FAWM: "Eliza's Ladybugs"

Eliza's Ladybugs

4 days ago by @zinglizh

Eliza's Ladybugs

zinglizh

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Liner Notes

#country This a story about my mom as a little girl, how she used to play with ladybugs. The character's name comes from songs my grandma used to sing about sweet little Eliza Jane. Tribute to my mom and her mom. AND that I'm super jealous that @nancycunning writes clever story songs about relatives and I wanted to try and write a Nancy style song--instead of my normal edgy angry or depressed ones. ;)

Lyrics

Oklahoma morning as the sun erased the night Little Eliza tiptoes through the back door, goes outside She kneels down near the marigolds The milkweed and pretty primrose With eager blue eyes

Eliza loves ladybugs most of all Teenie weenie secrets with wings Crawl along her tiny fingers Speaks to them in kindly whispers Cuz the flowers might be listening

They float around her garden and settle on the leaves Little Eliza watches as the red bugs start to feast They fly down on the flower beds And chow down on the tasty aphids To fill their bellies

Eliza loves ladybugs most of all Teenie weenie secrets with wings Crawl along her tiny fingers Speaks to them in kindly whispers Cuz the flowers might be listening

The sky begins to soften just before it shows the stars Little Eliza gathers up some ladies in her jar A mason fit with a punctured lid A leaf picked for a comfy blanket To safely sleep near her

Eliza loves ladybugs most of all Teenie weenie secrets with wings Crawl along her tiny fingers Speaks to them in kindly whispers Cuz the flowers might be listening

Oklahoma morning as the sun erased the night Little Eliza tip toes with her treasures, back outside She opens up the mason top One by one the beetles fly off Saying, thank you for the invite

Eliza loves ladybugs most of all Teenie weenie secrets with wings Crawl along her tiny fingers Speaks to them in kindly whispers Cuz the flowers might be listening

Yeah, Ladybug, Ladybug Fly away home

Comments

@raspberry33 2d

I'm a big fan of ladybugs (they are excellent at keeping the white flies off the lettuce plants) and pleased to see my first one of the season last week in Boulder, where spring is way early. I used to dee-jay at a country radio station in North Carolina, and this would have slid easily into the set list. Nice production, and very pleasant vocals.

@nancycunning 3d

Oh, Tamis - this is so sweet. I’m so glad you let yourself write it. It feels just like a sweet grandmother telling a story to an entranced child. You do amazing stuff with line length and rhymes and alliteration, but none of that gets in the way of the images and the delight a child would take in it.

@zinglizh 2d

Thanks so much! Need to do a slide show video and a real backing instead of Hookpad track. Wish my mom was hear to hear it.

@odilongreen 4d

The chorus is so great! Sweet and melodic and tender and says so much in a few well-chosen words! It's a pure explosion of joy. (Which is not to detract from the rest of the song, which is a tuneful delight throughout--nothing "edgy, angry or depressed" here!)