As a young teenager I accompanied my uncles on their rounds of getting grain milled. I also got to visit sawmills and can remember the cutting smell of damp sawdust and the sweet dusty smell of dry milled grain. I wrote a song which mentions visiting this mill.
Walter's Falls
The first verse reflects on Sarah's growing up in Nova Scotia, the second on my summers in Grey County, Ontario. Sarah contributed the inspiring line 'the sky starts at your feet'.
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Wonder Woman
look out at the water
you stand there and stare
eyes on the stars above
the wavespray in your hair
makes you feel like wonder woman
makes you feel like wonder man
got a wonderful life ahead
in a wonderful land
I'm looking for bass in the mill pond in Massie
rode the back of the truck all the way to Walter's Falls
take your boots off your feet, put your feet in the water
the cool headwater where the Bighead stalls
makes you feel like wonder woman
makes you feel like wonder man
there's a wonderful life ahead
in a wonderful land
going everywhere that you go
with everyone that you know
and everything that you do there
you've got to start it right now
there may not be a tomorrow
out in the bush garden
the small hand sows the seed
the sun warms the earth
the sky starts at your feet
makes you feel like wonder woman
makes you feel like wonder man
got a wonderful life ahead
in a wonderful land
all lyrics/music copyright 2003 randy sutherland
from the CD 'the sky starts at your feet'
