Original Song Lyrics Index

All of the song lyrics and text hyperlinked from this index page are written by

William Overington

and are his intellectual property.

Decoration Through Time

This is the text posted to rec.music.makers.songwriting on 14 May 1998, now set out as a web page.

Where Asparagus Grows

This is the text posted to rec.music.makers.songwriting on 18 May 1998, now set out as a web page.

Sculptures of Imagination

This is the text posted to rec.music.makers.songwriting on 13 June 1998, now set out as a web page.

Sculptures of Imagination - support file

This is the text posted to alt.sculpture on 13 June 1998, now set out as a web page.

Dandelions Do No Harm (within Equirhyme Workshop)

This is the text posted to rec.music.makers.songwriting on 13 June 1998, now set out as a web page.

Who's Game

This is the text posted to rec.music.makers.songwriting on 13 July 1998, now set out as a web page. It was my entry to a Songwriter's Challenge to write lyrics to the given title "Who's Game" which was an activity within the group.

Pick Your Own

This is the first part of the English Volksmusik creative writing scenario.

Roses From Rootstock

This is the second part of the English Volksmusik creative writing scenario.

Chloe and Phil's Butterbean Stew

Swing along catchy lyrics about a yet to be manufactured and yet to be famous convenience food!

Bangles and Spangles

A song to introduce the concept of spangleware.

Spangleware for Nashville

A second spangleware song. This song was posted to rec.music.makers.songwriting on 4 November 1998.

In Herb and Carrot Sauce

Another Chloe and Phil song about a yet to be manufactured and yet to be famous convenience food!

Not a tree of old England

A song about trees.

The Clip Art Waltz

This song was posted to rec.music.makers.songwriting on 10 April 1999.

The Open Microphone Blues

This song was posted to rec.music.makers.songwriting on 3 May 1999.

The Spangleware Blues

A third spangleware song. This song was posted to rec.music.makers.songwriting on 10 July 1999.

Fallen Trees

This is the text posted to rec.music.makers.songwriting on 7 July 2000, now set out as a web page. It was my entry to a songwriting event to write lyrics to the given title "Fallen Trees" which was an activity within the group.

She sits reading haiku

This song was posted to rec.music.makers.songwriting on 24 July 2000.

Apples and Horses

This song was written on Thursday 26 September 2002, before 7.00 am.

Bathe it in Baja Blue

This song was written in 2004 yet the lyrics were not published until 2007.

Snowball in Cincinnati in July

This song was written in 2007.

Song of the irises

This song was written in 2003 yet the lyrics were not published until 2007.

Dinner Dance

This song was written in 2010 yet the lyrics were not published in this webspace until Wednesday 19 August 2015.

Wednesday 19 August 2015


Here are some notes that were added into the library.htm page of this webspace on Wednesday 13 August 2014.

I like to write song lyrics. Alas, I do not play any musical instrument and I am not able to transcribe the melody to which I sing the song into a musical score.

Yet I need to make a record in permanent form of the melody. A record that hopefully can be a stepping stone to a singer singing and recording the song.

So, I have recorded me singing the song and embedded the file in the following publication, so as to make a record in permanent form of the melody.

The publication also includes some notes about the process of producing the publication.

Please know that the following file is just under 924 kilobytes in size.

the_mobile_art_shop.pdf

Supplementary note:

Getting the sound to play is sometimes a problem: it seems to depend upon a combination of which browser is used and which PDF viewer is used and upon security settings.

Downloading the PDF to local storage on a computer and then opening the PDF using Adobe Reader is a good choice to make.


Here are some notes that were added into the library.htm page of this webspace on Tuesday 10 February 2015

I like to write song lyrics. Alas, I do not play any musical instrument and I am not able to transcribe the melody to which I sing the song into a musical score.

Yet I need to make a record in permanent form of the melody. A record that hopefully can be a stepping stone to a singer singing and recording the song.

So, I have recorded me singing the song and embedded the file in the following publication, so as to make a record in permanent form of the melody.

The publication also includes some notes about the process of producing the publication.

Please know that the following file is 1.66 Megaobytes in size.

The title of the song is Cyberspace Café.

cyberspace_cafe.pdf

Supplementary note:

Getting the sound to play is sometimes a problem: it seems to depend upon a combination of which browser is used and which PDF viewer is used and upon security settings.

Downloading the PDF to local storage on a computer and then opening the PDF using Adobe Reader is a good choice to make.


Here are some notes that were added into the library.htm page of this webspace on Wednesday 11 February 2015.

Here is an experimental recording.

The title of the song is Baja Blue.

baja_blue_experimental_recording.pdf

Supplementary note:

Getting the sound to play is sometimes a problem: it seems to depend upon a combination of which browser is used and which PDF viewer is used and upon security settings.

Downloading the PDF to local storage on a computer and then opening the PDF using Adobe Reader is a good choice to make.


7 September 2015

A song in French written in March 2014. The document has been available linked from the library.htm page of this webspace since 2014. A link is added here so that it is listed with the other songs that I have written.

Les belles fontes colorées

A song in French, about colour fonts.


7 September 2015

A song in Esperanto written many years ago when I was learning about some of the more advanced aspects of Esperanto verbs, yet the lyrics were not published in this webspace until early September 2015.

Estas neĝanta

A song in Esperanto. Please sing slowly and happily.


 

lingvo_de_paco.htm


Saturday 8 October 2016

This is a song, not finished yet, bits of which I have sung to myself while cooking sometimes.

The Oodles of Noodles