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Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Elton John Songs Illustrated
GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
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Dirty Little Girl
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1973
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I've seen a lot of women who haven't had much luck
I've seen you looking like you've been run down by a truck
That ain't nice to say sometimes I guess I'm really hard
But I'm gonna put buckshots in your pants if you step into my yard
When I watch the police come by and move you on
Well I sometimes wonder what's beneath the mess you've become
Well you may have been a pioneer in the trade of women's wear
But all you got was a mop up job washing other people's stairs
I'm gonna tell the world, you're a dirty little girl
Someone grab that bitch by the ears
Rub her down scrub her back
And turn her inside out
'Cause I bet she hasn't had a bath in years
Here's my own belief about all the dirty girls
That you have to clean the oyster to find the pearl
And like rags that belong to you I belong to myself
So don't show up around here till your social worker's helped
Woohoo!!
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Robbie Williams Songs Illustrated
"And how does the late show ends?"
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YOUR GAY FRIEND
Robbie Williams
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Woohoo!
Hey hey here comes no-one
Another friend to have a go on
And she asks me do I miss her when shes gone
And I reply as much as I miss anyone
Oh! Woohoo
And I'll be your gay friend
'Cause your marriage never ends
Till we fuck and fight again
Theres a space between us
So jump into my bed
Pretend the world is dead
And always in my head
Is a face between us
Hey lord forgive us if we're wrong
Make sure that he never hears this song
And she says that I'm the opposite of a hallmark card
She asks me how I'm feeling well
I don't want to think that hard
Oh! Woohoo!
And I'll be your gay friend
'Cause your marriage never ends
Till we fuck and fight again
Theres a space between us
Jump into my bed
Pretend the world is dead
And always in my head
Is a face between us
It's the late show now
How does the late show end?
Well if God is in, the details
Thank God that you're my friend
I have a friend again
You're my friend again
My gay friend
Oh! Woohoo! Erhh
So jump into my bed
Pretend the world is dead
And always in my head
Is a face between us
And I'll be your gay friend
As your marriage never ends
Till we fuck and fight again
There's a space between us
Oh! Woohoo!
"Still they lead me back
To the long and winding road
You left me standing here
A long, long time ago.
Don't leave me waiting here
Lead me to you door..."
Old76 Soccer-inspired Art 2014
Original watercolour on paper and digital reworked.
Every little thing she does is magic, magic, magic....
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2014
The Eagles Songs Illustrated
HOTEL CALIFORNIA
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Pretty Maids All In A Row
Music & lyrics by The Eagles, Joe Walsh & Joe Vitale 1976
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Hey there,
How are 'ya?
it's been a long time
it seems like we've come a long way
My, but we learn so slow
and heroes, they come
and they go
and leave us behind as if
we're s'pposed to know(why)
Oh tell me(why)
Why do we give up our hearts to the past?
and why must we grow up so fast?
And all you wishing well fools
with your fortunes
someone should send you a rose
with love from a friend,
it's nice to hear from you
again
And the storybook comes to a close
Gone are the ribbons and bows
Things to remember places to go
Pretty Maids all in a Row
A tribute to JEAN HARLOW (1911-1937), American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930's
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Elton John Songs Illustrated
21 AT 33
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Little Jeannie
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Gary Osborne 1980
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Oh little Jeannie, you got so much love, little Jeannie
And you take it where it strikes and give it to the likes of me
Oh little Jeannie, she got so much love, little Jeannie
So I see you when I can, you make me all a man can be
And I want you to be my acrobat, I want you to be my lover
Oh there were others who would treat you cruel
And oh little Jeannie, you were always someone's fool
Little Jeannie, you got so much time, little Jeannie
Though you've grown beyond your years, you still retain the fears of youth
Oh little Jeannie, you got so much time, little Jeannie
But you're burning it up so fast, searching for some lasting truth
And I want you to be my acrobat, I want you to be my lover
Oh there were others who would treat you cruel
But oh Jeannie, I will always be your fool
And I want you to be my acrobat, I want you to be my lover
Oh there were others, and I've known quite a few
But oh oh Jeannie, I'm still in love with you
Stepped into my life from a bad dream
Making the life that I had seem suddenly shiny and new
Oh Jeannie I'm so in love with you
Stepped into my life from a bad dream
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2010
Elton John/Leon Russell Songs Illustrated
THE UNION
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Mandalay Again
Music & lyrics by Elton John, Leon Russell & Bernie Taupin 2010
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Rules and regulations
And real estate are things I've left behind
Flights are always leaving
Silver wings unfolding on a dime
But I won't forget to tell you
If I could reconnect the line
I never really knew you
But come back I'd like to find the time
Drugs and consequences
And ferris wheels just took us up and down
Fights were always brewing
Two perfect understudies for a clown
If I could piece it all together
Or maybe find you through a friend
Last I heard it was St. Louis
But I wish that it was Mandalay again
Come back I'd like to find the time
Plant a seed and raise a little Cain
Come back we'll throw a rope around the moon
And pretend that we're in Mandalay again
Fuel and information
Are Siamese twins who poison everything
Lies that left us drowning
Rumor that burned like gasoline
I could have read you like a book
But instead I acted dumb and blind
I was younger then and foolish
Come back I'd like to find the time
If it wasn't in the afterglow of wine
Or the chatter of some European girl
I'd have understood that after all these years
There were those who chose to separate our worlds
Separate our worlds
"But look out, Janie got a gun, too..."
