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    Lines About Life
    Lines About Life
    Lines About Life
    Ebook125 pages47 minutes

    Lines About Life

    By Jim McBride and Amber Brevard

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJim McBride
    Release dateDec 22, 2021
    ISBN9798985416527
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      Lines About Life - Jim McBride

      Copyright © 2021

      All Rights Reserved

      by Jim McBride

      Cover design

      by Amber Brevard

      Printed in the USA

      WARNING

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.

      Hard back ISBN: 979-8-9854165-0-3

      Paper back ISBN: 979-8-9854165-1-0

      e-book ISBN: 979-8-9854165-2-7

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      Dedicated to

      Mom and Dad.

      Forever in my heart.

      CONTENTS

      Lines About Life

      Youth

      Dreams

      Hard Times

      Love

      Temptation

      Hurt

      Goodbyes

      Loneliness

      Regret

      Redemption

      Wisdom

      Music

      Fun

      Acknowledgements

      Special Thanks

      The Tennessee Hotel

      LINES ABOUT LIFE

      By Jim McBride

      I was blessed to spend thirty-five years of my life writing songs for a living on world famous Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee, Music City, USA. Songwriting was my job and in great part who I was. During those years, I labored over a guitar until I became a little humpbacked. I always had a pen and legal sized note pads nearby. A pad by the bed, a pad in the living room, a pad in the den and a pad in the hall. Okay, not in the hall. Sadly, during most of those years I burned through about a million cigarettes while writing my songs. I honestly thought I could not write without them. What a dummy!

      During the years I lived in Nashville, and wrote professionally for a music publisher, I lost years of sleep, if eight hours a night be the goal for good health. I was either writing a song, thinking about writing a song or dreaming about writing a song. Even as a child, bedtime was a terrible imposition on me. My parents, in order to have a little time to rest without worrying about what I was into, insisted I go to bed at 9:00 p.m. Many nights of my young life were spent wide awake with no one to talk to. Guess I was getting in a little practice for the future.

      A boy can get a lot of thinking done at night, if he can whip the Ole Sandman. It seems he gave up on me when I was around six years old. The fear of missing something also played a part in my youthful insomnia. What if something really cool happened during the night and I missed it. Always the last one asleep at home, in the barracks, in a tent, wherever. The sleepless and lonely hours between sunset and sunrise served me well as it turned out. That’s when I decided I was gonna do something great someday. I did a lot of night-time daydreaming about inventing something that people would buy just because they thought it was awesome, and had to have one. I had no idea what that invention was.

      When I was twelve years old, it hit me. A song. I’ll invent a new song, a song never heard before.

      From my earliest memory, I loved listening to the radio in our home. The old table model Philco Special, circa 1945, was where I honed my imagination listening to shows like; The Lone Ranger, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Superman, Sargent Preston of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, The Green Hornet, and many more. Of course, we listened to the Grand Ole Opry, as well as Big Band Music, and Western Swing, on the only entertainment apparatus in the house. Did I mention we didn’t have a television until I was seven years old? I still have that magical, wonderful, memory filled radio.

      While, my Mother sang, my Daddy whistled and hummed, and I soaked it all in like a boat bailer sponge. Furthermore, I was enthralled by the tales the old folks told about haints, panthers, accidental exhumations of Cherokee Indian

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