Paws, Womenopause & Men-o-pause

It’s Women’s Day, evidently. So Baby Boomer Girl penned a new song to celebrate the ‘don’t mention it’ aspect of being a woman at the esteemed ‘mature & wise’ stage of life.  What do you think of this masterpiece? You are welcome to comment whether you are mature & wise … or not.

By the way, can you keep up with all these ‘days?’ Was your local park also humming yesterday celebrating Children’s Day? You’re also celebrating the current “International Year of Quinoa?” Is ‘Men’s Day” coming up soon?  I’m trying to keep up with the days as I love life, like kids, and  quinoa is complete protein, and it’s quite tasty.  But Women’s Day has got to be a biggie – something to celebrate – whether you are one or you love one – or whether you’ve got the right day in the calendar year or not.
Here’s the song … enjoy!

Paws
© 2013 Radha Sahar

Women, they say, are like a book
Hard to read but it’s easy to look
They might dress up in leopard skin tights
They’re animal types
When they set their sights on you

They’re either apples, bananas or pears
But I say women are cuddly bears
They might dress down for household chores
But love’s in store
When they wrap their paws around you

Now it’s time to pause, babe
For more than a cup of tea
Time to pause, babe and
Wrap your paws, your pretty paws around me

Women are beautiful at every age
Even at the ‘don’t mention it’ stage
Womenopause – makes them wise
They realise that menopause is for guys

Women turn up with plates of food
Often in a playful mood, wild
Cats or quiet birds in the nest
You are blessed
Coz they give their best to you

Time to pause, babe
For more than a cup of tea
Time to pause, babe and
Wrap your paws, your pretty paws around me

Paws - lyrics for you to download free

Free Food Again!

Two and a half years have passed and you’re wondering if Baby Boomer Girl is still eating Free Food? Yep – for sure. After all, who wants to pay?  (well … after you’ve raided the garden you have to pay for a few ingredients). We’re working on a cookbook too – great fun! But good free food recipes take a few years longer to test than free song lyrics.

After a special Common Sense Organics version of this song, the original one resurfaced. You might enjoy revisiting it too, since blog posts quickly slide down then off the page into those neglected side menus.

You like food? You’re a free thinker? Then please share your ‘free food’ thoughts and experiences by clicking ‘Comments’ – there is nothing like a comment or two to inspire more blog posts.  Ta!

Now, Ta  Da! – here is the song …

Free Food
© 2010 Radha Sahar

When we were kids we ate white toast
Butter pudding, Sunday roast
Pastry, greasy pies
Burgers, cheese, and fries
Cola, cake with cream
Doughnuts, margarine
Artificial this and that
Sweets galore and despite that

We felt healthy, and age was on our side
We didn’t know a thing
But our hearts were open wide
Life was sweet and it seemed to me
Everything rocked and the food was free!

Now we’re sugar free and dairy free,
Meat free and GE free
The implications are immense
Eating free and nutrient dense!
Spray free and oil free
No more empty calories!
The scruple-free food industry
Will have to do without you and me

We’re healthy and age is on our side
Now we know a thing or two
And our eyes are open wide
Life is sweet and it seems to me
Everything rocks and the food is free!

So pick those pumpkins, plant those beans, grow a stash of luscious greens
Wanna trade? We have zucchini – so does every backyard greenie!
Low on salt, high on greens, cool and hot on chilli beans
Dhal and rice – brown is great – veg all day losing weight

Life is precious and you love me
Everything rocks! – and the food is free!

Free Food- Download lyrics (for free of course!)

A New Take on Valentine’s Day

Your partner is not into it? You don’t have a partner – (and you’re not looking either)? So what?$#!! This is a day to smell the flowers, to even eat a little bit of dark chocolate … and to write a ditty just for the heck of it.  So you wrote it in a card and sent it to yourself? Good on you! If you’re not the ditty-writing type, here’s one of mine you are welcome to croon out to the night air, send to a lusciously desired love or, more realistically, to read to your partner snoring in the chair …

I’m planning to read it during my set at Lily’s Ranch House on Valentine’s day – it’s a great place to enjoy being real, so they won’t mind. The music is  fun whatever comes, and the atmosphere makes you not want to go. Peter Leith and friends sing and play, and Baby Boomer Girl is strutting her stuff there quite often on a Friday night too: Lily’s Ranch House, 137 Fairfield Road, Levin, Tel: 06 3670251

You’ve got a couple of days to write a love poem or song, and we would love to read it. Post your masterpiece via the ‘Comments’ facility below – and wait for the accolades, and maybe some romance, to pour in!

