Blarney & Bloggery – J Oscar Bittinger

J Oscar Bittinger – solo

Streaming / Song Circles / Solo Shows JOB playing solo, with machines, or in rounds with other performers – on a stream or in person

The framing has been set, the walls and roof are in place and the trim and painting begun. This website is “open while under construction” (no funky little animated yellow triangle worker graphic necessary). Thanks for visiting and hope you find a bit of info, fun, and music here. A section called J.O.B. PRESENTS has […]

2010 June arrives sweet and demure

Ah, the early Summer, one of my favorite times of the year. The first truly warm days invite you to stretch on a grassy hill, watch clouds and people and thoughts drift by. (Well that what I like to do… there’s plenty of work as well…) I dig being outside (even working) and love to […]

A Winter’s Trio – Songs of Love and Snow

Saturday, February 1, 2013 – 6:oo pm Richard App Gallery 910 Cherry Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49506

A Winter’s Tune – rebooted

Yes, it’s time to launch the new model. Version 2 All we are saying is, ’twill be a show of Original Winter, Holiday and Seasonal Song + Sing-Alongs from “A Winter’s Tune.” Two editions, one nearer to Christmas in a distictive location, another on a January afternoon with a view of the Big Lake by […]

At Christmas Time

© 1998 J. Oscar Bittinger They say it may snowThey said might freezeAt Christmas Time, Christmas TimeBetter go outCut yourself down a treeAt Christmas Time, Christmas TimePlastic wreath on the door, fake log on the fireA nip in the butt for the drunk in the choirThe minister’s tiredBut he can’t retireAt Christmas Time, Christmas Time […]

Big Blue Sky

It’s a Big Blue Sky
Perfect Autumn day
Sun is high
Headed on our way
‘Neath a Big Blue Sky
Golden autumn day
Troubles blow out the window
Like leaves they fall away

Bio

J Oscar Bittinger writes & plays modern folk that pops J Oscar Bittinger arrives at the show with a beat guitar case full of innocence and experience, glittered up in folk-rock grooves and plain spoken poetry. With a carnival spin and a scamp’s grin, J Oscar songs explore places where headlong meets heartache, “drunk with joy” and […]

Bright Winter Blue

© 2005 J. Oscar Bittinger People rush down snowy streetsThey got a hundred things on their mindsThey move deliberatelyMe? I got a little cafe to findGonna take it all in for awhilePull off mittens from back homeUnwind the thick wool scarf from my sisThey said this town was bigBut nothin’ quite prepares you for thisIt’s […]

Bully Boys

Bully BoysHangin’ out on the street cornerBully BoysGotta a sneer for everybodyBully BoysIn a gang you can talk much biggerBully BoysAlways pickin’ on someone weaker You can say what you want to meBut you leave my family outta thisI walk soft but keep a clenched fistAgainst you, you Bully BoysMarchin’ round in a war partyBully […]

Carry On For Two

Music © 2010 J. Oscar Bittinger Words © 2010 Lauran & J. Oscar Bittinger You can’t chase painted ponies no more The way I do Can’t find your balance on a spinning floor Though you try to CHORUS I can carry on for two I can carry on for two Don’t you worry I’ll carry […]

Don’t Want To Go To Work No More

I go to work
Ev’rey day
When I get home
I’m too tired to play
Spirit worn out
Body sore
I don’t want to go to work
No more

Down in Our Hometown

Known her just a while and I think she’s fineBut everybody says she the “troubled kind”Ain’t a “bad girl” just faraway and moodyNot satisfied with roses and a movie (cause) CHORUSShe don’t fit inA small town sinLoves her kinBut she ain’t like themThere’s no do doubtShe’s a diamond foundBut she’ll get ground down in our […]

Dublin Station

Celtic Americana Songs and Tunes Members: J Oscar Bittinger – guitar/vocals; Lauran Hardin – accordion/vocals More soon

February 2012 – Resting? Skirlling! FAWMing! Updating!

It was supposed to be a snowy cold, containing February – a time of rest; a time to regenerate, make plans for the future and re-associate the past. Coming after a dark and blustery January I’d be used to staying indoors, introverted, guitar and writing pad at the ready. Subverted! “Snow Day” is about the […]

Fiction of a Real Life

Everybody knows something you don’t know
Everybody’s been places – you’d like to go
Dream up drama ‘bout people in a
Café line
Create a Fiction from a Real Life

Get on the Bus

Freedom riders rode to Selma
A million marched on Washington
The news stopped calling us “citizens”
Now we’re “consumers” on the run
To ride with Mother Freedom
Join your daughters and your sons

Well, get on the bus! Get on the bus…
Get on the bus you can ride with us
Get on the bus!

Glorious Ordinary Day

In the office telephones ring
Paper shuffling
Get to your next meeting on time
Gotta deadline
Deals at lunchtime
Going down, down, down (down, down, down)

BRIDGE 2
Warships sail across an oil slicked bay
Read all about it as your taxi speeds away
It’s another Glorious Ordinary Day

Here Comes the Giant

Here comes the giant
He darkens the street where you live
He isn’t mindful
Of crushing
All you might offer him

Here Comes the Rain

Sometimes you’ll feel the storm
Before it hits you
But the sky is going to fall
On creature’s great and small
Things you planned on
All get abandoned and they
Wash away
HERE COMES THE RAIN

Holly Jolly Holiday

MUSIC © 2012 J. Oscar Bittinger LYRICS © 2008 J Oscar Bittinger & Lauran Hardin CHORUS Friends and lovers we’ll be toasting The old chestnuts we’ll be roasting Even though the sky is mostly gray (We still sing) Deck the halls And oh, by golly We’re going to have a Holly Jolly Holiday We’ll sing […]