Silly Songs with Tara

Good afternoon! No pictures today...I'm hoping to post quickly and go on a bike ride. :) Yea! Looking forward to baking squash/chicken tonight with Jenny, and a rum cake! The pizza last night was delicious...and i will be happy to share the recipe as soon as i find it...oops :( For now, here are two little ditties...the first is in the key of a minor, and it sounds kind of gypsy (maybe? definitely eerie). Its lyrics are in the vein of old "lost love" ballads. I have a Folk Song Songbook full of them, if anyone wants to have a singalong! :) The second i wrote just a few minutes ago, in the key of G, so it's more upbeat and fun. Neither of them have anything to do with my current romantic situation (which i am quite happy with), but these things (lyrics) just happen once you've gathered a few chords together. Oh, and i just noticed that this makes two poems/songs in a row that contain the name "Bill." I guess that's what happens when you let yourself sit comfortably in a simple rhyme scheme, or go all-in for alliteration (see yesterday's poem). Ah well. :)

Faux Flowers

I. Find me an indigo flower
The kind that only blooms in the dark
Pluck it precisely at the midnight hour
I need its poison to heal my heart.

II. Fetch me a rose from the thorniest briar
But don't get scratched or its power will fade.
If you want all your heart has ever desired
Bring me the rose, and we'll make a trade

III. Search for a daisy that grows in the desert,
Search for a lily that thrives in the sand.
One will do, but both would be better...
Deliver them here, and you'll understand.

IV. Flowers grown in imagination
Are sweeter than a bouquet from a man
You kiss him in love, and anticipation--
He promises gardens you'll never have.

Pearl's Song
I. My name's Pearl I'm just a
Simple girl, I live in a
World of dreams and
Laughter
His name's Bill. I know he
Never will Love me but
Still I dream of happily
Ever after.
Ch.
Maybe I could catch his dark brown eyes
If I baked him a strawberry pie.
Or wrote out his name in the sky with smoke,
It doesn't hurt to hope.

II. Bill's so good but I sup-
Pose I should forget him but
(Knock on wood) I'll wait just a
Little Longer.
Look at me! I'm young and
So pretty--oh that my
Heart could be just a
Little stronger.

Ch.

III. My name's Pearl. I'm just a
Single girl, I live in a world of
Reality.
His name's Bill. I don't think he
Ever will love me but
Still I dance ev'ry
Evening.

Ch. Cause there's more than one pair of dark brown eyes,
And I love to eat strawberry pie.
I've finally learned what I've known all along:
Sometimes you just have to move on.