From the recording The Waving Prairie - 1973

Chet NIchols - Music & lyrics and all instruments

Lyrics

“Red Tide”
Music and Lyric by Chet Nichols (ASCAP)
Copyright 1969/1971/2015/2020 by Chet Nichols (ASCAP) & Chet Nichols Creative Services (Magic Garage Music Division): Publisher (ASCAP)
URL: http://www.chetnichols.net
Email: chet@chetnichols.net
Email: MagicGarageMusic@protonmail.com
Email: ChetNichols@me.com
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

GUITAR TUNING

1 2 3 4 5 6
E B A E A E

VERSE 1.
Water rips and flows beneath my stance
The water strains to show me heat
It tries to comfort and embrace
Sand rips and flows between my feet

Red tide makes the night the day
Naked aqua children play
Splashing life as we swim
Red tide makes the night the day

The sea is full of stars
The stars are full of life
The sea’s the sky
The sky’s the sea

Give me dreams love, bread and wine
Makes the days go by so fine
I’ll butter your love
You toast my dreams
We’ll do it up right
The bulging will be slight
Why ruin a perfect flight

VERSE 2.
He asked me where we came from
“just watch that wave there breaking”
Creation’s in its middle years
And history’s only faking
Red tide makes the night the day
Naked aqua children play
Their smiles out glow the shining tide
Celebration ‘tween the sea, the sky, my eye

The sea is full of stars
Hovering sky’s a sea
The sea’s the sky
The sky’s the sea
The sea’s the sky
The sea’s the sky
The sky’s the sea
Life is shining to me
Life is shining to me
Life is shining to me

Give me dreams love bread and wine
Make the days go by so fine
I’ll butter your love
You toast my dreams
We’ll do it up right
The bulging will be slight
Why ruin a perfect flight

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Copyright © 1969/1971/2015/2020 ® by Chet Nichols (ASCAP) & Chet Nichols Creative Services (Magic Garage Music Division): Publisher (ASCAP)

All US and Global Rights are reserved. This song or any portion thereof (lyrics, music, samples, vocals) may not be reproduced in any form or media, distributed, transmitted, downloaded, shared or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the writer and the publisher.

For permission requests, write to the publisher at:
MagicGarageMusic@gmail.com
Or addressed to:
"Attention: Permissions Coordinator, (at the address below)
Chet Nichols/Magic Garage Music, PO Box 2398, Northbrook, IL 60065”
http://www.chetnichols.net.

More information at:
http://www.chetnichols.net
http://chetnichols.bandcamp.com
Email: MagicGarageMusic@protonmail.com


AND

“Lady, Oh, Lady”
Music and Lyric by Chet Nichols (ASCAP)
Copyright 1971/2018 by Chet Nichols (ASCAP) & Chet Nichols Creative Services (Magic Garage Music Division): Publisher (ASCAP)
URL: http://www.chetnichols.net
Email: chet@chetnichols.net
Email: MagicGarageMusic@protonmail.com
Email: ChetNichols@me.com
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

“A butterfly speaks with a beautiful lady and convinces her to trade places…”

Lady, oh, lady
Care for dreams of butterflies?
Give you the dreams
And their velvet wings
To wear you’re hair
To know your heart
To love your lover
When the day gets dark

Would it be nice
To drop on
Every flower that you see?
Play with me
Come trade with me
Drink from the cup
Then lay back
You can see
You can see

And now that I am you
And you are me
Together and forever
That’s the way it must be
The cup has no cure
That’s part of its lure
Close
Close

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Copyright © 1971/2018 ® by Chet Nichols (ASCAP) & Chet Nichols Creative Services (Magic Garage Music Division): Publisher (ASCAP)

All US and Global Rights are reserved. This song or any portion thereof (lyrics, music, samples, vocals) may not be reproduced in any form or media, distributed, transmitted, downloaded, shared or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the writer and the publisher.

For permission requests, write to the publisher at:
MagicGarageMusic@gmail.com
Or addressed to:
"Attention: Permissions Coordinator, (at the address below)
Chet Nichols/Magic Garage Music, PO Box 2398, Northbrook, IL 60065”
http://www.chetnichols.net.

More information at:
http://www.chetnichols.net
http://chetnichols.bandcamp.com
Email: MagicGarageMusic@protonmail.com