I Just Work Here (words and music by Heather Lewin)

I don't give a damn about your plans
Find somebody else to care
I might know but I need to go
It's way past time for talking so
Quit wasting all of your tears

I just work here

Don't give a damn about your plans
Go and tell someone that cares
I need to go and I want to know
Why time is moving way too slow
I've wasted my best years

I just work here

I don't give a damn about your plans
I just work here

©️1/6/21 Heather Lewin

Heather Lewin - cello, vocals
Metronome - 60 bpm

Heather Lewin - I Just Work Here

Lullaby (words & music by Heather Lewin)

Hush babe, don't you worry
You're here in my arms
Nothing can harm you
Hush now, now need to hurry
You're home and safe and warm

(There should be verses here telling a story
But every time I try to write down what I'm feeling in words
My eyes start to cry and my body mourns in the deepest depths of my soul
I mourn for my children who feel burdened with healing the wounds of the world
I mourn for my grandchildren, as yet unaware that they exist in a world of conflict, death, ego, and struggle
I mourn for the earth and for all of the living creatures needlessly dying

We're all enduring this daily overwhelming persistent collective sadness.
I often feel drained, empty and overwhelmed

So I do the only thing I know how to do

I smile and pretend that the world is kind, and gentle, and good
I hold onto hope that we can learn to respect each other and the earth
I wake up every day hopeful that things will get better

I make happy songs to ease suffering
I write tunes for people to dance to
I teach them how to harness their feelings into music
And for a brief moment, I give their troubled thoughts a rest)

Hush babe, don't you worry
You're here in my arms
Nothing can harm you
Hush now, now need to hurry
You're home and safe and warm


©️2021 Heather Lewin

Heather Lewin - fiddle, vocals
Christopher Chan - Guitar

Heather Lewin - Lullaby

Jig written during Andy Reiner's Tunewriting Masterclass (2020). I later recorded a live loop of Arlo's Delight in Lööping Cläss wïth Änders ünd Fläx (2020). The tune is dedicated to my grandson Arlo Houck

Arlo's Delight (live loop)-Heather Lewin

Hornpipe written during Andy Reiner's online Tunewriting workshop 2020. He wanted us to write a short little musical nugget (motif). We had about 5 minutes to come up with a measure or two. I wasn't paying attention to the instructions & wrote a whole tune. Thus the 'Whole Nugget' Hornpipe.

Whole Nugget Hornpipe -Heather Lewin

Sagebrush Waltz I wrote on October 8th, 2020. Inspired by old westerns and campfires. Sheet music available at: heatherlewinmusic.com/compositions. Bonus track with House of New Orleans intro: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lu4m0u98g7c8ib8/Sagebrush%20Waltz.m4a?dl=0

Heather Lewin - Fiddle
Chris Chan - Guitar

Heather Lewin- Sagebrush Waltz

Cantus Cantus Firmus grew out of a challenge from Andy Reiner to write a Cantus Firmus style motif. I quickly discovered that I'm not a great Cantus Firmus writer, but I did get a nice jig based on my original motif. You'll hear the Cantus Firmus as the intro

Heather Lewin- fiddle
Chris Chan - guitar

Heather Lewin- cantus cantus firmus

Happy jig I wrote in 2020. Here it is with fiddle & guitar

Heather Lewin - Fiddle
Chris Chan - guitar

Arlo's Delight - Heather Lewin

Slipped Slip (Slip jig) based on a true story of a skirt slip that refused to stay hidden. After years of saying I'd write a tune about it, I finally wrote it in 2020. Dedicated to my unruly under garments.

Heather Lewin- fiddle
Chris Chan - guitar

Slipped Slip (Slip Jig)- Heather Lewin

I unintentionally used the chords from House of the Rising Sun in the Sagebrush Waltz, so thought I'd throw a verse of that in at the beginning just for fun

Heather Lewin - Vocal, fiddle
Chris Chan - Guitar

sagebrush waltz with rising sun intro - heather lewin

The title was a joke Rob Fläx made as the title of an Irish tune. I told him I'd turn it into a reel. Here's the computer playing it. I'll record it on fiddle soon, once I properly learn it

You can find more of my tunes & songs at http://heatherlewinmusic.com/compositions

you go your way, sligo mine - heather lewin

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