Circle in the Sand

The song starts 28 seconds in.

Friend Jason Flower wondered if I’d recorded this song.  I haven’t, but I did find a rough practice audio and here it is unedited.

Diana and I collaborated on most of ‘my’ songs. As I recollect, it was Diana who shared an image of a teacher drawing a circle on the blackboard and people standing on the circle.  It next appeared as a WordPerfect doc and had morphed into a circle in sand and a girl who, for me, represents God.  The song sat like that, an amorphous idea and not much more than a few rhymes on paper.

Years later Murray Maclaughlan invited me over to put our heads together on something.  It was really an excuse to have a beer and recall old times.  So, I drove over to his house and we talked Jeeps for a while.  Then I showed him what I had, and we brainstormed.  I came away with an identifiable song.  But more than that and more than the delightful afternoon, I took away some valuable tips on writing that have stood me well over the years. Thank you, Murray.

I put Circle in the Sand to a melody and have sung it for friends, but never had the opportunity to include it in an album.  I think this rendition was me putting down a track for accompanists to get the chords. 

I think the song has promise and deserves to be sung.