This song is one in a collection of songs from the long-awaited 2015 release of Chet Nichols' CD, "Beetles Are Coming", which includes ALL-NEW HD/HiFi-quality restoration, re-mixing and re-mastered tracks from Chet's ground-breaking first album, "Time Loop".
Please support this independent artist and purchase the music tracks available here to add to your personal music library.
Signed copies of this CD are available upon request.
lyrics
"Water Sand Castles"
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Lyrics and Music by Chet Nichols
Copyright 1969/2015 by Chet Nichols (ASCAP) & Magic Garage Music (ASCAP)
http://www.chetnichols.net. * chet@chetnichols.net
magicgaragemusic@protonmail.com
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
VERSE 1
Singing salted sailors
Sleeping on the decks
The whales have all gone down
To the lower depths
Many seas to follow through
Many sailor's bait to pass
Hoping that the moon and the sky
Will cover up my past
REFRAIN
My first love was a fairy tale
The days were our ship
Daily we would sail
My first love was a summer tale
The sun was our ship
Daily we would sail
CHORUS
Water sand castles
Build new ones
Let the old ones die away
Water sand castles
Build new ones
Let them fall to the spray
VERSE 2
Diana, she's a goddess
She sails an ivory jammer
Likes to sail in hurricanes
Through wind, water and clamour
We bathed together
'Neath a high waterfall
We dove from cliff to sea
When we heard the siren's call
from Beetles Are Coming,
released January 1, 2023
Lyrics & Music to all songs by Chet Nichols
Instrumentation and vocals by Chet Nichols
Produced & Recorded by Stephen Barncard
Recorded at Wally Heider's Studio in San Francisco, CA
finished at the International House of Cubes in Sebastopol, CA.
houseofcubes.com
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