A friend, Cecily Pearce, has started a songwriting challenge called Forest Of Songs. Those involved are writing a song a week for the next 10 weeks, with the idea of getting sponsorship towards planting a tree for every song that is written. I’ve jumped on board at the last minute, and haven’t got anything sorted yet for sponsorship. But it’s a lovely idea, brings some beautiful people together across bandwidth and time, and gets some brand new songs written. What could be better? Not very much I say!

Here’s the lyric and early video link (not a public one) to the first of my offerings. The idea for this song was as an introduction at a gig where nobody knows me.

Let me introduce myself to you
There is not just one of me
But two, or three, or four
Like you I do not like to be
Kept in a box
On the mantelpiece
Brought out sometimes 
For light relief
Or to do my job
Or to make the tea

There’s more to me than that
I’ve got more than that one flat cap
It’s true I do
Like being on my own
But hey, you got a party
In your home
Well please invite me do
I’ll be there
If I’m in the mood
Yeah yeah yeah

Let me introduce myself to you
I am usually known as Fee
Or Dave,  or David Fee 
Like you I sometimes seem to be
Somebody else
Other than me
A quaver short of
A melody
And maybe
That’s what’s troubling me

There’s more to me than that
I’ve got more than that one flat cap
It’s true I do
Like being on my own
But hey, you got a party
In your home
Well please invite me do
I’ll be there
If I’m in the mood
Yeah yeah yeah

So let me entertain you
With a song
I hope I do that                  
At least once and

Make you la -a a augh             
Maybe       cry y y y
Dre e e e eam
And wonder why 
That you feel the way you feel
And you do the things you do
Ooh ooh ooh

But there’s more to you than that
You don’t need me to tell you that
It’s true you do
Like singing on your own
But hey when there’s a party
In a home
We know that you’ll be there
If you’re in the mood
Yeah yeah yeah