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011
Elton John Songs Illustrated
BREAKING HEARTS
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Did He Shhot Her
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1984
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Sling your hook in with him baby
He's a real sharp-shooter now
If he's out there hiding in the tall grass
Tell him I said he was a coward
This ain't any old western honey
It's the twentieth century now
But if he thinks he's some kind of tough cowboy
And he's hurt her then I want to know how
Did he shoot her with his compromise
Like a heart attack he can paralyse
Or did he hang her in a noose
On the telephone line
Did he shoot her with a 45
Did he leave his mark right between her eyes
Oh did he shoot that girl
That used to be mine
Tell him I'm ready any time he chooses
The pay-off for the things, for the things he's done
He ain't messing with no two-bit bandit
Armed with a couple of guns
If he wants to see it as a two reel movie
He's living in the head of someone else
But better take him down and dust him honey
I want to hear the truth for myself
Did he shoot her
Did he shoot her
WV1832/2024
Reworked previous drawing of 1996 with gouache and coloured pencils.
Southeast Asia travels...
"I saw you dancing out the ocean
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands
In the instant that you love someone
In the second that the hammer hits
Reality runs up your spine
And the pieces finally fit
And all I ever needed was the one
Like freedom fields where wild horses run
When stars collide like you and I
No shadows block the sun
You're all I've ever needed
Baby you're the one
There are caravans we follow
Drunken nights in dark hotels
When chances breathe between the silence
Where sex and love no longer gel
For each man in his time is Cain
Until he walks along the beach
And sees his future in the water
A long lost heart within his reach...."
THE ONE - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1992.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Bob Marley Songs Illustrated
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NO WOMAN NO CRY
by Bob Marley 1974
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No, woman, no cry
No, woman, no cry
No, woman, no cry
No, woman, no cry
Said said
Said I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown
Oba, ob-serving the hypocrites
As they would
mingle with the good people we meet
Good friends we have had,
Oh, good friends we've lost
along the way
In this great future you can't forget your past
So dry your tears, I say
No, woman, no cry
No, woman, no cry
Ee little darling, don't shed no tears
No, woman, no cry
Said, said,
Said I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown
And then Georgie would make the fire light
As it was log wood burnin' through the night
Then we would cook corn meal porridge
Of which I'll share with you
My feet is my only carriage
So I've got to push on through
But while I'm gone, I mean...
Everything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
So woman, no cry
No, no, woman,
No, woman, no cry
Oh, my little sister, don't shed no tears
No, woman, no cry
I remember when we used to sit
In a government yard in Trenchtown
And then Georgie would make the fire light
As it was log wood burnin' through the night
Then we would cook corn meal porridge
Of which I'll share with you
My feet is my only carriage
So I've got to push on through
But while I'm gone...
