New Love Songs

In this book you'll find love described in different ways, often with a humorous angle. The songs alternate between the passionate and the tragic. Life is not simple, nor is love. Many songs of love are also found in "New Wedding Songs". Number of songs: 141 Number of pages: 364

Battle of the sexes Beauty Betrayal Commitment Courting Failed relationship Longings Loving you, loving...
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In this book you'll find love described in different ways, often with a humorous angle. The songs alternate between the passionate and the tragic. Life is not simple, nor is love. Many songs of love are also found in "New Wedding Songs".

Number of songs: 141
Number of pages: 364

Battle of the sexes
Beauty
Betrayal
Commitment
Courting
Failed relationship
Longings
Loving you, loving me
Lust
Moving on
Redemption
Separation
Sex and relationships
Unrequited love

A. E. Housman
Andrew B. Paterson "The Banjo"
Blanche Bane Kuder
Charles Kingsley
Coventry Patmore
Edgar Allan Poe
Edmund Spenser
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Frances W. Bourdillon
Frederic Locker-Lampson
George Farewell
George Wither
Henry Vaughan
Ivan Leonard Wright
James Thomson
John Bennett
John Bennett
John Clare
Lord Noel Byron
Louis Shreve Osborne
Percy Bysshe Shelly
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Robert Burns
Robert Herrick
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir John Suckling
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Walter Raleigh
Thomas Moore
Thomas Ravenscroft
William Butler Yeats
William Makepeace Thackeray

My pen name is Fred Butwell, but my real name is Ivar Øksendal and I live in Kristiansand, Norway. I write under a pseudonym to make my name easier to pronounce and remember.

I was born and raised in Horten, Norway, 1944. Then I worked different places as a teacher and finally I became a consultant in Kristiansand at the education department in Vest-Agder county municipality.

One day I got this amazing gift of dreaming melodies. It just suddenly started in 2003. I can hear the melody and sometimes also see the performance while sleeping. Then I wake up, hum the melody into a voice recorder and fall asleep again. The next day I write the melodies in the computer software for writing music notes, Finale. When the melodies are made in my mind, there is no need to work with them in the traditional way, e.g. to sit with an instrument and create. There have roughly been 10,000 melodies made this way. The next thing I do is to choose a song from the night's catch and write the lyrics to it. I 'analyze' the melody to find out what kind of genre it sounds like, like love songs, protest, urbanism, children's songs, etc. I also must decide whether the text is to be written in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish or English.

My son, Vidar Øksendal, born 1979, publishes the books through his own publishing company. Vidar holds a bachelor degree in media management from Gjøvik University College (today called NTNU Gjøvik). He is the general manager and I am deputy board member of our small joint stock company, Anapta Forlag AS. Without his enthusiasm and effort, it is possible that none of the books would have been released.