot? Forget it!

On the loose
And suckin’ the juice
Easy to see
Going to juice me

Orange Maggot.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Rock
Chords: Am / G/Am / D C B A
Rhythm: 83 –> 93 BPM Reggae
Recording: digital 1-track stereo

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

A song about The Donald with music inspired by Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven and Blind Faith’s Can’t Fine My Way Home.

From The Billy and Danny Rodeo Show album Outlet

bookmark_borderWhere’s The Beef?

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LYRICS
You ordered this President?
Now, where’s the beef?
Commander In Chief
Send relief
Please, send relief

Not this resident’s President
Now where’s the beef?
Commander In Chief? Commander In Grief!
Fanged teeth
Please, send relief

Wringing hands in disbelief
Please, send relief!

Fake news blues
Hate gays and Jews?
I’m reluctant on the hellbent President

Where’s The Beef? .mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E E7
Rhythm: 120 BPM Ska
Recording: digital 1-track stereo

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

From The Billy and Danny Rodeo Show album Outlet

bookmark_borderHere To Hear

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LYRICS
I’m really glad you’re here
To hear some Christmas cheer
Here to hear
Pull up a chair
Or dance right there
Here to hear
Good News! Hallelujah!
Life’s clues… hallelujah!

Really! Thanks a lot for comin’
Feel free to join in
With singin’
Clappin’ and dancin’
Tappin’ your feet
Bumpin’ your seat
Good News! Hallelujah!
Life’s clues… hallelujah!

Here to hear
Here to hear

Here To Hear.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Christmas Music
Chords: B E / G E B/E / A C / A C E
Recording: digital 14-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Christmasness
by Daniel Brouse

More Christmas

bookmark_borderBandstand

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LYRICS
Everyone knows how it feels to be the bad man
From a badland
They understand
But do you know how it feels to be a good man
Up on the bandstand
Free! In command

Let the music poor/pour from you
Pour some more
Let the music poor/pour from you
’till it flows all over me, too

No one wants to feel mistreated
Repeated… in the same grade
Rather feel elevated
Elated… we’ve got it made

Let the music poor/pour from you
Pour some more
Let the music poor/pour from you
’till it flows all over me, too

Bandstand.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: D C E A / Amt A Ab A
Rhythm: 56 –> 93 BPM 6/8
Recording: digital 14-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album Eschatology
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderShine Your Love

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LYRICS
It’s only raining under the cloud
Don’t feel the need to feel proud
Step out from under your cloud
And rise above
Feel the shine of love
Rise, rise above
Start to shine your love

Warmhearted polish applied liberally
Servanthood relish supplied happily
Good-heart polish buffed with glee
Rise, rise above
Feel the shine of love
Rise, rise above
Start to shine your love

Shine your love, baby
I try to it regularly / frequently
Put on a fine, fine shine
And let the world know you glow

Play some music and play it loud
Got the spirit… well endowed
Come now, girl, out from under the cloud
Put on a fine shine
Rise, rise above
Feel the shine of love
Rise, rise above
Start to shine your love

Shine Your Love.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: D E / G D E / G D/A E
Rhythm: 100 BPM 16 Beat
Recording: digital 15-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album Eschatology
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderCandy Canes

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LYRICS
I’m sure going to miss this
No candy canes at Christmas
The devil has them away
There’ll be no sugar on Christmas Day
Go figure
Hostage to shortage
For the holiday

There’s no gas in the tank
No rubber for the wheels
Still we thank God that Christmas feels
Yank our hopes from depths sank
Go figure
Hostage to shortage
For the holiday

Poor Santa
Can’t even bring us coal
But I won’t cry to Ma or Pa
Love can fill our stockings hole

Candy Canes.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Christmas Music
Chords: C G C D / C D C D G
Recording: digital 8-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

I was listening to my mother being interviewed about her life. During World War II, she was a little girl (5 to 8-years-old.) The war brought about many shortages including gas, rubber and sugar.

