Country Church at Bellevue Christian

On Second Sundays, some Singalong Pickers stayed and led the church-service music.

The Gospel Supplement was used as the hymnal.

On those days, congregational singing was spirited.

A misguided minister then forbad it and tried to turn the church Anglican, then came Corid 19.

2018 Nov 

Prelude Sing:  75  Shall we gather at the river  C

Gathering Hymn:  46  Keep on the sunny side  F

Communion Hymn:  38  In the garden  G

Distribution Instrumental:  54  Lower lights  G

Offertory Performance: Tim Hollimon Traveling the hway

Invitation Hymn:  50  Life’s railway to heaven  G

Closing Hymn:  104  Will the circle be unbroken  G

2018 Dec

Prelude Sing:  1  Quietly rustles the snow

Gathering Hymn:  2  What Child is this

Communion Hymn:  3  Beautiful Star of Bethehem

Distribution Instrumental:  4  Sweetly the bells

Offertory Performance: Ruslan&Amelie 5 Christmas Angels

Invitation Hymn:  6  One Christmas eve

Closing Hymn:  7  Silent Night (repeat first verse acapella)

2019 Jan

Prelude Sing: 43 Just a closer walk with Thee

Gathering Hymn:  60 Never grow old

Communion Hymn:  64 Old rugged cross

Distribution Instrumental: 89 Using my bible for a roadmap

Offertory Performance:  99 Where could I go

Invitation Hymn:  77 Softly and tendrly

Closing Hymn:  11 Down by the riverside

2019 Feb 

Prelude Instrmtl 2 verses: 32 I feel like traveling on

Gathering Hymn:  62 Old country church

Communion Hymn: 24 He took your place

Distribution Instrmtl 2v: 56 Gathering flowers for Master’s

Offertory Performance: 67 One step more

Invitation Hymn: 68 Pass me not

Closing Hymn:  10 The darkest hour is just befor dawn

2019 Mar 

Prelude Instrmtl 2 verses: 37 I’ll sing for my Lord

Gathering Hymn: 45 Just over in the glory land

Communion Hymn: 58 My Jesus I love Thee

Distribution Instrmtl 2v: 95 When Heaven comes down

Offertory Performance: Jack&Bill 55 Mansion for me

Invitation Hymn: 18 Give me the roses

Closing Hymn: 33 I saw the light

2019 Apr 

Prelude Instrmtl 2 verses: 36 I’ll meet you in the morning

Gathering Hymn: 49 Leaning on the everlasting arms

Communion Hymn: 80 Sweet by and by

Distribution Instrmtl 2 verses: 94 When He calls

Offertory Performance: Regen Back Silent empty chair

Invitation Hymn: 91 Washed in the blood

Closing Hymn: 97 When the roll is called up yonder

2019 May 

Prelude Pickers Sing all: 99 Where could I go

Gathering Hymn: 79 Standing on the promises

Communion Hymn: 25 Hide me Rock of Ages

Distribution Instrmtl 2 verses: 20 Gone home

Offertory Performance: Ashlie 2 Angel band

Invitation Hymn: 100 Where the roses never fade

Closing Hymn: 35 I’ll fly away

2019 June 

Prelude Pickers Sing all: 8 Church in the Wildwood

Gathering Hymn: 93 What a friend

Communion Hymn: 42 Jesus Savior pilot me

Distribution Instrmtl 2+ verses: 4 Beautiful isle of somewhere

Offertory Performance: Ashlie He reached down

Invitation Hymn: 29 Hold to God’s unchanging hand

Closing Hymn: 84 This world is not my home

2019 July 

Prelude Pickers Sing all: 13 Dust on the Bible

Gathering Hymn: 21 Great Speckled Bird

Communion Hymn: 71 Precious Memories

Distribution Instrmtl  verses as needed: 57 Mother’s Bible

Offertory Instrumtl  verses as needed: 57 Mother’s Bible cont'd

Special Music: 5 A beautiful life

Invitation Hymn: 39 It is well with my soul

Closing Hymn: 7 Bringing in the sheaves

David Regen's CV / Obituary / Eulogy

    For years I have said that every adult should post his or her obituary on line and update it annually.  Church directories and news letters should contain links to respective obituaries, so members can learn who shares their interests.  People placed together at a dinner table (or on a train, cruise ship, or park bench) could exchange ObitURLs to find conversation topics.

