As compositions of
lyrics to a variety of music, these creations are both light-hearted
and serious in nature. You will notice that the particular kinds of
verses that I tend to favour are often designed to encourage a
chuckle, are harmless, and are never derisive nor ribald … or they
are personally nostalgic, serious or topical, and thus they may
suggest pause for thought and reflection. My continuing efforts
along these lines in this section of Electric Scotland are mostly
written in North-East Scotland Doric. However, when it seems
relevant to do so, I compose, or translate, some into the Queen’s
English.
So, while you are
either reading or singing these verses, I hope that your day may be
brightened by their humour, or enlightened by their moral and
spiritual conjectures. The midi or wav music files that accompany
the long list of lyrical efforts that appear in this section
celebrate the creative skills of countless composers of classical
music and popular songs from about 1700 onwards. My lyrics attempt
to honour, not only the enterprise shown by so many talented modern
day sequencers of the thousands of these electronic miracles, but
also the magnificence of the outcomes of their workmanship.
