Here is a song by Christine Lavin inspired by my recent firefly story. It is available for two days on her web site (and will resurface this fall on her next CD).
I think this is the second or third time a musician has riffed on something I’ve written. Listen, for example, to this darker tune based on the wasp that’s also a brain surgeon.
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July 20th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
A really cute song, creme de la Lavin.
Alas, the download (”keep”) option doesn’t work in Firefox 3.5.1 … but Safari 4.0 grabs it with ease!
July 21st, 2009 at 10:49 am
[...] Zimmer of the blog The Loom is offering a song by Christine Lavin inspired by his recent firefly story. It is available for [...]
July 26th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
My budding song-writing wife was inspired to another firefly ditty (previous at http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/06/29/fireflies-the-invertebrate-opera/#comment-19624).
Twinkle, twinkle, little ass
I see you flicker in the grass
Love light shining from your butt
Shimmy, shake your glow-worm scut
Twinkle, twinkle, little ass
I see you flicker in the grass
Not quite up to Christine Lavin’s standards, yet.