"Pelicans" is a sweet summertime song that fits the Trop Rock, Americana, Country, and Lite Rock genres. Think Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney, or Zac Brown in a mellow escapist mood. The perfect song for coming out of containment...emotional or physical...and finding contentment.
Produced by Pat Lassiter and Kurt Fortmeyer at River Front Recording in Madison, Tennessee
Executive Producer: Red Wigglers
lyrics
Pelicans
(Kurt Fortmeyer/Roy Holdren)
Dad Zone Music ASCAP/Flatbilly Songs ASCAP
Loaded up my car and put back home behind me
Got a good head start to where the world won’t find me
Soothing sun and salty spray wash away the everyday
And I know everything will be okay when I see
Pelicans on the wind
Pouches packed travelin’
No looking back at where they’ve been
Rest a while then gone again
Where the blacktop ends and the sand begins
Pelicans
Six-pack choir singing songs at sunset
‘Round a driftwood fire with new old friends I just met
The tide has turned I feel the change it’s a perfect end to the perfect day
When gliding gracefully above the waves I see
Pelicans on the wind
Pouches packed travelin’
No looking back at where they’ve been
Rest a while then gone again
Where the blacktop ends and the sand begins
We’re like pelicans
Where the blacktop ends
And the sand begins
We’re like pelicans on the wind
Pouches packed traveling
No looking back at where they’ve been
Rest a while then gone again
Where the blacktop ends and the sand begins
We’re like pelicans on the wind
We’re like pelicans travelin’
We’re like Pelicans gone again
Pelicans
credits
from Still Not Out Of The Woods,
track released April 10, 2021
Kurt Fortmeyer - lead vocal, harmonica
Time Galloway - guitars
Mike Holmes - keyboards
Pat Lassiter - bass
Will Ellis - percussion
Kathy Hussey - backing vocals
Trey is one of my favorite songwriters, and the pickers he gathered together for this project take a bluegrass backseat to nobody...plus he cut one of my songs (but I'm not the least bit biased). Kurt Fortmeyer
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