“Yard Sailing” is a song for autumn, written in 2001 in DADGAD. I recorded it in my living room on James Twomey’s DAT recorder with the fire crackling in the background.
Yard Sailing
© Patti Witten
School bus whistles down the road
Mommy waves goodbye
8 AM tomorrow
“Yard Sale,” reads the sign
Broken lamps and tired shoes
empty photo frames
magazines and diet books
hockey sticks, board games
(chorus)
Yard sailing
please, no early birds
final sale, no regrets
no refunds, no returns
Knotted afghans, old LPs
bottles of perfume
paperbacks with broken spines
curtain rods, old tools
(chorus)
(bridge)
Driving down the bargains
counting on the change
all the leaves are spinning gold
in every yard the same
Treasures lined up with the trash
beer steins with the grails
easy to set free the past
just set it out for sale
(chorus)
Sway To This : Patti Witten 