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When I wrote this song, I hardly ever heard a song about Easter specifically. Halloween has its themes, Christmas has more songs about it than any other season, and of course, there's Happy Birthday. But Easter wasn't one I heard all that much, so I decided to come up with this little ditty, mostly aimed for kids to have fun hopping around and dancing to it. As I was writing this, I tried to imagine as if I were a 5 or 6 year old writing it, using that particular point of view.
I had to make a decision whether to record this in our professional studio, or take a two track demo I did where I played guitar with a scratch vocal and my dad playing the bass guitar. I opted to use the demo for overdubs, even though the recording was very inferior. I chose it mostly because the recording was satisfactory enough and it's a song my father was performing with me. To keep the flavor of the song intact, I decided to overdub everything in my home studio, like the lead and backing vocals, using a $10 computer microphone with a plastic cup covering my mouth, using it like a filter. I overdubbed the lead vocal 3 times, turning the cup in different directions each time, and proceeded to do the backing vocal nearly the same way. I also set up a traveler's drum set and overdubbed the drums. By doing all this, it gave the song a feel as if it were recorded back in the mid to late 50's, which was what I was shooting for. The song isn't perfect, but it's perfect for me, especially since it's another tune in which I can say my father played the bass with me on a recording. Thanks dad!

This is song #107.

Recorded at The CELL BLOCK Studio and MINE Music Studio in Auburn, WA.

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HAPPY EASTER IS WHAT I SAY.
COME ON CLOSER EVERYDAY.
WE'LL SKIP AND JUMP AND LOOK FOR TIME TO SPEND.
THEN WE'LL GET TOGETHER AND DO IT AGAIN.
WE'LL HAVE SOME FUN AS WE LOOK FOR THEM COLORED EGGS.

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL OF YOU.
LET ME SING TO RID YOUR BLUES.
LET US LIVE WITH LOVE TODAY.
THEN LET'S HAVE SOME FUN AND GO OUT AND PLAY.
THIS WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF OUR LIVES.

WHEN I SEE THE CHILDREN RUNNIN' ALL AROUND,
I FEEL SO HAPPY. IT'S A FEELING I HAVE FOUND.
AND IF YOU SAW THEIR FACES FILLED WITH DELIGHT,
THEN YOU KNOW THIS EASTER WILL BE ALL RIGHT.

NOW HAPPY EASTER TO YOU AND ME.
A HAPPY EASTER IS WHAT I SEE.
LET'S HUG AND HOLD EACH OTHER OH SO TIGHT,
AND SQUEEZE EACH OTHER WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT.
I LIKE THIS DAY BECAUSE IT'S FILLED WITH JOY AND LOVE.

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from LISTEN TO THE SILENT SNOW [Digitally Remastered], released December 13, 2015
Wayde K. Brown

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I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs. ... more

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