Archive for songwriting
Los Artículos de Fe (nuevo album)
Con mi hermana decidimos colaborar en un proyecto de crear canciones para ayudar a los miembros de la Iglesia de los Santos a los Últimos Días a memorizar los trece Artículos de Fe. Este “paquete” se puede descargar por solo 2 USD e incluye:
- Las 13 canciones cantadas por mí
- Las 13 canciones con pistas instrumentales
- La partitura entera—veinte páginas con el acompanimiento para piano
Esperamos agregar ayudas visuales (gratis) al sitio en las semanas venideras. Yo he probado estas canciones y verdadermente ayudan que yo haya podido memorizar y RECORDAR todas las palabras a los Artículos de Fe. ¡Esperamos que puedan ayudarles a sus familias también!
Dona Dona
Once I get started, I can’t stop writing a song until it’s at a stopping place. So that is why it is 3 freakin’ AM on Monday morning. Anyways, here is my version of “Dona Dona”, quite different from the traditional folk version we know from Joan Baez. Please forgive the less-than-professional vocals and mic situation! (I’m doing this on my laptop with Garage Band ’09.)
On a wagon bound for market
There’s a calf with a mournful eye.
High above him there’s a swallow
Winging swiftly through the sky.
How the winds are laughing, laughing
They’re laughing with all their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And laughing half the summer’s night.
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona don
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona don
“Stop complaining,” said the farmer,
“Who told you a calf to be?
Why don’t you have wings to fly away
Like the swallow so proud and free?”
How the winds are laughing, laughing
They’re laughing with all of their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And laughing half the summer’s night.
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona don
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona don
Calves are easily bound and slaughtered
Never knowing the reason why.
But whoever treasures freedom,
Like the swallow must learn to fly.
How the winds are laughing, laughing
How they laugh with all of their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And laughing half the summer’s night.
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona don
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona don
Summer Glory
I need a real banjo instead of a Garage Band loop, but I think the sketch has potential… What do you think?
Ol’ Father Joe is hoping for that apple pie
That Mama Sal will bake he makes that apple eye
And Jane is headed down to bring another boy home
And James is goin’ to play outside with friends.
I know there is another story
All together, summer glory
Evening light, a bowl of cherries
All together, the porch is swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair
Swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair
Old Uncle Bob is bringing grandma home right now
And Auntie Liza swears she’ll shoot down all my cows
That Cousin Shane he’s made the army, going soon
And James is goin’ to play outside with friends.
I know there is another story
All together, summer glory
Evening light, a bowl of cherries
All together, the porch is swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair
Swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair
These pictures, they are memories that I never had
But still I’d like to tell you of the tiny shack
Where birds and hearts are whistling a brand new tune
And James is goin’ to play outside with friends.
I know that there’s another story
All together, summer glory
Evening light, a bowl of cherries
All together, the porch is swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair
Swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair
Swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair
Swinging a chair
And the wind’s in my hair
