John Dyhouse

A little up tempo compared to recent offerings, but Lyrics are all mine and the voice was mine but Suno has taken a few liberties on this track... Hope you like it anyway, thanks for listening.

A reminder of an old verse chorus structure, the fall back structure for rock and roll, country, folk in my formative years. A definite decision I made before starting to write. A simple theme, the main character - the story teller - is deeply in love but is having problems with his partner in a relationship. One day he sees his partner in a car with another guy, and feels there is the proof of that he was afraid of. But because of his love for her, he will not stand in the way of her new life with this new guy. Not an original story but told in an original way I feel. Hope you like the song!

A song which simply came out of nowhere when I sat down and idly started writing with my uke on my lap and a note book within reach. After very little time the first two lines were down on paper, then I reversed them - seemed a good idea. It was starting to describe a long and happy relationship, which was decried by some who seemed to thing that settling down too early was a foolish thing. The rest came fairly quickly. Hope you like it.

Feeling as if my tracks are falling into a rut! So here is a Jazzy Rocking number for your delectation. Very different lyrics, not AI but definitely mine; using the same technique as the last uploaded track. I.e "The cut up" method by William Burroughs. If it is good enough for David Bowie, it's good enough for me I reckon. It really gets the creative juices flowing in a dry period. I hope that you like the result.

This is another of those tracks in which the lyrics are "discovered" whilst reading the daily newspaper. I often keep a notebook handy and randomly write down a word or phrase which strikes a note with me. Sometimes it might trigger a title, theme or just be absolutely random. This list of words is the approached as a feed for the lyrics. It could be 2-3 dozen entries or maybe if a little short I will combine with another. But essentially, close inspection of the list provides thought starters / ideas as the lyric progresses. Again, the thoughts can be randomised or edited to fit, and of course I use a rhyming dictionary to keep things under control. I have seen this technique suggested in many places, under different names but I first came across it in a TV interview with David Bowie, when the interviewer asked where he got the ideas for his songs from. David actually replied that he would literally cut extracts from a newspaper, maybe chop them up a little, and the sit on the floor (he was a bit of a hippy) and place the pieces in front of him to construct the lyrics of a song.

Every once in a while, maybe during a dry patch, I go back to this technique to help bring me out of the doldrums. Yes, I have mixed my metaphors, and used a bit of alliteration in this sentence. Just shows how the technique can get the juices flowing again.

Anyway, I hope you like the song!

With the imminent anniversary of 2026 remembrance day, I decided to remix this in Suno V6. I wrote it last year for the 80th anniversary of VE day (UK, Victory in Europe). The lyrics were written after reading this story in an article in The Mail (UK) celebrating the same anniversary

Here's a song that had no title to begin with - with me lyrics almost always come first - and what started me off writing this was the autumnal task of clearing leaves from our drive. We have an old oak, an enormous tree across the road from us and many more spaced out down the road. The prevailing winds always gift us with more leaves than our neighbours. Of course, I know the old classic song, "Autumn Leaves", so the second line followed naturally to show this song had nothing to do with "that" song. Then the next couplet simply wrote itself outlining the subject of the song.

It was a very short verse, but took me a while to follow it up; and the next section became a chorus because of the repetition. I made it a longish chorus to make up for the verse, and that longish last couplet, although slightly awkward gave me the title I was searching for.

The second verse and the bridge complete the story; I might still revisit the lyrics here. It seems a long gap since my last "new" song and I did feel good about it with some reservations. I had also developed a melody and accompanying chord sequence but only presented Suno with the lyrics. I did prompt for the intro based on the chord sequence, which uses chords from the parallel key to the main key (Gmaj). Suno seems to be better at developing the musical side than I do. Hope you like our efforts.

purely for my own pleasure, another version of this beautiful melody, written by myself in the seventies - despite what I may have said on some of the many versions now on Sound Cloud.

A song I wrote back in the seventies after listening to a conversation between my son and a friend as I taxied them back home. I think they were chatting about a TV program. I am very fond of this song and there must be several versions on Sound Cloud. This version is how it might sound as a guitar instrumental. One of my all-time favourite genres - I only wish I could have played like my heroes.

A new song, very different for me..... No idea where the theme/idea came from, but whilst uploading to SC, I realised that it is similar to the last upload, written decades ago (in the sixties) although that was not in my mind when I sketched the idea. I was actually at a Fairport Convention gig, and during their "warm up" with some of their early folk songs, I was distracted by this idea and virtually wrote the whole lyric whilst they were playing. I guess this is not saying a lot about this group on the verge of celebrating their 60th year together, thru many line-up changes BUT I so enjoyed the rest of the concert.