A little folk song from ‘Taken by the Enemy’

This is a freebie because I don’t think it quite works on any of the blog hops I’ve been participating in, but I wanted to share it and since it’s BookBub week for ‘Security Binds Her’ I need some solid distraction so I don’t freak out. There’s a scene in ‘Taken by the Enemy’ where our heroine, Emmie, gets drunk and starts to sing. I wanted her to sing a folk-type song but couldn’t find one I liked… so I wrote one.

Here it is (it helps if you sing it like you’re drunk, at least, it helped me when I was writing it!)

“Oh, once I was a little blackbird,

a merry blackbird was I.

I flew o’er hills, and I flew o’er seas,

and I flew free where my wings took me.

Yet, wherever I went,

no matter how the time spent,

I never could feel alive.

Cause wherever I went,

in the rain or the sun,

no one ever flew beside me.

 

Then one day I flew o’er

a sweet little house,

and I heard a voice call to me.

Oh little black bird, please come sing for me,

so I settled at her window.

Now you might ask,

how a girl made me happier,

than the wind and all of the trees?

But I say you never met a lass such as this,

and by golly, how she could kiss!”