No, woman, no cry
No, woman, no cry
Woman, little darling, say, don't shed no tears
No, woman, no cry
Yeah
Little darling don’t shed no tears
No, woman, no cry
Little sister, don’t shed no tears,
No, woman, no cry,
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler Songs Illustrated
SAILING TO PHILADELPHIA
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Speedway At Nazareth
Music & lyrics by Mark Knopfler 2000
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After two thousand came two thousand and one
To be the new champions we were there for to run
From springtime in Arizona 'til the fall in Monterey
And the raceways were the battlefields and we fought 'em all the way
Was at Phoenix in the morning I had a wake-up call
She went around without a warning put me in the wall
I drove Long Beach, California with three cracked vertebrae
And we went on to Indianapolis, Indiana in May
Well the Brickyard's there to crucify anyone who will not learn
I climbed the mountain to qualify went flat through the turn
But I was down in the might-have-beens and an old pal good as died
And I sat down in Gasoline Alley and I cried
Well we were in at the kill again on the Milwaukee Mile
And in June up in Michigan we were robbed at Belle Isle
Then it was on to Portland, Oregon for the G.I. Joe
And I'd blown off almost everyone when my motor let go
New England, Ontario we died in the dirt
Those walls from mid-Ohio to Toronto they hurt
So we came to Road America where we burned up at the lake
But at the Speedway at Nazareth I made no mistake.
WV1792
2014
B
"I wonder who's sleeping in your sheets tonight
Whose head rests upon the bed
Could it be a close friend I knew so well
Who seems to be so close to you instead
Close to you instead..."
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin, Blue Moves 1976)
Ink, gouache and coloured pencil on $teinbach paper
WV2219/2025
Coloured pencils & ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.
"I've been down, but not like this before
Can't be 'round this kind of show no more
All, all that you dream
Comes through shinin silver lining
Clouds, clouds change the scene
Rain starts washing all these cautions
Right into your life, makes you realize
Just what is true, what else can you do
You just follow the rule
Keep your eyes on the road that's ahead of you
I've been down, but not like this before
Can't be 'round this kind of show no more
All of the good, good times were ours
In the land of milk and honey
And time, time adds its scars
Rainy days they turn to sunny ones
Livin' the life, livin' the life lovin' everyone
I've been down, but not like this before
Can't be 'round this kind of show no more
I've been down, but not like this before
Can't be 'round this kind of show no more
I've been down, but not like this before...."
ALL THAT YOU DREAM -Little Feat & Linda Ronstadt, 1975/78.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Elton John Songs Illustrated
BLUE MOVES
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Shoulder Holster
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1976
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Now it was just like Frankie and Johnny
And it was just like Stagger Lee
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
But the thing that she wanted most of all
Was the thing that she had lost
To the arms of a downtown black jack hustler
By the name of Candyfloss
They'd skipped town on a late night train
Heading for the West
Dolly slipped behind the wheel of her Mustang
With a piece between her breast
She put a pistol in her shoulder holster
She took her car up from Santa Fe
Yesterday morning she was washing dishes
Now she's hunting down a runaway
Don't judge a man by a misdemeanor
You may be sorry when his light goes out
Don't put that pistol in your shoulder holster
You can never, never tell if the Law's about
If it seemed just like a movie
Or a night of bad TV
They should have had a picture of Dolly's face
As she drove across country
With daggers drawn for her fallen man
And venom in her heart
It was nearly dawn when she caught them up
Making out in a picnic park
But the thing that shook her rigid
As she fumbled for her gun
Was the state of the man that she'd married once
And thought of as the only one
And as she looked back on the chances
That she'd passed up at home
Well she quietly dumped her pistol in a ditch
And she headed home alone
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Paul McCartney Songs Illustrated
RAM
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Long Haired Lady
Music & lyrics by Paul McCartney 1971
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Well, well, well, well, well,
Do you love me like you know you ought to do?
Well, well, well, well, well,
Or is this the only thing you want me for?
Well, I've been meaning to talk to you about it for sometime,
Sweet little lass, you are my long haired lady.
Who's the lady that makes that brief occasional laughter?
She's the lady we wears those flashing eyes.
Who'll be taking her home when all the dancing is over?
I'm the lucky man she will hypnotize.
Long haired lady. Long haired lady.
Bells are buzzing about my sweet delectable baby,
Birds are humming about their big surprise.
Who's your favorite person, dear phenomenal lady?
I belong to the girl with flashing eye.
Long haired lady. Long haired lady.
Ah, love is long, love is long, love is long.
Ah, when you're wrong, love is long, love is long.
Well, well, well, well, well,
Do you love me like you know you ought to do?
Well, well, well, well, well,
Or is this the only thing you want me for?
Well, I've been meaning to talk to you about it for sometime,
Sweet little lass, you are my long haired lady.
