Pongs and Soems: Poem-Like Songs and Song-Like Poems
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PONGS ‘N SOEMS is a 60-year collection of PONGS (could-be songs) and SOEMS (could-be poems) but all are lyrics. This work is aimed at the individual looking for material his/her next million seller. As well, this compilation will speak to songwriting/poem writing hobbyists. It endeavours to encourage journaling thoughts, ideas, notions no matter how initially insignificant they seem. Yes, perhaps the multi-million-seller song awaits you, the reader, to pen it. If not that, then one may ignite a flair for writing anything from simple lyrics to free verse poetry of the loftiest kind. Herein between the covers lie several melodies which the guitarist can play. On youtube (type in Frederick Mundle youtube) you can see and hear how some PONGS became studio recorded songs and how some SOEMS ended up being set to music. This author’s pastime netted him some incredible collaborating connections musically from Chicago, to Detroit, Windsor and Toronto, ON, Montreal, PQ, as well as from Eastern NB and Gaspe, PQ.
Frederick Mundle
Frederick Mundle adds his third book of poetry entitled Naked Christians to his list of Christian publications with Xlibris. He addresses elements within the body of professing Christians which require being called out. His hope is to awaken the naked who do not realize that they walk about without the clothing of Christ. His desire combines the alerting and converting the otherwise spiritually dead to awaken them to eternal life in Christ. Most self-professing Christians do not realize that they parade around spiritually naked, not being clothed with Christ. It is Frederick's hope to through the power of the Holy Spirit in Jesus name to raise the spiritually dead before they actually physically die. There is no eternal life with Christ unless the foregoing occurs.
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Pongs and Soems - Frederick Mundle
Copyright © 2020 by Frederick Mundle.
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Rev. date: 10/28/2020
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CONTENTS
i. Introduction
ii. Acknowledgements
iii. Other Publications By The Author
iv. Preview
PART 1
i. Pongs And Soems: Poem-Like Songs And Song-Like Poems
ii. A Time With Miller Brisker
iii. My Audition With Billy Davis, Jr. (Mid 60’s)
