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Yammer With Your Grammar


Photos by Mark Sheldan

Communication is the eye of this week's storm with a message that spews forth to speak your truth and ask for what you want in life. It's an illuminating declaration of my percolating exhortation I like to call Grammar Yammer. One day, I looked up the word 'WORD' and found there to be a thousand ways to say it. Hence, the concept was born and I explored this ingenious path to the fullest degree. There's nothing better than a play on words when it comes to songwriting and creating one with no meaning yet packed full of meaning made perfect sense to me.




When I was a gypsy and Mark was a Bonemaster, he tickled my funny bone. He got a boner, the bonehead and when we got home, we threw bones and had a bonefide, bone-rattling time. Later, the ham bone was bone weary but I had no bone to pick because bare bones as it was, he boned up, felt it in his bones, threw me a bone and took me to the bone, make no bones about it! And now you have heard how a nerd can be absurd with a word. LOL

Bill Daryl and Mark Jammin

I categorize this week's release as 'Linguistic Rock'. William Taylor plays gritty guitar licks as Mark Sheldan pumps out pure gold on his bass. (MarkSheldan.com) My brother Craig Lybarger blows a super funky harmonica as my down and dirty beats take you back to the sixties with groups like the 'Animals' and 'The Doors'. I had fun using power chords, adding harmonies in the chorus. I made sure to pump up the vocals to make the lyrics stand out as the star of the show.


Most used book in our house

The book that took 20 years to write



At my high school graduation award ceremonies, I was presented a trophy and a thesaurus as a prize for being a good English student and a darn good creative writer. Little did they know that I was a terrible speller and bad with punctuation, but my mom proofread everything I wrote and made it perfect. Also, my older, witty boyfriend at the time helped with all the essays and stories to enhance my grades. Still, it was one of my favorite subjects and very useful in real life as a songwriter and author. Thank technology for spell check now.


Me doing a reading from 'Wizardlings'

As summer winds down and the rainy season stares us in the face, Smokeywine the Duo is heading back to Twisted Gitar Music Studio to create more songs for the world to hear. I'd like to welcome our new listeners in Norway and Poland. Thanks for supporting organic, homegrown music and local artists.


Until next time, I beg you to communicate any way you can and remember to Love, Laugh and Dance. ~*.*~ Lea Sheldan







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Sing along with the lyrics below:


Yammer With Your Grammar


Express your indication, don’t worry about the rules

Dispatch your exhortation, articulate your truth

State your exposition, bloviate your choice

Conceptualize your phrases and vindicate your voice


Yammer with your grammar, let it percolate

Verbalize and testify when you communicate


Natter out your message, announce and activate

Direct your elocution in terms that fascinate

Sermonize and publicize, speak and motivate

Notify and vocalize, proclaim and formulate


Yammer with your grammar Let it percolate

Verbalize and testify when you communicate


If you need illumination

Use your imagination

To set your fascination on fire


Direct your observation, convey and consummate

Present your declaration, it’s time to ventilate

Join the conversation; say what’s on your mind

Create interpretation, lay it on the line


You've got to yammer with your grammar

Let it percolate

Verbalize and testify when you communicate


written by Lea Sheldan

copyright 2016 Socan



photo by Mark Sheldan






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