New: Its All Down Hill From Here

that I recorded a couple of weeks ago. I got the inspiration while watching a community access channel in Winston-Salem, NC. They featured a band called MommaSaid, which was kind of a down home flavor of the mountains folk group. I wrote this song in my head on my way back over the Smokies. I have also had the good fortune to have traveresed the great divide in the Rockies since that time. Flagstaff was gorgeous. The spirit of the mountains is all up in me. Workwise I see an instrumental bridge with a slow suspensful string movement ascending up the mountain and a honky tonk piano tumbling back down the mountian followed up by a repise of the first verse and chorus.

The artist in mind are: A. MommaSaid B. Montgomery Gentry Backed up by the Good Morning, Halleluia, God Bless You Choir I am also having trouble deciphering a key signature. I thought it was in A but there are way to many accidentals. I tried D but came up with the same results.

It’s All Down Hill From Here ©2003 words and music by: John McCullough

Verse 1 Take a switchback down the mountain To the valley by the river Take the river to the ocean Take the ocean to the sea You will get there if you want to You will get there if you don’t Go with the flow It’s All Down Hill From Here

Chorus Way up on the mountain You can see the other side You can see the other mountain You can see both far and wide It just don’t get no better than this It’s All Down Hill From Here

Verse 1 Momma grew up by the ocean Daddy grew up by the sea They came up to the mountains Where they had a little me They put up with the harships And they put up with the fear Close to God in Heaven It’s All Down Hill From Here

Chorus Way up on the mountain You can see the other side You can see the other mountain You can see both far and wide It just don’t get no better than this It’s All Down Hill From Here

I believe it's in the key of D.

It looks much better on paper. that will help me out w/ my string movement an honky tonk piano part.I guess what had me confused was the #4 A chord was predominate in the verses. Is there a name for the style where the #4 tonic is predominate. Like I said I wrote this song in my head while I was driving a truck. I rarely stray from a 1, 4, 5 chord progression when I am writing on a guitar, OK I use a lot of minor chords because I am a moody sort of guy, when I write on the piano my versatility seems to expand. Writing on my head organ seems to be even more versatile. Or maybe the whine of the engine was such because I was driving up and down the mountain. Who knows, it's just good to be writing again. After about an 8 or 10 year dry spell the well seems to be

That's not a bad song

Actually, I think this song is in A. The last note of the line 'it's all downhill from here' is clearly the first note of the scale, which is A. And the chord is also A. Anyway, I enjoyed this song, though my knowledge of mountain folk goes no further than 'Jackie Blue' by the Ozark Mountain