Writing A Song On A Plane

Singapore Airlines has Country Music in its on board entertainment. One of the most prolific songwriters is Dolly Parton. On the plane you can save your favourite songs in your playlist.

I was too tired to get the hang of this and instead photographed the lists of songs by my favourite singers. 

Dolly Parton. Photo from Wikipedia.

I was listening to a country music song on a Singapore Airlines plane and wrote this:

I wish I had met you

20 years ago

If I had known then

What I know now

I'd have kept you close

And never let you go.

It might have started

But who says it would last

No point in wondering

Wanting to rewrite the past

Maybe it would have worked

Maybe it wouldn't last

No point in dreaming

We might(can't) rewrite the past.

That's why I laugh

When I say

I wish I had met you 2 years ago (not today)

If only I had known

The way that things would go

The way that you would grow

The way that I would go

But what could I know?

Nobody could know

We simply go and laugh

You can't rewrite the past

It's just a compliment

But (one) I really meant

I wish I had met you twenty years ago.

Now you're a friend of mine

In 20 years time

Maybe you'll remember and say

I wish I had met you

Twenty years ago

Oh no No No

No way, no way

May you still be young enough to think

And say - forty years ago.

-Ends-

Angela Lansbury copyright 3023 Dec 14

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_music_performers

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Butterfly visits and quotations about butterflies

After you've done your butterfly count, or if you count but don't see many varieties, you might like to take a butterfly visit or plan one.

Starting in London, there's the exhibition at the Natural History Museum.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/sensational-butterflies.html

Butterfly Farm in Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire.


https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186399-d219201-Reviews-Stratford_upon_Avon_Butterfly_Farm-Stratford_upon_Avon_Warwickshire_England.html

A few butterfly quotes for you to put at the top of your travel diary entry:

The butterfly effect.
Term coined by Edward Lorenz
Inspired the short story The Sound of Thunder by Roy Bradbury, published in 1952, about Time travel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

What is a butterfly garden without butterflies.
Roy Rogers, American

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali, American boxer

I dreamed I was a butterfly. Then I woke.
I did not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Zhuang

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Anna Pavlova, dancer

Love is like a butterfly.
Song by Dorothy Parton, American singer, songwriter, actress

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to become a butterfly.
R Buckminster Fuller

I am sorry if I flit about from visits to quotations. I just have a butterfly mind!

For quotations online I recommend 

brainyquote.com

For books on quotations, my books:
Quick Quotations
Who Said What When?
See 

Lulu.com Angela Lansbury


Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

For quotations about poets.