David Michael Jackson Poems

Lyric and melody by David Michael Jackson

3/4 time
………..C…………………G7
Hey Mister can you say
………… F……………….C
which way is San Jose
My car it’s broken down
just outside of town
and I need a bite to eat
I ain’t got time for sleep
To San Jose I have to go
to bring my babies home
to bring my babies home
They’ll be waiting by the door
with their suitcase on the floor
I’ve got a few dollars here.
If you could you help me to get there

4/4 time
………F
Oh Buddy can you say
…………………G7
that you’ve never been this bare
..F
broke and down and out
……………..G7
and on a road to somewhere

3/4 time
…………………C…………………..G7
They’ll be waiting by the door
……………….F…………………….C
with their suitcase on the floor
……..C………………………G7
To San Jose I have to go
……..F…………………….C
to bring my babies home
…….F…………………….C
to bring my babies home
4/4 time
………F
Oh you don’t know me
………G7
and I don’t know you
………F
but you’ll be family
……………G7
if you’ll help me to get through
3/4 time

……..C
To San Jose
…….F
To San Jose
…….G7
To San Jose
…..C
Today

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Johnny Minstrel

Love your voice man and you do the sad song so right. Like that accompanying acoustic fill ins…adds a nice touch to an already good song!

Gleb Laurel

Nice and truthful ! A genuine piece of soulful folk music, with pretty lines of acoustic guitar and a most touching plainness. ***

Here’s another sad song
that’s all I have
I’m just getting along
doing the best that I can

All I know is
wishing you were here
And all there is
Is sitting here alone

I was wrong
and now I pay the price
of lonely days
and sleepless nights
I was wrong
and I’ve acted quite the fool
It’s like I set out all along
to just be mean to you

They judge me so hard
They say that I’m no good
And I’m sorry doesn’t have
the ring that it should
and missing you
is the price that I have to pay
I’m so sad that it turned out this way.

So here’s another sad song
It’s the best I can do
and I’m just getting along
missing you

My doggerel
bit off the
sentence and
barked,
“You’d better
rhyme
this time”

According to Wiki:
Doggerel: derogatory term for verse considered of little literary value.
Since any sentence may be chopped to look like a poem, doggerel has the modern connotation of fake poetry. Quite honestly it is hard to tell the difference since a sentence can be beautiful.

The free dictionary has this:

doggerel [ˈdɒgərəl], dogrel [ˈdɒgrəl]
n
1. (Literature / Poetry)
a. comic verse, usually irregular in measure
b. (as modifier) a doggerel rhythm
2. nonsense; drivel
From the 14th century: worthless, perhaps from dogge dog]

Vocabulary.com does a great job discussing the origins and use by great poets and bad poets of doggerel as wordplay.

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