|
Books for Songwriters
Essential
Songwriting
The
Complete Rhyming Dictionary
The
New Roget's Thesaurus in Dictionary Form |
The Songs and the Stories Behind the Songs
Here are some of my songs. I thought I'd put them on my site to show you what I do. Many times a song is just made up and has no factual basis but some of mine have been written about actual events. Drop me a line and let me know what you think about these. My email is antispam(removetheparenthesis)@utahwest.com >>>>>Please bear in mind, these songs are not professional recordings. They are just recordings of me singing the songs in my living room. One of these days, I'll get them professionally recorded.<<<<< REMEMBER © All Songs Are Copyrighted and may not be reproduced or shared in any form without the expressed, written permission of Jay S. McMullan. Violaters WILL be prosecuted. View My Videos
My Wife, My Friend, My Lover on YouTube
Get This Train a'Rollin' on YouTube
The
Song: Do You Really Know
The Story: I was sitting around playing some major seventh chords and this song popped out. Another song for my beautiful wife!
The Song: After All These Years The Story: In this song, I visualized my fiance and I together when we get old.
The Song: Frogs and Lizards The Story: Ever since we got over two feet of rain in two days here in Florida, it rains about three times a week. There are small frogs and lizards everywhere. This is my song to the little stinkers!
The Song: Live Without a Care The Story: Growing up in the windy, dusty Texas panhandle can be hard. This farmer has dreams of running off to Mexico to live a life without a care!
The Song: Noah's Song The Story: Imagine the faith that it must have taken for Noah to build an ark and face the nay-sayers of his generation. But he prevailed, choosing to trust only in God's word!
The Song: Forever to Stay The Story: In this song, I visualized my fiance and I together when we get old.
The Song: Fast Track to Hell The Story: Two buddies go on a crime spree. One of them doesn't make it, the other one ends up in prison.
The
Song: Space and Time
The Story: This is another one of those songs that just jumps out of you. It has nothing to do with me but is about a couple that is having a hard time making their relationship work and they realize that it just can't be fixed.
The Song: Gonna Call Her on the Phone The Story: This is one of those songs that I started a long time ago but couldn't finish it. I finally came back to it and got it done. I wanted to add some harmonica to round out the sound.
The Song: Beautiful Day The Story: I had to wait half an hour for my luthier to open his shop so I sat in a small neighborhood park in Salt Lake City. My thoughts turned to my wonderful fiance and this is the song that resulted.
The Song: Tumbleweed The Story: I just decided one night in early June 2008 I needed some faster, more rock style songs. So I sat down with my digital recorder and drum machine and came up with this song.
The Song: Is There Room In Your Heart The Story: In January 2008, I met the love of my life on Christian Mingle, a Christian Internet dating site. I wrote this song in her honor. She lives in Florida and I'm in Utah. The distance when you find someone you love is excruciating. This song deals with being separated by thousands of miles when you are in love and know that God has placed the other person in your life.
The Song: Walking in My Daddy's Boots The Story: On November 2, 2007, Sarah from Hugo, Oklahoma contacted me to see if I would be interested in writing a song with her. She had started a song about walking in her daddy's boots. I thought the title sounded very intriguing so I said that I would definitely be interested in helping her. She had one set of lines and was stumped. I don't know how many songs I've started like that! So, on Thursday November 8, 2007 I came up with what I have here. I have to be in the right mood to write and it just hit me today. I hope you like it.
The Song: My Wife, My Friend, My Lover The Story: On February 12, 2007, two days before Valentine's Day, an 18 year old Bosnian refugee went on a shooting rampage through Trolley Square, a shopping mall in Salt Lake City, tah. Four years prior to this, one of the victims, a young female, was married but her and her husband didn't have enough money to buy their wedding rings. The husband called her and asked her to meet him at Trolley Square that night so they could buy their rings. She got to the mall before he did and was tragically killed. When the husband arrived at the scene, he was not allowed into the mall but asked to look at a newspaper photographer's photos and that is where he saw photos of his wife lying dead in the mall. I wrote this song in honor of this couple and the others that lost their lives on that day.
The Song: In the City The Story: This song is totally made up. It does however probably reflect my love for the country and small towns. I never could get used to living in large cities. I know there are people that love the city. This is a story of a young couple, broken up because of their love and disdain for the city.
The Song: Lady in that Long Black Dress The Story: Sometimes songs just come to you. When I got this song, I was a little bit down and I was playing some sad chords (minor chords) on my guitar. I just started singing and this is what I came up with. Not only was I suffering emotional pain but I was going through a lot of physical pain. I've had chronic pain for a number of years and the doctors can't do anything more to help. It can get very depressing when you want to live a normal life but can't. I wrote this song in a matter of just a few minutes.
The Song: Back in the Plains The Story: I grew up in the plains of the Texas panhandle. Tornadoes were a common experience in the spring. Tornadoes destroyed homes and killed people. This song is about a fictional couple that lived in the plains. The wife was tragically killed by a tornado in the spring of 1993.
The Song: Git Own Outta Mah Yord! The Story: If you ever knew a real redneck, I think you will enjoy this little song.
The Song: No More Chains The Story: A song about God's grace through Jesus Christ and how we can do nothing to earn God's favor other than believing in Christ's atoning work on the cross.
The Song: Christ in Me The Story: A little worship song from Galatians 2:20. I am crucified with Christ never the less I live!
CHECK OUT SOME MORE OF MY SONGS
|
Books for Songwriters
Tunesmith
- Inside the Art of Songwriting
Webster's
New World Thesaurus
Writing
Better Lyrics |
tm
2010 by Jay McMullan 
This
Website Professionally Designed by
