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Week 46a - Spelling Bee (211112)

from Song A Week, Volume 6 by James Tristan Redding

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When I was a boy
I was full of dreams
Some would come in time
A little further downstream

But there was one which never
Ever would come true
For all the tea in China
No A, E, I, O, U

A N T I D I S E
S T A B L I S H M E N T
A R I A N I S M
This boy wasn't meant to win the spelling bee

Well I took some piano lessons
I went to soccer practice
My family got a cat
And a hamster and a rabbit

Lots of opportunities
Gifts and grace of various kinds
But even though I studied
Couldn't make that trophy mine

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from Song A Week, Volume 6, released February 12, 2022

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James Tristan Redding Nashville, Tennessee

British-American songwriter, singer, audiobook narrator, studio player, Godin Guitars official artist.

Founded global collective www.SongAWeek.org, performance art experience The Under Over: tinyurl.com/uoxuo (song circle underneath a highway) and writing retreat www.TheNashville24.com (annual challenge: write 24 songs in 24 hours).

Cuts by Sarah Harralson, Eli Alger, Emma Gale, David Easterling
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