Posted by: David Harley | July 21, 2012

Index to Words & Music Pages

Verse and music on this page are slowly being transferred to different blogs, imaginatively entitled David Harley’s Songs (which opens to an index of the songs) band David Harley’s Verse, and in fact there’s already a whole more information there. However, it might start to find its way back as I try to rationalize my output. :) If you’re only interested in the security-related stuff, you might want to shoot over to my Small Blue-Green World page.

Contact email: info[at]dharley.com

Here’s a close-to-full list of the other Small Blue-Green blogs:

Anti-Malware Testing (AMTSO, anti-virus product testing, the universe and everything…)
Check Chain Mail and Hoaxes (Information and commentary on hoaxes, spam and scams.)
Dataholics: the IT addiction (Ravings of a security-obsessed internaut, with the occasional cartoon…)
David Harley Photos
David Harley on Wikipedia! (Surprisingly accurate. But I have corrected a few things since I realized it was there. I suppose I ought to check it again at some point…)
David Harley’s Songs (Song lyrics, recordings and demo recordings, related info.)
David Harley’s Verse (This site is going from bad to verse.)
Earth laughs in flowers Flower photos from Heyjude
ESET blog (This is my primary outlet for security blogging.)
Geek Peninsula Primary resource for papers and articles: also some old PR stuff.
Mac Virus (Focused on Apple – Mac and iOS – malware and security, and by extension other mobile platforms.)
Old Timey-Wimey (a musical project that should kick off shortly)
Parodies Regained (Parody and pastiche.)
Postcards From (travel stuff from Heyjude)
Sabrinaflu (a (mostly) music-related resource publicizing folkie venues and events in the area around the Severn (and beyond). Maintained as a cooperative venture with Felicity Burke.
Shropshire Blues (miscellaneous Shropshire-related stuff, some of it musical)
Small Blue-Green Photos (Small Blue-Green Photos mostly from Heyjude)
Small Blue-Green World (A business-oriented view into the Small Blue-Green empire…)
Urbanicity (Architectural photos, mostly from Heyjude.)

I suppose you could call this my vanity site. It’s maintained as a resource for my music and for writing that isn’t (usually) directly connected to my ‘real’ job as an IT security author/consultant. (If you’re actually interested in the security stuff, see the links at the end of this post.) Just to be clear, none of this material is in the public domain, and all rights are reserved. I hope you enjoy listening to/reading it but if you actually want to use it in any commercial context, unlikely as that may sound, you are honour-bound and legally required to ask me first: you can email me at info[at]dharley.com. Or via Small Blue-Green World, which is me wearing my business head.

Recording Sessions:

Diverse Brew Sessions:

Scriptwrecked Sessions

Sheer Bravado Cassette:

More recent recordings (not commercial quality): as of 12th May 2014, the listings for this are somewhat out of date.

Songs Without Music:

Over The Hill
Thomas Anderson (now includes MP3: not commercial quality though)
Let Me Lie Easy (now includes MP3: not commercial quality either)
Snowbird
Odd Job Man

Demo Recordings

Quick and dirty recordings of songs I hope to revisit and spend more time on a better version. Home-recorded on BOSS digital gear which I hope to have time to learn to use properly Real Soon Now. Just one song – Bootup Blues – there at the moment, though two of the recordings added to the Songs Without Music page also qualify and will probably get moved shortly:

Settings of poems (unaccompanied demo versions)

Bredon Hill (Housman-Harley)
The Carpenter’s Son (Housman-Harley)
When I was in love (Housman-Harley)
Farewell to Severn Shore (Housman-Harley)
The Pilgrim (Yeats-Harley)
A Ballad for Katherine of Aragon (Causley-Harley)
The Seasons in North Cornwall (Causley-Harley)

Other Writing

Miscellaneous Prose

A Fairy Tale (and not, therefore, anything to do with AV testing)
Vanity Press (or The Glass Bead Game Revisited) (the joys and sorrows of working with major publishers)
A Front Row Seat in the Security Theatre
24/7 Ranting

Verse or Worse

Folk Resources

At the moment, this page consists of a floor-singer’s tipsheet a number of us compiled in the late 1990s, and a reference to a later version – not sure where that comes from, but it wasn’t me. As I seem to spending a lot of time with old folkies these days, it may be that other things might find their way onto this page in due course.

Parodies Regained

…could have been a separate page here, I suppose, but it isn’t, for historical reasons. Anyway, here’s a list of what’s there at present:

A Torrent of Abuse (Thoughts on passwording that Paul Simon may never have had)
Convoy II (60s hit re-imagined in a slightly different social context)
Make Mine A Snowball (what would Xmas be without The Snowman?)

Security-related publications

Security-related publications aren’t kept on this site now. Most of my recent papers are available or linked from the ESET resources pages including white papers, conference papers, and articles for external publications and sites. Mac and other Apple-related resources are mostly kept at the Mac Virus site. Some other papers and information on some of my security books can be found on the Small Blue-Green World blog page.

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Posted by: David Harley | September 11, 2017

Singing in the Street [demo]

I have a large basket full of forgotten or half-written songs, or even orphaned lines and verses. Every so often I take a look through it, and a few days ago, I found this, from the early 70s. Clearly not the happiest time of my life, but I think the song may creep back into my repertoire anyway:

I thought I heard you singing in the street
You couldn’t hold the tune, but the words were sweet
I don’t know who you were singing for
I don’t even wish it was me

And I remember once I caught you crying
I was half-asleep, your body next to mine
You wouldn’t say what you were crying for
I suppose it might have been me

And once I heard you singing in the street
You couldn’t hold the tune, but the words were sweet
I heard that song too long ago
There’s nothing more to say

“Of course I love you
I told you so”
“Yes, I remember
But it seems so long ago”

And a version with a second guitar, just as a tryout. I think the final version will be quite different (and will need some work on the vocals: I wasn’t getting those low notes very well today). Still, nice to have a version actually down.

David Harley

Words & music (c) David Harley 1973

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Posted by: David Harley | August 13, 2017

Tears of Morning (suite) [demo]

A suite rather than an individual song. At the moment it combines a version of Tears of Morning (a setting of two lyrics from Housman’s Last Poems); the air-like guitar piece that would be the basis of a guitar arrangement for that setting and a bridge to the next section; this next section would be my song Sea Fret (here represented by just two verses using a different guitar arrangement to fit in with the first sections, and incorporating some bits from an old guitar piece of mine called Bluebert); and finally, an instrumental interpretation of She Moved Through The Fair based on Davy Graham’s arrangement from the 1960s.

There’s a lot of work to do on this (and the vocals illustrate clearly why you shouldn’t sing just after eating pizza): here, I’m just working out some ideas for an overall structure.

David Harley

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Posted by: David Harley | August 13, 2017

Tears of Morning [demo]

Another Housman setting: words from Last Poems. I’ve followed the example of Michael Raven in using two separate verses that are clearly connected thematically and in form, at least as far as this stand-alone song is concerned. However, in the suite of songs/pieces that this might eventually be used for, XXVI will probably be enough. The suite is going to be gloomy enough as it is…

Mike Raven used a traditional tune for his setting that sounds familiar, but I’m not sure from where. I think I may have heard it attached to The Holy Well but wouldn’t swear to it. That setting is beautifully sung unaccompanied by Joan Mills on the CD ‘A Shropshire Lad’ (with Mike Raven) reviewed here. However, I’ve put a new tune to it. This is one of my ‘get-the-tune-recorded-and-worry-about-the-setting-later’ pieces, strictly a demo.