As compositions of poems, as well as lyrics to a variety of music,
these creations are both light-hearted and serious in nature. You will
notice that the particular kinds of ‘doggerels and ditties’ that I
tend to favour are lighter-hearted ones that may encourage a
chuckle, are harmless in nature, are never intentionally derisive nor
ribald, or are personally nostalgic, and, serious ones that are
often topical and intended to suggest pause for thought and
reflection.
My continuing efforts along these lines in this section of Electric
Scotland are written in a complex mixture of many broad Scots’ dorics
and slangs. However, when it seems reasonable to do so, I translate
some into the Queen’s English.
So, while you are either reading or singing along with these
‘doggerels and ditties’, I hope that your day may be brightened from
their humour, and enlightened by their moral and spiritual
conjectures.
The
midi music files which accompany so many of my seventy plus lyrical
efforts that appear in this section celebrate the creative skills of
countless composers of the music of popular songs from about 1900
onwards. The ditties not only attempt to honour the enterprise shown
by so many talented modern day sequencers of the thousands of these
electronic miracles, but also the magnificence of the outcomes of
their workmanship.
These
wonders are currently freely available from the web-sites of an
amazing range of amateur and semi-professional musicians and
music-lovers alike. Although the quality of sound content transmitted
by these folks can vary from mundane to magical virtuosity, I can
honestly say that all of these have added a significant dimension to
my life … as one who over sixty-five years has never gained so much
pleasure so easily through music and rhyme as from what the world wide
web offers me today.
