A lot of my songs could be considered children's songs. I've picked
five out here, but it does depend on the age, maturity, and family background
of the child.
Kids do love this song about a little man from Dublin, as green as
green could be. A more clever leprechaun you couldn't
hope to find. This is one of my very first songs, written over 40 years
ago.
The adolescent in me who won't grow up wrote this song in 1975, announcing
that I've been around for a long, long time, and will be around when
you've changed your mind, your style and your reason why!
Driving down the Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park in
1982, this song about our beautiful planet came to me in minutes. Merrill
Harmin said it was so pure it must have been channeled. Who knows,
but it
does
qualify
as
a children's song.
A very sophisticated child could escape to another world where blue-eyed unicorns
sleep in trees and play with the star breeze caressing their manes.
This song was written the same year as Beautiful
Planet.
A friend and I discover spooks dancing in a circle
in the master bedroom of an old house we bought in the country! These
1984 words were set to a piano composition created earlier.
I read about the exciting adventures of The Rainbow Warrior in the
Greenpeace magazine in 1983. I then wrote this song. Kids love "Well,
red and orange and yellow and green and blue, purple, indigo. We can
stop all the killing, if we'd just be willing to let all the animals
know that we really do love them so."