Bells are buzzing about my sweet delectable baby,
Birds are humming about their big surprise.
Who's your favorite person, dear phenomenal lady?
I belong to the girl with flashing eye.
Long haired lady. Long haired lady.
Ah, sing your song, love is long, love is long.
Ah, love is long, love is long, love is long.
WV2059/2025
Coloured pencils and pastel on Steinbach paper.
"So bury me along the Big River
At the foot of the blue gray mountains
Rest my soul in those hills of snow
Until this old earth does tremble
Don't you mourn for me
When my soul is free
Don't you cry
Just bury me at the foot of the big mountains
Under a blue Montana sky..."
Inspired by "1883", an existing. TV series.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Beatles lyrics illustrated
REVOLVER
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Eleanor Rigby
Music & lyrics by The Beatles, Lennon-McCartney 1966
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Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from ?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong ?
Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near.
Look at him working. Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there
What does he care?
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people
Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Leonard Cohen Songs Illustrated
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CHELSEA HOTEL No. 2
Music & lyrics by Leonard Cohen 1971
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I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
you were talking so brave and so sweet,
giving me head on the unmade bed,
while the limousines wait in the street.
Those were the reasons and that was New York,
we were running for the money and the flesh.
And that was called love for the workers in song
probably still is for those of them left.
Ah but you got away, didn't you babe,
you just turned your back on the crowd,
you got away, I never once heard you say,
I need you, I don't need you,
I need you, I don't need you
and all of that jiving around.
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
you were famous, your heart was a legend.
You told me again you preferred handsome men
but for me you would make an exception.
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,
you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind,
we are ugly but we have the music."
And then you got away, didn't you babe...
I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best,
I can't keep track of each fallen robin.
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
that's all, I don't even think of you that often.
WV675/2002
Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper
"Ooh I got a busted wing and a hornet sting
Like an out of tune guitar
Ooh she got Hercules on her side
And Diana in her eyes
Some men like the Chinese life
Some men kneel and pray
Ooh well I like women and I like wine
And I've always liked it that way
Always liked it that way
I can't dig it, the way she tease
That old tough man routine up her sleeve
Living and loving, kissing and hugging
Living and loving with a cat named Hercules
A cat named Hercules
Oh and it hurts like hell to see my gal
Messing with a muscle boy
No superman gonna ruin my plans
Playing with my toys
Rich man sweating in a sauna bath
Poor boy scrubbing in a tub
Me, I stay gritty up to my ears
Washing in a bucket of mud
Washing in a bucket of mud
A cat named Hercules... "
HERCULES - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1972.
DIXIE CHICKEN is the third studio album by the American rock band LITTLE FEAT, released in 1973.
The artwork for the front cover was by illustrator Neon Park.
The album is considered their landmark album with the title track as their signature song that helped further define the Little Feat sound, leaning toward New Orleans R&B/funk.
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DIXIE CHICKEN
Music & lyrics by Little Feat 1973
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I've seen the bright lights of Memphis
And the Commodore Hotel
And underneath a street lamp, I met a southern belle
Oh she took me to the river, where she cast her spell
And in that southern moonlight, she sang this song so well
If you'll be my Dixie chicken I'll be your Tennessee lamb
And we can walk together down in Dixieland
Down in Dixieland
We made all the hotspots, my money flowed like wine
Then the low-down southern whiskey, yea, began to fog my mind
And I don't remember church bells, or the money i put down
On the white picket fence and boardwalk
On the house at the end of town
Oh but boy do i remember the strain of her refrain
And the nights we spent together
And the way she called my name
If you'll be my Dixie chicken I'll be your Tennessee lamb
And we can walk together down in Dixieland
Down in Dixieland
Many years since she ran away
Yes that guitar player sure could play
She always liked to sing along
She always handy with a song
But then one night at the lobby of the Commodore Hotel
I chanced to meet a bartender who said he knew her well
And as he handed me a drink he began to hum a song
And all the boys there, at the bar, began to sing along
If you'll be my Dixie chicken I'll be your Tennessee lamb
And we can walk together down in Dixieland
Down in Dixieland, Down in Dixieland
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Elton John Songs Illustrated
YOUR SONG
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1970
Two drawings, 1989/2008, combined in one.
WV132
1990
Coloured pencil on paper.
The legend of MARILYN MONROE (1926-1962) as written down by Bernie Taupin on Elton John's album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" in 1973.
