The Pelican Song

A fitting final song for the June album, here is 'The Pelican Song'..... I wrote this one evening in San Diego while I was there for a good friends' wedding. I was sitting on this cool porch on a little cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, watching the sunset, watching a group of pelicans flying low in formation over the waves, surrounded by friends.....just me and my Seagull S6 acoustic guitar. Originally this song was called 'Friend', but a few years later I played it at a house party, and the next day someone told me "I really liked that pelican song that you played", and so it became 'The Pelican Song' from then on......a back to basics, (mostly) stripped down version, with acoustic guitar, bass, and voice. Partial arrangement credits to L. Allen

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The pelicans keep storming o'er the rocks

and the leverages on the waves can be a shock

I'd like for you to come and stay a while but

the shadows made me complicate my style

and I don't know why

we fall apart today

and I don't know how

to make that go away

and I don't know why

or how this thing will end

but I know you'll be my friend