a song honoring nature as something much purer, simpler and more beautiful than being human...

Mahogany Hawk   **   words and music by Beth Wimmer.  copyright 2015

Beth Wimmer - vocals and acoustic guitar  /  David Raven - doumbek
recorded and mixed by David Raven at Honky Abbey studio in Los Angeles, California

Mahogany Hawk in the treetop staring me down
your eyes reflect light from the skyline   wings downy brown
i see you circling high over my town
you keep your calm in the sky, scanning the ground

ooh you're so good at what you do
humanity's so complicated  i wish i were you

Mahogany Hawk in the vineyard looking so fine
i see your life as a clean one, nothing like mine
you've only a few simple needs and the patience of saints
actions based purely on spirit, not greed or hate

ooh your moment is now, each second is new
society's hurried and wasteful  i wish i were you

oooooh    oooooh   oooooh

Mahogany Hawk at the highway as i'm passin' by
my heart is glad to imagine you're here at my side
consumed by calls coffee contracts and video cams
at times i lose faith in the nature of who i am

ooh but you've known your place from the moment you flew
humanity's so complicated   i wish i were you

most beautiful creature sharp eyes of star gold if i could hold you i'd kiss your wings
my animal teacher, my avian saint, and prayer of patience and natural things
most beautiful creature sharp eyes of star gold if i could hold you i'd kiss your wings
my animal teacher, my avian saint, my prayer of patience and natural things

ooh you're so good at what you do
humanity's so complicated  i wish i were you

Mahogany Hawk

Peace At Christmas, by California-Swiss americana artist Beth Wimmer. Wishing you peace and envisioning a world of humanity where acceptance, support, and respect are practiced with love. (Lyrics below)

Beth Wimmer - acoustic guitar, bells, tambourine, lead and harmony vocals
Suzie Candell - harmony vocals
Roger Szedalik - electric guitars, bass, and harmony vocals
Lawrence Lampert - mandolin
Produced by Beth Wimmer and Roger Szedalik
Recorded and mixed in October 2015 by Roger Szedalik

I had a dream, snow covered every land
All buildings winterized     
warm glowing light inside and we realized
we're all the same
with our differences, we still share one flame and we sang

Chorus:
Peace at Christmas, Serenity in the New Year
Peace at Christmas - hoping that Paradise, Paradise is near

Oh in this dream,
a homeless man gave me communion then lit the Menorah
and Pope Francis danced the Horah with a Palestine tribe on the Israeli side
and a Cherokee band spirit-danced 'cross the land singing...

Peace at Christmas, Serenity in the New Year
I wish Peace at Christmas - hoping that Paradise, Paradise is near

I had a dream, snow covered every land
all women and every man
and children in harmony harmony sang

Peace at Christmas, Serenity in the New Year
Peace at Christmas - hoping that Paradise, Paradise is near
Peace at Christmas, Serenity in the New Year
Peace at Christmas - hoping that Paradise, Paradise is here

Peace At Christmas

This track is from the album Miracle Girl and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/beth4

Dreams Bring Me Down

This track is from the album Ghosts & Men and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bethwimmer

Bad Moon Rising

This track is from the album Live Within Live Without and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/beth

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"...she has the sass to match the sweet." ~ Mike Davies, NetRhythms UK 

"An honest voice, full of heart and soul and incredible songs." ~ Swa, ROOTSVILLE.be, Belgium 


Hi, I'm Beth Wimmer, and i thank you for taking a moment to read about me and my music...

At the moment i play a lot of live shows, as a solo artist and with various other talented friends, in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, and sometimes my dear old USA. i'm writing new songs as well with no set plans for recording my next album, but plans to record songs individually when the time and places present themselves. 

Autumn 2011 saw the release of my third, full-length album "Ghosts & Men", which continues to receive praise and airplay in Europe and the USA. "Ghosts & Men" was recorded in Como, Italy, with multi-instrumentalist Damiano Della Torre, a native of that beautiful region.

I was born in New York state, the youngest of five children. i grew up in rural Massachusetts close to the woods, the Merrimac River and Atlantic Ocean - with dogs, cats, ducks, my brother, three sisters, and our poet-artist, 9am-5pm-working single mom. 

Now i write, sing, tour in Europe and beyond. i meet interesting people, eat the best chocolate and drink delicious wines. i love seeing so much more of this globe than just sunny California, which is still always sweetly just beneath my skin. 

I feel special, but i know i'm just lucky. i'm happy. i'm healthy. i love humanity even though the most powerful and famous people mainly just sadden and bewilder me. a lot of things break my heart, but everything inspires me. 

Beth Wimmer's songs have been chosen for onboard entertainment on Lufthansa airplanes, and have been placed in the independent film 'Two Of A Kind' (Honor Films, Los Angeles). Beth's song "Self Righteous Son of a Bitch" was a semi-finalist in the Dallas Songwriters' Association Songwriting Contest and a finalist in the UNISONG International Songwriting Contest. Beth's song "Weather" finished a finalist in the We Are Listening Lyric Writer Awards. 

Beth Wimmer now lives in Switzerland with her husband and two cats. 'Ghosts & Men' is Wimmer's fourth, full-length album--and her first European-made record. 'Ghosts & Men' receives radio play and rave reviews in Switzerland, Italy, Holland, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Spain, the UK, and the United States.

Catch Beth on tour throughout Europe in 2015.





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