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Some Animals It's Probably Best Not To Be

from The Secret Diary Of A Tunesmith by Lins Honeyman

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The Tunesmiths challenge for this track was to record a children's song. After coming up with a bouncy keyboard riff - using the clav sound that's not a million miles away from the Rhubarb & Custard theme tune sound - I figured that all the best children's songs are about animals.

With the aim of putting across the positive message that it's best just to be yourself, I decided upon four animals to help me do this. Aware of the Roald Dahl approach of adding a slightly dark humour element to children's stories, I made the possibility of terrible things like squashing somebody, offending someone with a smell, being eaten and squashing somebody (again) happening the reason for staying as you are.

My youngest daughter Martha (just 3 at the time) helped out with the vocals whilst her older brother Sam blew raspberries on her tummy during the skunk bit. If you listen carefully you can hear Martha giggle. The elephant's footsteps were created by hitting a plastic box and all other sound effects were sampled.

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from The Secret Diary Of A Tunesmith, released September 15, 2014
Written by Lins Honeyman

Lins Honeyman: vocals, keyboards, plastic box
Martha Honeyman: vocals
Sam Honeyman: raspberries blown on Martha's tum

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Lins Honeyman Perth, UK

Lins Honeyman is a singer/songwriter and performer based in Perthshire, Scotland. Lins has appeared live in bars, prisons, churches and living rooms - both solo and with his band.

To keep things fresh, he goes between guitar, harmonica, piano, mandolin, dobro and ukulele and plays a range of original material, old blues numbers and the odd surprising cover or two! ... more

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