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Apr 29, 2011
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here you go
by: Doc Haley

similes

As bold as brass
As brave as a lion
As bright as a button
As bright as a new pin
As bright as day
As bright as the sun
As busy as a beaver
As busy as a bee
As busy as a cat on a hot tin roof
As calm as a millpond
As clear as a bell
As clean as a hound's tooth
As clean as a whistle
As clear as crystal
As clear as mud

Apr 29, 2011
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Angie
by: Doc Haley

Angie how do I get to some of your works on this website?
Or were you going to send them to me?
My personal email is

stephenhaley@att.net if you need it or if anyone else needs it.

Cya
Doc

Apr 29, 2011
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Part two
by: Doc Haley

Part two of my previous comment.

Balanced:
Johnny had a little car
He'd roll it down a hill
He hit a bump one awful day
And Johnny took a spill

Unbalanced (what i see most of the time here)
Johnny had a little car
He'd roll it down Millers Highway 65 hill
He hit a bump one day
And Johnny wrecked and got himself hurt.

Now both give you the same story line but one you can actually tap your feet, or your hand to a constant beat and all the words fit into a set number of beats within a 4 measure or 16 beat music score.

Now some times there are pauses in music between lines because it helps the lyrics to stay balanced and I'm certain if you listen to music you'll hear dead spaces (no one is singing) just for a beat or two and it works and is needed when the lines are a bit off balanced. But it's not common.

In real on stage performances it happens all the time because the lead singer always loses the beat, makes a mistake with a pause or not enough of a pause and the drummer and bass player are so good they adapt to what the singer does. These 2 musicians are the real core of any live performance, not the singer or hot lick lead guitar player.

I always say, if you can't sing it to a basic tempo and have all of the words fall within a 4 beat per measure set up, then there may be something you need to clean it up.

Simpler is much better always. Like a poem.

On my home page you can see a song called "Can you Play". It's suggestive so I'm not trying to send you to a Porn set of lyrics, but it is suggestive. That's the society we live in.
The words are very simple, title is repeated over and over again so you won't forget it. It may even sound too simple to some of you. But when it's played at a bar or other open air get together the women go wild, get out on the floor and dance like professional pole dancers. It brings out a side of some people that they have hidden in them and this song lets them play the part for a few minutes. That's what you want. The audience to participate in your lyrics either on the dance floor or just sitting back and listening. Leaving it simple allows the listener to fill in their own special memory into the song and then makes the song more "theirs".

Hope this helps.

CYa
Doc

Apr 29, 2011
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I'll try to answer all the questions here
by: Doc Haley

This is in two parts since 3000 characters is the limit.

I'm 60 this year.
Started my business in high school at 17 and closed it 35 years later at 53. I was the youngest home builder in Texas during the mid-70's.
Owned a plumbing company, an HAVC company, was an electrical contractor and asbestos abatement contractor (all at the same time). Worked for government till I became a single dad and then sold the commercial and industrial divisions and opened a company called Rent A Hubby USA which served the women of the Dallas/Fort Worth Texas area in the same areas above plus honey do lists.

I, like many kids, hand a group in and for a few years out of high school but soon tired of covering other peoples music. It was boring. So I started writing lyrics and simple melodies in an attempt to be different. Have hundreds of copyrighted songs. Some in music libraries. I only write the lyrics and basic melody. I do not consider myself a performing artist and never will. My enjoyment is in writing songs that are more Americana in verbiage and melody.

I'm not a pro. Don't teach anything. But I have found that a set of lyrics that have no melody attached, no tempo attached is almost impossible for a reader to really grasp the real intent of the writer. Many works I read over have some great messages, some great use of words, but I can't give it anything except a read over. I try to put a tune to it with a guitar or keyboard and just can't do it justice. Only the writer knows what he/she meant it to sound like. Thats why I always say that a tempo and some chords or a melody attached to the lyrics really make it easier to understand.

Balanced lines are in every song you hear on the radio. You can set up a tempo (so many beats per minute?) and you can sing the lyrics to the correct tempo and not have an instance where there are too many words to fit inside a particular measure or groups of measures.

In a very simplistic way to give an example, and this is only for the understanding of what a balanced vs a not balanced set of lyrics are, read over this. One will be very easy and one will feel odd or sound odd, too many words to fit in a given tempo/beat. Try to keep a basic 4 beat measure and the same for each set of lyrics.

Feb 11, 2010
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What do I do
by: Doc Haley

I am 58, semi-retired at 49, fully retired at 53.
I'm a single dad that raised my sons by myself.
My kids are all professionals and for the most part have completed college.
I have a degree in engineering (mechanical) but not a PE, or professional engineer.
I owned a plumbing, heating, AC, electrical and asbestos abatement company for 35 years before I sold the company and retired.
I started my company as a sr. in high-school back in 1969.

In the late 60's I started writing music and playing the guitar and like most kids had a garage band.
Then after several years of covering other peoples music I tired of the same old same old and set my sites on writing lyrics and melodies.
I've done this from the early to mid 70's to present.

I've had one song played nationwide on 150+ markets on June 1 of 2009. It was my greatest accomplishment to date in lyrics/music.

I have over 400 copyrighted songs and own my own publishing company.

I have several children's books written and a novel. The novel was turned down by Harlequin.

I'm in the process of a new novel, hopefully it will fare better, but who knows.

Hope that fills you in.

CYa
Doc

Feb 10, 2010
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... :)
by: Anonymous

what is it that you do DOC?

Feb 10, 2010
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please explain
by: Doc Haley

CYa
Doc

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