This song was a 2022 FAWM Scrimmage (#s021722) challenge to write a song in 90 minutes about something that you do routinely in your life. I wrote my lyrics in less than an hour but didn't get around to putting it to music and recording it 'til a couple of days later. I am a nut about getting daily exercise and the proper amount of sleep every night. I have daily routines which attempt to accomplish these health goals. I've been doing it for years and have maintained relatively good health. In this I am blessed.
Get some daily exercise to keep yourself fit
Even on those long hard days when you don’t feel like it
Sleep, Sleep Wonderful Sleep
Long life and health is what you’ll keep
Working in your garden or taking a little hike
Using your tennis racket or your ten-speed bike
Go to the weight room or paint your old grey barn
Everyday exercise won’t do you any harm
When the snow is on the ground, take a little ski
An hour or so when you can is all you’ll ever need
Get outside and exercise, do it every day
Every day you can, my friend, is what you must decide
Exercise, exercise, It’s a magic potion
Exercise every day to keep yourself in motion
Keep your joints a-limber and those muscles strong
Exercising every day won’t do you no harm
Get some daily exercise to keep yourself fit
Even on those long hard days when you don’t feel like it
Sleep, Sleep Wonderful Sleep
Long life and health is what you’ll keep
Every night at about ten o’clock I open the box
Get a thin slice of bread, put peanut butter on top
Slather it with honey and a bit of cinnamon
Sprinkle garlic powder on and then just pop it in
Go upstairs and take a shower
Floss your teeth each night with water-pik power
Hug your wife, say a prayer & tuck you self in
Trusting that God will forgive you all your sins
Put away your worries and all those stupid schemes
Sleep all night, with lots of pleasant dreams
Wake up early in the morn when the coffee steams
Do it every day, my friend, as a regular routine
Get some daily exercise to keep yourself fit
Even on those long hard days when you don’t feel like it
Sleep, Sleep Wonderful Sleep
Long life and health is what you’ll keep
Long life and health is what you'll keep
Do it every day as a regular routine
@beacon Mar 2022
This is such a great message (that I try to follow in my life)! The bread-peanut butter-honey-cinnamon-garlic powder is so specific and surprising! This is so visual. Nice job.
#listeningskirmish
@davidbreslin101 Feb 2022
Nice lyric-writing: if the goal of the skirmish was to make daily life lively and interesting, you succeed in spades! The strolling guitar strum is a perfect match.