Mornington Crescent

A tale of the mundane life of commuters in London. See if you can spot all the references to a certain Radio 4 panel game!

The Lyttelton arms is a pub just outside Mornington Crescent tube station. I've been there, it was quite nice. No idea if they ever have …

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North of Hadrian's Wall

A song in which I complain about a thing that really doesn't matter, namely that journalists and politicians sometimes like to use "North of Hadrian's Wall" as a vaguely poetic synonym for Scotland, which would be nice if only it was an actual synonym. As it happens, there's rather a …

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One More Day To Get Through

I've no idea what this song is about. Basically I took a Bob Dylan song (spoiler alert: I'll tell you which one at the bottom) then wrote new words, chords and tune, with the words roughly based on things I've seen around my home town. Otherwise the words don't really …

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Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde

In life, the reward for doing good work is more work. And usually, harder work. It's kind of similar in computer games. For example, the better Pac-man gets at escaping from the ghosts Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde, the harder the challenge gets...

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Champion Of The World

This is a song about a very serious game. It's also about the kinds of people you might meet if you're in the habit of chatting to strangers in coffee shops or pubs. You won't meet the chap in this song though, because I made him up.

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Don't Mess With A Goddess

Let's go back to Ancient Greece now, and visit the gods on Mount Olympus. Hera, the queen of the gods, is not happy with her husband Zeus, or, more accurately, his many lovers. So what's she going to do about that?

Lyrics and Chords:

[C][F]
[G][G7][C]

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Fly Home Winkie

I had half an hour to waste in Dundee one day, and wandered into the McManus gallery. There, in a glass case, I found a stuffed pigeon and a medal. It turns out the pigeon's name is Winkie, and the medal is the Dickin Medal, which she won for her …

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Keyboard Warriors

Ah yes, the internet troll. Often depicted as a nerdy kid with no friends hiding in their bedroom. Well I was a nerdy introverted kid who always had trouble making friends and I never felt the need to yell at people on the internet. Not that twitter had been invented …

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Lost at Whamageddon

I wanted to write a Christmas song, so I decided to write about the traditional yuletide pastime of trying to avoid listening to "Last Christmas" by Wham, in the classic game of Whamageddon.

Lyrics and Chords:

[C][F][G]
[C][F][G]

[C]Santa's loading presents, piling [F]high up …

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Pictures of Cats

Some important historical background about the internet.

Lyrics and Chords:

[D]

[D]All of human knowledge, [G]everything we've done
[D]There when you're working or [A]when you're having fun
[D]Use it when you've got a problem [G]that you need to fix
[D]To learn a new …

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