My own favorite song for today
May. 1st, 2009 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thatcrazycajunAs much as I enjoy Jonathan Coulton's randy tribute to springtime outdoor recreation, "First of May," or Julie Andrews' evergreen rendition of "The Lusty Month of May" from the original Broadway production of Camelot, the song that first leaps into my head every year when this date rolls around isn't either of those.
It's a song that I danced to with my Songbird the first year we dated, when we visited her alma mater, Bryn Mawr College in the Philadelphia suburb of Bala Cynwyd, PA the weekend of their annual May Day celebration. Its original recording artist, Edwin McCain, performed it live for us during his concert there that balmy Sunday afternoon, and it has become the song I associate with her more than any other. (As gifted a songwriter as Edwin is, however, he was not this song's author, despite popular misconception; it was actually written by Diane Warren, who also wrote the song that became part of the soundtrack of Patch Adams and the opening theme of Star Trek: Enterprise, "Faith of the Heart.")
Here he is at another venue performing it...or you can listen to the original studio version, the one that moved me to tears when I first heard it on the radio in New York, NY (where I was then living) before I had even met the Songbird. And linked below are the lyrics.
Happy May Day, sweetie. Even with all the problems and the distance and everything else, six years later it's still true...
I Could Not Ask For More
It's a song that I danced to with my Songbird the first year we dated, when we visited her alma mater, Bryn Mawr College in the Philadelphia suburb of Bala Cynwyd, PA the weekend of their annual May Day celebration. Its original recording artist, Edwin McCain, performed it live for us during his concert there that balmy Sunday afternoon, and it has become the song I associate with her more than any other. (As gifted a songwriter as Edwin is, however, he was not this song's author, despite popular misconception; it was actually written by Diane Warren, who also wrote the song that became part of the soundtrack of Patch Adams and the opening theme of Star Trek: Enterprise, "Faith of the Heart.")
Here he is at another venue performing it...or you can listen to the original studio version, the one that moved me to tears when I first heard it on the radio in New York, NY (where I was then living) before I had even met the Songbird. And linked below are the lyrics.
Happy May Day, sweetie. Even with all the problems and the distance and everything else, six years later it's still true...
I Could Not Ask For More