iv. A Sit-Down With Ronnie Hawkins
v. The Time I Met A.E Houseman 55 Years After His Death
PART II
1. An Act of Mercy
2. Any Way, Any How
3. Alcoholic’s Son
4. Alcoholic’s Son (Chords)
5. All for the Children
6. All Mine
7. All My Friends
8. All My Friends (Chords)
9. Angel of Death
10. Annie
11. Another Love Like Me
12. Apply the Blood
13. Apply the Blood
14. Ask Your New Lover
15. Baby, My Life Is All Music
16. Bad with You (cd available)
17. Be Careful, Be Cautious
18. Because His Skin’s Dark and My Skin’s White
19. Behind the Mask
20. Between Tides
21. Between Tides (Chords)
22. The Birth
23. The Birth (Chord Progression)
24. Bitterness
25. Black and White Ain’t Socially Right (Mid-Sixties)
26. The Bridge Is Gone
27. Bright and Warm
28. Burn
29. The Canadian Fair
30. The Candy or the Rose
31. Cape Breton (I’ll Make You My Home)
32. Cape Breton (I’ll Make You My Home) (Chords)
33. Carelessly, Endlessly
34. Caught on Fire
35. The Chain Is Gone
36. Cherry Beach
37. Cherry Beach (Chords)
38. Children of the Lord
39. Children of the Lord (Chords)
40. Children of the Rain
41. Choose Your Mate
42. The Christians Are Gone
43. The Christians Are Gone
44. Cocaine Girl (Song is on youtube)
45. Come Back Again
46. Come Down (Melody Available)
47. Come out of Babylon
48. Come Out of Babylon (Chords)
49. Come to Salvation
50. Come to Salvation (Chords)
51. Covid 19
52. The Cross in the Star
53. The Cross in the Star (Chords)
54. The Crowd
55. Cry, Sax, Cry
56. Did I Hide My Love from You Well?
57. Did Jesus Die for You?
58. Did Jesus Die for You? (Chords)
59. Don’t Fret, Just Forget
60. Don’t Hold It Against Me
61. Don’t Let Go of Me
62. Don’t Let It Show
63. Downtown Montreal
64. Dubë, This Day Is Yours
65. Dubë, This Day Is Yours (Chords)
66. Dummy - L – E—N
67. Ebola Comin’
68. Ecstasy and Pain
69. Eventually
70. Eventually (Chords)
71. Ever Again
72. Ever Again (Chords)
73. Everybody Is a Song (New Title: You’re a Song)
74. Excess Love’s Like Too Much Sweet
75. Fallen Angel
76. Feel the Blues a-Comin’
77. A Feeling
78. Fields of Clover
79. Fields of Clover (Chords)
80. 50 000 Watts
81. Finding My Way
82. Finding My Way (Chords)
83. Fish on the Line
84. For You Another Man
85. Free Will
86. Frost on the Sun
87. Frost on the Sun (Chords)
88. Futile Feeling
89. Ghost in My Wallet
90. A Girl Too Demanding
91. Good-byes Can Linger On
92. Hang On
93. Hang Tough
94. Happy Girl
95. Happy Girl (Chords)
96. Harbour
97. Harvest Time
98. Harvest Time (Chords)
99. Hear Me, Jesus
100. Hear Me, Jesus (Chords)
101. Holding Back
102. How Thick The Blood Of Jesus
103. I Can Live Without You
104. I Can’t Take You Back
105. I Don’t Know you, You Don’t Know Me
106. I Got the Rockies
107. I Know
108. I Set the Past on Fire
109. I Will Always Wonder
110. If Jesus Had a Christmas List
111. If My People
112. If My People (Chords)
113. If You Didn’t Say Hi
114. If You Gamble for Love
115. I’ll Always Love Her
116. I’ll Be All You Need
117. I’ll Carry on Somehow
118. I’ll Look for You in Paradise
119. I’ll Look for You in Paradise (Chords)
120. In Praise of Aretha
121. Infallible Guy
122. Iraq-a-Tac
123. It Takes a Lot to Please Me
124. It Takes a Lot to Please Me (Chords)
125. I’ve Got a Friend on the Other Side
126. The Jake
127. Jane
128. Jesus, I love you; Jesus I Need You
129. Just Pretend You Don’t See Me
130. Just Turn Around
131. Kathie’s Lines
132. Kinda Weird, Kinda Wild
133. The Latter Rain
134. The Latter Rain (Chords)
135. Leave Us Alone
136. Left on Fire
137. Les Fantasies D’Amour
138. Let Love Grow
139. Let Muddy Waters Be Muddy
140. Let Your Housecleaning Start with Me
141. Let Your Holy Spirit Fall
142. Let Your Holy Spirit Fall (Chords)
143. Let’s Go Back
144. Lie to Me
145. Life Can Be a Beach
146. The Long Arms of the Cross
147. The Love of My Life Is You
148. Make Them Short
149. A Man Obsessed
150. Moth and Fire
151. Mount Cashel
152. Multicoloured Soul
153. My Last Call
154. Never
155. Never Share
156. Night Flyin’ Man
157. Nobody Wants to Hang Around with God Any More
158. No More Coffles
159. On a Faraway Planet in a Faraway Time
160. On the Run
161. The Only Thing That Hurts Me Is the Pain
162. The Orange of Florida
163. Outlawed from Love
164. Parity Place
165. The Path
166. Pizza Parlour Blues
167. Pizza Parlour Blues (Chords)
168. Play That Oldie Again
169. Prolonged Suspense
170. Psycho-Surgery
171. Public Domain……………..
172. Quebexodus
173. The Rapture
174. River or Pond
175. Roads
176. The Rock Maple
177. The Rockies
178. Roman Candle
179. Roses of Freedom
180. The Rumour Mill
181. A Running Dame
182. A Running Dame (Chords)
183. Sail on the Meech
184. The Shadow of Otis Redding
185. She Don’t Know
186. Should I Freeze in Canada or Starve in F.L.A.?
187. Show No Mercy, Feel No Shame
188. Silver or Sand
189. Sleepin’ with the Devil
190. Smoked Meat and Ale
191. Smoked Meat and Ale (Chords)
192. So Sweet. So Complete
193. Somehow
194. Some Like You
195. Something Bright
196. Something Bright (Chords)
197. Something’s Not In Practice
198. Sometimes
199. Songs for My Sons 1. Good Night 2. Troy 3. Scott
200. Sorry to Be Free
201. Soul 67
202. Stephen’s Prayer
203. Stone Fever
204. Sugarloaf Mountain
205. Sugarloaf Mountain (Chords)
