here is something I cobbled together its using power chords in the style of chuck berry
V1 Christmas is coming and Santa is on the way (rpt),he s flying through the sky on a reindeer powered sleigh
V2 Christmas is coming and Santa is on the way (rpt) he s rocking round the world dropping presents off on the way
V3 Christmas is here a day of good will and cheer (rpt) lets hope we can celebrate with out fear
comments please this is the first time I ever tried to write anything the chords are A5 D5 A5 E5 D5 A5 more or less
I like it! I can hear it in my mind, a sort of 12 bar blues style song. A couple of suggestions:
V2: you got a little lazy here, repeating the lyric from V1. Write a new line! While you’re at it, don’t have it end in “way”. Rhyming “way” with “way” is not great.
Also, this all makes one 12-bar chorus (or verse, same thing in this song form). Write lyrics for 2 more choruses and you have a song. You can play the Johnny B. Goode solo between verse 2 and 3
Thanks John correct on all counts it is a 12 bar blues yes i got lazy i have another sort of song i wrote a while a go its supposed to be a slow 12 bar blues with a chunk a chunk rhythm its about a man who`s sitting alone Xmas day watching the snow falling remembering his life and the last line on every verse is " but i drank them all away" ref his wife family house and job another one started as a letter to someone i knew from 1975 to 1981 it was never going to be sent then i heard lifes a gas by marc bolan learnt the song and added my words it fitted really well not sure if i will put it here as it is personal to me.
