When I'm not writing drinking and losing love and going to prison songs, I'm writing a childrens' album. In theory. (Hopefully, this will make up for the next song I'm working on which is about children, but it is NOT a song FOR children...)

I hope you enjoy it. All comments and suggestions are welcomed!

Billy the 1-Wing Bat


BILLY THE 1-WING BAT
Written by Andy Anderson
(c) Copyrighted - Reggie Records 2017 – all rights reserved

Fall will last a little bit, winter not much more
Spring flies in the window, and runs right out the door
Summer comes one day, and gets up with the sun
Wakes you up real early saying, “Let’s go have some fun!”

Donny was a puppy dog who liked to bark and play
Frannie was a little frog, she looked for flies all day
Billy was a silly bat, and he liked everything
He flew around in circles ‘cause, he only had 1 wing

(CHORUS)
Round and round Billy’d fly, wherever they would go
and if that ever bothered them, they never let him know
Friends who stick together,
are friends and friends forever
Donny Dog and Frannie Frog and Billy…the 1-wing Bat…,
He’s a 1-wing bat!

One day the three were playing, out near the candy trees
Although their moms had warned them,
“Monsters live in these... TREEEES!”
Sure enough a big one came, and grabbed them with a crunch
put them in a tiny cage, said “I just made lunch…”

Billy squeezed between the bars, and fluttered on his wing
Made that monster angry, he yelled out monster things
Billy could have flown away, but he flew instead
around and round, and round and round
around-and-round-and-round-and-round
(I know, it’s a lot of arounds…the kids like it…)
around that monster’s head!!!!

WELL THE…
Monster got so dizzy, that his eyes began to shake
Billy bit his ear off, his friends made their escape
The monster ran off crying, and he never reappeared
Billy spit the blood out, but he kept that monster’s ear

(CHORUS)

NOW KIDS….
The moral of the story, is when you’re far from home
stay away from monsters, they want to boil your bones
And if a big one comes your way, and will not let you pass
You fly around his monster head
And you bite him on the ear

(CHORUS) (END)

521 Bass Elec Pop
RD NashivlleEven8^1-a sidestick
1801 Synth Pad, PopShiningsoft Ev
406 Guitar Acoustic Strum
2494 Piano Acoustic Held
1618 Tuba DixielandFastSW

Even 8 – 4/4, 158 bpm – in C
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This is a heck of a lot of fun!!

Excellent choice of backing, and the lyrics are great fun especially for little ones.

Great job.

Thanks, guys. That means a lot to me. I've been puttering with the added sound effect in the mix all day. They seem to be extremely different sounding in cans, monitors, car... I'll probably play around with them a bit more, but I can tinker all day. I'd written this last year and played for the grandkids and they were bouncing off the walls. I'll never do that in person again. They'll get a CD.

Andy,

A clever kids write. Entertaining and a number of laughs.

Well done. Good mix. I enjoyed it.

The effects all work, too.

fj

Thanks, Floyd. It's funny, I'm trying not to over-think it. I 'think' in this kids' genre, I need to mix it, put it away for a month, and revisit. I only want it understandable (for kids), so with fresh ears, that's probably the way for me to go.

Laters!

Very cool tune Andy. Loved the lyrics

Thank you, Scott. Greatly appreciated.

Fantastic! All us big kids love it!
The voice backing and lyrics come together wonderfully.
Cheers.

Andy,

Great fun , engaging story and a good production. I love kids songs - especially the nonsense variety - but have yet to get anything recorded; I think you`ve inspired me!

Robert

Thanks, Robert and Rich!

That was my first try (or even though) at harmonies, and they were an afterthought. I've spent 43 years playing the same 8 songs on guitar in my room. I'm a solo guy! But it was a fun experiment. I'm sure a million miles away from how-you-really-should-do-it, and uncomfortably close to how-you-should-not-never-ever-do-it, but every journey starts with one, simple, tuna sandwich.

Hi Andy A, Really cool song! I really enjoyed the storytelling. What an unusual group of friends! Haha. Great work keep it up

Andy,

As others have already said, this very entertaining! Nice bit of story telling. The arrangement and production are an excellent testament to your imagination... inventiveness plus!

All the best,
Noel

Andy, "FUN" is the operative word here. Great job of putting together an entertaining song. Thanks, Torrey

Thanks, guys for taking time to listen and to comment. This whole BIAB deal blows the lid off of the box, doesn't it? All of a sudden there are endless opportunities. And a good community to get sanity-checks.

And I'm learning something new everyday about BB, about the song, and about me.

Well, it certainly works for us and Janice is the quintessential "eternal child" (in a very positive way) so she oughta know!

Fun production!!

J&B

Thanks, Janice and Bud! Me, too! We didn't get much music at the orphanage. When I was sold to the pirates, there was a lot, but not kids stuff, mostly just about rum and yo-hos and deadmen.

Reckon we can look for some sea shanties next!

J&B

Arrrg! Avast!