Things are simple when you share your love - it's a life lesson that can take a lifetime to understand. It just feels right when a song shake shape quickly, based on deeply felt emotions and lived experience, and that was the case with this gong for Babi and me, written for our September 2019 wedding. Thanks to Alisa Rose for her stunning string quartet arrangement.
lyrics
Things are simple when you share your love,
Sun and moon and all the stars above
They shine on you.
Complications they all fall away
When you smile the night becomes the day,
You shine on through.
Things are simple, things are simple, things are simple.
Things are simple when you share your song,
Tell your story and I’ll sing along,
I’ll walk with you.
Conversation at the end of day,
Hold me closely and you’ll hear me say
That I love you.
Things are simple, things are simple, things are simple.
Things are simple when I take your hand,
Pledge my life and give this wedding band,
And say “I do.”
Things are simple, things are simple, things are simple.
credits
from Things Are Simple,
released January 27, 2023
Bill Evans: guitar and vocals
Babi Evans: vocals
String quartet composed by Alisa Rose. Alisa Rose & Nigel Armstrong, violins; Ivo Bokulic, viola; Michael Graham, cello.
Recorded by Steve Smith at the Cave, Las Cruces, NM
String quartet recorded by David Luke, Opus Studio, Berkeley, CA
Mastered by David Glasser, Airshow Mastering, Boulder, CO
2022 Steve Martin Banjo Prize recipient Bill Evans has been involved with bluegrass music and the banjo for over forty-five
years as a player, teacher, composer, author and historian.
Bill has helped thousands of people to find joy in the banjo through his books, online courses and videos, workshops and one-on-one lessons.
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