Creating Our 60's Folk-Rock Song

Folk-Rock is mainly known for its distinctive elements such as chiming, ringing guitar hooks, coupled with clear vocal harmonies. The Byrds were hugely successful and pioneered folk-rock in the 60’s they established the blue print that many bands followed. The Byrds inspired many other folk-rock groups to arise most of whom emphasized the acoustic origins of folk. As folk-rock progressed as its own unique sound both acoustic and electric folk-rock sounds where a commonplace in rock & roll (Complex Music, n.d.).

Doing further research into the Byrds I looked at some of there lyrics to help our group in creating our own folk-rock song, this is the first verse and chorus to ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’

Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand
Vanished from my hand
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.

Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

The lyrics are simple, happy, catchy and repetitive, so using all the information gathered we began writing our song ‘rock n roll farm’. We came up with the idea as there are many country songs are based around the farm life, so we decided to write about the fun lifestyle of living on a farm.