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WV2168/2025
Coloured pencils and ink on Steinbach paper.
She is small, yet she is tall and strong
Her weapons are made of steel, stone, and wood
She is thirty years old or more, yet she is only seventeen
As a soldier, she is centuries old
Her orders certainly don't come from far away
She gets them from here, from you and me
Her leaders are us
This way we won't put an end to the suffering of war
THE UNIVERSAL SOLDIER - Various artists
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler Songs Illustrated
COMMUNIQUE
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Lady Writer
Music & lyrics by Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler 1979
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Lady Writer on the TV
Talk about the Virgin Mary
Reminded me of you
Expectations left to come up to yeah
Lady writer on the TV
Yeah, she had another quality
The way you used to look
And I know you never read a book
Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
Then I recall my fall from grace
Another time, another place
Lady writer on the TV
She had all the brains and the beauty
The picture does not fit
You talked to me when you felt like it
Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
Then I recall my fall from grace
Another time, another place
Yes and your rich old man
You know he'd call her a dead ringer
You got the same command
Plus you mother was a jazz singer
Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
Then I recall my fall from grace
Another time, another place
Lady writer on the TV
She knew all about a history
You couldn't hardly write your name
I think I want you just the same as the
Lady writer on the TV
Talking about the Virgin Mary
Yeah you know I'm talking about you and me
And the lady writer on the TV
Lady writer on the TV
Talking about the Virgin Mary
Yeah you know I'm talking about you and me
And the lady writer on the TV
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Elton John Songs Illustrated
LEATHER JACKETS
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Gypsy Heart
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1986
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You win again, you gypsy heart
I count the days that we're apart
I sleep alone when you're away
No sense in saying I wish you'd stay
It's all the same, you never change
You come and go just like the rain
I pray each day that you are gone
This time it won't be so long
Your gypsy heart will never find
Any arms as warm as mine
And gypsy when we meet again
I'll play my part
And wrap you up inside my arms
Oh you gypsy heart
Your gypsy heart can always call
When your back's against the wall
And darling then I'll just pretend
Right from the start
You never left me on my own oh you gypsy heart
I pray each day that you are gone
This time oh it won't be so long
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Elton John Songs Illustrated
TOO LOW FOR ZERO
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Religion
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1983
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Well he could almost taste the money
But he was sitting in a den of thieves
Looking for the great awakening
Trying to find a way to leave
But that's when he got religion
And the light went on inside
He said somebody up there likes me
Now he's working for the holy guide
He got drunk but he don't remember
That he'd been drinking in a bar downtown
When he thought he heard a choir of angels
Singing in the Tiki Lounge
And that's when he got religion
From no salesman on TV
Just a tap on the shoulder in the parking lot
He still drinks but he does believe
Religion, you do the best you can
We all make the same mistakes
We're gonna wind up with the man
Religion, oh you do the best you can
We all make the same mistakes
We're gonna wind up with the man
She was silent as he paid her
But the thanks she got was next to none
And as her car pulled out of the motel
She felt the presence of someone
And that's when she got religion
In the front of a compact Ford
Just a gentle voice on the stereo
Now she's a working girl who loves the lord
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011
Elton John Songs Illustrated
HONKY CHATEAU
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Mellow
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1972
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Cool grass blowing up the pass
Don't you know I'm feeling mellow
I love your Roman nose, the way you curl your toes baby
Make me feel so mellow
It's the same old feeling I get when you're stealing
Back into my bed again
With the curtains closed and the window froze
By the rhythm of the rain
You make me mellow, you make me mellow
Rocking smooth and slow
Mellow's the feeling that we get
Watching the coal fire glow
You make me mellow, I make you mellow
Wrecking the sheets real fine
Heaven knows what you sent me Lord
But God this is a mellow time
Going down to the stores in town
Getting all the things we need
Don't forget the beer my little dear
It helps to sow the mellow seed
And it can't be bad, all the love I've had
Coursing through my life
Down in the pass where the wind blows fast
And mellow's feeling right
WV1973/2024
Based on Elton John's 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' with lyrics by Bernie Taupin.
SWEET PAINTED LADY
"I'm back on dry land once again
Opportunity awaits me like a rat in the drain
We're all hunting honey with money to burn
Just a short time to show you the tricks that we've learned
If the boys all behave themselves here
Well there's pretty young ladies and beer in the rear
You won't need a gutter to sleep in tonight
Oh the prices I charge here will see you alright
So she lays down beside me again
My sweet painted lady, the one with no name
Many have used her and many still do
There's a place in the world for a woman like you
Oh sweet painted lady
Seems it's always been the same
Getting paid for being laid
Guess that's the name of the game
Forget us we'll have gone very soon
Just forget we ever slept in your rooms
And we'll leave the smell of the sea in your beds
Where love's just a job and nothing is said
So she lays down beside me again
My sweet painted lady, the one with no name
Many have used her and many still do
There's a place in the world for a woman like you..."
WV942/2006
Coloured pencils on Steinbach paper.
"Well I jumped into the river
Too many times to make it home
I'm out here on my own, an drifting all alone
If it doesn't show give it time
To read between the lines
'Cause I see the storm getting closer
And the waves they get so high
Seems everything We've ever known's here
Why must it drift away and die..."
