I Save My Mind For Music

I SAVE MY MIND FOR MUSIC by Annie

Hello, what’s your name?
No need to search my brain,
Can’t remember names and places.
But I’m awfully good with faces.
Can’t remember where we met,
So many things I do forget.
But one thing I love the best,
Makes me feel good and it’s just

I save my mind for music.
I fill up all the spaces
With melodies I’m learning.
All day my brain is churning.
With each tune my mind is tracing
Every note of it I’m placing,
With all my fingers racing
Just to find those notes I’m chasing.

Before I learn them all by heart,
I get lost in just one part.
I think I’ll nearly have a fit
If I don’t get the hang of it.

At last I solve the riddle.
I can play it on my fiddle.
And then perhaps for half a day
It’s the only tune I wanna play.

It creeps in underneath my skin.
I feel like I’m in love again.
Then I always want another
after I have learned the other.

Oh, there’s never ending
Of the time that I’ll be spending,
So I’ll always try to be quick,
Maintaining all my mind for music.

Now perhaps you’ll see just why
My mind is always in the sky.
Forgive me my forgetful way,
cause in my mind the music Plays.….

Just as sailboats need the breeze,
As circus needs the high trapeze,as
Frenchmen need their wine and cheese....
Me, I just need melodies. Me, I just need melodies.
Me, I just need melodies that please me..

(C)1999 BWI Ann Mayo Muir