Fly Free from Fly Free by Mish Songsmith

This is the first song that I ever wrote. I was writing a lot of poetry and had been learning the piano in London, with a piano player that I s where I worked as a singing waitress. I put my words to the piano chords for the first time, and this began an entire journey into songwriting, traveling and finding piano's where ever I went (youth hostels, halls and hotels) all over Canada, San Francisco and London. I was also missing home (Dee Why in Sydney Australia) as I had been travelling for a year. I was sitting on a gravestone near where I lived at the time near Richmond Dear Park in SW London, 'feeling empty and far from home.' I was longing to find 'my people' and didn't really feel like I fit in anywhere (I was soon to learn that I was a Lesbian!!!!!!) ha ha but hadn't yet figured that out yet. As much as I didn't feel like I fit into 'society' I always felt very connected to the trees, earth, ocean, forests....with mother nature and the stars etc xxx I really do feel that this song 'came through me' at the time as I wrote it in an hour!

Wishing you magic xxxx

Award winning singer/songwriter Mish Songsmith has a heart as big as the universe, and writes songs that remind you of a more loving world, like when Carole King reigned and guns were for cowboys. She has played hundreds of gigs and festivals over the past 20 years including Palm Creek Folk Festival, Woodford Folk Festival, Yeppoon Peace Festival and Adelaide Fringe Festival to name a few. Peace.

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