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This song sprung from another snatch of melody with lyrics that appeared out of nowhere -- not in a dream this time, but just during the day.
"Do you want to be my baby, do you want to be my girl?"
I thought it was silly, but it kept nagging me. I came up with the first verse, and the song turned into a travelogue. Come on baby, let's go around the world together!
My producer, Al Snyder, wrote a great chorus that makes it a love song: "No matter where we are, baby, you're my home."
This tune started out in the vein of Wings’s “Helen Wheels,” but it turned into a Deep Purple groove, and Al's distorted organ along with George Marcinko's great guitar really add to that atmosphere.
It was pretty easy for me to pick travelogue destinations: India, China, Istanbul, Paris. For the chorus, Al suggested “L.A. to Rome.” But I wanted the distance traveled to be greater. What I really wanted to pick was the southernmost point of South America and somewhere up in the Arctic Circle.
But Ushuaia, Argentina and Longyearbyen on the polar archipelago of Svalbard don’t rhyme. So I picked Capetown, South Africa and Nome, Alaska.
lyrics
Do you want to be my baby?
Do you want to be my girl?
Do you want to have adventures all around this great big world? See the Pyramids of Egypt? Climb the Mountains of the Moon?
Do you want to? Do you baby?
I gotta know very soon!
Verse 2
Do you want to take a selfie? You and me, the Taj Mahal! Catch a Lear jet up to China?Walk along that old Great Wall? Ride from Istanbul to Paris
on the Orient Express?
Do you want to? Do you baby? Do you want to? Please say yes!
Chorus
We’ll travel the world ...Capetown to Nome!
No matter where we are,
Baby, you're my home!
Verse 3
Do you want to meet my guru in the hills above Mumbai?
Ride an elephant through Delhi?
Stare a cobra in the eye?
Hang glide off old Kilimanjaro?
Snorkel in Hanauma Bay?
Do you want to, do you baby?
If you do, you'll make my day!
credits
released May 2, 2023
Dave Molter: Bass & Vocals
Al Snyder: Keys & producer
George Marcinko: Guitar
Joey Waslousky: Drums
An accomplished veteran of the Pittsburgh, Midwest and East Coast music scenes since 1965, Dave Molter counts The Beatles as
his primary influence.
"Approaching End of Usable Life" is Dave's latest CD, released in December 2021.
Like Dave's previous work, "Usable Life" is a mix of styles and influences.
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