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The Caterpillar Easter Song
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A kids song designed for use in an Easter Service as a backdrop to a dramatic interpretation.
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Introducing the greatest talent ever to emerge from the orange bedroom at my parents house. I play guitar like.... well, like a guy playing guitar. I tickle ivories. I twiddle on the computer. I sometimes enjoy beans on toast for breakfast. And in the cracks between the eating, sleeping, laughing, crying, working, breathing experience that is my life there sometimes slips out songs like these.
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Genre
Pop • Christmas/Seasonal
Charts
#134 in subgenre Peak #2
Charts
Peak #138
Author
Adrian J Pratt
Rights
Adrian J Pratt 1990
Uploaded
January 20, 2024
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MP3 4.2 MB • 320 kbps • 1:51
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WAV 30.3 MB
Story behind the song
Happiest of Easter’s and springtime joys to all! A brief reflection on the Christian Easter message using the image of a caterpillar transforming intro a butterfly. I wrote this with an Easter service with kids’ participation in mind. I envisaged a small group of kids wriggling around in caterpillar costumes, then rising with bright butterfly wings and running up and down the aisles. Sadly, it’s never happened. Yet! I know there are some folks in congregations I’ve served who really would frown on the idea of children running up and down aisles. And they wonder why their congregation is not thriving? Some among the frozen chosen need to thaw. The arrangement is deliberately simplistic. I’m not trying to get airplay or create a hit here. But it could easily be played on piano, the musical breaks extended to allow for movement, and sung by a small children’s choir if any were looking for a brief Easter interlude in their celebratory services. I confess that I have tried to compose more relevant and ‘adult’ Easter songs, but the existing selection of hymns is rather intimidating. How does one come up with the kinds of words Wesley could produce or tunes of the caliber of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy?” Enjoy the coming of Spring and the promise of new life in whatever way brings you joy. For myself the message of resurrection is a powerfully transformative one, no matter how it is interpreted. And having been around theology for way too long there really are many ways of looking at the biblical accounts! Maybe it is better to stick with simple allegorical motifs such as butterflies.
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The Caterpillar Easter Song Adrian J Pratt 1990 Caterpillar crawling creeping pest Creature chewing cabbages That could have been my best Miserable creature, pointless little life Caterpillar crawling creeping blight. Caterpillar cocooned in chrysalis tomb Creature encased In a cold brittle womb Miserable creature, pointless little life, Caterpillar cocooned in chrysalis tomb. Butterfly bright, Wings unfurled Rises from the cocoon, Flies free in the world Miracle creature, renewed, reborn, Like resurrection hope on the first Easter morn. Butterfly bright, Wings unfurled Rises from the cocoon, Flies free in the world Miracle creature, renewed, reborn, Like resurrection hope on the first Easter morn.
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