Hi,
Here's something a little different a live recording guitar and vocals.
Its about my Grandpa, been trying to write this for a while now.
I wasn't very close too him and he died when I was 7, and what appeared to be making of him during WW1 where he joined the Royal Navy and served as an engineer on these Motor Launches ( ML's ).
https://soundcloud.com/neilconnor-2/ml-182Anyway hope you have a listen and look forward to your feedback.
neil
ML 182
When I was a child I would sit there
And play your old mandolin
Didn’t understand, what made you a man
Didn’t know, where you’d been
The navy took you and made you
Grease monkey on 182
All that you saw, in the great world war
Hidden somewhere , inside you
And pictures don’t tell the whole story
Like knots on the family tree
Pictures don’t show all the details
And all that you mean to me
Captains cap, matches and shrapnel
A box of old black and whites
Though you’re not here, I fly through the years
I’m talking with you, with you tonight
Now I am man and I sittin’ here
Playing that old mandolin
I understand, what you became
And I know now, where you’d -been
And pictures don’t tell the whole story
Like knots on the family tree
Pictures don’t show all the details
And all that you mean to
40 cigarettes, every single day. 40 cigarettes, the naval way
When I was a child I would sit there
And play your mandolin
Didn’t understand, what made you a man
Didn’t know, where you’d been