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Words and Music © 2023 by John Tabacco and Alice Radomska
Published by It Iz What It Iz Music (SESAC) / Alice Radomska Pub. Designee

The music on this tuned was based on an idea I had around 1997 called "Me and Your Friends". The chords are a little reminiscent of a song Frank Sinatra recorded called "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning". I was listening to that song a lot back in 1998 as Bob Ball and I used it as one of the A/B tracks our SA3 sampler. At one point the chords sort of formed the basis to the Christmas song I wrote with Gian DiMauro called "Christmas And I Am Not Afraid" and also the backing track to "Daniel's Sled" found on the CD "A Presbyter's Dementia".

The mysterious Polish writer and painter, Alice Radomska who resides in Sweden, often emails me lyrics that read like poetry. Her lyrics to the song "Alice Is Painting" was one such example. It had a lyric feel to it but I had to reassemble it a bit in order to sort out a chorus. It must have worked out pretty well since "Alice Is Painting: is my most listened tune on Youtube. But more recently Alice sent me "Bee In My Bonnet" and it read like lyrics (verses and chorus)! I didn't have to change them. As an experiment I sang the lyrics over the idea of "Me and Your Friends". It worked. So I re-recorded the track and it was an easy one to sing.

My good friend and musician"Mstery" (Theresa Orlando) does the "Your lips are buzzing" part in the intro. That was taken off a "Female Musician" sampler I edited for her back in 2000.

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BEE IN YOUR BONNET 



This plastic planet – you're on it

You ain't got a way to check out

That's quite a bee in your bonnet

Not getting what life is about

You played some game and you won it

But sometimes a win is a loss

That's quite a bee in your bonnet

A cruel six-lane highway to cross


LIKE BUSY BEES WE STICK TOGETHER
But when we do, I'm still alone
WE TALK ABOUT INCLEMENT THE WEATHER
It's gonna change again real soon


The climate here? Oceanic!

It changes, it changes. I know

But every change makes me panic

Where can a sane person go?

That steep old roof – You were on it

A lot of bees got annoyed

If you haven't got bees in your bonnet

Well you haven't read Siegmund Freud
!

LIKE BUSY BEES WE STICK TOGETHER
But when we do, I'm still alone
WE TALK ABOUT INCLEMENT THE WEATHER
It's gonna change again real soon


YOU SAY WE'D BETTER STICK TOGETHER
But when we do, I'm still alone
I'm still alone!

LIKE BUSY BEES WE STICK TOGETHER
But when we do, I'm still alone
WE TALK ABOUT INCLEMENT THE WEATHER
It's gonna change again real soon


YOU SAY WE'D BETTER STICK TOGETHER
But when we do, I'm still alone
WE TALK A LOT ABOUT THE WEATHER
It's gonna change again real soon

It's true








credits

from Initial Ideas From Cassettes, Resurrected, released May 8, 2023
JT : All instruments and Vocals
Tere Orlando : "Your Lips Are Buzzing"
Recorded and Mixed at Suburban Hermit Studios III, Ronkonkoma, NY

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John Tabacco Stony Brook, New York

John Tabacco is a composer, singer-songwriter, producer, recording engineer, and visual artist.

Like an unfolding musical diary / puzzle, Tabacco’s music and art are constantly being re-worked, juxtaposed and intertwined.

For more info : www.johntabacco.net
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