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Let’s kick it all off with a sea shanty!

There’s some words I thought I’d never say. Oh well, it would appear that I don’t seem to have any real control over the ideas that pop into my head that eventually grow into songs. So I was as stunned as anyone when I woke up one morning a couple of years ago with this little ditty rolling around in my noggin.

That morning, I dragged myself to the shower and had a pretty good idea what the words would be by the time I was clean. I was so pumped about this tune that I sneaked downstairs wrapped in a towel to figure out the chords as soon as I shut off the water. Lucky for me, I had it pretty much all worked out by the time I got dressed for breakfast. I was probably late for work, but a man’s got to have his priorities.

Well, the tune’s become one of my wife’s favourites, and she asked me once to make sure it was the first one I recorded when I got around to clearing out my catalogue. As luck would have it, it’s release here almost coincides with our tenth anniversary (which we just celebrated this past weekend).

Listen to / download “We All Agree” right here:

1. We All Agree – DRM-Free MP3, 5.61 MB, 3:04
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Remix stems will be coming soon.

Tune Trivia

• The second verse is perverted from a traditional English nursery rhyme – Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross. There’s a good chance that certain homophobic types might not know where it comes from or what I’m on about (”He’s riding a what?!?!”), but that’s what you get for being an idiot. Making homophobes scared and confused is great fun and it’s really easy, too. I find intolerance intolerable, and I love including lyrics that out the hateful.
• The “really bad eggs” line is a tip of the hat to the first Pirates of the Caribbean flick, which may or may not have had a wee bit of influence over the subject matter of the tune.
• I recorded a grand total of 15 vocal tracks on this tune. Never again, that’s all I’ve got to say.

The lyrics

We All Agree – © 2008 Steve Chatterton

I’m a pirate, a poet, a vagabond drunk
And I’ll tell you such things that you never have thunk
And if you say different I’ll know it’s a lie
For I can bend truth in the wink of an eye

Once I rode a cock horse out to Banbury Cross
Just to see a fine lady upon a white horse
With rings on her fingers and fabulous legs
She cooked a mean breakfast of really bad eggs

And we all, we all agree
It’s the same for you and me
And we all, we all agree
It’s the same for you and me
Even if you don’t agree

Well I’ve been ‘round the world with my dictionary
And it takes all my thoughts and it rhymes them for me
When I lack the words to describe what I see
You’re a bonnie fine lass and that’s just fine by me

And we all, we all agree
It’s the same for you and me
And we all, we all agree
It’s the same for you and me
Even if you don’t agree

Chord Chart

Coming Soon!