It feels like spring is just around the corner. The sun is coming out now and again, and the snow piles are melting. And so I\u2019m starting to come out of hibernation and sift thru the old to shed or refresh, with an eye to making space for brave new things to come. Since rock the band has been gigging so much I\u2019m looking into a new keyboard, stand and some other stuff to improve my sound and make the schleppage lighter. More on that soon.<\/p>\n
And as I continue to organize my back pages of songs and lyrics, here\u2019s one I came across that\u2019s fully compete but I\u2019ll probably never use. My brother-in-law Lou is a singer-songwriter. He wrote and recorded an album of songs for children, He\u2019s My Bear<\/i>, when his kids were little. One day a while back we were talking and he had a bunch of songs for a follow up. I thought it might be fun to produce. So we made a demo of four or five songs and I began laying down the actual tracks. However life keeps you busy and we were never able to complete the project. Along the way I wrote a song for the record called Why Not Zed? It\u2019s basically a scrambled A-B-C song, using the Canadian pronunciation of the last letter of the alphabet, as in Zed Zed Top, or Why Why Zed. It turns out a lot of Americans aren’t hip. So take off, eh!<\/p>\n
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Why Not Zed?<\/b><\/p>\n
A – B – C – D
\nDinosaurs and cheese
\nH – I – J – K
\nElephants sneeze
\n1 – 2 – 5 – 3
\nBlue green red
\nDouble-U, triple-X
\nWhy not zed?<\/p>\n
One half, zero
\ne and pi
\nRadical two
\nThe golden rule and i
\nL – M – N – O
\nToes knees head
\nWho what when where
\nWhy not zed?<\/p>\n
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