Shirley Jean Mitchell website & blog
Featured Song “So Sad” Written by Shirley
Video of “So Sad” a song about love gone wrong
Lyrics by Shirley Mitchell with music by Stuart Mitchell
Performed by Shane Piasecki (singer), Jillian O’Haire (singer), and Coulter Mitchell (percussion)
The Latest Musings from Shirley
The June Bug and the Firefly
Like the firefly and the June Bug Summer was living for love The June Bug in the low grounds The firefly twinkling above She danced in the treetops And lit up the meadows He watched as she flittered Through moonbeams and shadows He pined and he sighed With heartache...
My Father
I saw my father waving
Waving me goodbye
I wasn’t sure he meant it
I stood there but didn’t cry
I Was Seventeen
I was seventeen with dreams I couldn’t interrupt. I saw my father in the past, my mother still cooking chicken. I was ready to put my foot into the river of life, into experience, into conversation, into love, my hair shiny and curly, my eyes open to everything. I...