Awaiting on you all chords9/16/2023 ![]() ![]() Indulge me awhile for I've quite a display,Ī remarkable likeness, I'm sure you'll agree, I've been up to no good, as Mother would say, This was always a difficult one to play live as the chords and lyrics in each verse were very similar to those in preceding lines and it often tripped me up. ![]() ![]() It was Candy from the start and that is the name that it had to remain. It just wouldn’t have been the same if I’d re-named it ‘Lucy Says’ or ‘Mary says’. It was a bit cheeky of me to borrow a song title from the Velvet Underground, but sometimes when I am using a ‘working title’ when writing a song it just sticks and I can’t think of another when it comes to recording it. ”Candy it’s time you told your friend there goodbye,Ĭandy don’t you know little girls shouldn’t lie”Ĭandy needs no one but the friend she has found,Ĭandy needs no one and no one comes round,Ĭandy needs no one and no one comes round. ”Candy don’t you know little girls shouldn’t lie”īut Candy says that her friend is lonely, ”Candy it’s time you told your friend there goodbye”, This was a difficult one to sing as I hadn’t the gravitas in my voice back then, hence the double tracked vocal on the re-issue.Ĭandy says “I’ve a friend that no one can see” I imagined what it might be like for the soul of a pharaoh to be trapped between worlds inside the bandages and witness to the grave robbers who came to steal his treasures. Note: Blades were rakish young gentlemen in the 18th century who lived for pleasure, gambling, wenching and drinking to excess.Īnd though my days they passed in splendour,Įgypt has always held a morbid fascination for me, as it has for many, particularly because at its centre is the cult of the dead. It was only years later when I read about Miss Haversham in ‘Great Expectations’ that I realised that Charles Dickens must have been reading the same comics as me! This early song was directly inspired by a story I read in ‘Ghosts’, my favourite comic which made a lasting impression on me due to the lurid artwork (by Berni Wrightson) and the deliciously nasty twist in the tale which often saw grisly justice meted out to the villain. It was quite a precarious pastime as I only had candlelight to read by! So when I came to write my first songs at the age of 14, I naturally drew on supernatural themes. When I was young my head was full of cobwebs and dark secret passageways inhabited by hideous creatures as I used to read American horror comics at night in bed under the blankets so that my parents wouldn’t see that my light was on after dark. "X" marks the grave that will never be blessed, Yet their footprints ring the pulpit, steps leading underground,Īnd there lie his Bible, his collar and his gown, There's no trace of the parson and the sexton can't be found He's watching for the redcoats by the cemetery gates There's a note pinned to the chapel "Service is at eight"īut all the pews are empty and the organist is late We've rum and we've brandy and damn the excise, The Devil's legion riding out of the mist,Īsk me no questions and I tell 'e no lies, ** Single print order can either print or save as PDF.Jack O' The Lantern and Will O' the Wisp, If the icon is greyed then these notes can not be transposed. Please check "notes" icon for transpose options. * Where transpose of Awaiting On You All sheet music available ( not all our notes can be transposed) & prior to print. Be careful to transpose first then print (or save as PDF). ![]() If your desired notes are transposable, you will be able to transpose them after purchase. If you selected -1 Semitone for score originally in C, transposition into B would be made. This means if the composers started the song in original key of the score is C, 1 Semitone means transposition into C#. If it is completely white simply click on it and the following options will appear: Original, 1 Semitione, 2 Semitnoes, 3 Semitones, -1 Semitone, -2 Semitones, -3 Semitones. You can do this by checking the bottom of the viewer where a "notes" icon is presented. Most of our scores are traponsosable, but not all of them so we strongly advise that you check this prior to making your online purchase. If not, the notes icon will remain grayed. If transposition is available, then various semitones transposition options will appear. In order to transpose click the "notes" icon at the bottom of the viewer. After you complete your order, you will receive an order confirmation e-mail where a download link will be presented for you to obtain the notes. This week we are giving away Michael Buble 'It's a Wonderful Day' score completely free. ![]()
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