Amy Carol Webb: Music
Anhinga Roost
(Amy Carol Webb)
© 2008, Amy Carol Webb (Different Stripes Music, ASCAP)
New Year’s day at Dale Crider’s amazing homestead on Newnan’s Lake! A walk in the woods with Dale can stretch your legs, expand your mind, grow your heart, settle your soul … change your life. Sweet grass, turkey tail tea, cypress knees, eagles, egrets and exceptional friends. Life is surely good at Dale’s place out in the woods! ACW: Guitar, vocals • Valerie C. Wisecracker: Banjo • Grant Livingston: Vocals • Marie Nofsinger: Vocals • Visit Dale Crider, Florida’s Environmental Troubadour, at: www.anhingaroost.net
Dale said don’t bring a cat
Cuz it just might be a snack
For the critters round my house that call it home
I’ve got skinks and snakes and gators
We share wild mushrooms and potatoes
You just think I’m livin’ out here all alone
I park my boots at Anhinga Roost
Where it’s me and my guitar and ancient Indian canoes
I’ve got water, earth and air
And music playin’ everywhere
I park my boots at Anhinga Roost
Dale said my life is good
On Neunan’s Lake out in the woods
The slender oaks and pines hung thick with tender moss
It’s walkin’ through the cypress knees
I can hear God in the trees
And when the waters rise mamma earth shows who’s the boss
I park my boots at Anhinga Roost
Where it’s me and my guitar and ancient Indian canoes
Every plank is one I built
For my house here up on stilts
I park my boots at Anhinga Roost
Dale said come walk with me
For just an hour or two or three
We’ll sit out on a stump and pick and wail
And I’ll tell you of the day
Two doe stopped to hear me play
Till I banged some rock and roll and they ran like hell
I park my boots at Anhinga Roost
Where it’s me and my guitar and ancient Indian canoes
With tales told on the wind
And songs sung by my friends
I park my boots at Anhinga Roost
My paradise is Anhinga Roost