    The self-written obit would, of course, help survivors compose the deceased’s published obit.  I’m very tardy writing mine and do it now to persuade my wife to do hers.

David Regen likes to analyze systems, seeking models that account for cause-effect relations; be they physical (cosmology, electromagnetism, radiation), biological (biochemistry, physiology, embryology, evolution), sociological (values, doctrines, ideals, ethics, justice, policy, politics), international (peace, respect, risks).  He likes to consider fundamentals underlying or justifying doctrines.  He hopes to discover something true and to invent something useful.

David Marvin Regen

Born: March 18, 1934 in Nashville TN

Died: &&&&&&&&&&

Parents: Eugene M Regen MD and LaVerne C Regen

Siblings: Eugene M Regen Jr (Elizabeth) ;  Barney B Regen (Catherine)

Wife: Lieselotte W Regen (Lilo)

Children: David M Regen Jr ;  Samuel M Regen (Melissa Matthews) ;  Ingrid L Regen (Andrey Belous)

Grandchildren: Rowan Regen, Solvey Regen, Terran Regen, Ruslan Belous, Amelie Belous, step Nikki Belous

Schooling: 

Eakin Elementary '40-'45

Peabody Demonstration School '45-'47

Duncan College Preparatory School '47-'52

Davidson College '52-'56

Vanderbilt Medical School '56-'58

Vanderbilt Graduate School, PhD in Physiology '58-'62

Extracurriculars: 

Highschool: Football, basketball, baseball, tennis, 

steel guitar

College: Basketball, track, wrestling, piano

Positions: 

1962-64 Max Planck Inst fur Zellchemie

1964-1998 Vanderbilt Univ Dept Physiology

Career Interests: Mechanism and regulation of transmembrane glucose transport and of cellular glucose metabolism in erythrocytes, heart muscle, liver and brain.  Heart muscle mechanics.  Analysis of biological systems.

Recreation: Age 30-80: Renaissance & Baroque music.  Age 60: assembled songbook Ten Carols and a Lullaby translations and arrangements of German carols.  Age 35-45: Tennis.  Age 45 - 88: Played Dobro in Bluegrass bands: Outbound Freight, Road to Ruin Ramblers, Budget Bluegrass, Assembled two songbooks: Mostly Bluegrass Standards and Country Pathos Country Soul.

Church affiliations: 

Woodmont Christian: Arranged and performed Christmas music, Led Summer Singalong, Organized Woodmont Gospelaires, Supervised Safe Haven Family Shelter monthly from 1981 to 1990.

Bellevue Christian (age 69 - 88) Created and led Second-Sunday Singalong, Assembled songbook Gospel Supplement for singalongs,  at age 85 produced First-Sunday Seminar and Fourth-Sunday Song Circle.  Organized Country Church, a bimonthly service led by pickers with Gospel Supplement as the hymnal.

Retirement:  Wrote songs, Did home repair and car repair (had VIP pass to Pull-A-Part Junk Yard), Proposed some inventions (about 20 ideas, 5 patents), Studied machine-tool technology at TCAT.  In 2007 began blog journal Ethics Black Hole to protest Iraq-war, now 200 essays.

Narrative:

David grew up on the side of Fairfax Ave with misfits and sociopaths, not the side that spawned athletes, tycoons, university presidents, artists and scientists.  He was afflicted with mild dyslexia, OCD, ADHD and asperger, so he did not thrive in grammar school.  On two occasions he took remedial reading.  But, owing to a strong warning on the first day of high school, he did his math homework daily and eventually completed calculus.  He credits his graduate-school mentor, Charles Rollo Park, with teaching him everything useful, including communication.  Getting a summer job in Dr Park's research lab after one year of medical school was fortunate in several ways.  He found a career path in academia rather than patient care for which he was utterly unfit.  One of his lab colleagues happened to know the elegant girl who strolled through the cafeteria during coffee break, enabling him to meet his future wife Lieselotte (Lilo) Wilde.  Lilo was an immigrant from Germany, who worked in the hospital records room by day, attended UT by night, and studied art on weekends.  She would paint beautiful pictures and scribe beautiful calligraphs and teach these skills professionally.  She was a master chef and hosted numerous guests.  She was/hasbeen beautiful and creative throughout her && years.

