Name: Mississippi
Channel: Jeffrey Brear
Description: this is a song i wrote, about A man who loses his wife and his home to the Mississippi river. from time to time the Mississippi River floods its banks and creates devastation, this song is one man's account of that devastation .

Mississippi

jeff brear

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this is a song i wrote, about A man who loses his wife and his home to the Mississippi river. from time to time the Mississippi River floods its banks and creates devastation, this song is one man's account of that devastation .

blues mississippiblues

jeff brear

jmbrear@gmail.com

i've written 18 or so songs from 2001 until 2011, there all on the bottom of my music page, in those days i used cakewalk sonar as my DAW, with the mediocre midi soundfonts it came with, to produce my songs. i wrote produced and sung all the lyrics on those songs .it was a tough grind, but a labor of love. some of the songs would take 4 months or more to complete. i learned how to play the piano and read sheet music back in 1994. and i used the sheet music part of sonar to enter notes individually in some cases, apart from some areas of a song where you could copy and paste sections, to write my songs. then you would assign violins orchestras banjos guitars drums etc etc to the musical segments you created, in order to produce your song. it was all tedious and laborious, but as i say, a labor of love. and in the songs i produced i put a lot of effort to still make my songs sound, the best that they could, given what i had to work with. then in 2024 i discovered Ai, another tool at my disposal to make my songs sound as good as they could be. this reignited a fire in me to take my original songs that i had written and produced in cakewalk sonar to the next level. so using my own material created by me, i went on a quest to recreate my songs, as close to my original work as i could, with my own lyrics and music written and sung by me.. the 7 songs i used Ai to recreate my music are, [sleep alone] [ Mississippi] [thanks] [you cut your love] [feeling fine] [strangers] and [shadows] my own sonar versions are all listed under [original] .

Song Info

Genre

Blues • Blues General

Charts

#239 today Peak #1

#108 in subgenre Peak #1

Author

Jeffrey Brear

Uploaded

November 21, 2024

Track Files

MP3

MP3 7.6 MB • 320 kbps • 3:20

Story behind the song

i watched a pbs documentary back in 2001, about the devastation the mississippi river has caused, throughout its recorded history. which led me to writing this song. in the documentary they would try to dam the banks of the mississippi river with sandbags, to try to stop it from overflowing. but it would still push on through.

Lyrics

Oh oh sweet, sweet Mississippi, 
what a thing you did last night.
you came and stole, the only girl i loved
as she lay asleep by my side.

those muddy waters, came a rolling 
and they rolled all through the night
though those banks, are there to hold you back
but you burst right through them everytime.

muddy waters, keep on rolling
keep on rolling out of sight
you stole my love, my home.
now dam yourself, heaven,
is where she sleeps tonight.

guitar solo.

muddy waters, keep on rolling
keep on rolling out of sight
you stole my love, my home.
now dam yourself, heaven,
is where she sleeps tonight .

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soundsbyramolly

Mar 30

Congratulations, very nice production.

tristpat

Mar 06

Great song. Congratulations. Love he bluesy feel.  Great guitar and tone as well as the vocals. We also have relatives in Gretna, LA who have had to deal with this river many times.