A Chocolate Rose

Tis said St Valentine fervently prayed
To serve a world divinely made
His deepest prayers to the almighty
Were also heard by Aphrodite
So he was blessed from high above with
A double dose of divine love!

What to do with the overflow?
So much love and nowhere to go!
(No planes or cars on air or street;
He only had two sandalled feet)
Luckily Cupid rescued the fellow
Providing wings and a bow and arrow

Now every year around Beltane
The forces of love conspire to inflame
Each heart to soar and seek a mate
And you, my love, I ask to take
Will you be my Valentine
To share with me the love divine?

Would you I pledge my life this day?
Or rather you fancy an evening’s play?
(For love is love whether lofty or sporty
Long live God and Aphrodite!)
My love! To sport in tryst with you – Yes!
To St Val – a chocolate rose or two!

A New Woman on the Honours List

 No. It’s not me. But I do know her: she inspired this new song I completed on New Year’s Eve. It might be you! I first wrote this song in 1979, so she was around then … If you want to get an idea of what she looks like, download the song lyric sheet under this article.

Meanwhile, we all want to know what woman YOU are nominating for our new Honours award, The Honey & the Star - no doubt you have several in mind. Write their names below via the ‘comments’ section, and tell us a little about those special women – we can’t wait to read about them!

The Honey & the Star

Do ya wanna hear a picture of a walking inspiration?
She’s an open invitation to a heart that needs to love
She makes you sing and smile. She’s a honey, free and wild
She’s the warmest lady, aunty, grandma, mother, loyal friend

She’s all around the country – her home is everywhere
She has a place for everyone. Everyone has a place for her
She wraps her arms around you, you never want to leave
As her laughter is so relaxed and life is a breeze

Yes, lovely lady, I’m talking about you
Singing your praises – the country should too
They never will, so here’s a medal – shows how wonderful you are
In our honours list you’ve won The Honey & The Star

You may not have a classy style – you’re sort of ‘universal’, and
I know when you’re around because I feel you everywhere
Friends, I cannot put my finger on what it is about her
It’s a privilege to know her – it’s a buzz to have her near
Yes, lovely lady …

You have so much to teach me that I cannot find in writing
And I feel you are inviting me to a yummy afternoon tea
You’re clear & quite uncluttered – though your list is overflowing
That reminds me, time is going. It’s another new year’s eve

Well if this song is pretty it is just a spark of the beauty
Of this special kind of woman and the warmth her heart abounds
Her love will shine forever. Take a moment to remember
To express a little thank you – she won’t always be around

The Honey & the Star - Free Download Song Lyrics

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

You might recall that old song. I happily boomed it out in full voice years ago at family sing-alongs. The words didn’t mean a thing way back then. I didn’t have a clue what is was like to break up. Innocent me.

The recording rattled out on the radio the other day, and for the first time I actually thought about those quaint old lyrics and the painful break-ups we experience along love’s way. The message stood out in contrast to this special time of the year when life is bustling and family and friends are planning happy get-togethers. What if you can’t get together with the one you love?  You recently broke up. It’s hard to be all merry and cheery when Santa and baby Jesus’ time of joy is being trumpeted at full volume and everyone is smiling and opening presents. My heart is going out to you, big time, right now, and I wrote you a song.  I hope it will be a small gift with it’s own message of hope to help you through.

Many of us know what parting is like – it isn’t easy. If, like me nowadays, you are happy and you know it, you’re likely to know someone who is not.  If you think this new ‘breaking up is hard to do’ song will touch their hearts and help them through, then please send them a link to this page. We are all connected. I love you.