("Estranged", Guns N' Roses)
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2014
Dwight Yoakam Songs Illustrated
IF THERE WAS A WAY
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The Heart That you Own
Music & lyrics by Dwight Yoakam 1990
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I pay rent on a run-down place
There ain't no view but there's lots of space
In my heart
The heart that you own
I pay the rent
Pay it right on time
Baby I pay you every single dime
For my heart
The heart that you own
Used to be I could love here for free
Way back before you bought the property
Now I pay daily on what once was mine
Lord I probably owe you
For the tears the I cry
'Cause I pay rent on a run-down place
There ain't no view but there's lots of space
In my heart
The heart that you own
I struggle each night to find a new way
To pay you what I owe
Just so I can stay
I ain't overdue
So you can't throw me out
I've loved here for years
Don't know where I'd go now
'Cause I pay rent on a run-down place
There ain't no view but there's lots of space
In my heart
The heart that you own.
Yea, in my heart
The heart that you own
WV113
1990
Coloured pencil and calligraphy on paper.
After Elton John's song "Teacher I Need You" in 1972.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Leon Russell Songs Illustrated
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BACK TO THE ISLAND
Music & lyrics by Leon Russell
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Now the day is gone and I sit alone and think of you, girl
What can I do without you in my life?
I guess that our guessing game just had to end that way
The hardest one to lose of all the games we played
But the time is past for living in a dream world
Lying to myself can't make that scene
Of wondering if you love me or just making a fool of me
Well I hope you understand I just had to go back to the island
And watch the sun go down (sit and watch the sun go down)
Hear the sea roll in (listen to the sea roll in)
But I'll be thinking of you (yes, and I'll be thinking of you)
And how it might have been (thinking how it might have been)
Hear the night birds cry (listen to the night birds cry)
Watch the sunset die (sit and watch the sunset die)
Well I hope you understand I just had to go back to the island
Well all the fun has died, It's raining in my heart
I know down in my soul I'm really gonna miss you
But it had to end this way with all the games we played
Well I hope you understand I just had to go back to the island
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011
Elton John Songs Illustrated
FRIENDS
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Michelle's Song
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1971
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Cast a pebble on the water
Watch the ripples gently spreading
Tiny daughter of the Camargue
We were meant to be together
We were made for one another
In a time it takes to grow up
If only we were old enough
Then they might leave us both alone
So take my hand in your hand
Say it's great to be alive
No one's going to find us
No matter how they try
No one's going to find us
It's wonderful so wild beneath the sky
Sleeping in the open
See the shadows softly moving
Take a train towards the southlands
Our time was never better
We shall pass the sights of splendor
On the door of a new life
It had to happen soon I guess
Whether it is wrong or it is right
We learned to be so graceful
Watching wild horses running
And from those agile angels
We knew the tide was turning
For we watched as on the skyway
The herons circled slowly
While we mere mortals watched them fly
Our sleepless eyes grew heavy
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Roxy Music Songs Illustrated
AVALON
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Avalon
Music & lyrics by Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry 1982
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Now the party's over
I'm so tired
Then I see you coming
Out of nowhere
Much communication in a motion
Without conversation or a notion
Avalon
When the samba takes you
Out of nowhere
And the background's fading
Out of focus
Yes the picture's changing
Every moment
And your destination
You don't know it
Avalon
When you bossanova
There's no holding
Would you have me dancing
Out of nowhere
Avalon ...
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011
Elton John Songs Illustrated
HONKY CHATEAU
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1972
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011
Original watercolour and ink on Steinbach paper, digital reworked...
Elton John Songs Illustrated
BLUE MOVES
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The Wide-eyed And Laughing
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1976
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Are you still in control of the boat that you row
Or do you still cling to me when its sinking
I never condemned you, I only consoled you
When candlelight made me a King
For the wide-eyed and laughing
Passed like a season
Erasing a passion to sin
For no one knew better than the tealeaves and the tarots
That the wide-eyed and laughing
Were just one step ahead of the wind
And the hearts that you played on the porch swing for me
Was a song that I'd heard in the past
For I had an audience somewhere inside you
That applauded whenever you laughed
Gone is a word that I now rarely use
Though sometime in the course of a day
I go racing back like a man possessed
By the wide-eyed and laughing daughters of some different age
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
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COCOON
By Bjork
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Who would have known
That a boy like him
Would have entered me lightly
Restoring my blisses
Who would have known
That a boy like him
After sharing my core
Would stay going nowhere
Who would have known
A beauty this immense
Who would have known
A saintly trance
Who would have known
Miraculous breath
To inhale a beard
Loaded with courage
Who would have known
That a boy like him
Possessed of magical
Sensitivity
Would approach a girl like me
Who caresses cradles his head
In a bosom
He slides inside
Half awake, half asleep
We faint back
Into sleephood
When I wake up
The second time
In his arms
Gorgeousness
He's still inside me
Who would have known
Who ahhh
Who would have known
A train of pearls
Cabin by cabin
Is shot precisely
Across an ocean
From a mouth
From a
From the mouth
Of a girl like me
To a boy
WV2046/2025
Coloured pencils andink on paper.
