A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You

A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You

Lyrics

Theresa's comments

Rockthrow used maracas when we performed live our version of the Monkees' "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You".

Unfortunately this was only played live and not recorded. Here is the Monkees' version

A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You

Lyrics

Walk out, girl, don'tcha walk out
We've got things to say
Talk out, let's have it talked out
And things will be okay

Girl, I don't want to fight
I'm a little bit wrong, and you're a little bit right
I said girl, you know that it's true
It's a little bit me, and it's a little bit you, too

Don't know just what I said wrong
But girl, I apologize
Don't go, here's where you belong
So wipe the tears from your eyes

Girl, I don't want to fight
I'm a little bit wrong, and you're a little bit right
I said girl, you know that it's true
It's a little bit me, and it's a little bit you, too

Oh girl, I don't want to fight
I'm a little bit wrong, and you're a little bit right
I said girl, you know that it's true
It's a little bit me, and it's a little bit you, too

It's a little bit me, it's a little bit you
Girl, I'm gone, no no no no no
Girl I'm gone, no no no no no
Hey, girl

It sounds like they are using a wood block (or hand claps) and a tambourine but Jamie used the maracas (little mini hand-painted things) that I brought home from St. Croix, VI. One of them came off the handle because they weren't made to stand up to the force Jamie was using. He felt really bad but I pointed out I still had one so no real problem.

In the photo is the remaining maraca and a weird little drum I brought home from Mexico.

How Can I Ever Say

How Can I Ever Say

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How can I ever say thanks to you for helping me along my way
How can I ever see thanks from you for helping me along my way
I'm watching over you from a window in a white cloud and say
I believe in you. Won't you please believe in me.

How can I ever say thanks to you for helping me along my way
How can I ever see thanks from you for helping me along my way
I'm watching over you from a window in a white cloud and say
I believe in you. Won't you please believe in me.

The party's over now, we're going home alone, face another day.

Theresa's comments

Usually we went into a studio with a plan because at $40 or $50 per hour, you can't fool around and wait for serendipity to find you. But one day we had finished up what we had planned and had some time left over. Kevin and I had been pressuring Jamie to come up with some songs because we wanted 13 from each of us for the "In the Vacuum of the Continuum" album.

Jamie said he had one song in mind. It was short and it was a piano piece. Jamie said he only had one verse but he had plans to write another. So he played the song with the first verse and then repeated the first verse again and then finished with the outro (opposite of intro). His plan was to redo the vocals once he wrote the second verse. But Kevin and I thought the song felt finished without any additional lyrics. I started singing a harmony part on the repeated verse and outro and Jamie liked that so I recorded that part over the original. We tweaked it a bit because Jamie wanted me to try something different and then we called it a song. It's one of my favorites of Jamie's songs. He and I sang it at my Mom's memorial service. He said he had written it about his Dad, after he died.

And we sang it at Kevin's memorial service too.