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For song 8, you can thank the FAWM Twitter feed, that posted a link to a site which gave you a random word, and suggested writing a song about that word. No prizes for guessing what I got served with... "wheelbarrow"! Um...

I've had an incredibly full weekend with family stuff (the story of FAWM this year, for me, really), hence this being a quick demo with my trusty old Mahalo soprano uke (TASCAM iM2 stereo "dock" microphone > TASCAM PCM Recorder (app) on iPhone 4S). I can "hear" this being arranged as a sort of spoof "march", almost like "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier" by Tom Lehrer, but not this evening!

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When a Briton asks the Met Office about tomorrow's weather
When a £5 wallet from a market claims it's real leather
When a politician postulates "we're all in this together" - oh
Perhaps they're definitions of "fiction"

When the National Enquirer swears that Elvis is alive
When it's preferable to travel hopefully than to arrive
When the latest manufactured star is billed as singing "live"
They may be three examples of "fiction"

When someone claims agreement from "the vast majority"
When something that looks really cool is advertised as "free"
When you hold forth with your narrow views, then claim to speak for me
I heartily suspect a work of "fiction"
To pass it off as truth engenders friction
Yes, it fits the definition of fiction

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from Homecooked: Songs From FAWM 2013, released March 4, 2013
TA Walker - ukulele, vocal

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TA Walker UK

Guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter, often with "electronica", "lo-fi" and "prog" inclinations.

Um... will that do?

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