TK Major – Songs of TK Major

Danny Boy

Posted on January 1, 2025February 2, 2025 by TK Major

Danny Boy
Public domain

Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side.
The summer’s gone, and all the roses falling,
It’s you, it’s you must go and I must bide.

But come ye back when summer’s in the meadow,
Or when the valley’s hushed and white with snow,
It’s I’ll be here in sunshine or in shadow,
Oh, Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so!

But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You’ll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say an Ave there for me.

And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend and tell me that you love me,
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me!

Red River Valley

Posted on December 31, 2024February 2, 2025 by TK Major

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Red River Valley
public domain

From this valley they say you are goin’
I will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile
For they say you are takin’ the sunshine
That has brightened our pathway a while

Do you think of the valley you’re leavin’
Oh, how lonely and dreary it will be
Do you think of the fond heart you’re breakin’
And the sadness you’ve cast over me

For a long time my darlin’, I’m waiting
For the words that you never would say
And Alas my poor heart you’re breakin’
For they tell me you’re goin’ away

As you go to your home by the ocean
May you never forget those sweet hours
That we spent in the Red River Valley
And the love we exchanged mid the flowers

Come and sit by my side if you love me
Do not hasten to bid me adieu
Just remember the Red River Valley
And the one that has loved you so true

Kitten, Kitten

Posted on December 3, 2024 by TK Major

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Kitten, Kitten
I don’t understand
why you go cattin’ ’round
with some other man

scram ma’am jam lamb cram slam tam bam wham sham flam blam ram

[Perry Mason, TCoT Careless Kitten, ~43’50” – cfr my son, “Weavin’ and Wobblin'” – inspired by phrase earlier in the same episode approximately 33 minutes]

Stuck in Samsara (Again with You)

Posted on April 18, 2023April 18, 2023 by TK Major

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(recreate construction of an old song which isn’t in the song database yet and I don’t want to completely lose so here are reconstruction notes I suppose you might say)

I live my life
I fulfill my Dharma
that doesn’t mean my love isn’t true

I don’t mind being stuck in samsara
At least as long
as I’m stuck here with you

Weavin’ and Wobblin’

Posted on June 12, 2022December 3, 2024 by TK Major

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Weavin’ and wobblin’
‘tween demons and goblins
Havin’ problems walkin’ the line
Dizzy and fallin’
Up against the wall and
Stallin’ for a little more time

Rolling toward trouble
In a champagne bubble
Swimming through shimmering wine
Standing in the starlight
Dizzy as a bar fight
Spinning on a shiny new dime

Trying to bargain
Choices are stark and
Forever is a mighty long time
But where do you go
When there’s just nothing more
And you can’t tell yourself no more lies?

Ch…

(Heads or tails
How could it not fail
To land on its edge this one time?)

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Title phrase inspired by a line of dialogue in Perry Mason the case of the careless kitten approximately 33 minutes in.

My other song, “Kitten, Kitten, I Don’t Understand,” was also inspired by TCOT Careless Kitten, aprx 43′
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Weavin’ and wobblin’

‘tween the demons and goblins

Havin’ problems walkin’ the line

Dizzy and fallin’

Up against the wall and

Stallin’ for a little more time

Rolling toward trouble

In a champagne bubble

Swimming through shimmering wine

Standing in the starlight

Dizzy as a bar fight

Spinning on a shiny new dime

Trying to bargain

Choices are stark and

Forever is a mighty long time

But where do you go

When there’s just nothing mo’

And you can’t tell yourself no more lies?

