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Nice To Be Here -- Ray Thomas

Guest poem sent in by Don Case
(Poem #1924) Nice To Be Here
 Nice to be here hope you agree
 Lying in the sun
 Lovely weather, must climb a tree
 The show has just begun

 All the leaves start swaying
 To the breeze that's playing
 On a thousand violins
 And the bees are humming
 To a frog sat strumming
 On a guitar with only one string

 I can see them they can't see me
 I feel out of sight
 I can see them they can't see me
 Much to my delight

 And it seems worth noting
 Water rats were boating
 As a lark began to sing
 The sounds kept coming
 With Jack Rabbit loudly drumming
 On the side of a biscuit tin

 I can see them they can't see me
 I feel out of sight
 I can see them they can't see me
 Much to my delight

 Silver minnows were devising
 Water ballet so surprising
 A mouse played a daffodil
 A mole came up blinking
 Underneath an owl who's thinking
 How he came to be sat on a hill

 I can see them they can't see me
 I feel out of sight
 I can see them they can't see me
 Much to my delight

 I know you won't believe me
 But I'm certain that I did see
 A mouse playing daffodil
 All the band was really jumping
 With Jack Rabbit in there thumping
 I found that I couldn't sit still
 I just had to make it with them
 Cause they played my kind of rhythm
 And the bees hummed in harmony
 And the owl played his oboe
 Then the frog's guitar solo
 It was all just too much for me

 I know you won't believe me
 But I'm certain that I did see
 A mouse playing daffodil
 All the band was really jumping
 With Jack Rabbit in there thumping
 I found that I couldn't sit still
-- Ray Thomas
   (of the Moody Blues)

Note: From the album Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, 1971

This song has always been uplifting to me even out of the context of the
album.  In the album it follows "One More Time To Live" by John Lodge, a
heavy song musically. Then this light hearted melody comes on and delivers
the twinkle in the eye of Mother Earth that is longed for. The Moody Blues
have made some great albums and this one deserves a listen.

Don Case

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Wikipedia on the Moody Blues:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moody_Blues

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