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Singing in the night like an ancient choir Struggle and strife from the nights of fire Nobody’s saved, caught up in a life that is based on lies The Western Isles by Josh Rouse from The Happiness WaltzĪll day, I can see the life from the western isles
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Maybe these artists think that’s part of the fun of it, part of the “mystery” of being a Shamanesque type of figure. Why doesn’t Josh and all the other acts publish these things on their websites or whatever? Damn, it’s frustrating.Īnyway, I’ll publishing the words as I’m doing them at this moment. This leads me to a rant: Why is it so damn hard to get the lyrics and or liner notes to these albums nowadays?! It makes me crazy. I mean the “Cigarettes and black Greece tea” sound like they almost could be right, or have a chance of being right, but this second passage, I just have make something up, which I know is wrong, but still work to get me through the song: “Maybe we’ve been patron leave.” On the second time that it does that refrain it repeats the passage with words I totally can’t understand. The best I can decipher it, and you’ll know the part I’m talking about if you listen to the song, is “Cigarettes and black Greece tea.” Oh, speaking musically, this is on the refrain part of the song, which begins on an F#m, and then kind of stays on that chord with a half step down bass line F#-F-E-Eb- at which point when it arrives at the D it just goes into the D chord itself for the “Could we…” and the “feel at” is on top of the E chord, back to the D chord for “home” But I found that with an A harmonica, I can sort of imitate that bass riff, which itself is echoed, during the songs’ interludes, by a lovely sounding organ in the original recording.Īlso, it’s one of those Josh songs where he sings something, I just can’t decipher, and apparently no one else can either, because when I did a lyric search, all the sites that have the lyrics for this song have a “?” by this same passage. I thought that within the context of me just playing with an acoustic, and maybe a harmonica, that I really couldn’t present that main riff motif. So, that’s one reason I sort of steered clear of it. Another interesting thing about this song: It has a bass driven riff. The main riff kind of swings back in forth between those two chords, as well as the verse, with an F#m thrown in for an accent. It starts out on a Dmaj7 then to an Emaj.
JOSH ROUSE THE WESTERN ISLES PLUS
Plus I couldn’t get it out of my head.įirst off what’s interesting about this song is that it is in the Key of A, but there’s never an A chord in the song. What made me pick it, was not only did I love the song, but something reminded me that it was a Google Play Music pick of the day a few weeks ago. It’s the 9th track off his most recent album “The Happiness Waltz.” Can’t hurt.Īnyway today’s song: “The Western Isles” by Josh Rouse.
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JOSH ROUSE THE WESTERN ISLES CRACK
REM, Smiths, Replacements, Police, really just anytime I hear a song I like, I should at least take a crack at it. I really should try to broaden out my repertoire though. So I’ve spent a lot of time trying to pick out his chords and enjoying singing his songs. He’s been my favorite singer/songwriter for the last going on 7 years now. Probably about 90% of these songs are going to be Josh Rouse. The second part I didn’t have right, but I could hear him clearly and it’s “Maybe we’ve been daydreaming.” I guess there is such a thing as Black Greece tea.
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Sounds like I got the “Black Greece Tea” part right. He did play this song, so I listened closely to the lyrics during the refrain/bridge part.
JOSH ROUSE THE WESTERN ISLES UPDATE
Update 05/22/13 : I just heard Josh do a live interview/ 3 song session on a Radio station in London.