Tunecat: I got these lyrics yesterday and had to start straight away!! I felt really inspired . I’m sorry guys it’s a bit rough and ready it felt it needed to be live - and with the hiccupy rhythm in the piano (It's got a couple of bars of five or ten depending on how you think of it and initially the bar with "you tried to... " was gonna be as spoken.. I don't really know whether its done that or clicked into a four.. I did do piano separately after about fifteen attempts to capture words and music simultaneously, I DID play it separately on midi, but in the end I haven't edited it at all.. and I was on a roll, hence the vocals are a bit rough.. as not done on a good mic, and I intended to have an intro but then it didn't come out that way. As I kept playing the idea of a hook came to me: " what did you do what did you do? " is the rhythm played on the piano interludes. I initially sang along but I cut them out. It could work a bit better with a real strong voice, and a chorus (like the jury? ) There are some crunchy chords in this.. well I HAD to didn't I.. but the final chord of the bridge was supposed to be a strong one.. i.e. capturing the intensity of the moment!! Obviously it would benefit from a bass and being resung with people who are used to delivering this kind of genre. The trumpet is horribly recorded - I just grabbed it on impluse.. while I was singing . I haven't even played since summer. So its super-distorted. However.. I really like the track!!
NB Don't know why I took the trouble to make this photo (and then struggle with importing into imovie which cut the photo anyway - you'd have seen the knife in my hand - and exporting to youtube ) seeing as there is a great photo of the actual culprit on wikipedia.
zeekle1998:
For your info
Based on a true story. Saw it on a post somewhere- so looked it up. A bit of fun & history.
Bertha Boronda (née Zettle; March 14, 1877 – January 18, 1950) was an American woman who sliced off her husband's penis in 1907. She was convicted of the crime of mayhem of using a straight razor to slice off her husband's penis.[A] She fled the scene of the crime, but was captured the next day. Boronda was tried, convicted and imprisoned at San Quentin Penitentiary.
The tale of Bertha Boronda. © J Challis 2022.
Bertha Boronda
What did you do?
Razor sharp wit
And mayhem too...
You tried to run
You tried to flee
But all you won
Was five in San Quentin Penitentiary .
Poor ole Frank
Just wanted a little fun
Visited a lady of the night
Didn’t hurt anyone!
You cut off poor Frank
From manly duty.
He was only answering
the call of booty.
So poor Bertha
You lured him in
A bit of sexy talk
Before the emasculation
So poor Bertha
You lured him in
A bit of sexy talk
(and then)
"Emotional insanity"
Pleaded to the judge
"With a slice of malice
Just because you had a grudge "
Did you know Bertha,
As you wallowed in jail
You’d influence swathes of women’ (changed from "the Bobbi") ,
With your infamous tale?
@kahlo2013 Mar 2022
What a vivid story! So well told and delivered! Brilliant collaboration!
@elainedimasi Mar 2022
A whole cabaret full is right. But - maybe we don't want a whole cabaret full of copycat crimes eh?
Whole thing is so fun to listen to. Of course a big money band treatment could knock everyone's sox off but I kinda feel like saying don't change a thing :-)
@jayjay Feb 2022
This needs to be a musical full of these crazy tales. Absolutely love it #tit4tat
@jtsteam Feb 2022
This is fun! The piano sounds just right. Some funny lyrics here too!
@wobbiewobbit Feb 2022
such a victoria wood vibe/sound to this one, especially your delivery, love the conversational phrasing. i like the piano part as well really fun feel and as for the subject, well that is treated with a great sense of fun too! haha nice take all round. neat collab
@bfwaite Feb 2022
Oh, this is so, so fun. Please make more music just like this. I want a whole cabaret of these story songs.
@nadine Feb 2022
Random collabs are fun cause you NEVER know who you'll get. @zeekle1998 writes so different lyrics from the music he usually records. Reading these lyrics I expected a punk rock song, but thern I got some jazz from @tunecat and I'm like: WHY does it works so well?! This story is so insane. Gosh!