King Quail- A Song for my Father* Contest Entry #138

I wrote this song about my father in response to a songwriting challenge in Marya Stark's Voice of my Womb Rose Petalled Path course.

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The challenge was to ask a question and then choose 3 random books and open to 3 random pages and see what they say when you open them.

Then,we're to collect these messages as an oracular response to our question, and then write a song about it.

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Well, I chose to ask a question about love, since I had arrived to my Dad's house for safe harbor in CA after leaving my partner and home.

I was nursing a broken heart and figuring out my next steps in life..

I wanted to know more about what real love felt like. So I asked the books to show me about how to mend my hearbreak and went to my Father's library and opened them.

First, I opened to a book on native plants and animals of the Bay Area, CA. It was a page about the 'King Quail' and how protective male birds are of their eggs in the nest.

I thought of familial love and it's protectiveness and how it's such a powerful force.

I'd been walking in the mornings with my Father on his favorite trail on the Carquinez Straight since I started visiting, and it's been so healing.

So I decided to write about that.

The second book I opened to was an advice column book. I opened to a page with advice to an older 37 year old woman (which was a synchronicity since i'm 37) about how once you're not able to reproduce and have children as easily, romance and sexuality becomes rechanneled for other creative means.

So I wove this aspect into the song as well, as my release into the creek and waters my lost loves and lost expectations of having my own family.

Finally, I opened a self help book to a practice about limiting beliefs, and how to go through the process of trying to prove them to be true until we realize they're not.

So I wrote about this at the end of the song, and about how I really need the kind of love my Father provides when we walk through the woods.

Quiet companionship and commitment, protectiveness, and kinship. And thus, King Quail was born.

As I practiced, my sister Meg developed harmonies to the song, and everyone in the family including the kids learned the words.

My sister and I recorded ourselves singing the song at a magickal oak tree inside of a labyrinth in the oak woodlands near the George Miller.

It's become a treasured song for us, and we started a whole music project around the song called 'Wren'.

Little did I know that I'd be swept away on tour with Kin of Merlin and end up here in the PNW Rainforests of Cascadia as land steward for a time while I work on my new album 'Celtic Knots'

One day, next time I go back home, I wanna record King Quail with my Father and my Sister. I can't wait to reunite with my sister and sing with her again.

Until then, King Quail swims in my heart with bittersweet fondness of my recent time walking with Dad in the woods, and it's a stern reminder to stick to my standards and not give away my love so easily to men who won't walk in the woods with me.

Here are the lyrics:

King Quail, King Quail
Tell me a fairytale about love
About love

King Quail, King Quail
Tell me a fairytale about love
About love

I was called by the quail
to walk along the George Miller trail
Misty Morning
Owl cried a call
And I remember it all

I remember it all

King Quail King Quail
Tell me a Fairytale
About Love
About Love

King Quail, King Quail
Tell me a Fairytale
About Love
About Love

I'm much older now
I've seen the oak
rise and fall

I've walked this path
for miles and miles
and I never go it alone

Cuz I know the fox
is following my trail
That my father's love
was the first that was real

And if I wanna die
Happy and free
Just lay me down
underneath
the bay laurel tree

King Quail, King Quail
Tell me a fairytale about love
About love

King Quail, King Quail
Tell me a fairytale about love
about love

I'll return the tears i've shed
from lost love into the creek
I'll release all of my worries
Till i remember I am me

Like the newt and the frog
and the hovering coopers hawk
putting mugwort in my hair
feel the water in the air
lupin seed and woodland star
hear coyote from afar

till i realize
my limited belief
that love was something
physical to me

cuz if you
cant walk
and you wont wait
you'll never know
Carquinez Straight

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SPANISH:

Escribí esta canción sobre mi padre en respuesta a un reto de composición del curso La Voz de mi Vientre Camino de Pétalos de Rosa de Marya Stark.

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El reto consistía en hacer una pregunta y luego elegir 3 libros al azar y abrir 3 páginas al azar y ver lo que dicen al abrirlas.

Luego, tenemos que recoger estos mensajes como una respuesta oracular a nuestra pregunta, y luego escribir una canción sobre ello.

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Bueno, elegí hacer una pregunta sobre el amor, ya que había llegado a la casa de mi padre para un puerto seguro en California después de dejar a mi pareja y mi casa.

Yo estaba cuidando un corazón roto y averiguar mis próximos pasos en la vida ..

Quería saber más sobre cómo se sentía el verdadero amor. Así que le pedí a los libros que me mostraran cómo reparar mi corazón roto y fui a la biblioteca de mi Padre y los abrí.

Primero abrí un libro sobre plantas y animales autóctonos de la bahía de California. Había una página sobre la "codorniz rey" y sobre lo protectores que son los machos de sus huevos en el nido.

Pensé en el amor familiar, en su carácter protector y en que es una fuerza tan poderosa.

Desde que empecé a visitarlo, he estado caminando por las mañanas con mi padre por su sendero favorito en el estrecho de Carquinez, y ha sido muy curativo.

Así que decidí escribir sobre ello.

El segundo libro que abrí era una columna de consejos. Abrí una página con consejos para una mujer mayor de 37 años (lo cual fue una sincronicidad, ya que yo tengo 37) sobre cómo, una vez que no eres capaz de reproducirte y tener hijos tan fácilmente, el romance y la sexualidad se canalizan hacia otros medios creativos.

Así que tejí este aspecto en la canción también, como mi liberación en el arroyo y las aguas de mis amores perdidos y las expectativas perdidas de tener mi propia familia.

Por último, abrí un libro de autoayuda con una práctica sobre las creencias limitantes y cómo pasar por el proceso de intentar demostrar que son ciertas hasta que nos damos cuenta de que no lo son.

Así que escribí sobre esto al final de la canción, y sobre cómo realmente necesito el tipo de amor que mi Padre me proporciona cuando caminamos por el bosque.

Compañerismo tranquilo y compromiso, protección y parentesco. Y así nació el Rey Codorniz.

Mientras practicaba, mi hermana Meg desarrolló las armonías de la canción, y todos los miembros de la familia, incluidos los niños, aprendieron la letra.

Mi hermana y yo nos grabamos cantando la canción en un roble mágico dentro de un laberinto en el bosque de robles cerca de George Miller.

Se ha convertido en un tesoro para nosotras.

Un día, la próxima vez que vuelva a casa, quiero grabar King Quail con mi padre.

Hasta entonces, nadará en mi corazón con el agridulce cariño de mi reciente paseo con papá por el bosque, y es un severo recordatorio de que debo atenerme a mis normas y no regalar mi amor tan fácilmente a hombres que no quieren pasear por el bosque conmigo.

Traducción realizada con la versión gratuita del traductor www.DeepL.com/Translator



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I really like King Quail! I'm a fan of guitar music and I liked the way you and your sister crafted the chords and played the tune. The lyrics are moving, as they describe a father's love and the healing power of nature. You both sang beautifully.

Thanks for sharing this with all of us!

!LADY

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