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Oh Great Ocean

from Migrations by The Littlest Birds

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Dave: I wrote this simply plucking the notes on my cheap "Baja" cello on a remote beach along the Cortez side of the Pennisula. Inspired by the ocean and wildness of Baja, yet reaching back to the mountains of the Sierra of California and the north coast in Oh Great Tree... Looking for stories and answers in Nature I guess, but knowing that all I can ever "find" are illusions. These are things one must feel.

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Oh Great Ocean give me a melody
Oh Great Fire burn down to just the right key
Blue mountains always walking gently into the sea
Humans always talking what and why it should be
But there are no answers to all your questions now
All that you can find are only illusions yeah.

Oh Great River leave me in the valley now
Oh Great Valley leave me in the grass awhile
Clouds will march by like elephants
Thoughts will sing songs like birds
Words and words will come tumbling down
They'll roll right by without a sound
Oh Great Time give me a minute more
Gonna slip right back lay right down with my love some more.

Oh Great Tree tell me a story now
Oh Great Story pick me up don't let me down
Carry me out to an island
Drift me back inside a glass
Find me somewhere looking for myself
Find me someone to live with at last
Oh Great Coincidence you got my confidence
Oh Great Chaos will not betray us.

Repeat first verse, and Oh Great Time ...

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from Migrations, released October 14, 2011

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The Littlest Birds Laramie, Wyoming

The Littlest Birds is the banjo-driven music of and Sharon Martinson, performing both solo concerts and currently with several duo and trio configurations. "Think instrumental virtuosity balanced by a breezy, backwoods soul, music that is both intellectually stimulating and emotionally soothing."
- Dan Bolles, Seven Days Weekly, Burlington VT, 2011
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