My guest this week on Daily Life’s poetry is, for the second time, Randle Chowning, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. He was born in the county of Howell, Missouri and spent the first 10 years of his life there. Randle says: “I do not apologize for being 100% Hillbilly.” At 10, he already wrote songs. Two of his favorite songs are “Whippoorwill” and “My Old Band”. A unique fact about Randle Chowning is that he was the founder of the Daredevils Ozark Mountain. ~ David L. Harrison
Popular songs have started in ancient times as prayer songs or song songs and sagas that would pass history through generations. More recent examples of this development would be “Jesse James’ ballad”. Presenting themselves to the protest songs of the 1960s whose words told real stories of social / political injustice, like “Oxford Town” by Bob Dylan. One of my favorites is from the Canadian Folk Folk Gordon Lightfoot, “the wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald”. Over the years, I have written a few songs from true history and I would like to humbly submit the words of the one that describes a real event that took place during my childhood.
Tornado alley
I saw my first at six when he took the barn but I spared our house
He put a lot of members on the porch and moved the house four inch north
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Choir
The devil’s tail will turn down
The hail of driving puts you underground
As a locomotive heartbreaking in town
Sometimes there is no peace in the valley
When the name of the alley of your street
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Missouri and Old Kansas too, also have Oklahoma, Texas Blues
He will drive a straw through a steel plate, everything you have is blown away
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Choir
The devil’s tail will turn down
The hail of driving puts you underground
As a locomotive heartbreaking in town
Sometimes there is no peace in the valley
When the name of the alley of your street
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Bridge
Tulsa, Dallas, Wichita, Kansas City, Omaha, they look at each drop of rain as he falls, while he falls
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Choir
The devil’s tail will turn down
The hail of driving puts you underground
As a locomotive heartbreaking in town
Sometimes there is no peace in the valley
When the name of the alley of your street
◆ Employment
I was too young and inexperienced to be frightened by this powerful storm and as a child thought that everything was very exciting! I did not write the song until over 60 has passed.
Be careful and God bless each of you.
Randle CHOWNING currently writes an autobiography and calls itself “more or less his retirement from music”. Despite this, he has more than a dozen CDs and a live video compilation. For those interested, it can be contacted at jaynieandrandle@gmail.com.