David was curious – later good for his science, earlier bad for his bones and skin.  As a kid, he often walked barefoot through the glass-strewn alleys looking in people’s trash pits for mechanical devices, to study, repair or scavenge.  Attempting to climb from top of garage door to roof, he fell head first and broke his right elbow in four places.  Exploring alternative ways to descend stairs, he broke his left arm in one place.  Attempting to dive into shallow water like sailors from a burning ship, he broke his back, wore a torso cast for a month.  Attempting to walk on the wall of a school’s incinerator, he fell into the fire, burning the skin off both legs from shoes to shorts.  His legs were then covered with mercury ointment and wrapped for a month.  Between ages 11 and 25, he suffered constantly painful duodenal ulcers causing chronic insomnia and several nearly lethal hemorrhages and bile-duct obstructions.  He designed a blow-torch that almost burned down his house.  He raised a few chickens and rabbits, which he slaughtered and butchered for food.  There were punctures, lacerations and sports injuries as well as toxic-metal exposures.  Working on a lawnmower at age 84, he severed the extensor tendon of his left middle finger, cutting half through the knuckle.

He trusted his scientific instincts and spent his last half decade attempting to understand gravity and light.  He encountered several unsatisfying theories and proposed a few of his own.  He also advanced some social/political ideas for discussion.  He waited in vain for the contrition owed by MAGA Republicans for Jan 6, 2021 and for supporting misinformation broadcasters.  At age 87, he invented two ways to prevent semi-truck jackknifing and submitted a patent application for each -- likewise a battery-powered back scratcher, but not the super impact wrench.

How I spent my retirement

* I retired early by academic standards, seeing that my scientific interests were no longer fashionable and hoping to have enough stamina to do something satisfying that ought to be done. What I did was recreational music, recreational inventing, recreational home restoration, recreational inquiry. It might have been more satisfying had one of these been remunerative. I imagined myself filling a societal need for uplifting recreation as technological advances in human productivity would shorten work weeks. I didn't anticipate that smart phones, social media and video games would come to dominate people's leisure time.
* Back in the mid 90s, I was in the "Road to Ruin Ramblers", that played in and was dismissed with cause from several lower-broad venues. Owing to this experience, song ideas came to me. One of them, "Repo Man" seemed to have commercial potential. Two that happened to be video'd were "Road Trip" and "One Christmas Eve".
* Well before the Road-to-ruin days, we had a garage band called "Outbound Freight", that was mostly social picking, though we played for the occasional birthday party or civic gathering. It occurred to me that a book of favorite country parables might be useful for future garage pickers, so I assembled such a book, called "Country Pathos, Country Soul". Getting licenses was too expensive without some kind of institutional collaborator, which did not materialize, so I dropped the project. There was also the "Budget Bluegrass Band", that was constituted in various configurations as needed since the 80s.
* My wife who immigrated from Germany in the 50s asked me to lead some Christmas songs for a gathereing of German Americans in the early 90s. Hoping to share those songs with regular Americans, I composed English lyrics and various arrangements for a bunch of them. I managed to talk the Nashville Parks Recorder Consort into performing several of these arrangements. For example, "Sweetly the bells" and "Holiest Night". They also performed my arrangement of "Silent Night".
* Several times in my life I was in the right place at the right time, eg when I encountered my mentor, Rollo Park, when I met my wife to be, Lieselotte Wilde, and when my church decided to create and present orchestral arrangements of music by members. Our music director, Michael Graham, arranged several of the German Christmas songs that I had worked on, incluiding: Sing and Ring and Quietly Rustles the Snow.
* Back in the late 90s, I began trying to engage people in gospel singing with bluegrass accompaniment. I assembled a group, "Gospelaires", that performed in my church's less formal services about once per quarter. Eventually, we established Wednedsay-evening singalongs during the summers in Woodmont Christian Church. At about the same time, we established the Second-Sunday Singalong in the Bellevue Christian Church. As these two programs progressed, I worked on a two-volume song book of bluegrass-compatible gospel songs and hymns one volume containing regular scores for singers, the other containing lyrics and chords for pickers.
* Also back in the 90s, I tried out several dobro capos and, finding none that suited me, I designed my own. Eventually, I thought others might like my design, so I patented it and set out studying machine-tool technology so as to manufacture it. I produced several in each of five sizes, as resophonic guitars come in several specifications. The capo is essentially a modified scalene-triangular prism with maximal difference between maximal and minimal heights. To easily make one height half way between the maximal and minimal, it was conventient to derive a formula for characteristics of a triangle of known heights.
* Having seen that I could produce and prosecute a patent application on my own (text, drawings, claims) I contemplated an invention whenever I had trouble with a project or when an untoward event occcurred that might be ameliorated by some new product. In revising some electrical wiring in my garage and basement, I decided it would be easier to join several larger wires if the junction box were shallower. It occurred to me that the solid elements of ammunition could be labeled hence traceable to the person who bought it retail.

