8 Doc's Hearing Chart

This is how well Doc hears.  The right ear is nearly completely un-testable.  The CNE means that the tester did not test for speech discrimination.  DNT means the tester did not test for the indicated concern.

7 A Race

A Race

I

Gasp a silent scream

IV

Got to be a dream

I

Discordant voices

I

Questioning choices

IV

From the guest bedroom

IV

Rang a note of doom

I

How could you, he died!

I

Heartbroken, she cried

V

Overcome with dread

I

The killer then fled

IV

Headed for the door

IV

Tripped, fell to the floor

I

Entwined, they struggled

V

Emotions juggled

I

Murderer, she hissed

I

Couldn’t you have missed? 

IV

Locked in a frantic race

IV

Gun aimed at each face

I

Minds blanked by panic

I

Launched their last antic

IV

Awaken to think 

I

Into horror sink

2010.07.08

Rev 2013.05.19; 2013.06.17;2014.01.09;2014.10.07;2015.11.03

6 Dreams Flow

im...............ivm
ivm.............vm
vm........... im

im.......................ivm
We want things bright as day,
iim................ vm
So we dream them that way
im.............. ivm
As water through fingers
iim...... vm
So even life lingers
[Verse]

im
Time's flow ending
ivm
Is a blow so rending,
iim
That we tell stories
vm
About past glories.
[Interval]
[Chorus]

Love shatters apart,
Shards pierce our heart.
Time to a crawl doth slow,
Dreams from our eyes flow.
[Interval]
[Chorus]

Dry we cry our eyes,
Prayers rise to the sky.
We try to be brave,
As goodbye we wave.
[Interval]
[Chorus]
2013.06.29
a b d e g
2016.03.12
g c a d

v.2
5
Love shatters apart,
2
Shards pierce our heart.
4
Time to a crawl doth slow,
1
Dreams from our eyes flow.
[Verse]

1
We want things
4
Bright as day,
2
So we dream 
5
Them that way
[Chorus]

Time's flow ending
Is a blow so rending,
That we tell stories
About past glories.
[Chorus]

As water
Through fingers
So even 
Life lingers
[Chorus]

Dry we cry our eyes,
Prayers rise to the sky.
We try to be brave,
As goodbye we wave.
[Chorus]

2017.10.05
gcad
verse on 2 lowest strings
chorus on 2 middle strings

5 Replica

I introduced Replica and presented encores of A Race and Slip Away at Open Mic at Vincent Hill Saloon & Restaurant in Acton CA Sunday, 2013.06.30 to share my ideas via music-accompanied poetry.

Replica

what way is better

permits a will to fetter
truth a debtor

to a masked lie
and a counterfeit thereby
is truth nearby

and denied its guard?
guard to verify canard
restrictions discard

when the lie shatters,
if reality matters
truth under tatters

may endure the will
of the one gushing forth swill.
but truth as lies still

waits discovering
identity recovering.
reason hovering

astute guard discerns
deceit to facts he returns
and with truth's concerns

does see through the ruse
that insight slipping that noose
leashing will to choose

2012.02.08
2013.06.22
Chord structure 5-4-1

4 Amazin'!

Amazin’!

I Gals, one dressed ta kill

V Together to chill

VII Sharing blanks to fill

IV Started with ‘ta kill’

IV ‘Crowned queen of the hill

VII Harvard fit my skill

V Wed a guy named Bill

I Who’d made his first mil.’

I ‘That is amazin’
IV  So murmured dressed with no frill
I  Wide eyes a-gazing

'Poor Bill got so sick

Couldn’t move a lick

In a crypt he’d stick

His will did me pick

Got a ten mil kick

Then a Doctor Rick

Showed me a new trick

Made me Missus Rick’

'That is amazin’
So murmured dressed with no frill
Wide eyes a-gazing

'What Rick likes to fill

That is not my thrill!

We’re loving friends still

Worth another mil.

Degrees- got my fill

B A suits this Jill

M A makes me chill

P h D my kill’

'That is amazin’
So murmured dressed with no frill
Wide eyes a-gazing

‘What life post high school

Did you have that’s cool?’

No frill is no fool

She knows fast exit rule

'I went to charm school

Where grace’s just a tool

Whilst in model pool

I learned this jewel-

For ego razin’ 
Wide-eyed say instead of bull
That is amazin’

2013.06.16

3 Freezer Burn

Freezer Burn 2013.03.07

C ...................................Am .....................D7 
Two guys in a waiting room each in a state of gloom   
Well the big guy’s slightly dazed, amazed, so he up and says 
“Hey there, what happened to you and why do you look so blue?” 
[Chorus] 
T’other dude: “Froze to death”, says he with icy-cold breath. 
“How did you get waiting here?” he asked, a hint of fear 
Skittering across his face, between them increasing space 
[Chorus] 
“I guess me and my fair wife over time got mired in strife 
So I got to wonderin’, surely she was wanderin’ 
Was she seein’ Jumpin’ Jack? could I use that to attack?
[Chorus] 
I faked a trip out of town snuck home to get the low-down 
Sure enough, parked out in front a sight for a happy grunt 
Jumpin’ Jack’s bad-ass pick-up in front of the ole wick-up 
[Chorus] 
So I rushed eagerly in, hoped to catch the pair in sin 
Got the wife; in her eyes, light showed she’s lookin’ for a fight
 I searched through-out the house; never found that rotten louse 
[Chorus] 
Leaning against the freezer says she, “What’s wrong, ya geezer 
You’re done, so stick in a fork; too big to find dick, ya dork 
Of all the guys, you I pick; now can’t find your little prick”
 [Chorus] 
Well I gotta tell ya, dude, that just turned my attitude 
From frustrated and annoyed to major fury deployed 
Caused my aorta to pop and that caused my heart to stop” 
[Chorus] 
Coolly, Jumpin’ Jack says to big Lou, with frosty gaze 
“That walk-in freezer had room for me to meet my cold doom 
Couldn’t you look past the gal? we could still be alive, pal!” 

Chorus: 
Yippy yi yo and hi ho! skip around and hit the ground 
Hot diggity doggerel and plenty of folderol 
And for now we done breakin’ and no, we are not fakin’

2 Slip Away

First public performance of 'Slip Away' at the Vincent Hill Station Restaurant & Saloon (https://www.facebook.com/vincenthillstation) Sunday 2013.02.24.

Lyrics and choral tab below 

Slip Away                                                                            

E 
Let me hold your eyes 

A

As you say your good byes 

F# 

Let me hold your hand 

B  

As you slip away to another land 

D  

So far away, so near 

G  

Heart beating now with fear 

E  

Remember how we met 

A 

Start of good times, you bet 

[Chorus] 

At your own twilight’s gloom 

When your passage does loom 

From me a loving kiss 

A little bit of bliss 

[Chorus] 

As you breathe your last
Near by let me stand fast
When you start to get cold 

Let you my love enfold 

[Chorus] 

When you go into light 

Let me see your last flight 

As you rise and take wing 

Through-out time our love ring 

[Chorus]

E  
When you go into light 

A  
Let me see your last flight 

F# 
As you rise and take wing 

B  
Through-out time our love ring 

chord root notes
1 4 2 5 verse
2 5 3 6 chorus and final stanza  

1 First public performance

Lyin' Doc Ellis 124, guitar quack, (and that's the
truth) first public performance 2013.01.27. Wrecked
the Wabash Cannonball, and never quite flew with
the Blue Tail Fly. Eventually, will be OK. — at Vincent
Hill Station Restaurant & Saloon.