Some songs I've written

Mostly I write fiction, but all my life I've been a songwriter, too.  From time to time I'll post some samples here.  For openers, here's a song called Hundred Acre Wood from the songwriting team of Joe Cottonwood and Will Fourt.  It sounds like this:  (listen here).  Will is the singer. 

Hundred Acre Wood

Blue wing butterfly

With hairy legs - oh my oh my!

Fluttering through your neighborhood

One hundred acre wood.

A hole in the fence by the maple tree

Cross the creek at the gravel bar

Up the hill picking blackberries

To the shack on the hill with the junker car.

The shotgun lady lives in there

Her temper's always sore

Rotten apples all over the yard

Throw one at her front door.

Run run as fast as you can

She saw you throw, screen door slam

Down that hill where the sawmill stood

One hundred acre wood.

Amy would go there to watch the birds

Oriole warbler and jay

She was insie, I was outsie

Checked them every day.

Wood thrush - musical song

Sounds like Amy, then it's gone

We never knew we had it so good

One hundred acre wood.

I carved her name in a white birch tree

Never could say why

Her dad got transferred to Oregon

I cried that day she said good-bye.

Luna moth, big as a bird

Sits on my shoulder - how absurd!

I'd go back if only I could

One hundred acre wood.

Lyrics copyright 2007 by Joe Cottonwood