206. The Sun Is Shining on You
207. The Sun Is Shining on You (Chords)
208. A Sweet Girl’s Kisses
209. Sweeter the Rose
210. Sweeter the Rose (Chords)
211. Tell Me (I Have to Know)
212. Tell My Sons
213. Terrorist attack
214. Test Tube Baby
215. Thank You Lord
216. Thank You Lord (Chords)
217. Thanks Again
218. Thanks Again (Chords)
219. That Is Love
220. They Tried
221. A Thousand Years, a Million Tears
222. Time Go Slow
223. Time in a Day
224. Time Travellers
225. Tinsel
226. Tinsel (Chords)
227. Tinsel Talk
228. To Tommy Douglas
229. Traces
230. Transplant My Brain
231. The Truth Hurts
232. Watch Out
233. The Way to Go
234. We Are the Children of the World
235. We Are the Children of the World (Chords)
236. We Haven’t Come Far
237. Wendy
238. What Are You Waiting For
239. What Are You Waiting For? (Chords)
240. What Can I Give You, Jesus
241. What Can I Give You Jesus (Chords)
242. What Nails Had Done
243. What’s It Like?
244. What You Do for Light
245. When Can We Expect You Again?
246. When I Get Over You
247. When I’m Gone
248. When I’m Gone (Chords)
249. When Love Soars with the Eagle
250. When She Touches Me
251. When There’s Frost on the Sun
252. Who’s Going to Uganda
253. The White Rose
254. White Satin
255. Who Was This Man Called Christ
256. Who Was This Man Called Christ? (Chords)
257. The Wind
258. The Wind (Chords)
259. With Her Words
260. With You
261. With You (Chords)
262. Without a Dime, Without Penny
263. Won’t Let Myself Go
264. Words Without Heart
265. Words Without Heart (Chords)
266. You Take Away
267. You’ll Walk Forever
268. Your Word
269. Your Word (Chords)
270. You’re a Token
INTRODUCTION
As an amateur writer, I am appealing to anyone who has a predisposition just to just write. Not only that, but I encourage that person to keep an idea box or journal of their thoughts. Don’t get me wrong. Although I have won The Edwin Flaherty Award at STU for Creative Writing, The Alfred G. Bailey Award for best poetry manuscript in 2014, got into the Startrak Songwriting Regionals, published two books of poetry and numerous children’s stories, I have no claim to fame. My collection began with the storing away of a first lyric at age 14.
To date, I have been writing and storing scraps of paper and pieces of ideas for 60+ years as a pastime. Approaching the horizon of my life I can say that poetry has been an awesome friend, songwriting has been a rewarding companion, and writing children’s stories and inventing children’s games has kept my mind challenged. This book represents a compilation of songs and want-to-be songs currently causing me to focus like never before. Next on the list will be a collection of children’s stories. After that I could gather up some 1,000 sermons I’ve written or assemble a number of children’s games into a book form. In the meantime, during all of that time I’ve written what ended up being songs in their completed form. In their unfinished state they are micro stories or mini narratives which make up the title of this book: Pongs and Soems.
All songs herein found their roots and rootlets in what you will see to have been initially Pongs and Soems. That is what I call them until they actually become songs which could be radio-ready. Several of the songs herein presented have found air time on a smaller scale than a dreamer might hope for. The sum total of 60+ years has simply been a hobby or pastime. And I do say that it has been a cathartic pastime, a healing hobby, an exciting means of expression. So too can it be for a beginner who might become an amateur who might become an accomplished songwriter in his/her own right who might one day get a break with a truly great Pong or Soem which becomes a song and a hit song at that.
While you read through each and all of the following Pongs and Soems you will discover that each one has a story however long or short. Each Pong remains a Pong and each Soem a remains a Soem only so long as it doesn’t have music. Whereupon, as you will see, some inclusions have chord progressions to them, they have become songs. Some structurally may replicate a Pong (poem on it way to becoming a song) while others may present themselves as a Soem (a song with its roots very much in the poetic).
Is one so different than the other, you might ask? Well, you decide, but actually some without changes and adaptations will have a hard time to shake their poemy appearance. For instance, a sonnet is a sonnet is a sonnet. Set it to music and its interior structure and design will be defined by the form of a sonnet, whether Shakespearean, Italian or Petrarchan. Boil it in sounds or not, it will remain a sonnet, a sonnet set to music. On the other hand, another writing may not resemble anything which can be described as a poem of any type or kind. Although it may possess a rhyme of two, within its structure there will appear something that works as a hook. A song need a hook. The hook may be repeated time and again so that if and when set to music, a listener easily takes the bait. Subsequently, that sets the hook in the listener’s heart and mind. Years ago like any listener after I got hooked on a song, I rushed to the closest record store.
