missippi halfstep

Horse with No Name

Tin Man

fire on the mountain

Rough mix of basic tracks, produced by David Gans and Jeremy Goody, engineered by Jeremy Goody at Megasonic Sound.

Personnel:
David Gans - guitars
Robert Wade - bass
Javier Navarette - percussion
Christian Crumlish - electric ukulele and lead vocals.

All I Know
© 2021 At Swim-Two-Birds

If I were a magician
I’ll tell you what I’d do.
I’d conjure up your future
And show it all to you.

My magic’s all illusion:
Water bottle, plastic flower.
All the things that you will make
Will unfold in their own hour.

All I know is you should know
I’m out here looking out for you.
Everything you’ve ever wanted
Soon will come your way.

No one does it solo only.
Everyone gets sad and lonely.
Don’t forget that out here someone
Loves you every day.

If I were a time traveler
I know just when I’d go.
Back to the place I first met you.
I’d tell you all I know.

But when I built my time machine
It turned out to be fake
And left me with a craving
For your famous pirate cake.

If we could both be pirates
My eye patch would be cool
We’d go right through the book and challenge
Each and every rule

But I’m no jolly roger
Never sailed the seven seas
I never went to Narnia
Nor met the Pevensies

If I were a mixer,
You know that I would be
A stand mixer, fully charged
With electricity.

’Cause you deserve a mixer
That’s magical and fine,
Sent to you in a time machine
From 1959.

Words and music by Christian Crumlish.

All I Know (Song for Finn)

All I Know (rough mix 3)

Rough mix of basic tracks, produced by David Gans and engineered and co-produced by Jeremy Goody at Goody Sound.

Personnel:
Robert Wade on guitar and backing vocals
Bill Cassell on bass and backing vocals
Dan Brodnitz on keyboard and backing vocals
John Hanes on drums
Christian Crumlish on lead vocals and ukulele


Some Other Time
© 2023 At Swim-Two-Birds Music

News is fake and the world is flat
And a junky's in the alley with a baseball bat

Skies collide and the seas convulse
In simple duple meter with a half-note pulse

Some of the time, some of the space
Some other day for the human race
Face the future with an open mind
Let’s give it up for humankind

“If you blinked you missed it” that’s some idle talk
Till you hear the tolling of your inner clock
Tick tock

When the time is ripe we may be back again
But I ain’t so sure that I could tell you when

Some other time, some other space
Some other way for the whole damn place
Dare to leave the past behind
Let’s pour one out for mankind

Some of the time, some of the space
Some other day for the human race
Face the future with an open mind
Let’s give it up for humankind


Words and music by Christian Crumlish

Some Other Time (rough mix 3)

Rough mix, produced by David Gans and Jeremy Goody. Engineered by Jeremy Goody at Goody Sound Studio.

Personnel:
Dan Brodnitz on grand piano
Javier Navarrette on percussion
David Gans on guitar and baritone guitar
Myles Boisen on lap steel guitar
Christian Crumlish on ukulele and vocals

Down to the Mountain
© 2021 At Swim-Two-Birds

I don’t want to go down to the mountain
I don’t want to go up to the sea
I don’t want majestic splendor
I surrender, I surrender!
I just want the world to let me be

Let me be
Set me free
Let me be me (oh, please, please, please)
Please set me free

I don’t really need to know whodunnit
Don’t tell me all your secrets, talking crow!
Some puzzles don’t have no solution
Worryin’s just mind pollution
I don’t need the world to let me know

I don’t want to sail down to the mountain
I don’t want to fly up to the seas
I don’t want to dive above the sky
I wonder why I wonder
I just want to watch the world in peace

Words and music by Christian Crumlish.

No One Does It Solo Only

Down to the Mountain

Down To the Mountain (rough mix 5)

Memory Lane
© 2024 At Swim-Two-Birds

Words by Peter K. Hirsch
Music by Christian Crumlish
Arranged by Christian Crumlish and Bill Cassel

Produced by David Gans.
Engineered and co-produced by Jeremy Goody.

Personnel:
Jeremy Goody: bass
Joe Craven: fiddle and percussion
Christian Crumlish: ukuleles and vocals

Memory Lane

Memory Lane (rough mix 4)

This one is always fun to sing and play but I can't wait to get the gals into the studio to recrod the three-part harmony vocals they've worked out!

Down to the Mountain (Set Me Free)

Down to the Mountain (solo)

Had to splice together a few takes to approximate the sound on the record. Still learning to play my own solo!

Some Other Time

Some Other Time (solo)

Preliminary mix produced by David Gans and Jeremy Goody, engineered and mixed by Jeremy at Goody Sound Studio.