WV289/1996
Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper
"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...."
GYPSY HEART - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie, 1986.
WV1194
2008
"Well I talk tough, I act rough
Lay still honey I can't get enough
And keep your nose clean, let me be
On your knees when you speak to me
And trust me, Angeline
And talk real dirty and I'll make you scream Angeline!"
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin 1986)
Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper
WV664/2002
Coloured pencil and soft pastel on Steinbach paper
Spanish air castles...
"You can waste your time building barriers
Spend your life trying to break them down again
Like an island, in a sea that breathes revenge
When we talk sometimes you're a looking glass
Every word from the blueprint of your past
In the distance there's a castle in the clouds
And our love will make us strong together
We can be in love forever
Just the two of us
When I get lonely, hold me
We will understand each other
You will be my friend and lover
When we're far apart
You're in my heart I'm in your dreams......"
CASTLE IN THE CLOUDS - Beverley Craven, 1990.
WV2226/2025
Coloured pencils & ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.
"Adalida, pretty little cajun queen.
Sweet dixie flower, the belle of the bayou-
You're every young man's dream.
Adalida, I'd walk through a hurricane
To stand beside you sweet Adalida I'd swim the Pontchartrain.
Oh no, here you comin' down the road.
With your cotton dress a swishin', you gettin' some attention
From all the boys in Thibodaux.
Oh my, you really fillin' up their eyes.
Smilin' and a winkin', I know what they're thinkin',
But I'm the only one who loves you so!
Oh no, the hottest little dish I know.
I know you can tell it
You makin' me so jealous from my head down to my toes.
Oh me, you could make a redneck green.
The way that you're a lookin' you got me cookin',
And I ain't talkin' 'bout Etoufee'..."
ADALIDA - George Strait, 1995.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Linda Ronstadt Songs Illustrated
SILK PICTURE
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Long Long Time
Music & lyrics by Linda Ronstadt & Gary White 1970
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Love will abide, take things in stride
Sounds like good advice but there's no one at my side
And time washes clean love's wounds unseen
That's what someone told me but I don't know what it means.
Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time
Caught in my fears
Blinking back the tears
I can't say you hurt me when you never let me near
And I never drew one response from you
All the while you fell all over girls you never knew
Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think it's gonna hurt me for a long long time
Wait for the day
You'll go away
Knowing that you warned me of the price I'd have to pay
And life's full of flaws
Who knows the cause?
Living in the memory of a love that never was
Cause I've done everything I know to try and change your mind
and I think I'm gonna miss you for a long long time
Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time.
WV1985/2024
"Well I'm keeping off the streets since you came to town
Since you claimed my heart from the lost and found
I have said goodbye to my fooling around
Now you and me babe we got candy by the pound
You and me babe we got candy by the pound
Well I never knew it could feel so good
Be the king of the hill in my neighbourhood
Rain on my roof what a sweet sound
Oh with you underneath it's like candy by the pound
With you underneath it's like candy by the pound
You can tell everybody that this girl of mine
Is sweeter than the grapes hanging from the vine
Love like wine honey drinking till I drown
Keep it coming baby like candy by the pound
Oh no what's come over me
If I am dreaming then let me sleep
Oh wow I'm heaven bound
Love is getting sweeter than candy by the pound.... "
CANDY BY THE POUND - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1985.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Photo WV91
Mark Knopfler Songs Illustrated
GOLDEN HEART
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A Night In Summer Long Ago
Music & lyrics by Mark Knopfler 1997
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My lady may I have this dance
Forgive a knight who knows no shame
My lady may I have this dance
And lady may I know your name
You danced upon a soldier's arm
And I felt the blade of love so clean
And when you smiled you did me harm
And I was drawn to you, my queen
Now these boots may take me where they will
Though they may never shine like his
There is no knight I would not kill
To have my lady's hand to kiss
Yes and they did take me through the hall
To leave me not one breath from you
And they fell silent one and all
And you could see my heart was true
Then I did lead you from the hall
And we did ride upon the hill
Away beyond the city wall
And sure you are my lady still
A night in summer long ago
The stars were falling from the sky
And still, my heart, I have to know
Why do you love me, lady, why?