"...
Sunday's child and the wolf were wed
To Monday's child with her empty head
Tuesday's child seemed to know the answer
..."
TUESDAY'S CHILD - All About Eve, 1989;
"Sayonara Mariko-san..."
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Shōgun is an American television miniseries based on the namesake novel by James Clavell. It was on television in the early eighties.
The story is based on the adventures of English navigator William Adams, an English captain who sailed with a Dutch ship "The Erasmus" to Japan in the year of our Lord 1600... He never returned.
WV1850/2024
"Are we really happy here with this lonely game we play?
Looking for words to say
Searching but not finding understanding anywhere
We're lost in a masquerade..."
THIS MASQUERADE Leon Russell, 1972
WV878
2006
"Jesus freaks out in the street
Handing tickets out for God
Turning back she just laughs
The boulevard is not that bad..."
("Tiny Dancer", Bernie Taupin lyrics 1971)
Coloured pencil and ink on Steinbach paper
WV1219/2008
Coloured pencil and pastel on $teinbach paper
"And it's no use each way we lose
You and me at the crossroads of Blue Avenue
Hit and run hearts collide here
True love passes through
Looks like we've got a wreck babe
Up on Blue Avenue
Up on Blue Avenue
Blue Avenue..."
BLUE AVENUE (excerpt) - Music & lyrics Elton John/Bernie Taupin 1989)
WV1900/2024
"The seadogs have all sailed their ships
Into the docks of dawn
While the sirens sit and comb their hair
And twiddle with their thumbs
Oh Thor above the mountain
Look down upon your children
This is their heaven where they're told
To bring their galleons
Seek you find your place with me
Men of iron, men of steel
Only the brave hear the hammers ring
In the courts of the Queens, in the halls of the Kings
You can come to Val-hala in your own time
Come to Val-hala seek and you will find Val-hala
Come to Val-hala in your own time
Come to Val-hala seek and you will find Val-hala..."
VAL-HALA - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1969.
WV1756
2012
B
"Ho hey ho...
What's the use of worrying?
What's the use of hurrying?
What's the use of anything?
Ho hey ho..."
(Paul McCartney lyrics)
Ink and gouache on $teinbach paper
WV1843/2024
Sharks in the Seine
"... Crazy water
Takes my fishing boat on Monday morning
Dangerous dreaming
If we all believe in the things you believe you're seeing
Oh we'd never drop our nets in the crazy water, crazy water..."
CRAZY WATER Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupi, 1976
WV823/2005
Coloured pencil and pastel on $teinbach paper
"Hey Joe, somebody touched your wife.. What are you going to do about it?"
WV1069
2007
'Dolly Summers was a simple girl
From a mid-west family
With a stucco home and her own Mustang
And a charge account at Sears
She had everything that a girl could want
To live happy for the rest of her years..."
("Shoulder Holster", Elton John/Bernie Taupin 1976)
Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper
WV720/2003
Coloured pencils on Steinbach paper.
"Me and Mrs. Mrs. Jones
We've got a thing going on.
We both know that it's wrong,
but it's much too strong
to let it go now.
We've gotta be extra careful
That we don't build our hopes up too high.
'Cause she's got her own obligations
and so – and so do I... "
(Billy Paul Songs)
WV939
2006
"And there's a word in Spanish I don't understand
But I heard it in a film one time spoken by the leading man
He said it with devotion, he sounded so sincere
And the words he spoke in Spanish brought the female lead to tears
A word in Spanish, a word in Spanish..."
("A Word In Spanish", Elton John/Bernie Taupin 1988)
Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper
WV1924/2024
"Full-time living on a half-time schedule
Always trying to make everybody feel special
Learning when to brake and when to hit the pedal
Working hard to look good 'til we die
A critical reason there's a population
Raising eyebrows and a new generation
Rosie the Riveter with renovations
And always gets better with wine
Redesigning women
Running the world while we're cleaning up the kitchen
Making bank, shaking hands, driving 80
Trying to get home just to feed the baby
Skipping the bread for the butter
Changing our minds like we change our hair color
Yeah, ever since the beginning
We've been redesigning women
Pulling up the floors and changing out the curtains
Some of us are saints and some of us are surgeons
Made in God's image, just a better version
And breaking every Jell-O mold
And when we love someone, we take 'em to heaven
And if the shoe fits, we're gonna buy 11
How we get it done, we like to keep 'em guessing
But secretly, we all know..."
REDESIGNING WOMEN - The Highwomen, 2019.
WV1747
2011
B
"I was standing
All alone against the world outside
You were searching
For a place to hide
Lost and lonely
Now you've given me the will to survive
When we're hungry...love will keep us alive..."
(Eagles lyrics)
Ink and gouache on $teinbach paper.
WV1674
2010
"Nothing lasts forever
Of that I'm sure..."
(Roxy Music "Same Old Scene", 1980)
Ink on $teinbach paper
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011
Elton John Songs Illustrated
11-17-70
Honky Tonk Woman
Music & lyrics by Elton John & The Rolling Stones