Thursday, October 1, 2020

Cell Phone Killers

 It is not everyday that we as songwriters become social commentators.  But this day was my day!  I do not know where exactly I picked up this strange chord sequence, but a African American fellow came by my street performance in Cohoes one day and challenged me to come up with something soulfull in conjunction with what was emanating from his boombox, so I came up with this.  The song which I adapted to it was an idea about something in society pertaining to behavioral phenomena which I observed.   It that I surmised that an underground had formed of cell phone users who were attempting to manifest a cause of which I was not certain. I wrote this song about it entitled "Cell Phone Killers."  I hope you like it.    d


7-10-8-7     4 string bar


went to church one day

talked to a girl showed me the way

told me to be

a cell phone killer


Holy Spirit had its day

big sharp objects and some frays

today is gonna be the day

cell phone killers


God became a WU telegraph

searchin' for these epitaphs

fakin' all the charts and graphs

cell phone killers


reason was a friend of mine

now I sin and do my time

groupies and a pantomime

cell phone killers


ref:    17-9-7    four string bar


hadn't any church after that

got a great big brain attack

Turner and the great big facts

cell phone killers