Slide Your Left Hand to the Right (A Little)

November 2, 2009 9:14 PM

This jaunty ditty features my wife singing lead and chococat playing the ukelele. I mostly just stand around.

This is the first original song that I've been able to get my wife to sing lead on. (She can previously be heard on our cover of Magnetic Field's "The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side".) Yay!

It was conceived as a ukelele song, but no one here actually plays one, so I enlisted the help of MeFi's own chococat; he went above and beyond my hopes and dreams, providing the wonderful stereo uke track heard here. Thanks, chococat!

(Did you know that there's a whole page of musicians willing to collaborate over on the MeFi wiki? Check it out!)

I play percussion (ride & splash cymbals & vibraphone) and melodica and also my venerable Casio SK-5.

posted by Karlos the Jackal (6 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite

Words:

Blink once for yes, twice for no
If you’re sleeping I should go
A pile of blankets like a pile of snow
Are you warmer now?

Do you remember that old joke?
I’d tell it again but I think I’d choke
I’ve learned a lot since last you woke
And I can show you now

Slide your left hand to the right a little
-- A little more
-- -- a little more

I can find a quiet space
And help you hold your hand in place
We’ll ignore in every case
The cadence and the key

Slide your left hand to the right a little
-- A little more
-- -- a little more

Everyone knows where we go
We hope the tempo will stay slow

Slide your left hand to the right a little
-- A little more
-- -- a little more

posted by Karlos the Jackal at 9:17 PM on November 2, 2009


I got to the end and I was looking for a little more... a little more. Get it? A-hahaha. Ha. Haha. No really, I like this. Everything's got a loose and lazy feel without being sloppy. Cool.
posted by uncleozzy at 5:41 AM on November 3, 2009


Turned out great!
posted by chococat at 7:00 AM on November 3, 2009


Aw, heck, this is great. Love the lead vox.
posted by cortex at 11:18 AM on November 3, 2009


Oops, when I said "vibraphone" up there I meant "vibraslap." There is no vibraphone.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 1:28 PM on November 3, 2009


Such a sweet song. I love it.
posted by umbú at 7:27 PM on November 6, 2009


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