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler Songs Illustrated
DIRE STRAITS
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In The Gallery
Music & lyrics by Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler 1978
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Harry made a bareback rider proud and free upon a horse
And a fine coalminer for the NCB that was
A fallen angel and Jesus on the cross
A skating ballerina you should have seen her do the skater's waltz
Some people have got to paint and draw
Harry had to work in clay and stone
Like the waves coming to the shore
It was in his blood and in his bones
Ignored by all the trendy boys in London and in Leeds
He might as well have been making toys or strings of beads
He could not be in the gallery
And then you get an artist says he doesn't want to paint at all
He takes an empty canvas and sticks it on the wall
The birds of a feather all the phonies and all of the fakes
While the dealers they get together
And they decide who gets the breaks
And who's going to be in the gallery
No lies he wouldn't compromise
No junk no bits of string
And all the lies we subsidise
That just don't mean a thing
I've got to say he passed away in obscurity
And now all the vultures are coming down from the tree
So he's going to be in the gallery
WV1721
2011
"Dolly Summers was a simple girl from a mid-west family..."
Collage & mixed media on $teinbach paper
WV1003
2007
"Oh little Jeannie, you got so much love, little Jeannie
But you're burning it up so fast, searching for some lasting truth..."
Ink on Steinbach paper
WV1449:2009
The Saxophone Girl...
Coloured pencil and gouache on Steinbach paper
"You'll find me in a Berlin bar in a corner, brooding
You know that I go very quiet when I'm listening to you
There's something special indeed
There's something special indeed
In all the places where I've seen you shine, boy
Something very real in how I feel, honey
It's in me
It's in me
And you know it's for real
Tuning in on your saxophone
The candle burning over your shoulder is throwing
Shadows from your saxophone, a surly lady in tremor
The stars that climb from her bowels
Those stars make towers on vowels
You'll never see that you had all of me
You'll never see the poetry you've stirred in me
Of all the stars I've seen that shine so brightly
Never known or felt in myself so rightly
It's in me
It's in me
And you know it's for real
Tuning in on your saxophone..."
THE SAXOPHONE SONG - Kate Bush, 1978.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
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YOU'RE IN MY HEART The Final Acclaim
Music & lyrics by Rod Stewart 1977
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I didn't know what day it was
when you walked into the room
I said hello unnoticed
You said goodbye too soon
Breezing through the clientele
spinning yarns that were so lyrical
I really must confess right here
the attraction was purely physical
I took all those habits of yours
that in the beginning were hard to accept
Your fashion sense, Beardsly prints
I put down to experience
The big bosomed lady with the Dutch accent
who tried to change my point of view
Her ad lib lines were well rehearsed
but my heart cried out for you
You're in my heart, you're in my soul
You'll be my breath should I grow old
You are my lover, you're my best friend
You're in my soul
My love for you is immeasurable
My respect for you immense
You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness
You're beauty and elegance
You're a rhapsody, a comedy
You're a symphony and a play
You're every love song ever written
But honey what do you see in me
You're an essay in glamour
Please pardon the grammar
but you're every schoolboy's dream
You're Celtic, United, but baby I've decided
You're the best team I've ever seen
And there have been many affairs
Many times I've thought to leave
But I bite my lip and turn around
'cause you're the warmest thing I've ever found
WV2011/2025
Coloured pencil & ink on paper...
"... Called up the tealeaves and the tarots
Asked the gypsy what she sees in the palm of our hands
She saw a red mountain and a wild deer running becoming a better woman...."
Inspired by Bernie Taupin's lyrics, 2006.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Tori Amos Songs Illustrated
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CRUCIFY
Music & lyrics by Tori Amos
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Every finger in the room
is pointing at me
I wanna spit in their faces
Then I get afraid of what that could bring
I got a bowling ball in my stomach
I got a desert in my mouth
Figures that my courage would choose to sell our now
I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets
looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets
I've been raising up my hands
Drive another nail in
Just what God needs
One more victim
Why do we
Crucify ourselves
Every day
I crucify myself
Nothing I do is good enough for you
Crucify myself
Every day
Crucify myself
And my heart is sick of being
And my heart is sick of being in chains
Got a kick for a dog
Beggin' for Love
I gotta have my suffering
So that I can have my cross
I know a cat named Easter
He says will you ever learn
You're just an empty cage girl
If you kill the bird
Why do we
Crucify ourselves
Every day
I crucify myself
Nothing I do is good enough for you
Crucify myself
Every day
Crucify myself
And my heart is sick of being
And my heart is sick of being in chains
Please be
Save me
I
I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets
looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets
I've been raising up my hands
Drive another nail in
Where are the angels when you need them
Why do we
Crucify ourselves
Every day
I crucify myself
Nothing I do is good enough for you
Crucify myself
Every day
Crucify myself
And my heart is sick of being
And my heart is sick of being in chains
WV112/1990
Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper...