Second-Sunday Singalong Video Catalog

Mostly videos made by Alan Nelson in the Bellevue Christian Chruch
  1.  Amazing Grace June 11, 2017
 2.  Beyond the Sunset January 8, 2017
 3.  Church in the Wildwood  –   Slideshow
 4.  Down by the Riverside May 14, 2017 (ceiling mic present)
 5.  Drifting Too Far From the Shore
  5.  Drifting Too Far From the Shore
  6.  I Miss My Darling Mother Since She's Gone May 14, 2017
 7.  A Mansion for Me January 8, 2017 , Slide Show
  8.  Old Country Church May 10, 2015 Bellevue Christian Church
  9.  Precious Lord, Take My Hand January 8, 2017
10.  Precious Memories
11.  Rank Stranger January 8, 2017
12.  Second-Sunday Singalong 2017 Summer Slideshow
13.  Sing and Ring
14.  Will the Circle be Unbroken
15.  Where the Soul Never Dies

Recreationism

* Among the February 2007 postings to this blog, is one titled "Human condition". In it, I contemplated a humanistic religion, a body of wisdom and practices that would provide as much meaning and satisfaction for adherents as are justified by evidence and reason and that would tilt society towards diminishing harm. I had a vague idea about the body of wisdom and no idea about practices that would attract people to embrace such a religion.
* One could assemble a bible consisting of wisdom scriptures from all established religions, a section from each such religion, avoiding all text encouraging tribalism and all supernatural claims. Their ethics derive from centuries of experience.
* Sunday-morning assembly programs might be discussions of personal ethics and ethical implications of public policy and cultural conventions. They might include stories exemplifying ethical and practical consequences of individual and governmental choices.
* Sunday-school lessons might consist of presentations and discussions of social and economic dynamics as well as recreational explorations of scientific discoveries advancing the understanding of nature (physics, biology, astronomy, sociology, even chemistry). There are plenty of web pages to support such explorations. I have more than 200 germane links. Outside experts and students might welcome opportunities to discuss their interests with curious people.
* Stimulating recreation would be promoted. That would include sports, arts, crafts, literature, instrumental music, writing, theater, dance, songs of dignified genres and invented play. Opportunities for inter-generational sharing and fellowship might unfold.
* Most of the above should be stimulating and enlightening, but may not activate the amygdala enough for internalization of ethical principals. Anyone of any age needs to learn and reinforce noble sentiments through emotional responses to justice, generosity, unexpected nobility, etc. This might be accomplished through the music program. I have collected 130 songs that activate the amygdala, these in a songbook titled "Country Pathos, Country Soul".
* I'm too senile to begin the above implied project, but I'd love to participate in such gatherings. I wouldn't abandon the Christian churches to which I'm indebted for my most thrilling experiences. Perhaps the Humanistic Church could meet on first Sundays rather than weekly.
* It seems likely that numerous academic and professional types would benefit from church participation for the social interaction with serious people of good will and for help in raising children, people who would not join a conventional church requiring frequent rejection of evidence.
* The broad purpose of this additional church is to make progress towards a great civilization, one lacking gratuitous harm, one where people's rights are respected across ethnic and religious boundaries, across time and across town. Existing religions are failing in this long-term human project.

