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she kept on swimming

from Spin by Beautifully Mad

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    Spin CD album floating between Singer/songwriter acoustic songs to Jazz. Winner of Best Lyrics for Billy's Dream in the International Songwriting Awards 2014. Also Best Lyrics and Best Song in the Acoustic/Folk category at The Australian Songwriting Awards

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She Kept on Swimming was winner of the Australian Songwriters Awards for Best Song 2011 in the Acoustic category. Written by Tony King and Kris Ralph from the Band Beautifully Mad, this song follows the amazing life of a Turtle. The video features footage of Turtles on Heron Island and the Whitsundays in the Great Barrier Reef Queensland Australia.. More about Beautifully Mad at www.beautifullymad.com

lyrics

She kept on Swimming
© 2012 Tony King and Kris Ralph

She was born on this Island 100 years ago
Of the 1000 turtles hatched that night she was the only one to survive
She dodged the sharks and fishermen
And cyclones came and went
A plane came down in world war 2
put a gash along her shell
put a gash along her shell
And she kept on swimming
She kept on swimming
And she kept on swimming
She kept on swimming
Til the safety of the current took her away…

She carried the weight of her future
as she struggled up the beach
The same day man was weightless
on the surface of the moon
She was alive when jazz was born
And for the birth of Rock and roll
She was blown out of the water
at Muaroa Atoll
at Muaroa Atoll
And she kept on swimming
She kept on swimming



And she kept on swimming
She kept on swimming
and the will to be a mother took her away
solo intro riffs
At 100 years of age she laid her final eggs
Nearly lost her life to a tiger shark
And took shelter on the reef

When she broke her fast
Her next meal would be her last
She couldn’t tell a jelly fish
From a floating plastic bag
A stupid thoughtless man-made plastic bag
And all those memories all those memories
all those memories 100 years of memories
flashed before her to the bottom of the sea

the same day, on that island 4000 miles away
A single daughter made it
out to the ocean deep ….out to the ocean deep
And she kept on swimming
She kept on swimming
kept on swimming
She kept on swimming
Til the safety of the current took her away

credits

from Spin, released December 29, 2012
Hamish Stuart- drums
Nina Vox- Lead female vocals
Tony King backing male Vocals and all other instruments

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Beautifully Mad Sydney, Australia

Breathtaking original music reminiscent of the beauty of James Taylor, some honey from Melody Gardot, a lyrical spice of Cohen washed down with some Waits-like humour. A musical flame that licks at the heels of Folk and Jazz

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