Personnel:
Jeremy Goody: bass
Joe Craven: fiddle and percussion (mouth hat and equipment case)
Christian Crumlish: ukuleles and vocals

Memory Lane
© 2024 At Swim-Two-Birds

Out on a jaunt
Seeing the hindsights
Frequenting haunts
We spent divine nights
Feeling the joy and the pain
It's memory lane

Stop at the light
Don't ask directions
You know the way
You lost her affections
Singing the same refrain
Down memory lane

You know the concierge
Of that auberge
Still gave me a stare

And that hotel room
Ain't seem a broom
Since we were both there

Deep in the country
Breathing the clean air
Sharing a Winston
We made a fine pair
Scrubbing that old wine stain
Off memory lane

A thousand reflections
Pass on the highway
Painful dissections
Of what we could not say.
Bumper to bumper again
It's memory lane

Words by Peter K. Hirsch
Music by Christian Crumlish
Arranged by Christian Crumlish and Bill Cassel


Memory Lane (preliminary mix)

Preliminary mix produced by David Gans and Jeremy Goody, engineered and mixed by Goody, at Goody Sound.

Personnel:
Christian Crumlish: vocals and electric ukulele
David Gans: acoustic guitar
Robert Wade: acoustic guitar
Myles Boisen: pedal steel guitar
Joe Kyle, Jr.: upright bass
Joe Craven: percussion

The Ghost Door
© 2023 At Swim-Two-Birds

I’ll go ahead and close the ghost door
I’ll go ahead and close the ghost door
You didn’t get it from the wind
He didn’t get it from the wind

I’ll go along and play the game more
I’ll go along and play the game some more
You didn’t hear it from me
You still don’t get it, you see

I’ll have the time in life I asked for
I’ll have the time and life I asked for
They didn’t hand it to me
I didn’t get all this for free

You’ll know it’s time to close the ghost door
You’ll know when it’s time to close the ghost door
And when it opens up again
Uh, that’s just me a-coming in

Words and music by Christian Crumlish.

The Ghost Door (preliminary mix)

Preliminary mix produced by David Gans and engineered and co-produced by Jeremy Goody at Goody Sound.

Personnel:
Robert Wade on guitar and backing vocals
Bill Cassel on bass and backing vocals
Dan Brodnitz on keyboard and backing vocals
John Hanes on drums
Christian Crumlish on lead vocals and ukulele


Some Other Time
© 2023 At Swim-Two-Birds Music

News is fake and the world is flat
And a junky's in the alley with a baseball bat

Skies collide and the seas convulse
In simple duple meter with a half-note pulse

Some of the time, some of the space
Some other day for the human race
Face the future with an open mind
Let’s give it up for humankind

“If you blinked you missed it” that’s some idle talk
Till you hear the tolling of your inner clock
Tick tock

When the time is ripe we may be back again
But I ain’t so sure that I could tell you when

Some other time, some other space
Some other way for the whole damn place
Dare to leave the past behind
Let’s pour one out for mankind

Some of the time, some of the space
Some other day for the human race
Face the future with an open mind
Let’s give it up for humankind


Words and music by Christian Crumlish

Some Other Time (preliminary mix 2)

Preliminary mix produced by David Gans and Jeremy Goody. Recorded, engineered, and mixed by Jeremy Goody at Goody Sound Studio.

Personnel:
Dan Brodnitz on grand piano
Javier Navarrette on percussion
David Gans on guitar and baritone guitar
Myles Boisen on lap steel guitar
Joe Craven on fiddle
Lorna Kollmeyer on vocals
Sarah Gronquist on vocals
Amyellyn Kessler on vocals
Christian Crumlish on ukulele and vocals

Down to the Mountain
© 2021 At Swim-Two-Birds

I don’t want to go down to the mountain
I don’t want to go up to the sea
I don’t want majestic splendor
I surrender, I surrender!
I just want the world to let me be

Let me be
Set me free
Let me be me (oh, please, please, please)
Please set me free

I don’t really need to know whodunnit
Don’t tell me all your secrets, talking crow!
Some puzzles don’t have no solution
Worryin’s just mind pollution
I don’t need the world to let me know

I don’t want to sail down to the mountain
I don’t want to fly up to the seas
I don’t want to dive above the sky
I wonder why I wonder
I just want to watch the world in peace

Words and music by Christian Crumlish.

Down to the Mountain (preliminary mix)

Preliminary mix produced by David Gans and Jeremy Goody, engineered by Jeremy at Goody Sound Studio.

Personnel:
David Gans on guitar
Robert Wade on bass
Joe Craven on mandolin
Lorna Kollmeyer on vocals
Christian Crumlish on vocals and electric and acoustic ukuleles

Sham Song (Chanson)
© 2020 At Swim-Two-Birds Music

Well, I found a shamrock
But I was looking for a real rock
And I got shampoo
Because I couldn’t find real poo

So I wrote a sham song
Before I ever wrote a real song
And you can sing along
Because it doesn’t go real long

Yes, I drink champagne
Because I never feel real pain
And I use a chamois
Because I couldn’t find the real me

Now I need a shanty
’Cause I’ve run out of real tea
Won’t you sing one to me?
(And now I’m talking ’bout the real me)

So I wrote a sham song
Before I ever wrote a real song
And you can all sing along
Because it doesn’t go real long

Words and music by Christian Crumlish

Sham Song (preliminary mix)

Preliminary mix produced by David Gans and Jeremy Goody, engineered by Goody at Goody Sound.