Country Pathos, Country Soul

Below are links to YouTube presentations of Country Pathos songs
0 Country parables; David M Regen 1995
1 All smiles tonight
2 Amelia Earhart’s last flight
3 Amen corner
4 Angels rejoiced
5 At the first fall of snow
6 BJ the DJ
7 Bathe me in lilac (Love me right to the end)
8 Be careful of stones you throw
9 Beyond the sunset
10 Big bad John
11 The blind child’s prayer
12 The blizzard
13 Blue eyes crying in the rain
14 Blue Ridge cabin home
15 Bluebird sings for me
16 Branded wherever I go
17 Cabin on the hill
18 Calling my children home
19 Coat of many colors
20 Columbus stockade blues
21 Convict and the rose:
22 Cowboy's lament = Laredo
23 Daddy don’t go to the mine
24 Darling little Joe
25 The day they laid Mary away
26 Dear brother
27 Dear Uncle Sam
28 Don't make me go to bed
29 Down in the valley
30 Drowned in the deep blue sea
31 The dying soldier
32 Eastbond train
33 Engine 143
34 Every bush and tree;
35 Fallen leaves
36 Farside banks of Jordan
37 The fields have turned brown
38 Five miles from home
39 Flower blooming in the wildwood
40 Footprints in the snow
41 The funeral
42 The Gambler
43 Girl in the blue velvet band
44 Give me the roses:
45 Golden ring
46 Green green grass of home
47 Hard times come again no more
48 Hard times have been here
49 He stopped loving her today
50 Help me understand
51 Hickory Holler’s tramp
52 Hills of home sweet home
53 His fields are ready for harvest
54 Homestead on the farm
55 I haven’t seen Mary in years
56 I hear a sweet voice calling
57 I heard my mother call my name in prayer
58 I miss Mother since she's gone
59 If I could hear my mother pray again
60 If Jack were only here
61 I’m here to get my baby out of jail
62 In the baggage coach ahead
63 Jimmy Brown
64 Just before the battle mother
65 Kentucky
66 Lamp lighting time in the valley
67 Legend of the robin's red breast
68 Letter edged in black or Letter edged in black
69 Lightening Express
70 Listen to the mockingbird
71 Lonely mound of clay
72 Lonesome river:
73 Lost highway
74 Maple on the hill
75 Mary dear
76 Master's bouquet
77 Men with broken hearts
78 Mighty dark to travel
79 Missing in action
80 Molly;
81 More to be pitied
82 Mother queen of my heart
83 Mother's at rest
84 Mother’s Bible
85 Mother's only sleeping
86 Mountain road; anon
87 Muddy water
88 My brother’s will
89 My native home
90 Newmade grave upon the green hillside: ; Jimmy Martin
91 Ninety-nine years is almost for life
92 No children allowed
93 Nobody answered me
94 Nobody’s child
95 Nobody's darling but mine
96 Old home place
97 Old Shep
98 On my way back to my old home
99 On the evening train
100 One Christmas eve
101 Orphan girl; anon
102 Over the hill to the poorhouse
103 Paradise
104 Passages: David M Regen 1995
105 Pictures from life's other side or Pictures from life's other side
106 Plant some flowers by my graveside
107 Precious jewel
108 Prisoner’s plea; ??Billy Boy Arnold??
109 Prisoner's song
110 Put my little shoes away
111 Ramshackled shack
112 Rank strangers
113 Road trip
114 Roan County (Hills of)
115 Rocking alone
116 Roses in the snow
117 Rosewood casket
118 Rosewood casket rewrite
119 Row us over the tide
120 Ruby don’t take your love to town
121 Safely in the arms
122 Searching for a soldier's grave
123 Shackles and chains
124 Sign on the highway
125 Silent empty chair
126 Sing me back home
127 Sinking of the Titanic
128 Six more miles
129 So lonesome I could cry
130 Soldier’s last letter
131 Some old day
132 Strand of a yellow curl
133 Summer wind
134 Sweeter than the flower
135 Sweetest gift
136 Take this hammer
137 Teardrops falling in the snow
138 Tell me why my daddy don’t come home
139 That little old country church house
140 These hills
141 Thirty pieces of silver
142 Tiny broken heart
143 Too late to cry:
144 Tragic romance
145 Train 1262
146 Tramp on the street
147 Two more years and I’ll be free
148 Unfinished rug: Karl Davis not BMI ; BlSkBs EO-VB-4012-1, Vict 21-0317-B=CMF20035
149 Unloved and unclaimed
150 The vacant chair
151 Vision of Mother
152 Walking my Lord up Calvary hill
153 Wandering boy (Bring back)
154 Weathered gray stone
155 When God comes to gather his jewels
156 When I ride that last mile: ?Don Reno ; Reno & Smiley
157 Where no cabins fall
158 White dove
159 Who will sing for me
160 Will my soul pass through the southland = Dying rebel soldier
161 Will the circle be unbroken
162 Will the roses bloom
163 Will you miss me
164 Wreck of old 97
165 Wreck on the highway
166 You’ll find her name written there