More Love

They say you have to love yourself
Before you can love another, and
I know it’s easy to say, but hard to understand
When we part in love it’s harder
Do our best but the mystery remains
Why do we show our love in different ways?

When should we sing our own song?
How can we cross the sea?
When do we give up hope of how good it could be?
If you’ve been there too what do you do
To help a friend through the maze?
I see your tears, I’m here for you and I can only say

You got more love, much more love to give
You got more life, much more life to live
And now is a time to believe in your self, through the grieving
You got much more love tomorrow to receive
More love to receive

In times gone by you found a mate and gave yourself away
Your heart could break only once
And if it did, it was destined to stay that way
But these days life is kinder – you deserve to find love again
You would say to me, I know
So I say, beautiful friend

You got more love, much more love to give
You got more life, much more life to live
And now is a time to believe in your self through the grieving
You got much more love tomorrow to receive
Hang on in there – there’s more love to receive
More love, more love

© 2012 Radha Sahar

More Love  – Free download song lyrics

New Beginnings

Quotes! The world is full of them. Facebook, Twitter, your email inbox, probably chokka … sometimes it’s all a bit tooooo inspiring! And too inspiring can easily turn ho-hum.

But once or twice in a lifetime there’s something so powerful about a quote it stops you in your tracks. The words turn in your mind for days, even weeks …  pertinent to your life. Arriving at a perfect juncture. A gift  -  from someone you’re unlikely to ever meet.

A quote of that significance must surely inspire us all to something!  Here’s the one that did it for me …

‘Nobody can go back and start a new beginning. But anyone can start today and make a new ending’ – Maria Robinson.

Maria! There will be people creating new endings all over the place! Who knows what will happen? A new ending is opening up for Baby Boomer Girl already! A new home in a new town. Fantastic soil to grow organic veges in. New friends to make. New songs to write and musos to jam with… A life-changing, happy ending.

Has that ‘life-changing quote’ phenomenon happened to you? If so, everyone would love to hear about it – and yes, include the quote!
Meanwhile, enjoy the song …

A Happy Ending
(c) 2012 Radha Sahar

It all started with a quote on the wall
By chance, in a nearby cafe
The words, ‘You can’t go back
And make a new beginning
But anyone can start today
And make a new ending’ – That’s it!

We stare at each other and say
That day is here, and we can live it
Everything will fall into place somehow
It will all come clear. It will take our best. And we will give it
Yes! We’re starting a happy ending now

Thanks, Maria, for sayin’ those words
And putting them out there for me
I’ve never met you, but you’ve changed our lives
Permanently
Now lotsa little perfect quirky things happen
It’s the universe helping us see … that day is here …

When everything is stripped away
And you feel your soul laid bare
It seems all your efforts have come to nothing
But no – there’s still something there, my friend
It’s your beautiful humanity
And you have so much to share

That day is here, and we can live it
Everything will fall into place somehow
It will all come clear. It will take our best. And we will give it
Yes! We’re starting a happy ending
No more carting round burdens pretending
Yes! We’re starting a happy ending now!

A Happy Ending – lyrics

Mr Tambourine Man on Video!

So – you’ve been sowing a bit of ‘Good Bob Dylan Karma? (after reading my post below). Then it’s time to reap! Just click your fingers – (particularly on the mouse), and sit back for some magic on video!

Baby Boomer Girl is feeling somewhat akin to a proud grandmother, having co-produced the Kids Sing Bob Dylan album, along with engineer and producer, David Antony Clark.

Just imagine how the kids’ parents must feel – the kids are really impressive. One viewer, keen to whet your appetite, commented, “That is simply incredible. I’m a lifetime Dylan fan, and I’ve never heard a better lead vocal of Tambourine Man than that little girl is doing. She is a truly great singer.”   Yes. At only 9 years old, Jessie has already won several world singing competitions … Then there’s Sarah, Ben, Roisin and  Jessica – they’re all fantastic! Pop into the UCA Music website and take a listen to the sample audio clips: make sure you scroll right down (on the thin red line), to hear them take Forever Young, and many other tracks, into new realms.

Make their day boosting their viewing numbers, leaving a comment, and spreading the word.