https://soundcloud.com/kybordr/my-friend-miguel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmpnqd7mtco&feature=youtu.be

There are so many great songwriters on this forum, and probably most of you have or could do a song about the innocence of your childhood. This one is mine, prepared for this week's Song A Week Challenge on the theme of Friends.

Bass and drums courtesy of Band In A Box:
****** Song Summary *************
Title: My Friend Miguel
Key=G , Tempo 70, Length (m:s)=4:27
Style is C_90BAL.STY (Country 90's Ballad)
Style MIDI Instruments are : Finger Electric Bass (34), Acoustic Piano (1), Acoustic Guitar (26), Electric Piano 2 (6),
MIDI Drums :1 Standard Drum Kit (1)
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Vocal harmonies are also from BIAB.


My Friend Miguel

My friend Miguel and I first met by the big tree in my new front yard,
there was a shed in the back, we found some funny old flags, only had 48 stars.
There was train tracks on Pamona back then. When the train would come,
put a penny on the track, watch it get smashed flat, sittin on the curb, chewin gum.

Seems like just about every summer day, we was down at Pamona park.
Had a yellow slide about a hundred feet high, we could stay till it got dark.
Touchdown was past this line of palm trees, second base was where the grass grew thin.
There was a jungle gym but we didn’t use it much, it was for little kids.

We didn’t know it and you couldn’t have told us, it was all a magic spell.
That’s just how we lived our lives, me and my friend Miguel.

We got our first stingray bikes, man we was born to be wild,
poppin wheelies all the way down Murietta, we had those babies dialed.
Later on we all got 10 speeds, didn’t need no sissy bar.
You could ride ‘em to the Vine, watch a show for a dime, didn’t need no car.

At night on Glorietta we’d go fishin golf balls out of this dirty old water trap,
take ‘em back to the 10th hole the very next day, sell em back.
They built that bridge and all the grownups said, y’know no good will come.
Hell we didn’t know and we didn’t care, we were surfin in the sun.

We didn’t see it and you couldn’t have shown us, it was all a magic spell.
That’s just how we lived our lives, me and my friend Miguel.

I kinda lost my friend Miguel somewhere around 7th and D.
I guess I just got too old for him, maybe he was too young for me.
But we sure did some crazy things back when, in vacant lots and that old haunted house.
Stuff Miguel and I used to do back then, you sure couldn’t do now.
And I guess it don’t make me sad, I know you can’t go back,
that was then and this is now, that’s just a cold hard fact.

We didn’t know it and you couldn’t have told us, it was all a magic spell.
That’s just how we lived our lives, me and my friend Miguel.
I see it now and I understand it was all a magic spell.
That’s just how we lived our lives, me and my friend Miguel.
That’s how we lived our lives back then, me...and my friend Miguel.