I’m back! No, nothing was wrong with me. Not physically, anyhow. I stopped posting for a while because I hadn’t written any new songs and was only re-posting previous posts. I have several new ones now. “I Cannot Stop Singing” is the newest. I can’t promise to post every Wednesday, but I’ll try to.
I will sing of God’s LOVE every morning.
And I’ll sing of His PRESENCE all day long.
I will sing of His FAITHFULNESS each evening
And praise Him for His AWESOMENESS.
Yes, I’ll praise Him for His AWESOMENESS. refrain
I cannot stop singing about the Lord
And everything He is to me.
I cannot stop singing about the Lord.
His promises never fail.
I will sing of God’s GRACE every morning.
And I’ll sing of His MERCY all day long.
I will sing of His RIGHTEOUSNESS each evening
And praise Him for His AWESOMENESS.
Yes, I’ll praise Him for His AWESOMENESS. (refrain)
I will sing of God’s STRENGTH every morning.
And I’ll sing of His GUIDANCE all day long.
I will sing of His CONSTANT CARE each evening
And praise Him for His AWESOMENESS.
Yes, I’ll praise Him for His AWESOMENESS. (refrain)
I will sing of God’s JOY every morning.
And I’ll sing of His BLESSINGS all day long.
I will sing of His PERFECT PEACE each evening
And praise Him for His AWESOMENESS.
Yes, I’ll praise Him for His AWESOMENESS. (refrain)
I purposely upper cased words and phrases to make it easier for me to follow the lyrics. You may have noticed that the keywords in each stanza progress from one word or syllable to two and then to three.
I was inspired by Psalm 59: 16:
But I will sing of your strength,
in the morning I will sing of your love;
for you are my fortress,
my refuge in times of trouble.
and 1 Thessalonians 5:16-17:
16 Rejoice always, 17 pray continually
You may find a free lead sheet at
https://rogerbruner.com/pdf/I%20Cannot%20Stop%20Singing.pdf
It took two or three weeks to refine the lyrics and the melody even after I got started. I found it interesting to switch between C or G and G7 to match notes in the song. Not the normal G7 played on the first fret of the first string (an F note), but playing an F on the 3rd fret of the 4th string. That’s a lot of jumping back and forth at times.
I’ve spent several hours trying to record this song so you can hear how I do it, but I only had time for a vanilla version with voice and guitar. Somehow the light percussion I had been playing with got mixed in; the big problem was trying to play the drum machine while holding the cord a certain way to keep it from shorting out while I was recording. Kindly ignore any percussion that doesn’t make sense.
Anyhow, you may listen to it here: http://www.rogerbruner.com/tascam/I%20Cannot%20Stop%20Singing%20-%20VG.mp3
I’ve been teaching myself to play a uke — nothing fancy, just basic chords and strumming. And this song turned out to be a really good one to play that way. In fact, I would say the uke helped in developing the song.
Watch videos of some of my songs at https://www.youtube.com/@rogerbruner9714
I’m still writing novels, too. I’m going to change the tagline at the top of the following graphic because I’m afraid “quirky” probably doesn’t mean the same thing to every reader. My intended meaning is “How in the world did he come up with that story idea?”
As I Come Singing. . . 