CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST
My Complete Christian Lyric & Lead Sheet Songbook
GENRE: Music, Lyrics, Christianity, song-writing
SYNOPSIS: After I heard the Beatles sing I Wanna Hold Your Hand on the radio in 1964, I started to write lyrics. As soon as I could, I acquired my first six-stringed guitar, and began to set my lyrics to music. Later, I switched to a twelve-stringed guitar since I liked its more mellow quality. Now, almost sixty years later, I’ve written close to 1000 songs. I took music theory and a couple of years of piano and singing lessons when I was a child, but I’m basically self-taught. From 1965 to 1973, I sang my songs—as well as top ten hit parade songs from the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s—in public parks, private parties, on radio and television, in hotel lounges, restaurants, and anywhere that people who wanted music were willing to invite me. In December 1973, I became a Christian. I began to write Christian songs, and soon began to sing my music, as well as lead praise and worship, in various denominations and congregations—Full Gospel, Pentecostal, Catholic Charismatic, Anglican, Salvation Army, Presbyterian, Baptist, and others—and in various Christian coffee houses, at Bible studies, and other spiritual venues until 1989. This book contains the majority of my Christian songs—lyrics and lead sheets.
