{ "name": "songs biblispec addendum appendum", "version": "1.1.2", "description": "Sing to the lord.", "status": "A living document of tonal beats.", "copyright": "(C) 2025 Simon Armstrong", "license": { "name": "MIT", "url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT" }, "repository": { "type": "git", "url": "https://github.com/nitrologic/biblispec" }, "spec": { "disclaimer": "This metadata is compiled for research purposes only. All rights reserved.", "orcid":"0009-0002-4363-3900", "songs": [{ "name": "come by yah", "source": "Gullah Geechee", "lyric": [ "Some sons are crying me Gawd come by yah", "Some mas are crying me Gawd come by yah", "Some young are dieing me Gawd come by yah", "Me Gawd come by yah" ] },{ "name": "Take This Hammer", "artist": "Lead Belly", "year": 1935, "source": "Traditional, arranged by Lead Belly", "label": "Library of Congress / RCA Victor", "lyric": [ "take this hammer, and carry it to the captain", "you tell him im gone", "if he ask you, was I running", "you tell him I was flying", "if he ask you, was I laughing", "you tell him I was crying", "i dont want no corn bread and lettuce", "it hurts my pride", "take this hammer","and carry it to the captain", "you tell him im gone" ] },{ "name": "Songbird", "artist": "Fleetwood Mac", "year": 1977, "lyric": [ "For you, there'll be no more crying", "For you, the sun will be shining", "And I feel that when I'm with you", "It's alright, I know it's right", "To you, I will give the world", "To you, I'll never be cold", "'Cause I feel that when I'm with you", "It's alright, I know it's right", "And the songbirds are singing", "Like they know the score", "And I love you, I love you, I love you", "Like never before", "And I wish you all the love in the world", "But most of all, I wish it from myself", "And the songbirds keep singing", "Like they know the score", "And I love you, I love you, I love you", "Like never before" ] },{ "name": "The Sound of Silence", "artist": "Simon & Garfunkel", "year": 1964, "album": "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.", "label": "Columbia Records", "chords": "Dm...C...|Dm.F.BbF|F.BbF.Bb......", "lyric": [ "Hello darkness, my old friend", "I’ve come to talk with you again", "Because a vision softly creeping", "Left its seeds while I was sleeping", "And the vision that was planted in my brain", "Still remains", "Within the sound of silence", "", "In restless dreams I walked alone", "Narrow streets of cobblestone", "Beneath the halo of a streetlamp", "I turned my collar to the cold and damp", "When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light", "That split the night", "And touched the sound of silence", "", "And in the naked light I saw", "Ten thousand people, maybe more", "People talking without speaking", "People hearing without listening", "People writing songs that voices never share", "And no one dared", "Disturb the sound of silence", "", "Fools said I you do not know", "Silence like a cancer grows", "Hear my words that I might teach you", "Take my arms that I might reach you", "But my words like silent raindrops fell", "And echoed in the wells of silence", "", "And the people bowed and prayed", "To the neon god they made", "And the sign flashed out its warning", "In the words that it was forming", "And the sign said", "The words of the prophets are written", "On the subway walls and tenement halls", "And whispered in the sound of silence" ] },{ "name": "One More Cup of Coffee", "artist": "Bob Dylan", "year": 1976, "album": "Desire", "label": "Columbia Records", "lyric": [ "Your breath is sweet", "Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky", "Your back is straight, your hair is smooth", "On the pillow where you lie", "But I don’t sense affection", "No gratitude or love", "Your loyalty is not to me", "But to the stars above", "", "One more cup of coffee for the road", "One more cup of coffee ’fore I go", "To the valley below", "", "Your daddy, he’s an outlaw", "And a wanderer by trade", "He’ll teach you how to pick and choose", "And how to throw the blade", "He oversees his kingdom", "So no stranger does intrude", "His voice, it trembles as he calls out", "For another plate of food", "", "One more cup of coffee for the road", "One more cup of coffee ’fore I go", "To the valley below", "", "Your sister sees the future", "Like your mama and yourself", "You’ve never learned to read or write", "There’s no books upon your shelf", "And your pleasure knows no limits", "Your voice is like a meadowlark", "But your heart is like an ocean", "Mysterious and dark", "", "One more cup of coffee for the road", "One more cup of coffee ’fore I go", "To the valley below" ] },{ "name": "Helpless", "artist": "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young", "songwriter": "Neil Young", "year": 1970, "album": "Déjà Vu", "label": "Atlantic Records", "chords": ["A","E","D"], "lyric": [ "There is a town in north Ontario", "With dream comfort memory to spare", "And in my mind I still need a place to go", "All my changes were there", "", "Blue blue windows behind the stars", "Yellow moon on the rise", "Big birds flying across the sky", "Throwing shadows on our eyes", "", "Leave us", "Helpless, helpless, helpless" ] },{ "name": "Whitey on the Moon", "artist": "Gil Scott-Heron", "year": 1970, "album": "Small Talk at 125th and Lenox", "label": "Flying Dutchman Records", "lyric": [ "A rat done bit my sister Nell.", "(with Whitey on the moon)", "Her face and arms began to swell.", "(and Whitey's on the moon)", "I can't pay no doctor bill.", "(but Whitey's on the moon)", "Ten years from now I'll be payin' still.", "(while Whitey's on the moon)", "The man jus' upped my rent las' night.", "('cause Whitey's on the moon)", "No hot water, no toilets, no lights.", "(but Whitey's on the moon)", "I wonder why he's uppi' me?", "('cause Whitey's on the moon?)", "I was already payin' 'im fifty a week.", "(with Whitey on the moon)", "Taxes takin' my whole damn check,", "Junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,", "The price of food is goin' up,", "An' as if all that shit wasn't enough", "A rat done bit my sister Nell.", "(with Whitey on the moon)", "Her face an' arm began to swell.", "(but Whitey's on the moon)", "Was all that money I made las' year", "(for Whitey on the moon?)", "How come there ain't no money here?", "(Hm! Whitey's on the moon)", "Y'know I jus' 'bout had my fill", "(of Whitey on the moon)", "I think I'll sen' these doctor bills,", "Airmail special", "(to Whitey on the moon)" ] },{ "name": "Time", "artist": "Pink Floyd", "year": 1973, "album": "The Dark Side of the Moon", "label": "Harvest Records", "lyric": [ "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day", "You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way", "Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town", "Waiting for someone or something to show you the way", "Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain", "And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today", "And then one day you find ten years have got behind you", "No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun", "And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking", "Racing around to come up behind you again", "Sun is the same, in a relative way, but you're older", "Shorter of breath and one day closer to death", "Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time", "Plans that either come to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines", "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way", "The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say" ] } } }