Name: EMMO
Duration: P00H06M36S
Description: Jonah's all time hero as a toddler was Elmo from Sesame Street. He owned a toy Elmo guitar and one day I started noodling on it and wrote a riff. That riff became the skeleton of this song, and soon it became my ode to Jonah's childhood with Elmo as the protagonist. "EMMO" was how Jonah pronounced Elmo's name when he was young.

EMMO

from sire by Jamie Greer

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Jonah's all time hero as a toddler was Elmo from Sesame Street. He owned a toy Elmo guitar and one day I started noodling on it and wrote a riff. That riff became the skeleton of this song, and soon it became my ode to Jonah's childhood with Elmo as the protagonist. "EMMO" was how Jonah pronounced Elmo's name when he was young.

lyrics

There's a little red boy
Sitting on a shelf
He's always there to remind you
When you got nobody else

He lives in his own world
With all the love to be had
(Just) cause he looks like a monster
Doesn't mean he's all bad

Don't lose that smile, boy
Don't run and hide
Don't let your childhood escape you
And don't let it die

Wax poetic with goldfish
Dream the biggest dream
Keep asking all of your questions
And challenge all that it seems

Keep chasing stars in pyjamas
Keep counting cars by twos
Just never lose that wonders
Never lose sight of you

CHORUS

As the days become night time
The hours into days
Remember love and the laughter
As blue skies drone into grey

There's a little red boy
Sitting on a shelf
He's always there to remind you
When you got nobody else

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from sire, released August 15, 2017
Written by Jamie Greer
Arranged by Jamie Greer, Luc Michaud and Daren Dobsky

Jamie Greer: Lead & Backing Vocals, Elmo Toy Guitar
Daren Dobsky: Rhythm Guitar, Bass Guitar
Andrew Barlow: Lead Guitar
Luc Michaud: Programming, Percussion

Daren Dobsky appears courtesy the unquiet dead and Vice Aerial
Andrew Barlow appears courtesy the Doomsday Dogs and I Hear Things

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Jamie Greer Windsor, Ontario

Solo material by Jamie Greer, member of Vaudevillianaires, Golden Hands Before God, the unquiet dead, Magic Hall of Mirrors, Hung Jury. From Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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