2025 Competition Entry:
Bluebird Say by David Gillis
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Genre
Folk
Artist
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Co-writer(s)
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Performer(s)
– Acoustic Guitar, E-Bow & Vocals – David Gillis
– Bass – Russ Boswell
– Drums – Davide Direnzo
– Organ, Keys & Effects – Kevin Breit
– Arco Bass Cellos – Viktor Krauss
– Recorded by Cory Barnes
– Bass – Russ Boswell
– Drums – Davide Direnzo
– Organ, Keys & Effects – Kevin Breit
– Arco Bass Cellos – Viktor Krauss
– Recorded by Cory Barnes
Description
About a dark time (health-wise) in my life.
Bio
David Gillis has won awards as a guitarist, a songwriter and most recently, as a producer.
David won the 2016 CFMA, “Producer of the Year” Award for the Juno nominated Corin Raymond record, “Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams” – and was nominated for the Ariana Gillis record – “To Make It Make Sense” . David also produced Ariana Gillis’ 2012 release, “Forget Me Not” which received great critical acclaim from Bernie Taupin and enormous accolades from the dean of American music critics, Rolling Stone editor, David Marsh as well as Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computers.
David is the recipient of the 2004 Colleen Peterson Song-writing Award and was featured in the American guitar publication known as “Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine”. David has played dozens of North American festivals and several times as a main stage performer at the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society in Nashville.
• Winner of the Gamble Rogers Fingerstyle Guitar Competition
• Placed “Top Five” in the 2007 International Fingerstyle Guitar Competition, Winfield, Kansas.
David won the 2016 CFMA, “Producer of the Year” Award for the Juno nominated Corin Raymond record, “Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams” – and was nominated for the Ariana Gillis record – “To Make It Make Sense” . David also produced Ariana Gillis’ 2012 release, “Forget Me Not” which received great critical acclaim from Bernie Taupin and enormous accolades from the dean of American music critics, Rolling Stone editor, David Marsh as well as Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computers.
David is the recipient of the 2004 Colleen Peterson Song-writing Award and was featured in the American guitar publication known as “Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine”. David has played dozens of North American festivals and several times as a main stage performer at the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society in Nashville.
• Winner of the Gamble Rogers Fingerstyle Guitar Competition
• Placed “Top Five” in the 2007 International Fingerstyle Guitar Competition, Winfield, Kansas.
Lyrics
I felt a wind blow through,
the wind blew through my little room, my little room.
And though the day was through,
The day went by gone with the light, the day was through.
And the deep cold too,
Right through the bone, so cold it was, through and through.
Bluebird singing, what did it say?
Bluebird singing, I heard you say, what did you say? I heard you say.
A crack of light came through,
The smallest crack of light came through my little room
And then I knew, I knew
What little green was left, in me, that little grew.
Bluebird singing, what did you say?
Bluebird singing, I heard you say, what did you say? I heard you say.
Instrumental…
I felt the sun shine too,
So warm I knew that it was new, that it was new.
Then all the light burst through, completely through and through,
the light burst through my little room…
…and it was you.
Bluebird singing, what did you say?
Bluebird singing, I heard you say, what did you say? I heard you say.
the wind blew through my little room, my little room.
And though the day was through,
The day went by gone with the light, the day was through.
And the deep cold too,
Right through the bone, so cold it was, through and through.
Bluebird singing, what did it say?
Bluebird singing, I heard you say, what did you say? I heard you say.
A crack of light came through,
The smallest crack of light came through my little room
And then I knew, I knew
What little green was left, in me, that little grew.
Bluebird singing, what did you say?
Bluebird singing, I heard you say, what did you say? I heard you say.
Instrumental…
I felt the sun shine too,
So warm I knew that it was new, that it was new.
Then all the light burst through, completely through and through,
the light burst through my little room…
…and it was you.
Bluebird singing, what did you say?
Bluebird singing, I heard you say, what did you say? I heard you say.
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