My Happy Days
Although I didn’t really appreciate it at the time, some of my happiest childhood memories are the summers we spent on the farm. I would be grateful for any feedback, as always. Lyrics are as follows:
Singing in the choir, Sunday morning church
Always a roast dinner served at one
Living in the country on a farm just out of town
Didn’t know it then but life was good
Riding on the trailers, bouncing down the fields
Picking up the bales of fresh mown hay
Bringing home the harvest, a race against the rain
If I could turn back time just for a day
We’d take a walk down Baseley Moor
Paddle in the stream once more
Pick daisies in the meadows where the cattle graze
Picnic on the bales of hay
Build a house where we all could play
Those were the summers, my happy childhood days
Those were the summers, my happy childhood days
Many long, warm evenings, wandering down the hill
Passing fields of barley on the way
Swinging on the gates, everything a game
If I could turn back time just for a day
We’d take a walk down Baseley Moor
Paddle in the stream once more
Pick daisies in the meadows where the cattle graze
Picnic on the bales of hay
Build a house where we all could play
Those were the summers, my happy childhood days
Those were the summers, my happy childhood days (x 2)
Love those images Anne. Lovely verse melody and then a cracking chorus. Really enjoyed that 👏👏
Aw lovely.
I can imagine a children’s choir singing this
This is dreamily good! Nice harmony work. Has a childlike quality even though it’s from an Adults perspective looking back. Great job Ann.
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Lovely Anne. Great happy memories.
Lovely dreamy harmonies matching the happy memories feel of the song. Like it.
Dreamy idyllic imagery. Sweet song
Lovely song Anne
Playing with the hay bales. Gosh that brings back memories. None of us seemed to get hay fever back then either.
Nice harmonies too! 😉👍
What a fantastic sound! Absolutely beautiful song – as perfect as a happy childhood day. Really beautiful and engaging – loved the harmonies – so lovely to share your memory with you. Loved the pictures too.
Right up my street, that one! Fab, Anne. 🙂
What a lovely set of images, I recognise many of them from my childhood. It builds really well.
Really pretty harmonies. Very soothing and lovely.
Lovely song Anne, very nostalgic. I used to spend a lot of my Summers in the Country at my Grandparents. Nice sing along chorus and lovely harmonies
Lovely and dreamy.
Lovely that, Anne. Brought back memories of bale carting with mates in the school hols. Did we really do that for tuppence (2d) a bale?!
Lovely summery feel to reflect the lyrics, love the lift in the chorus and really lovely harmonies. Lovely country style which I love.
Brilliant Ann, lovely evocative lyrics, and I adore that Am to D progression in the chorus, lifts the whole mood before heading back to the melody.
Very nicely done Ann
Love this Ann – such a pretty melody and as Kyle says that chord shift in the chorus is magic.
You can feel the dreamy summer days right through this, fab!
There’s a gorgeous lilt to this Anne and your voice and production are delicate and tender. Lovely 😊.