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  • Top Gig at Black Dog

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    Songwriters’ Festival at the Black Dog — 45‑minute set

    Last night was the Songwriters’ Festival at the Black Dog, and I had a 45‑minute slot. It was a great gig — one of those nights where everything lands, and I got to perform a lot of songs that will be coming out soon:

    • Teach Me Peace
    • I Am a Monkey
    • Riding Up That Hill
    • I Had Hoped to Change That
    • A Little Hope
    • Famous for Love
    • You Could Find It in the Moon
    • Hold On to Your Dreams
    • Waiting to Cross the Road

    A couple of tracks are bubbling under, waiting for their debut:

    • It is a Script, a Play
    • How will It Look
    • And of course, ‘expecting’ the working title of the new recordings

    Thanks for the lovely comments, and thanks to Callum for organising a brilliant night all round.

    Part 1 of the show is up already on SoundCloud with Part 2 coming soon: https://soundcloud.com/cousinlee/live-at-black-dog?si=cf9ed3eec067486bb4ad19727ae79078&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

  • You Could Find it in the Moon


    You could find it in the moon

    and you don’t know why

    Your not any other

    though certain mandates follow

    You Could find it in the Moon, like tonight



    you could go to someplace

    Someplace that is quite

    You could stare into space defiant

    Make a wish for a lover or even for another

    You Could find it in the Moon, like tonight



    You could find it in the coulors

    Emanating coulors

    By the stars in the sky shining bright

    You could find it when varity dissatisfies

    Trapped in bother

    head severities hovers

    you could find it in anything at any time



    Yes you could find that thing so sublime

    You could find it in anything at any time

    You could find it in the Moon, like tonight

    You could find it, and you don’t know why

    You are not any other

    Though certain mandates follow

    You could find it in the Moon, like tonight….



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  • I am a Monkey

    I am a Monkey
    Doing the Monkey's Game
    Selling one thing to another
    Climbing up the ladder
    Sliding down the Poll
    Giving love and time

    I am the Monkey
    Playing the Monkey's game

    My mind stops and ask me
    What is there
    Just putting food in my mouth
    and trying to be honest
    That faction between
    What is known and what is not

    I am the Monkey
    Playing the Monkey's game

    Talking about this and that
    I am on an adventure
    Someone is always thinking
    That they can predict the future
    Were not that special
    Slowly understanding this, unless

    I am the Monkey
    Playing the Monkey's game

    © Cousin Lee 2026

    Coming soon on the new album ‘Expecting’

  • Before something happened to them

    It’s a script, a play

    That they write that they are thinking about

    what they want

    Everywhere it was sent

    by the people that roam free

    Before something happened to them

    Tik Tok Tok Tik

    Where does one stand

    At this point, place and time

    I ain’t brain dead, but I am not productive

    had to pull the chain

    become a little remote

    Before something happened

    Don’t want no other voice

    I know this is going to be hard

    I write it all again

    Focus Ken it can mend

    One should write

    Do what you love before something happened again

    © Cousin Lee 2026

    Coming soon on the new album ‘Expecting’

  • How will it look

    How will it look

    Tomorrow when we are gone

    Will it look better or worse

    For what we did

    How Will it look
    If everything is clear
    No mud to complicate it
    What you noted

    How will it look
    If their story is not told
    The other side
    Will you care

    Perhaps there is something more
    After the store is empty
    When we are hungry
    and in need of comfort

    How will it look
    If you could see it backwards
    Word the words get in the way
    would love fade away

    How will it look
    if we don’t do anything
    Let it die and rot
    bury it beneath the moss covered stones

    How will it look
    To you and me
    if you don’t love me anymore
    because I made stand

    Perhaps there is something more
    After the store is empty
    When we are hungry
    and in need of comfort

    © Cousin Lee 2026

    Coming soon on the new album ‘Expecting’

  • Riding up that Hill

    Last Year it was ‘Winter is coming’ this year it is ‘Riding up that Hill’ to be performed at the Guild

    I am riding up that hill
    My eyes are open wide
    I can't wait to see you
    The road has been so very long

    I see you 
    MY children and loved ones
    Still I am riding up that hill
    I have loved you now and forever

    Riding and Riding Riding
    Across the country
    My circle is almost complete
    I want to be there today

    Not sure what is understood
    I Know what I know
    Still I am riding up that hill 
    In pursuit of what i already know

    Climbing up each step
    my arms are open wide
    Riding to see you today
    I want to be there be there today

    © Cousin Lee 2026

    Coming soon on the new album 'Expecting'

  • Prepping for TT

    So the set list keeps getting longer — and Sam Webb’s has committed to giving us the gig on the Sunday at the beginning of TT Race Week.

  • Bring a new song into the world every week… but what a ride

    Rocking it up at Sam Webb’s last night. I did a shaky first‑time performance of an old‑new song called You Can Find It in the Moon. Straight out of my Mad Hatters days, you really can’t make this stuff up. Threw in a few other tunes as well. It’s tough doing a new song every week…

    In fact, I’m thinking a song has to be over 75% there before it’s worth bringing out. By that I mean a good song is only half of it, the rest is in the performance

    Other songs included Teach Me Peace, (Currently very fitting) Come to the Ball, Waiting to Cross the Road.

    When will Route Note publish One Track Minds?

  • Hold On To Your Dreams

    Hold On To Your Dreams (Lyrics & Music by S Mc Hillbilly & Cousin Lee)

    [Verse 1]

    Hold On To Your Dreams,
    For this world is not what it seems
    There are drug dealers, mind stealers Petty thieves and potato peelers
    So hold on to your dreams

    [Verse 2]

    For the streets in this world can be mean,
    You can get coffee without cream You could be cursed by a college dean,
    There are in-betweens and sights unseen If you come clean and be a jolly old bean,
    You can hold on to your dreams

    [Chorus/Outro]
    Nobody knows what this life means,
    But there sure are things in this life obscene,
    There is S Mc Hillbilly & Augustus Goster going ’round singing songs absurdly silly,
    So hold on to your dreams

  • Choo Choo Choo Choo

    One two three here I came

    Five six seven eight for some more

    Nine ten eleven twelve, there is no floor

     

     

    American politics and law

    Autumn leaves and flowers in the fall

    Something that I can’t touch

    I am lost and in between

     

    I wish I was a bird swooping 

    choo choo choo choo

     

    Oh you don’t understand, do you

    I am all alone, far from here

    I try not to frown

    Still I am going down the pole

     

    Reason things are there

    choo choo choo choo

     

    Hey, let’s stay out late

    It will be just you and whoever

    Aah ‘ll pick you up at nine

    It is black and white, I am in line

     

    I am lover, not a fighter

    choo choo choo choo

     

    One two three here I came

    five six seven eight for some more

    nine ten eleven twelve let’s go

    Words and Music By Cousin Lee © 1993