Each month (more or less), we will install a lyric sheet here for a Shrimp City Slim original song that might be timely.
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I grew up on « folk music », along with many other styles, having come of age in the musically-rich 1960s. I got a few months of « folk guitar » lessons while in high school and got to mix a little Lightnin’ Hopkins and Brownie McGhee in with the Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Tom Rush, Joni, Leonard Cohen already built into those studies. Acoustic guitar is a nice flavor and it’s fun using it every now and then.
Producing the three albums (2003, 2006, 2008) on Wanda Johnson was a ball. Complete artistic freedom. Songwriting all over the map. Worldwide touring with an all-original songbook. We had some good moments.
IMHO … BEHIND A CLOUD is one of those « good moments ». A love song or is it a praise song? You decide. God is Love.
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(You can hear this song on YouTube), from the CD « Natural Resource » (Erwin Music, 2006). We still have this item in stock.
—December 9, 2022, Sarlat-la-Canéda
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BEHIND A CLOUD (words & music: Gary Erwin, copyright 2006, published by Blue Chasqui Music (BMI).
I’m gonna go behind a cloud / where no one’ll see me cry aloud
tears that flow so easily / these tears of joy that you’re with me
Ambushed by a miracle / something in me just lets go
A wave, a rush, a sudden sense / of weightlessness, of innocence
As if you spun my darkened life / around and toward a warming light
As if the longest winter ends / and the sun comes out again
I’m gonna go behind a cloud / where no one’ll see me cry aloud
And I can spend time on my knees / thanking God you came to me