‘Make Music’ is a little song I made as a theme to Make Music Day, a free celebration of music that happens worldwide on June 21. My longtime collaborator John Paul Labno plays sax.
Lyrics:
make music
make music when you’re holding on to your one and only
make music when they do you wrong and leave you lonely
make music when your money’s tight and the pantry’s empty
make music when your paychecks cashed and it’s friday evening
make music
make music with the winter gust howling through your jacket
make music tapping on your big summer picnic basket
make music in the tender light as the day begins
make music in the dead of night on your second wind
make music
make music when your luck is high and you’re rolling sevens
make music when you’re headed straight in the wrong direction
make music when old friends call up to get together soon
make music when you’re all alone it is there for you
Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile.
–John Dryden, Oedipus, A Tragedy composed by Henry Purcell