| SINGING MY SONG |  |
| SINGING MY SONG | |
Written by Victor Wooten / VixLix Music ASCAP
Jonell Mosser: Vocals
Victor Wooten: Vocals and Bass (3 tracks)
JD Blair: Drums
BG Vocals: Dobehi "Doobie" Lachaden, Felicia Fett,
Marci Chittwood and Holly Wooten
Recorded by Kurt Storey and Victor Wooten at home and
at Monkey Fingers Studio in Nashville, TN in March of "97" and "99".
We originally started recording this song for the "What Did He
Say?" CD. I was using the Roland VS880 at the time. I
couldn't come up with any vocal ideas so the song never made it. Some friends of mine from
high school came to visit me in Nashville so I asked them to sing the "La La La
La" part. I wasn't even sure how it was going to fit into the song. They had their
kids with them and u can hear them in the background
I started playing around with this song again this year and the ideas started flowing. I
knew that I wanted Jonell to sing so I wrote a part for her. I kept it
loose so that she could be free to add herself into the part and sing it the way she
wanted to. The rest of the lyrics came pretty quickly also. I was in the studio recording
my vocals when the idea came to me about singing the lyrics on separate tracks. I sang
every other word on two separate tracks. It came out sounding a lot like a robot but a lot
funkier.
When I found these old tracks, I didn't have all of the drums. I only had a stereo mix. I
liked the way that it sounded so I kept it that way. That's what u are hearing.
Basses:
Notes:
Things 2 Listen 4:
Lyrics:
Walking down the street
People that I see
Turn around and walk the other way.
I don't want no trouble
Stay in my own little bubble
That's a game I don't wanna play.
U can call me what u want.
I don't even know your name.
But Oooo my dear
Won't u hear me loud and clear?
I love u. I love u just the same.
(Chorus) I'm just singing my song
Hoping we get along, someday.
(Can't we get along, just get along?)
Then we all will be free.
U be u I'll be me, OK?
One says to the other
That u're my brother
Just as long as u look like me.
It would be a little better
If we all would sing together,
Harmonize in the same key.
The day is coming soon,
The day we will all understand.
But until we do, I will keep loving u
And then I'll see u in another land.
(Chorus)
Walking down the street one day
Everybody looked at me and turned the other way.
Tell me what did I do? What did I say?
What, is my hair too long? Did I do something too wrong? Do u not like my song?
I know I sing out of tune. I can auto fix it real soon.
I'm just a bass player not a singer. Not a talker just a thinker.
I guess I'll think for 2 beats.
1, 2 that was fun. Now I'm done.
Why u have to call me that name?
Can't u see that we're all the same?
Well if u can't see it who's the blame?
Just because I'm darker and u're lighter
Doesn't make me wronger and u righter.
Sometimes I laugh and I don't know why for
But I know I don't wanna cry no more.
Uh Oh. Gotta go. Somebody's knocking at my door.
And it's time that we all get along
'Cause I'm tired of singing this song!
(Chorus)
 Jonell Mosser |
 Holly & Kaila |
 Felicia Fett |
 Marci Chittwood |
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