http://music.metafilter.com/2205/Serenade-the-Moon/ Comments on MeFi Music post Serenade the Moon Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:17:29 -0800 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:17:29 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://music.metafilter.com/2205/Serenade-the-Moon Part of my Old Songs project of recording song I wrote years and sometimes decades ago, this one a Tin Pan Alley styled love song. <br /><br /> I used to have big old baritone ukulele, which is pitched lower than my current tenor ukulele, and so a lot of these early songs I either sing very high or very low, which is tricky, as I already write songs either for the top or the bottom of my register. Nonetheless, the point of this project is to find a home for the old songs I wrote, and so I'll just go ahead and sing the songs as best I can, even when, as with this one, I wind up just growling through a lot of it. "Serenade the Moon" was my first, and, I think, only attempt at writing using the classic structure of the pop song, including an intro and a middle bridge. The song was written in 1996, and, as with the other songs I wrote at that time, the lyrics are deliberately a little hokey -- I took pleasure in combining the more insipid qualities of Tin Pan Alley songwriting with a more beaten and world weary viewpoint, and so here we have what on first blush seems to be a a sweet if simpleminded romantic ditty, and then reveals itself to have a broke alcoholic as its narrator. "SERENADE THE MOON" LYRICS: I'm bewildered and I'm startled Is it jut the wine Did I hear that you adore me Could it be your mine We've both drunk a little too much And won't be invited again any time soon I've lost my hat and your purse string's broken Now is a good time to serenade the moon I've acted the fool, I act it often My hair's a mess and I sing off tune But if it makes you smile I'll act the fool, dear If it makes you laugh I will serenade the moon I'm a wreck and my money's all spent I'm not the kind of guy for whom girls swoon But drunk with you I feel like a king, dear Drunk with you I will serenade the moon post:music.metafilter.com,2008:site.2205 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:42:52 -0800 Astro Zombie moon serenade tinpanalley ukulele http://music.metafilter.com/2205/Serenade-the-Moon#10384 Nice. Man, I love the sound of that baritone uke, and the chord voicings you're using on it. comment:music.metafilter.com,2008:site.2205-10384 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:17:29 -0800 umbú