Gospel Supplement

Below are links to YouTube presentations of Gospel Supplement songs
1 Amazing grace
2 Angel band
3 Back to the cross
4 Beautiful isle of somewhere
5 A beautiful life
6 Beyond the sunset
7 Bringing in the sheaves
8 Church in the wildwood
9 Come Thou Fount
10 The darkest hour is just before dawn
11 Down by the riverside
12 Drifting too far from the shore
13 Dust on the Bible
14 An empty mansion
15 Farther along
16 From the manger to the cross
17 Gathering home
18 Give me the roses
19 I’m going to make Heaven my home
20 Gone home
21 Great speckled bird
22 Green pastures
23 Have you someone
24 He took your place
25 Hide me rock of ages
26 Hide you in the blood
27 Highway to Heaven
28 His fields are ready for harvest
29 Hold to God’s unchanging hand
30 How beautiful heaven must be
31 How firm a foundation
32 I feel like traveling on
33 I saw the light
34 If I could hear my mother pray again
35 I’ll fly away
36 I’ll meet you in the morning
37 I’ll sing for my Lord
38 In the garden
39 It is well with my soul
40 It won’t be long
41 Jesus hold my hand
42 Jesus Savior pilot me
43 Just a closer walk with Thee
44 Just a little talk with Jesus
45 Just over in the glory land
46 Keep on the sunny side
47 Kneel at the cross
48 Last mile of the way
49 Leaning on the everlasting arms
50 Life’s railway to Heaven
51 Lily of the valley
52 Lord build me a cabin in glory
53 Lord lead me on
54 Lower lights
55 Mansion for me
56 Gathering flowers for the master’s boquet
57 Mother’s Bible
58 My Jesus I love Thee
59 Near the cross
60 Where we’ll never grow old
61 O how I love Jesus
62 Old country church
63 Old crossroad is waiting
64 Old rugged cross
65 Old-time religion
66 One Christmas eve
67 One step more
68 Pass me not
69 Peace in the valley
70 Power in the blood
71 Precious memories
72 Road trip
73 Rock of ages
74 Shake hands with Mother again
75 Shall we gather at the river
76 So happy I’ll be
77 Softly and tenderly
78 Standing by the river
79 Standing on the promises
80 Sweet by and by
81 Swing low
82 Precious Lord take my hand
83 Think of the home over there
84 This world is not my home
85 Though your sins be as scarlet
86 Tramp on the street
87 Trust and obey
88 Unclouded day
89 I’m using my Bible for a roadmap
90 Victory in Jesus
91 Washed in the blood
92 Were you there
93 What a friend
94 When He calls
95 When Heaven comes down
96 When I get to the end of the way
97 When the roll is called up yonder
98 When the saints go marching in
99 Where could I go
100 Where the roses never fade
101 Where the soul never dies
102 Whispering hope
103 Who will sing for me
104 Will the circle be unbroken
105 Wings of a dove
106 When they ring the golden bells

