Words and music copyright 2000, 2014 by Ben Gadd. First performed at Jasper Elementary School, Dec 20th 2000, after he had finished reading a draft of his novel Raven’s End to the grade-five students.
(His voice and guitar-playing are terrible, but perhaps you could learn the tune and do a better job on it.)
Start with the chorus
A G D A
Colin has feathers, and all of them black
A G D A
Wings to fly far and to carry him back
A G D A
Colin has eyes of a beautiful brown
Bm E
And he looks down to you on the ground
Bm E
And he calls out to you with this sound (Croak! Croak!)
G D A
Fly with me!
G D A
Fly with me!
G A D G D
Fly in the sky with me—e—e
Now these two verses, with no chorus between them
1.
D G A D
Colin, oh Colin, where did you come from
D G A D
Who was your father, and who was your mum
D G A D
You couldn’t remember the tumbling game
G A
Or even your very own name
G A D
Or even your very own name
2.
D G A D
But Colin grew wiser and Colin grew strong
D G A D
He flew very high and he flew very long
D G A D
He found all the answers he’d been searching for
G A
And he found out very much more
G A D
He found out very much more
Now the chorus, and repeat the second part of it (“Fly with me!”),
ending with a loud “Rawk-a-taw!”
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