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Autobisongraphy

from Autobisongraphy by Dave Atkinson

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2014. From the album Some of Mine 2017.

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Began back in nineteen sixty five when I got my first guitar
At violin practice I would duck and dive, fretless fingering was hard;
For thirty old shilling the shop girl was willing to choose me a Dylan LP,
Bringing It All Back Home it was for my Autobisongraphy.

Most of my songs were copycat sham in the American style,
Pretending to be a rambling man, still hadn’t walked a first mile;
In Manchester city a young girl so pretty made a heart-broken troubadour of me,
At last some living to sing about for my Autobisongraphy.

On 12 inch vinyl in Liverpool town I first heard Kristofferson sing,
Wistful nostalgia soon was found in my imagining;
So childhood departed and adulthood started in stages not easy to see,
But every step was neatly cut in my Autobisongraphy.

Back again on a Manchester street, many a debt to pay,
Darting eyes and dancing feet just to keep trouble away;
With conscience benighted and love unrequited, feckless, footloose and free,
What more could a song-smith want for an Autobisongraphy?

With every sin in song confessed, time for settling down,
Eggs were hatching in the nest, life had a changing sound;
There were glitches and itches but no more stitches in my song tapestry
Three hundred up and quite enough for an Autobisongraphy.

I put away my tapestry kit but there were ends untied,
My mischievous muse stirred in his pit the day my mother died;
And as he was waking new songs were breaking like waves on a slumbering sea ,
Crashing ashore and adding more to my Autobisongraphy.

I fail at that, I fail at this, it’s all part of the plan,
Written in the script that is the fate of a song-writing man,
But I got a treasure rich beyond measure, I take it all over with me -
I call it my very own book of life, my Autobisongraphy.

©Dave Atkinson 2014

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from Autobisongraphy, released November 19, 2021

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Dave Atkinson Chester, UK

I have been writing songs since 1967 when I was 17 and since I have accumulated over 440. Early influences were Dylan, Cohen, Jackson Browne Joni Mitchell, Kristofferson. Though never 'successful' in any conventional sense, my songs and guitar have led many sing-rounds and a couple of 1970's albums sell for £100s as 'rare vinyl'. Above all, it has been a happy adventure. www.atkinsongs.co.uk ... more

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