Name: Sittin On The Swing
Duration: 3 min 10 s
Channel: Bertram/Spayth
Description: A Ray Bertram & Glenn Spayth collaborative production

Sittin On The Swing

W. Ray Bertram

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A Ray Bertram & Glenn Spayth collaborative production

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W. Ray Bertram

Just me. Just songs.

I was born with an undiagnosable brain dysfunction, having seizures, and with blue skin dur to oxygen deprivation. I would spend much of my youth on strong, mind-altering medication, I would ultimately end up being declared fully disabled on psychiatric grounds, and I've had to be committed to five different psychiatric facilities in three different states. These days, the primary thrust of my overall creative efforts is the advocacy work that I seek to do for the mentally ill and the mentally disabled. These are my songs.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Country General

Peak in subgenre #173

Author

Bertram/Spayth

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Uploaded

September 21, 2012

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.9 MB • 128 kbps • 3:10

Story behind the song

I love sitting on our front porch swing - I frequently boast that it's the best seat in the house.  And our front porch is covered to where you can’t really see the sky overhead, but we have the prettiest trees all around us and I just love to gaze at them…or watch the dirt road…or the birds and other animals…or the children playing…as I slowly rock and swing back and forth.  I’ll go out and sit and work a lyric on my Palm Pilot, sit and read, sit and look, sit and think, or just sit…and I love it whenever the beautiful Mrs. Bertram looks out the window, sees me sitting there, and comes and sits by me on the porch swing - she really is the best company.  I guess this lyric is really straight from my days on a couple of different levels that way, because I was sitting on the porch swing and staring at the trees when those two lines came to me and I pretty much built the entire lyric around it.   I was very happy when my good friend Tennessee singer/songwriter/musician/producer Glenn Spayth picked it up.  With a little bit of work, Glenn produced the exact same song around it that I had been feeling in my head as I tossed the lines together...as I sat out there on the porch swing.

Lyrics

Just Sittin’ On The Swing 

Verse 1: 
The sun is goin’ down 
The day is gettin’ on 
Just like it seems to do 
Ever since you been gone 
It sure is quiet here 
And I’m sittin’ on the swing 
Out here on our front porch 
Remembrin’ ev’rything 

Chorus: 
And I’m just sittin’ on the swing 
Out here on the front porch 
Starin’ at the trees 
An' rockin’ back an’ forth 
I still miss you 
And I’d do anything 
To have you back here with me 
Just sittin’ on the swing 

Verse 2: 
I remember our first date 
So many years ago 
The day we go married 
An’ watchin’ our kids grow 
You always seemed so happy 
You loved to laugh n’ sing 
And I loved it when you sat 
With me on this porch swing 

Chorus: 
And I’m just sittin’ on the swing 
Out here on the front porch 
Starin’ at the trees 
An' rockin’ back an’ forth 
I still miss you 
And I’d do anything 
To have you back here with me 
Just sittin’ on the swing 

Verse 3: 
The flowers you planted 
Make me feel less alone
The look so pretty 
Out there on your headstone 

Chorus: 
And I’m just sittin’ on the swing 
Out here on the front porch 
Starin’ at the trees 
An' rockin’ back an’ forth 
I still miss you 
And I’d do anything 
To have you back here with me 
Just sittin’ on the swing 


(c) 2008 W. Ray Bertram, Glenn Spayth

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