Sitting On Top Of The World

Oh sing a song to the Sun

Oh sing a song to the sun  (oh la la la)
She’s where the song begun  (oh la la la)
I hear her voice and I sing along
I sing along
Sing along, sing along

Oh sing a song to the earth  (oh la la la)
She gave the music birth  (oh la la la)
I hear her voice and I sing along
I sing along
Sing along, sing I

Listen to the wind , the rain
The waves out on the ocean
Oh nature speaks in sound and song and motion

Oh sing a song to the sky   (oh la la la)
She is my lullaby   (oh la la la)
I hear her voice and I sing along
I sing along
Sing along, sing along


02 Oh Sing A Song To The Sun


The way it goes

I’m walking around in pieces
My world is torn apart
I might be looking fine
But I’m suffering from a broken heart
Wanting to be in two places at one time

More than a little confusion
I’m living inside my head
My heart is hurting 
So I’m staying in my mind instead
Wanting to be in two places at one time

That’s the way it goes  uh huh
That’s the way it goes  uh huh
That’s the way it goes  uh huh
That’s the way it goes  uh huh

I love to be at the ocean
And I love the mountain air
I better make up my mind
Or I’ll end up going nowhere
Wanting to be in two places at one time

That’s the way it goes  uh huh
That’s the way it goes  uh huh
That’s the way it goes  uh huh
That’s the way it goes  uh huh




04 The Way It Goes

Can’t Wait

Here I am and this place I’m in 
is the perfect place for me to begin
and I can’t wait

Everyday I know much more
Than I did the day before
And I can’t wait

Oh it’s showing 
That I’m growing
And I’m knowing
There’s no going back

Knowing I will find my way
I wake up each brand new day
And I can’t wait
Things I want to do and be
Are waiting in the world for me
And I can’t wait

Oh it’s showing 
That I’m growing
And I’m knowing
There’s no going back

Oh it’s showing 
That I’m growing
And I’m knowing
There’s no going back





05 Can't Wait

A new song released for Mothers Day. With Debbie Lan, AnnMarie Callan, Caitlin Lord, Jim Dooley, Ike Shaw and Guthrie Lord.

My Darling One

Smiling

From the first Grenadilla CD   Grenadilla

Glad As Glad Can Be

Sunday Afternoon

There are few happier kinds of music on Earth than kwela, the irresistibly upbeat indigenous South African style marked by joyful, bubbly rhythms and birdlike pennywhistles. “In Cape Town, kwela was the music of the street, so it was always around,” says Grenadilla founder and songwriter Debbie Lan, who was born and raised in the South African Coastal City.

Started in 2009, Grenadilla is a multi-voiced, kwela-based collective whose sound makes for the perfect family
music. On stage and on its self titled debut, the band stirs up a jubilant, worldy hullabaloo that’s unique among the recent waves of folk-and rock-oriented “kindie” acts. “It’s family friendly music, for sure, but it’s definitely not just for little kids,” says Debbie, a mother and Teaching Artist who lives in upstate New York, as do her band mates.“So many parents who’ve bought our CD tell us they love it so much they listen to it in their car themselves-even when their kids aren’t around.”
Which isn’t hard to believe at all. Grenadilla (pronounced “gren-a-dill-a”:the South African name for passion fruit) offers 15 lively, uplifting sing-along gems that defy kids and their moms, dads, friends, and grandparents not to throw up their hands, move their hips, stomp their feet, shout out loud, and join the jol (party).
Positive, message-bearing songs like the self-explanatory, piano-fueled “Be Yourself”, the playful, effervescent “Arabella Angelique”, the optomistic “Peace will come”-and of course, the group’s infectious version of the Zulu traditional “Babethandeza” (“Grandmother”) -all tap into the same sunny “township” vibe.
 
In addition to Debbie (who’s worked with Robbie Dupree, Orleans’s John Hall, Dog on Fleas among others) on lead vocal, piano and pennywhistle, Grenadilla’s members include AnnMarie Callan, Ike Shaw, Jim Dooley, Caitlin Lord, Guthrie Lord.

Since becoming a fast hit at school functions, outdoor festivals, benefit concerts, and other events throughout the Hudson Valley, Grenadilla has been busy widening it’s celebratory circle, winning praise from the taste-making website MinivanBlues.com;appearing on Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti, an album benefiting Haitian earthquake survivors; attending Brooklyn’s KindieFest Music conference; performing at the Great Hudson River Revival Clearwater Festival, Mountain Jam, and appearing on Sirius XM satellite radio’s “KIDS place Live.”
“Grenadilla is fantastic,” says Uncle Rock (aka Robert Burke Warren), one of XM Sirius’s most popular children’s artists. “They harmonize so beautifully, and their music has such timeless soul.”

“There aren’t enough communities making music together in the world today,” says Debbie. “Kids and adults spend so much time alone in their rooms, with their games, TV’s and computers. We Grenadillans want to encourage all people, not just ‘musicians’ to make music a part of their daily lives, to pick up an instrument, open their voice and play and sing along, making music just for the fun of it.”
 

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