Gone fishing with a girl named Amy!
"If there's sharks in the water, don't swim where it's deep, Amy!"
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Elton John Songs Illustrated
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DID ANYBODY SLEEP WITH JOAN OF ARC
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 2002
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At seventeen, she became the queen of Orleans
A peasant child guided by a vivid dream
She was cool before they knew what cool became
She cut her hair and cross-dressed in a dangerous age
She set a trend, a natural look was all the rage
Imagine if they'd had merchandise and poster sales
This bride of God, bigger than Elvis in her day
She had it all until they burned it all away
She swung a sword
She rode a horse
She wore her armor for the Lord
But did she cry by candlelight
Was she lonely after dark
Did she pray for something more
Did anybody sleep with Joan Of Arc
She was small and more or less of common breed
But saint aside, no stranger to a woman's needs
No handsome knights, no random acts of chivalry
Her bed remained a simple place for her to sleep
They burned her down for her belief
They burned her down for her faith
They gave her up into the flames
Proclaiming she'd seen heaven's face
Did anybody sleep with Joan of Arc
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
A digital collage of previous coloured pencil drawings on paper.
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Since God Invented Girls
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1988
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The mother of invention made it good for me
Tighter in the rear
Longer in the seam
Kicked out yards of leather
Wrapped around her waist
Trimmed it to perfection
And left a little space
Yeah they got competition now
All across the world
But there ain't been no looking back
Since God invented girls
Now I know what Brian Wilson meant
Every time I step outside
I see what Heaven sent
There may be seven wonders
Created for this world
But one is all we need
Since God invented girls
Higher on the heel, paler than pure cream
Leaner on the sidewalk
Cutting through the steam
After claws and feathers
He took skin and bone
Shaped it like an hourglass
And made the angels moan
Oh here's a little heat boys
To straighten out them curls
Now there ain't been no angels round
Since God invented girls
WV1888/2024
Watercolours and ink on Steinbach paper.
"...... So stop in the sky and tell me why
You're changing your colours before my eyes
Yellow, blue, green and grey
Settled on the window pane
It made the rain that came seem strange
Just like strange rain
It made the rain that came seem strange
Just like strange rain
Still I sit beside the fire and watched as it fell
Come in colours from above into my citadel
My eyes are all embriodered with the rainbow you have made
And now it seems as though it's just, just like strange rain....."
JUST LIKE STRANGE RAIN - Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1969.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Billy Joel Songs Illustrated
RIVER OF DREAMS
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Blonde Over Blue
Music & lyrics by Billy Joel 1993
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Some days, when I'm far away
In a lonely room in a cold seclusion
Some nights when I'm wound so tight
There is no release, there is no solution
In hell, there's a big hotel
Where the bar just closed and the windows never opened
No phone, so you can't call home,
And the TV works, but the clicker is broken
But, in the darkness, I see your light turned on
You know my weakness, you know how I respond to...
Blonde over blue
Your hands are cold, your eyes are fire
Blonde over blue
They shine as though you're burning inside
One word from you is all I need to be inspired
Blonde over blue
I need your inspiration tonight
These days, there's a million ways
To be pulled and torn, to be misdirected
These times, there are sins and crimes
On the morning shows for the disconnected
I look, and I write my book,
And I walk away with the wrong impressions
Don't care 'cause I've done my share,
And I need some time for my own obsessions
It doesn't matter, I've let that life go by
It's been forgotten 'cause all I wanted was you
Blonde over blue
Your hands are cold, your eyes are fire
Blonde over blue
They shine as though you're burning inside
One word from you is all I need to be inspired
Blonde over blue
I need your inspiration tonight
These days, not a damn soul prays,
And there is no faith 'cause there's nothing to believe in
These days, only good luck pays
If we don't get paid, then we try to get even
I look, and I write my book,
And I have my say, and I draw conclusions
Some nights when I'm wound so tight
There is no release, there is no solution
But, in the darkness, I see your light turned on
You know my weakness, you know how I respond to...