Things I did not save but would give a lot to retrieve from the depths of my memory would be a perfect paragraph on how to play hockey. The teacher raved about it. I even saved it for a time but lost it over time. Another had to do with an essay I had written back in the ‘60’s entitled How to Transplant a Brain.
I can only remember that I wrote it; however, at some point I began to store away what I thought might be treasures. No matter that they were not, I still kept them and some of them appear in this book.
With the foregoing in mind, I encourage anybody at any age to begin saving what your mind produces. If we do not appreciate the value of thought and especially original thoughts, why might the brain bother to give you and me a harvest which we will just let go to waste. Think of it. Why waste our most valuable asset. Just keep panning your stream of consciousness, Eventually you will strike some thoughts worth more than gold. Consider what Einstein discovered in his stream of thought: E = mc². That has changed the world.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
No matter what, this book embodies a collection of verses written over a period of 60 plus years. Some pongs or soems contain a theme or story line. Some stand complete within themselves, others may yet be works in progress. That is to say, another person from some other town or city may set any one of these pongs or soems to music. That could happen. If and when that does occur, we will become co-writers. Of course, many of these pieces herein have been set to music by me while others have been set to music by others. Those others you will never know. As you can see, this book includes primarily the lyrics to some pongs or soems which became alive as songs. They were brought to life with chord progressions. In fact they have become songy
poems or poemy
songs.
I must state that this collection or one like it (the collection you begin today or have already begun) could become yours regardless as to whether another person if not yourself could set anything to music. But what has made 50 plus years more interesting to me is that after a time I found musicians to partner with. That is until I leaned to pick out a tune on the guitar myself. Even after that I continued to collaborate with an interested person every not and then.
At this time I hereby acknowledge that I have met a few extremely great people in the music world. As well, I have sat with some of the greatest unrecognized talent in the same world. You will not see names mentioned, for the most part, as all lyrics herein viewed are mine alone, except for those cited as being partnered with by my wife or my son. From these few I have obtained their permission to use their names as cowriters.
Indeed, I thank God for his extended mercies. He kept me alive until 47 years of age, at which time I got saved. Subsequent to that I prayed that I might write a song worthy of Him. A few of those songs do appear between these covers.
People at Xlibris have played a key role, even though it is their job, in facilitating this project. My wife of the last 30 years has stayed with me and supported me morally and encouraged me at all times. She even ended up having a song about her in this collection.
My apologies are extended with all of those who must go unmentioned in this book, primarily because their music to any lyric, be it pong or soem, does not herein appear. Many have gone on to their eternal rests while others have not been spotted for more than 50 plus years. It is with deep regret that I have not been permitted to acknowledge them any more than I have due to copyright laws. Besides, how can I obtain a dead man’s signature or find heirs to a dead man’s estate after 50 years. By the way, the copyright duration of composed music is the author’s lifetime + 70 years in the event that you need that news item for yourself.
All in all, I pray that you may find a bit of delight in reading this book. Perhaps you may now have interest enough to begin a compilation of your own pongs and soems. My next project will entail a compilation of 30 to 40 children’s stories or collection of poetry or even a part of over one thousand sermons I’ve written. Let the reading begin.
YOUTUBE ADDRESSES
FOR SEVERAL SONGS
Feel the Blues Comin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l1cIF1LquE
Multicoloured Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YND2CDAZAIU&t=3s
Cocaine Girl - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKYpOTb8W4k
Public Domain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff_1nwdZqn8
Dummy L. E. N.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-i4fvOuQMM
Frederick Mundle Lie To Me -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKxne0H1mAY
Moth and Fire - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cRw5vVBPzw
Sugarloaf Mountain - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN7KGYpypIE
Quebexodus - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7-4Qomu80Y
Terrorist Attack
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pVvyJeWlBxE&list=UU0K
Re5z6iRXD8PeU_TkrPxw&index=4&t=0s
Your Word
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeBBGWYlLWw&t=4s
The Christians are Gone - Fred Mundle - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdxFNOU3XUQ
Apply The Blood - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JOLL4JNEm8
I’ll Look for You in Paradise
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGJzTdskVoVdYe3UOS9f25w
If My People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltJQwQCv0Hk
The Latter Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLIw1Jzq9MA
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
BY THE AUTHOR
Poetry
Faithwalkers (Christian Poetry) Xlibris
Children’s
Atlantic Salmon: Salty, The Bright Salmon (Children’s)
Sugarloaf Mountain: The Legend of the Sweet-Tooth Rascals (Children’s)
Les Ratoureux a la Dent Sucre (Children’s)
Poetry (Secular)
views from apartment 301 (Poetry)
Adult: Spiritual: Catch the Light Series
The Valley Walker
While You Have the Light
Let Angels Rejoice
Where Will You Be in a Thousand Years
Children’s Storybooks to Colour
Please Don’t Eat the Pages
Santa’s Elves Are on Strike
Little Duke
26 Alliterations
The Lies of King Wise
Les Mensonges du Roi Sage
PREVIEW
This book entitled Pongs (Writings more suggestive of a song) and Soems (writings more suggestive of a poem) has been at least 50 + years in the making. The P
in PONG can be representative of a truth, that truth being a generalization, if you will, that all songs and poems speak to the root state of being a lyric of some sort. The S
in SOEM speaks to the possibility that a poem of any type may be set to music, but some poems at a glance (that glance being in the eye of the beholder) seem to be songy
in terms of possibility.