Someone Not Simone

Posted on May 19, 2019May 21, 2021 by TK Major

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Someone
but not Simone
some place where I’ve never been

Someone
but not Simone
some time when I can breathe again

somewhere where I’ve never been
some breeze will carry me away, my friend
some beach where the dream never has to end
someone will help me fall in love again

(Someone
but not Simone
someday I will exist again

Someone
but not Simone)

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Someone
but not Simone
some day I will exist again

some beach where the sand never ends
some dream where the dream never ends

some beach where the dream never ends

[inspired by Ravi Bhatia typo correction on FB of same construction, ie, ‘someone not simone’]

Don’t Ask a Fool (Why He Falls in Love)

Posted on February 19, 2015February 8, 2019 by TK Major

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Don’t Ask a Fool (Why He Falls in Love)

Don’t ask the sun
why the sky is blue
Don’t ask the river
where it’s flowing to
don’t ask the stars
why they shine up above
and don’t ask a fool
why he falls in love

Don’t ask me
why I love you
don’t ask your slave
what he wants to do
don’t ask a dead man
what he’s dreaming of
and don’t ask a fool
why he falls in love

ch:
don’t ask tomorrow
when there’s no today
don’t ask forever
if you’ve gone away
don’t ask for more
when there’s never enough
ah — but don’t ask a fool
why he falls in love

Don’t Ask a Fool – TEMP [midi]

Scared of the Light

Posted on February 24, 2013March 18, 2022 by TK Major

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From the very first zero
to the very last one
I can see what has happened
I can see what will come

Like a train in a tunnel
like a mole in a hole
like a bullet in a barrel
I know where to go

From the very first day
to the very last night
I’ve been through the darkness
but I’m scared of the light

From the very first zero
to the very last one
I can see what has happened
and I see what must come

From the very first day
to the very last night
I’ve been through the darkness
but I’m scared of the light

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Scared of the Light

From the [6m] very first zero [–]
to the [2m] very last one [–]
I can [5] see what has happened
[4] – I can see what will [6m] come [–]

Like a [6m] train in a tunnel [–]
like a [2m] mole in a hole [–]
like a [5] bullet in a barrel
I [4] know where to [6m] go [–]

From the [7b] very first day
[1] — to the very last [6m] night [–]
[7b] I’ve been through the darkness
[1] — but I’m scared of the [6m] light [–]

[repeat 1st verse]
From the very first zero
to the very last one
I can see what has happened
and I see what must come

From the very first day
to the very last night
I’ve been through the darkness
but I’m scared of the light

[each bracketed Nashville number indicates a new chord; dashes indicate repeat from previous bar]

first two quatrains written in 2010, not recorded; chorus written 2-23/24 of 2013 for the 2013 RPM Album Challenge

This Scene Is Dead

Posted on February 5, 2013September 24, 2017 by TK Major

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Sad that it’s so dead in here
sad to see the flocks have fled
sad to say its inevitable
but some things must be said

This scene is dead
the scene is dead
the reasons are many
excuses are few
This scene is dead
the scene is dead
God knows the scene is dead

We were so cool
so beautiful
so free so hip
the people to be
What we had is gone, what we did is done
the songs we sang as good as never sung

This scene is dead
the scene is dead
God knows the scene is dead

Came back to see what had become
of the place where so much was said and done
footprints in the dust
shadows in a mirror
was it yesterday
or a thousand years

This scene is dead
the scene is dead
the reasons are many
excuses are few
This scene is dead
the scene is dead
God knows the scene is dead

this scene is dead
The scene is dead
ooohoooh oohoooh
oohooh oohooh
this scene is dead
the scene is dead
God knows the scene is dead

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[6m] Sad that it’s so [3] dead in here
[37] sad to see the flocks have [6m] fled
[6m] sad to say its inevita-[3]-ble
but [37] some things must be [6m] said

[2m] This scene is dead
[6m] the scene is dead
[37] the reasons are many
[6m] excuses are few
[2m] this scene is dead
[6m] the scene is dead
[47] God knows the [37] scene is [6m] dead

We were so cool
so beautiful
so free so hip
the people to be
What we had is gone, what we did is done
the songs we sang as good as never sung

this scene is dead
the scene is dead
God knows the scene is dead

Came back to see what had become
of the place where so much was said and done
footprints in the dust
shadows in a mirror
was it yesterday
or a thousand years

This scene is dead
the scene is dead
the reasons are many
excuses are few
This scene is dead
the scene is dead
God knows the scene is dead…