Personnel: 
David Gans on guitars
Dan Brodnitz on piano
Myles Boisen on pedal steel and lap steel
Joe Kyle Jr. on upright bass
Joe Craven on mandolin and percussion
Christian Crumlish on vocals

Moses Took Us to the Water 
© 2022 At Swim-Two-Birds Music

Well now, Moses took us to the water (uh hmm)
Moses took us to the water (uh hmm)
Yes when Moses took us to the water, it was
Like leading lambs to slaughter
Moses took us to the water, yes he did

Pharaoh sent us off to catch him (oh yeah)
Well, that Pharaoh set us to catch them (uh hmmm)
So when Pharaoh sent us off to catch him then we
All got drownded when the waves came crashing
When Pharaoh sent us off to catch him (yes sir)

(first plague)
Well, Pharaoh made Ra angry, uh-hm
Yes, Pharaoh made Ra angry, yes he did
Turned Iteru into blood, fish guts poisoning the flood
Somehow Pharaoh made Ra angry, uh-hm

(second and third plagues)
Well, the river frogs that swarmed were bad enough
Yes, the frogs that swarmed up on us were enough
Until our bodies teemed with fleas from our heads down past our knees
But the river frogs that swarmed were bad enough

(fourth and fifth plagues)
Then our goats, and pigs were dyin’, uh-hm
Cattle, goats and pigs were dyin’, oh no
When wild wolves they took their lives, or the pestilential flies
And our livestock just kept dying, uh-hmm

(sixth and seventh plagues)
There was soot that gave us boils, uh-hmm
Yes, it gave us painful boils, yes it did
Then the lightning, hail and fire only took our suff'rin’ higher
When the coal-soot gave us boils, uh-hmm

(eighth and ninth plagues)
Well, the locusts all descended from the sky
Endless locusts kept descending from the sky
When the darkness fell for three days straight we shuddered at our curséd fate
As the locusts kept descending from the sky

(tenth plague)
Then I woke up and my firstborn son was gone, uh-hmm
Yes, I woke up and I found my son was gone, that’s right
Told us Moses was to blame, Pharaoh’s boy died just the same
When I woke and my firstborn son was gone

Six hundred chariots followed him on down
Six hundred o’ the best chariots followed him down
Oh, Six hundred chariots followed him down
And none came back when we all did drowned
And the officers of Kemet all went down

Well now, Moses took us to the water (uh hmm)
Moses took us to the water (uh hmm)
Well, when Moses took us to the water, it was
Like leading lambs to slaughter
Moses took us to the water, yes he did

Yes when Moses took us to the water, it was
Like leading lambs to slaughter
When Moses took us to the water, uh-hmm

'Cause when Moses took us to the water, it was
Like leading lambs to slaughter
When Moses took us to the water.…


Words and music by Christian Crumlish.

Moses Took Us to the Water

Moses Took Us To the Water (Preliminary Mix)

Preliminary mix produced by David Gans and Jeremy Goody & engineered by Jeremy Goody at Goody Sound.

Personnel:
David Gans - guitars
Robert Wade - bass
Javier Navarrette - percussion
Lorna Kollmeyer - vocals
Christian Crumlish - electric ukulele and vocals

All I Know
© 2021 At Swim-Two-Birds

If I were a magician
I’ll tell you what I’d do.
I’d conjure up your future
And show it all to you.

My magic’s all illusion:
Water bottle, plastic flower.
All the things that you will make
Will unfold in their own hour.

All I know is you should know
I’m out here looking out for you.
Everything you’ve ever wanted
Soon will come your way.

No one does it solo only.
Everyone gets sad and lonely.
Don’t forget that out here someone
Loves you every day.

If I were a time traveler
I know just when I’d go.
Back to the place I first met you.
I’d tell you all I know.

But when I built my time machine
It turned out to be fake
And left me with a craving
For your famous pirate cake.

If we could both be pirates
My eye patch would be cool
We’d go right through the book and challenge
Each and every rule

But I’m no jolly roger
Never sailed the seven seas
I never went to Narnia
Nor met the Pevensies

If I were a mixer,
You know that I would be
A stand mixer, fully charged
With electricity.

’Cause you deserve a mixer
That’s magical and fine,
Sent to you in a time machine
From 1959.

Words and music by Christian Crumlish.

All I Know (preliminary mix)

Preliminary mix produced by David Gans and Jeremy Goody, engineered by Jeremy Goody at Goody Sound studio.

Personnel:
Christian Crumlish on ukulele and vocals
David Gans on guitar and vocals
Robert Wade on bass
Javier Navarrette on congas and shaker


Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music
© 2022 At Swim-Two-Birds Music

Phonograph emits melodies at night
Some of the howlers imitate it

Giving zoo wolves lessons in music

The lions and the tigers, and perhaps the camel
May be taught to change their vocal methods

(Three notes in a scale)
(A scientist's dream)

The first wolves howled a certain way
The call of the wolf is little changed to-day


Words and music by Christian Crumlish

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