Many a writer has penned a poem which at the outset may have had a mind of its own. It could have taken on the character of a sonnet type writing. That it did, whereupon the shape continued as a sonnet, at some point the author would determine which type of sonnet seemed to fit it best. That would be classified as a SOEM. Yes, it could be set to music but its shape and structure would keep it more POEMY
. Sure, keep the S
in it for SOEM which might one day be set to music as it is or as it takes on more SONGY
proportions.
All in all, either of these two categories may produce a song whenever set to music. Actually, one can set just about anything to music regardless of their initial structures. I have known musicians who could set a lawn mower manual to music. Just saying!
One instructional objective of this work endeavors to encourage people to keep a journal of their original thoughts and ideas. A thought as in a multi-word expression can become the germ idea for a one-line word of wisdom, the first line in a four-line stanza, an idea for a children’s story, a concept for a series of booklets, the plot for a novel, a theme around which to write the novel. and just about anything else a person could imagine.
Another objective for this book may very well be as follows. Any readers of this book may already range from tyros in lyric writing, song writing, poetry, to artists who have already been published. In as much as iron sharpens iron, one mind can lead to the sharpening of another with one simple, original idea. If you are already an established song writer, you might find the raw material for the next one of your songs. If you have already been published in the field of poetry at whatever level, you might find the gold nugget herein for what might become your most successful poem. The sky does not have to be your limit.
A third hope of this manuscript wishes to spark a person into exploring some concepts herein provided to develop any one of them into a song. Many of these Pongs and Soems do not have music. Many may be added on to or expanded upon in order for them to be developed into a song. The realm of possibilities is without limit.
Somewhat related to the foregoing paragraph, a fourth possibility is, should you incorporate the greater part of any Pong or Soem found here into a song, that would make us partners. Your music to any Pong or Soem along with more lines would take us into a collaboration on one which would become a song. Therein lies a great treasure. As you will see throughout this book, I partnered with many musicians and lyricists. Either someone set one of my Pongs to music and it became a song or I wrote lyrics to someone’s music which together would have begun like a pong and ended up as a song. Whatever else might happen, your union with either a Pong or Soem writer or an instrumentalist can become a most rewarding pastime.
Within the pages of this collection you will be able to look to a fifth dimension in the availability of going on to youtube to listen to some of these Pongs or Soems which became demos. There is within the covers of this book a page dedicated to the youtube sites where some Pongs and Soems are available for listening. You can go to any one of them to appreciate how from out of an initial idea, a song can be grown out of a Pong or Soem.
A sixth seed which I will plant in your psyche will be this one to follow. Though you may not ever be interested in having your Pongs or Soems become actual songs, something as great or even greater may be out there for you. My off and on yet persistent efforts saw me switching back and forth from Pong and Soem writing to writing free verse poetry. In that domain I managed to become published in numerous university and literary journals. As well, I had won the Alfred G. Bailey Award for the best poetry manuscript in 2014 through The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick, Canada. I must warn you here. Do not let anybody deter you from your interest in writing, given that you begin to write or have already been writing. Although there might be the occasional mean-spirited editor out there, most of them try to give a hand up rather than a backhander. I personally have the greatest collection of rejection slips, many which had a morsel of encouragement to keep me going on to the next submission to whatever journal.
Might I dare to include a seventh consideration for you and your newfound interest in writing as a consequence of reading this book. Consider the idea as it is coming to mind and as you are documenting it. Is it an idea of this shape or that? What I mean is that some ideas come in the form of a revelation. That is to say, after a while you can recognize some ideas as being too big for a Pong or Soem but just right for a children’s story, a short story, a newspaper article, but not too big for a novel. During one period of my life I ended up inventing