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    2017: Lyrics & Poems
    2017: Lyrics & Poems
    2017: Lyrics & Poems
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    2017: Lyrics & Poems

    By Andrew Robert Chapman

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    A collection of 19 poems and rhymes from 2017, written as song lyrics and five of the nineteen have been provisionally married to a musical melody.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew Robert Chapman
    Release dateFeb 1, 2019
    ISBN9780463472866
    2017: Lyrics & Poems
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    Andrew Robert Chapman

    Having earned an upper-second-class BSc Honours Degree in Computing Science from Stafford University (the then Staffordshire Polytechnic), I worked for several English manufacturing companies before accepting an offer of work in Germany in 1991, where I have been living and working for several blue chip financial institutions based in Frankfurt am Main till this day. As a result of my career I wrote and self-published “Cobol: Optimised and Maintainable Application Programming” in 2003 and “JCL – STEP by STEP” in 2008. In 2012 I was asked to write lyrics for several rock band projects, an adventure which led to the role of singer/songwriter in WildScreW and the composition of several hundred lyrics, the majority of which are patiently waiting to be put to music or self-published.

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      2017 - Andrew Robert Chapman

      2017: Lyrics & Poems

      Copyright 2019 Andrew Robert Chapman

      Published by Andrew Robert Chapman at Smashwords

      Edition 2019.4.3

      This book is available in print at most online retailers.

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Preamble

      Proem

      (All I Need s) Your Love

      1984

      Adieu

      Beggin' For It

      Collapse

      Collision Course

      Dear Leader (Fuck You)

      Fallin' (Outta Control)

      Fire And Forget

      Gay Enough

      Hit Me

      Keep 'em Poor

      Kissin' Me

      Radio Song

      Train Wreck

      War Dogs

      Wean (Myself)

      White Privilege

      White Revolution

      Song background information

      1984

      Beggin' For It

      Dear Leader (Fuck You)

      Keep ‘em Poor

      War Dogs

      Wean (Myself)

      White Privilege

      Song breakdown/explanation

      1984

      War Dogs

      Great American Song Contest Evaluation

      War Dogs

      About the author

      Other books by the author

      Contacts and Links

      QR-CODE Links

      Preface

      History

      My late, great-aunty Jean was an avid fan of literature, language and especially poetry. Nevertheless, despite her persistence, cajoling and seemingly endless off-by-heart recitals from her many favourite and famous bard’s literary masterpieces, and although I did possess an unhealthy interest and certain talent for English language and literature in school, I always considered my sister the more gifted poet and artist and myself more adroit in the (especially then new computer) sciences.

      Sure, in my late school years and youth I’d occasionally pen a poem, compose a clerihew or write a rhyme, but always for specific purposes: love letters in the main but also a couple of songs for a my schooldays band Guillotine. But, as demands from career and life’s many other interests and distractions gained the upper hand, my literary efforts were restricted to computer program documentation. But there was always a book burning away in the back of my head and, after several aborted attempts at fiction, I decided around 1998 that I’d be best writing about something I know, which resulted in two self-published technical books in 2003 and 2008.

      These tomes combined with (too) many years of unsuccessfully trying to master the German language, resulted in me falling heavily back in love with my native tongue. As essays are not my forte and technical reference books a labour of four or five years, I began writing poems and rhymes for my own pleasure and therapy.

      My jottings and ideas were randomly scattered about various electronic devices, books and scrap pieces of paper and, in 2010, I stumbled across the term blogging and specifically WORDPRESS and decided the free application was also a perfect, practical and localized way to store and work on all my poems and lyrics.

      In 2012, and quite coincidentally to my personal rhyming efforts on WORDPRESS, I was asked, solely because of my native English skills, if I was capable of writing lyrics to original songs melodies. Luckily for me I decided to blow my own trumpet and confidently replied that I could. I thus found myself writing lyrics for several band projects, one of which was to lead to the formation of the rock band WildScreW and culminate with the production of a studio CD, "Writing On The Wall"*, at the end of

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