WELCOME TO THE LYRIC POETRY WEBSITE
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Contact: richardhayesphillips@yahoo.com
This website has been created by RICHARD HAYES PHILLIPS,
a singer/songwriter, Celtic musician, and lyric poet.
I am a wandering minstrel, a link to a bygone era.
I play acoustic guitar, mandolin, kalimba and harmonica.
I am a seasoned performer, having played in New York,
New England, New Mexico, California, North Carolina,
West Virginia, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ireland, Scotland,
and Canada. I have three books of lyrics which are now
collectors' items, and nine compact discs available
at my concerts and online at http://www.cdbaby.com.
To view the lyrics and poems of RICHARD HAYES PHILLIPS,
go to the Table of Contents and click on the title desired.
To see the lists of songs included on each of my nine CDs,
go to the Table of Contents and click on the title desired.
Each CD playlist is linked to the corresponding home page at CD Baby.
To listen to the music on MP3 files, click on the link.
Not all of my lyrics are found on my CDs; some are poems
without music, some are songs that have never been recorded
and released. Not all of the tracks on my CDs are found
among the lyrics posted here; some contain lyrics written by
other poets, and some are instrumental tracks without vocals.
The lyrics to all the traditional ballads I have recorded
are posted; all of them are, of course, in the public domain.
Copyright © 1986-2006 by Richard Hayes Phillips. All rights reserved.
Precious few poets post all of their works on their websites.
These poems, although copyrighted, are for all the world to enjoy.
I find encouragement in the words of Pete Seeger:
"No one was ever diminished by giving something away."
In that spirit, my mandolin chord chart is posted as well,
revealing many unorthodox ways to chord this beautiful instrument.
Also posted are instructions on how to obtain, tune and play the kalimba.
I compose music and play my instruments by ear and by feel.
I have committed my techniques to paper in hopes of inspiring
other musicians to play these instruments and beautify the world.
APPENDIX BMI:
Included in this website is an Appendix devoted to the
tactics of BMI, the multinational publishing empire.
I lost a lucrative job as a performing musician when BMI
threatened the owners of the restaurant at which I was playing.
Seven months later the Copyright Office ruled in my favor.
I am not the only one wrongfully persecuted by ASCAP or BMI,
and I welcome similar submissions, from other musicians struggling
to maintain their independence, for posting on this website.
For a satirical view, see "Ballad of the ASCAP Agent."
BULLETIN:
THE RIGHT TO TRAVEL FREELY
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DOCUMENTED GENEALOGY
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Contact: richardhayesphillips@yahoo.com
This website has been restored to its original purpose as my
personal website. All political and scientific information
has been transferred to http://www.witnesstoacrime.com
There you will find my published book, “Witness to a Crime:
A Citizens' Audit of an American Election," the document of
record for the fraudulent 2004 Ohio election, and how to
order a copy; and you will find, to be downloaded freely,
my recently completed work, "Proof of Rapid Rainwater
Recharge at the WIPP Site," with appendices and supporting
documents, detailing why the site for the national nuclear
waste dump near Carlsbad, New Mexico is unsuitable.
Now available on this website are continually updated pages
on family genealogy, as thoroughly documented as possible.
I do this not because our family is more interesting or more
important than anyone else's, but because the information
should be available to other genealogical researchers whose
families have married into ours. I have benefited from the
websites of other families, and now I am returning the favor.
GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH METHODS
Of course I would prefer to be hired at the going rate of
ten dollars per hour. But because "No one was ever diminished
by giving something away," I offer free advice to genealogists.
First, talk to the elders of your family. Ask them about your
ancestors. Write down their full names, especially maiden names;
dates and places of birth, marriage and death; where they lived,
where they moved to, and when; names of brothers and sisters;
and the stories. Always get the stories. This is what brings
the past to life. Most of the family legends turn out to be true.
Second, go to the Mormon website at http://www.familysearch.org
to help establish a timeline. Be forewarned that almost everything
on the Mormon website is subject to verification. The 1880 census
and the Social Security death records are reliable. The International
Genealogical Index can be reliable when individual records are
accompanied by date, month and year. Treat with skepticism entries
listing only the year, and eliminate entries you know to be impossible.
Third, conduct advanced searches on the internet. Enter into a
search engine two or more names, or a name and a place, which you
know to be correct, both in quotation marks, and see what turns up.
You may find another family's website, or historical accounts, or
entire birth registries uploaded by a helpful individual.
Fourth, search for free census records. One such website, with the
records indexed, is http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/
Fifth, travel to your ancestral counties and search the archives.
Look at deeds, wills, court records, census records, obituaries in
the newspapers, and graveyards, where the truth is carved in stone.
BULLETIN:
THE RIGHT TO TRAVEL FREELY
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