Hunter’s Song

So I’ve been wanting to write Hunter’s Song for ages now. I had a song in mind starting with:

They call me Hunter
With my long slender body
And my…

It pretty much stopped there for a while. From time to time, the ideas would pick up again.

A few months ago, I finally put more words in and ended up with this:

They call me Hunter
But you won’t find a rabbit in my mouth
They say looks can kill but mine will break your heart
My long and slender (golden) body
And my oversized paws
There are no laws
When it comes to Hunter.

I always imagined it’d be sung in a Leonard Cohen-ish kind of way. Low. More spoken than sung.

But today, I was strumming around on my ukulele, and I just put stupid words down and made up a tune. It is not at all close to the idea that I started with.

So here is Hunter’s Song.

I’m not sure what the chords are: C-sharp, A flat and maybe F sharp?

And the lyrics are:

My hair is golden
My tail is long
My eyes don’t say much
But I’ll warm your soul

My gait is even
My ears are long
My head don’t hold much
But I’ll take the blues from you

I aim to please
But I don’t know what is
Would my wagging tail
Keep strong your heart?

My tongue is danglin’
My smile silent
My paws are good for miles
If they walk with you

On hindsight, it should have been “melt your soul” rather than “warm your soul”.

Overall, I’m not happy with the words. But it was done really fast and is different enough from Sumo’s Song and Leo’s Song.

I sang and played the tune on my new ukulele made by Allen McFarlen of Barron River Guitars. I went about double speed that it should have been sung at. Recorded with Audacity.