From the album Christmasness
by Daniel Brouse

More Christmas

bookmark_borderWWII (The Ice Cream Chill)

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LYRICS
Had to beg my brother
For a little sugar
Had to make the sugar
Last a little further
Trying to make the gas last
Toothpaste tubes into shrapnel
Ice cream treat rare and special
Had to beg my brother
For a little sugar
Had to make the sugar
Last a little further
He would rather not bother
Chances were slim with him
Had to beg my brother
For a little sugar
Had to make the sugar
Last a little further
Remembering the war that passed
Reminiscing life in the past
Reminiscing the scene

December seven… miles from heaven
On a date with infamy
Render “we shall never surrender”
And join our warring family
Remembering the obscene scene

The head of a little girl will fill
With the sound of sirens from an air raid drill
And over head, as the little girl goes to sleep at night
Search lights fueling the fright
Is that right?
That’s not right
Right?

Finally, all the way to the light of day
I scream…
Ice cream
The head of a little girl will fill with an ice cream chill
Ice cream in our freezer — a better day
As the thoughts of a little girl fill
Gone is feeling fear that way

WWII.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Cm Csus4 Cm7 C
Rhythm: 67 –> 81 BPM
Recording: digital 15-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards and Synthesizers

I was listening to my mother being interviewed about her life. During World War II, she was a little girl (5 to 8-years-old.) After remembering all the shortages and difficulties, she recalled not having felt that fear again. The United States has felt safe and secure for the rest of her life.

During the war period, a horse drawn carriage would bring a block of ice for the refrigerator. It wasn’t until after the war that the family could get an electric refrigerator and freezer for ice cream.

December 7, 1941 — “a date which will live in infamy,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We shall never surrender,” Winston Churchill (4 June 1940)

The music turned out to be inspired by Pink Floyd’s The Wall.

From the album Eschatology
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderFiddle With The Middle

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LYRICS
When you fiddle with the middle
Are both ends going to come up short
When you fiddle with the middle
Regret you didn’t abort

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E / A G E
Rhythm: 106 BPM
Recording: digital 1-track stereo

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

From The Billy and Danny Rodeo Show album Outlet

bookmark_borderGet What Ya Pay For

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LYRICS
You get what you pay for
And seldom much more

Any more…
You get what you pay for
And seldom much more

Any more…
If it’s getting hard to tell
You break down
You scream and yell
’cause you get what you paid for
And nothing more

You get what you pay for
And seldom much more
You get what you pay for
And very little more — nothing but nothing

Get What Ya Pay For.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Em Em7 Em9 Emsus4
Rhythm: 104 BPM
Recording: digital 1-track stereo

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

From The Billy and Danny Rodeo Show album Outlet

bookmark_borderIs It Going To Snow?

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LYRICS
You know
It’s cold enough to snow
But will it add up?
You know
The north winds do blow
But will it add up?

Accumulation
Of frozen precipitation
Accumulation
Winter’s anticipation

Confront
The arrival of a cold front
But will it add up?
Storm warning
Temperature’s freezing
But will it add up?

Accumulation
Of frozen precipitation
Accumulation
Winter’s anticipation

Is It Going To Snow? .mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Christmas Music
Chords: Am / Em C Am / C Em Am
Recording: digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album Christmasness
by Daniel Brouse

More Christmas

bookmark_borderSpinal Taps

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LYRICS
Got a shiver up my spine
Now it happens all the time
Found the reason
Found the rhyme

Spinal Taps.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: F# G A
Rhythm: 104 BPM
Recording: digital 1-track stereo

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

From The Billy and Danny Rodeo Show album Outlet

bookmark_borderOn the Verge of Christmas

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LYRICS
Let the bells ring
May the angels sing
Please God anything
Is Christmas near?

Let the bells ring
May the angels sing
Please God something
Is Christmas near?
Is Christmas here?
Please bring Christmas cheer

Do wise men follow The Star
If so wonder… wander how far
Are shepherds awoken from sleep
So that they might take a peep

Did the wisemen make it further
Did the Virgin Mary break hear water
Has the King Of King’s yet been born
When will we ever learn

Is Christmas here yet
Another year with no regret
Is Christmas here yet
Another year I’ll never forget

On the Verge of Christmas.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Christmas Music
Chords: F C / C F G / C G / C Am
Recording: digital 14-track stereo

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers
Bill — Electric Guitar

From the album Christmasness
by Daniel Brouse