Another Belated Alice Day

[catsittingstill]

So I should have put this up last week but I was too busy having fun at MarCon, which was great! And I did this one in my set and was asked later if it would be an Alice Day song and I did promise, so here it is.

Be aware I recorded it in mp3 format by mistake, which means it came out of Audacity kind of noisy--I would have done better to record it in wav but I was so happy with this performance I decided to go with it. It sounds kind of windy to me, but still recognizable.

The Quetico mentioned here, is Quetico Provincial Park in Canada--a veritable canoe paradise where Patience and I spent a week with my family summer before last.

Quetico  mp3 is here
lyrics and melody by Catherine Faber 2011

Chiseled out by glaciers in the land of long ago
Where the loons slide in to landing, in the sunset's molten glow
She has called to me all winter, from beneath the ice and snow
Quetico,                    Quetico

You may see the moose and martin as down to drink they steal
Or the snapping turtle sulking seven feet beneath your keel
And the Stellar's Jays come jostling when the food bag you unstow
Quetico,         Quetico

By the molten gold of sunrise are the western treetops kissed,
While the lake is like a mirror in a shawl of shade and mist
And my heart fills up with silence in the only prayer I know
Quetico--        Quetico

Dry and clean and empty, my canoe lies in her den
When her hull is kissed by water, she will wake and live again
When our exile's term is over, we will grab our gear and go
Quetico---         Quetico
Quetico---         Quetico 

I have several more songs to put up--I would stop writing for a while to let Alice Day catch up except I don't want to do that, so I'm building up a backlog for those times when I'm not feeling creative.