Country Pathos , Country Soul

Country parables         David M Regen © 1995

Old-time country music, it stirs my heart and soul
It draws me in its circle, my name is on its roll
Its prophets are compelling, its parables profound
So won't you come and join me, in this church of rustic sound

Luke the drifter talked to us, of things we need to know
Think my friend consider well, before a stone you throw
Watch your tongue lift up your thoughts, and gossip don't repeat
For you may be indebted to, the bad girl down the street

Acuff told a story, of one who had succumbed
Life for her was bitter, and from the bridge she jumped
They pulled her from the river, but no one knew her name
This woman had no loved ones, her body was unclaimed

I won't forget Red Foley, my heart-strings he did tug
He told us of the love that is, between a boy and dog
Shep pulled him from the swimming hole, where he had nearly drowned
When Shep was old it broke his heart, to put his dear friend down

These words of Eddie Arnold, I heard them long ago
Do not neglect your mother, the one who loves you so
She nurtured you and guided you, so do not leave her there
All alone an angel in an, old rocking chair

And give my love to Dolly, the brightest of the lot
Her mother made a coat of rags, when she was just a tot
The children all made fun of her, they did not understand
That love went into every stitch, by her dear mother's hand

Yes country can enlighten, wake up your sleeping soul
Turn you from your selfish ways, make kindness  your goal
This world would be a better place, a kinder place I know
With more old-time country music, on the radio


Click here for a page-ordered list of titles with YouTube links.


Indexed Titles               Page

Bereavement of parent
Dear brother  26
Every bush and tree  34
I miss Mother since she's gone  58
If I could hear my mother pray again      59
Letter edged in black  68
Lightening Express  69
Mother queen of my heart  82
Memories of Mother  83
Mother’s Bible  84
Mother's only sleeping  85
Newmade grave upon the green hillside          90
Summer wind         133
Sweeter than the flower         134
Unfinished rug         148
Vision of Mother 151
White dove 158
Will the circle be unbroken 161
Bereavement of child
At the first fall of snow     5
Don't make me go to bed    28
I hear a sweet voice calling        56
Searching for a soldier’s grave    122
Strand of a yellow curl  132
Teardrops falling in the snow      137
The vacant chair  150
Bereavement of contemporary
Bathe me in lilac       7
Bluebird sings for me      15
The day they laid Mary away          25
Dear Uncle Sam      27
Flower blooming in the wildwood          39
Footprints in the snow      40
I haven’t seen Mary for years      55
In the baggage coach ahead      62
Listen to the mockingbird      70
Lonely mound of clay       71
Maple on the hill       74
Mighty dark to travel       78
Old Shep       97
On the evening train       99
Precious jewel      107
Roses in the snow      116
Silent empty chair      125
Weathered gray stone      154
Will the roses bloom where she lies slpn       162
You’ll find her name written there      166
Calamity
Amelia Earhart’s last flight           2
BJ the DJ   6
The blizzard  12
Daddy don’t go to the mine  23
Drowned in the deep blue sea  30
Engine 143   33
Five miles from home   38
Muddy water    87
Sign on the highway  124
Sinking of the Titanic  127
Train 1262  145
Wreck of old 97 164
Wreck on the highway 165
Cruelty / Neglect
Coat of many colors    19
Give me the roses    44
If Jack were only here    60
No children allowed    92
Nobody’s child    94
Orphan girl 101
Over the hill to the poorhouse 102
Rocking alone 115
Row us over the tide 119
Ruby don’t take your love to town 120
Thirty pieces of silver 141
Tramp on the street 146
Unloved and unclaimed 149
Walking my Lord up Calvary hill  152
Down & Out / Adversity
Hard times come again no more    47
Hard times have been here    48
Lost highway    73
Men with broken hearts    77
More to be pitied    81
Muddy water    87
Pictures from life's other side 105
Ruby don’t take your love to town 120
Dying
Bathe me in lilac      7
Beyond the sunset      9
Cowboy's lament    22
Darling little Joe    24
The dying soldier    31
Farside banks of Jordan    36
Green green grass of home    46
Just before the battle mother    64
Master's bouquet    76
My brother’s will    88
Nobody's darling but mine    95
Plant some flowers by my graveside 106
Put my little shoes away  110
Road trip 113
Rosewood casket 117
Soldier’s last letter 130
When God comes to gather his jewels 155
When I ride that last mile 156
Who will sing for me 159
Will my soul pass through the southland  160
Will you miss me 163
Loneliness
All smiles tonight       1
Blue eyes crying in the rain      13
Calling my children home      18
Golden ring      45
He stopped loving her today      49
Lonesome river      72
Missing in action         79
Rocking alone    115
Ruby don’t take your love to town    120
So lonesome I could cry    129
Tiny broken heart    142
Too late to cry     143
Tragic romance     144
Wandering boy     153
Nobility / Redemption / Innocence
Amen corner          3
Angels rejoiced          4
Be careful of stones you throw  8
Big bad John         10
The blind girl’s prayer         11
Coat of many colors 19
Darling little Joe 24
Eastbound train         32
Fallen leaves         35
The funeral 41
Give me the roses 44
Hickory holler’s tramp 51
His fields are ready for harvest 53
I heard my mother call my name in prayer 57
If Jack were only here 60
In the baggage coach ahead 62
Jimmy Brown  63
Legend of the robin’s red breast  67
Lightening express  69
Missing in action  79
Mother queen of my heart  82

