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I'm Gonna Count

from Apple Apple by Harmonica Pocket

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about

This song was written between July and December 2009.

On a day off from tour, we visited my friend Brian at his lovely beach front house. He had a long staircase down to the beach so we all found our way to the water after breakfast. I probably had my baritone ukulele with me, but I can't really remember.

Brian's niece Morgan was with us and she must've been 4 years old at the time. She and I got to talking and wondering how many rocks there were on the beach. Neither of us knew the answer so we started counting and this little song practically started singing itself. The other verses about the leaves and the stars were added later.

I wanted to play with different ways of counting in songs and these were some of my ideas. There were more, but I'm going to save them for another song...

lyrics

I'm gonna count all the stones on the beach
Do you want to count the stones with me?
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 7 6
5 4 3 2
I'm gonna count all the stones on the beach
Do you want to count the stones with me?

Pretty shell pretty shell that don't count
Put the pretty shell back on the ground
I'm gonna count all the stones on the beach
Do you want to count the stones with me?
I'm gonna count all the leaves on the trees
Do you want to count the leaves with me?
2 4 6
8 10 12
If you don't sing it with me
Gonna sing it myself
I'm gonna count all the leaves on the trees
Do you want to count the leaves with me?

Little leafy little leafy green
Filling up the sky and an empty tree
I'm gonna count all the leaves on the trees
Do you want to count the leaves with me?
I'm gonna count all the starts in the sky
I never counted up that high
5 10 15
20 25
30 35 40 45 50
55 60
65 70
75 80 85 90 95
100 stars up high in the sky
I'm gonna count all the starts in the sky
I never counted up that high

Like counting cars on a chooka-chooka train
Don't you know I love that game
All the highest number's names
That ever crawled across your brain

I'm gonna count all the starts in the sky
I never counted up that high
I'm gonna count all the leaves on the trees
Do you want to count the leaves with me?
I'm gonna count all the stones on the beach
Do you want to count the stones with me?

credits

from Apple Apple, released August 14, 2012
Keeth Monta Apgar - guitars, vocals, harmonica
Nala Walla - vocal harmony
Johnny Bregar - banjo
Jack Forman - bass

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Harmonica Pocket Port Townsend, Washington

Acoustic & chill, The Harmonica Pocket will win you over with laid-back originals and playful re-workings of songs you love.

Recorded on a tiny island in the Pacific Northwest using solar electricity, their albums feature ukuleles and guitars strummed over tight vocal harmonies and delicate fingerplucked melodies. Horn sections swell and tiny musical secrets are woven into the corners of the mix. ... more

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