Looking For Fairies

from Spin Tunes 17 by Menage a Tune

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Written as a shadow for the Spintunes 17 third round challenge "Coming or Going?: Write a song that features palindromes - structures whose elements are ordered the same forwards and backwards.
We opted to do a musical palindrome in the left hand chords. CA-D-E-C-D-F then flipped it to F-D-C-E-D-C

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Once there was a small pond
Where I used to play
An island sat within it
A fairy hideaway

A little creek wound through the trees to
Feed it and to flow

A waterfall! So tiny!
Only 2 feet tall!
A wooden bridge made from a plank
Sometimes I thought I’d fall

Once there was a small pond
Where I used to play
I went back to visit it
Upon an Autumns day

The waterfall still splashes
The island is still there
The wooden bridge has gone away
No fairies anywhere

Once there was a small pond
Where I used to play
An island sat within it
The fairy hideaway
Is gone…gone…gone…gone

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from Spin Tunes 17, track released April 8, 2021
Words and vocals- JoAnn Abbott
Music and Harp playing- David Crookston, harp teacher extraordinaire

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