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Folk-Guitar Basics

Guitar basics for folk, country, bluegrass, cowboy and gospel
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 * A beginner might be amazed at how many songs in our culture require only two easy chords and how many more require only three.  A small minority require four or more.
 * My song-lyric collections (eg Wailing for Wuv) use numbers to specify chords – each chord presented as a superscript on the syllable where the chord begins, almost always at a downbeat.  People enjoying the number system can be seen at:  All smiles tonight,  Blue eyes crying in the rain,  Church in the wildwood,  Darkest hour.
 * The basic chord-number system is presented in the image below (major chords only, learn minor chords on your own).  The lower-case letters at the top of the B7 diagram show the notes to which the respective strings of a guitar should be tuned (get a clip-on electronic tuner).
 *  The numbers on the strings and between the frets show where your fingers go to make each chord (2=index, 3=middle, 4=ring, 5=little).  Until you can play most of the chords easily, begin each learning session by playing all the chords one after the other, left to right, F#, B7, E, A, D, G, C and F.
 * Below the chord pictures, are tracks with numbers 2, 5, 1, 4.   The numbers in a track are written below the chords typically associated in a song.  Consider the second track from the top, the chords used in the key of A, ie 2=B7, 5=E, 1=A and 4=D.
 * After playing all the chords, select a song to sing from the Two-Chord Songs or Three-Chord Songs.  If you don’t know a satisfactory key for your voice singing that song, then start by trying an easy key like A or D (ie 1 = A or 1 = D).
 * If you can’t tell instinctively what note to sing first, it will be good to hum the three chord notes (1,3, 5) repeatedly.  They can be found by holding the 1 chord and picking the strings labeled 1, 3 and 5 at the bottom of the chord diagram.  Play and hum those three notes several times.  Then, while strumming the 1 chord, hum the half scale (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1) up and down several times or the whole scale (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1).  After that, you should be able to start your song on the right note.  By the way, it’s worth noting that every song begins on the 1, 3 or 5 note of the 1 chord, and every song ends on the 1 note of the 1 chord, the key note.