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Beautiful Emu

from Songs for Grownups Volume 3 by Jay Ackley

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This was the only song I wrote during the first 2 years of the pandemic. I would go jogging in Prospect Park and I would pass by the zoo and there were always these two goofy emus hanging out in the mornings and I started singing to them one day and sometimes they would come over and hang out while I did that. That meant a lot to me. Babs Laco (keyboard player for Current Ex) features on synthesizer, and if you go to The Emerson in Clinton Hill on a Saturday night she'll kick your ass at backgammon.

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Beautiful emu
I run to see you
You look animatronic
But you’re faster than sonic
Eyes devil-red
Weird shit on your head
I hope you have a good day

Greeny and Wiggy
Are the names they could give me
But I think you’re hiding
Names much more exciting
What words you would speak
Strange verbs from your beak
I hope you have a good day

I have nothing to offer
No coins for your coffers
Just friendship and song
I hope we get along
I’ll take only one feather
And forever remember
Our times by your pen
I hope we meet again

Beautiful emu
I run to see you
I hope you have a good day

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from Songs for Grownups Volume 3, released December 1, 2023
Casio CZ1000: Babs Laco
currentex.bandcamp.com/music

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Minnesotan in Brooklyn by way of London; having a sing-song through the dystopia.

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