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Mañana is the first song I recorded using BIAB. I was sick last year and unable to write or record anything for over 8 months so when I started getting better I decided I wanted a fresh start with everything.
I reformatted my computer to windows 10, installed a new DAW, (Reaper) and added BIAB to my studio collection. My entire work flow was alien and new to me.

The origin of the song came from the tv show "Treme". One of the characters was explaining how things worked in New Orleans and said; "around here, mañana doesn't mean tomorrow, it just means not today". I loved the line and wrote this song around that idea.

I lost the majority of my singing range to throat treatments I had recently received and wrote the vocal parts with my lack of range in mind. It's not a great song or recording but it got me back in to the studio and for that I am forever grateful.

The arrangement is all BIAB except for my vocals. I mixed and produced in Reaper. I did the song in January and have since been able to finish another six songs. My voice is back to about 60% of what it used to be and getting stronger all the time. Thanks for checking it out and I hope you enjoy it.



Mañana
word and music by Jim Gear

Look at you
With no shirt and no shoes
Working on a nut brown tan

Your lizard like skin
Hides a devil within
The consumate American ex-patriot man

Mañana doesn't mean tomorrow
Mañana means just not today
If gotta bottle your sorrows
Take all your tomorrows
Mañana, Mañana away

Look at her
With her diamonds and fur
Trying so hard to fit in

A Renaissance girl
All alone in the world
Thinking 'bout the people
And the places she's been

Mañana doesn't mean tomorrow
Mañana means just not today
If gotta bottle your sorrows
Take all your tomorrows
Mañana, Mañana away

Look at them
Together again
At the end of the bar

Drinking cold gin
They're gettin high again
Kinda make you wonder
How they made it this far

Mañana doesn't mean tomorrow
Mañana means just not today
If gotta bottle your sorrows
Take all your tomorrows
Mañana, Mañana away

Mañana doesn't mean tomorrow
Mañana means just not today
If gotta bottle your sorrows
Take all your tomorrows
Mañana, Mañana away

If you can't face your tomorrows
Replace all your sorrows
Mañana, Mañana away

****** Song Summary *************
Title: Mañana
File:Manana.SGU
Key=C , Tempo 110, Length (m:s)=2:04
No intro. 53 bar chorus, from bar 1 to bar 53. Repeat x1 chorus
No Melody
No Soloist track.
Song is saved with Volume, Pan, Reverb, Chorus, Bank0,
Style is _NOVEL.STY (Novel Singer-Songwriter)

RealTracks in style: ~683:Bass, Electric, PopHalfNotesPush Ev 120
RealTracks in song: 1264:Piano, Acoustic, Rhythm PopShiningA-B Ev 120
RealTracks in style: 2933:Guitar, Acoustic, Fingerpicking SongwriterFolkSlapQuinn Ev 120
RealTracks in song: 2670:Pedal Steel, Background HippieTrainEddy Ev 110
RealTracks in song: ~522:Guitar, Acoustic, Fingerpicking Ev 120
RealTracks in song: 2855:Harmonica, Background CountrySwingJellyRoll Sw 120
RealDrums in Song:CountryTrain: a: Brushes Soft b: Brushes Hard

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