When I Was A Bird - On Cigar Box Guitar, old drum & lager bottle

A New Song I played at the 5th Cambridge Cigar Box Guitar Festival.
This song was inspired by my Grandson, who said one day when looking at a tub of fat balls we have in the garage for the birds "When I was a bird, I used to eat fat balls" That stuck in my head and a few weeks later this song came out....

LYRICS

When I was a bird I sat in a tree,
sang my song, feeling free,
mmmm when I was a bird,
mmmm feeling free.

When I was a tree I sheltered you,
watched you play and watched you grow,
mmmm when I was a tree,
mmmm I watched you grow.

When I was you and you were me,
we understood, no need to speak,
mmmm when I was you,
mmmm no need to speak.

You can be anything, if you can just imagine it.
You can be anything, anything that you need, whoo!

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Comment by Derek Rose on August 15, 2016 at 11:56am

Fun tune, great sound!

Comment by bemuzic on August 15, 2016 at 7:31am

thanks Nancy...woah that pic is freaky!

Comment by Nancy kat on August 15, 2016 at 4:57am

Loved it B~Muzic!!! Very special lyrics to~~~~Meeeeeechripowwwwwww^..^

Comment by bemuzic on August 13, 2016 at 9:53am

thanks Andries and Jim

Comment by Jim Morris on August 13, 2016 at 1:14am

Wonderful song Be! I always enjoy your posts.

Comment by A.D.EKER on August 12, 2016 at 10:32pm

Nice One ! keep looping !

Comment by bemuzic on August 12, 2016 at 8:40pm
Thanks Dave,yeah it's a nice pub :-)
Comment by Dave Lynas on August 12, 2016 at 2:43pm
Beautiful. Looks like a nice spot to play. Like your looping.
Comment by bemuzic on August 12, 2016 at 1:42pm
Thanks John, it's a fun one to sing :-)
Comment by Uncle John on August 12, 2016 at 1:13pm

Nice poem.  Nice sound.   Fun and good.

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