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International Songwriter, summer of love

carousel house band members playing a saxophone

International songwriter is a project devised by the Carousel House Band (UK) in collaboration with Resonaari special music school (Finland) Both groups are comprised of artists with learning disabilities / complex support needs and are supported by music facilitators.

At this point in the collaboration we had jointly composed chords and melodies for a verse, chorus and bridge. It now seemed like the right time to think about adding lyrics. We had found the reggae genre had given the piece a summer feel. As we were coming up to the summer months the Carousel House Band decided they would like to write lyrics about the things they love about summer. We wanted the song to be about something Resonaari group would relate too, everyone loves a summer holiday! We sent the lyrics to them and waited to see what they thought

 

Summer Of  Love   

Verse 1

Summer holidays are here

I’m feeling happy as a breeze

We’re feeling all relaxed

Wind is blowing in the trees

 

Chorus

Swimming in the sea

Eating ice cream

Watching the sun go down

Being together

 

Verse 2

Everybody’s being jolly

Summer jazz on the beach

Eating donuts in the sun

Stepping in the sand

 

Chorus

Swimming in the sea

Eating ice cream

Watching the sun go down

Being together

 

Bridge

I spent summer at the beach      

It was sunny and hot           

Then i fell for you                    

And i bought you ice cream

 

And we laid at sun

And we swam in the sea              

Just we together

Growing old together

 

Verse 3

Everybody’s having fun

Laughing, Camping, B-B-Q’s

Dancing in the Sand

Summer Music on the beach

 

Chorus

Swimming in the Sea,

Eating Ice Cream

Watching the sun go down

Being together