Singer Songwriter Scott Wilcox

Lookin for Beaver

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I realize by the title of this song it seems a bit questionable. But this song is about my best friend in high school; his nickname was Beaver. I was also lucky to be friends with others guys nicknamed, Wally, Biff and Melvin. I went through some pretty tough years in high school, due to my parents divorce and often having to fend for myself while my mother worked 3 jobs to support my sister and I. I probably would not have made it if it hadn't been for those insane, loveble guys. Thanks guys. (Ma’am I Wasn’t Looking at You I was) Lookin for Beaver
By Scott Wilcox

I grew up in a little bitty town in the heartland
Try to grow up in Wisconsin and call yourself a bluesman
I was lucky to find some friends that would take me
The kind of group of guys that would never forsake me

My best friend’s mamma, she’s calls him the Beaver
She says she doesn’t know why, but we don’t believe her
We always liked him anyway but it was so embarrassin’ to say.
Ma’am I wasn’t looking for you, I was looking for Beaver.

I took my buddies down to, oh down to Mobile
After 9 months of winter you don’t know how good the sun feels
I stick my feet into the hot sand a woman comes by all oily and tan and I say I wasn’t looking at you I was looking for Beaver.

CHORUS
There was Scotty, Biff and Wally Melvin and Beav
The greatest group of guys that you ever did see
When it comes to buddies I’m a believer
cause ma’am I wasn’t looking at you I was looking for Beaver.

So It’s like ten years later and I call him on the telephone
It keeps on ringin and ringin I’m thinking nobody's home
Finally his wife she gets on the line amd she says
I’m sorry he ain’t home at this time and I say
I wasn’t looking for you, no I wasn’t looking for you
I was looking for Beaver

BRIDGE
BEAVER I usually start looking at the nearest bar yeah,
Looking for Beaver
CHORUS/ BRIDGE

Allis and John

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As you can probably tell, this isn't your normal kind of song idea. But one evening, in the middle of Summer I had just finished working in the woods and sat down by the firepit to drink a cold beer. As I sat there, I looked into the west and the sun was about to set and I noticed my stepdad's tractor sittin there facin the sunset and thought to myself, "My she sure looks lonely." So I started to imagine what kind of life that tractor would want if it could talk.
I love to tease my neighbors, my neighbor down the road is a huge John Deere fan, I actually like 'em too, but I tease him anyway. So As I was writing down this song I made sure to make her betrothed a John Deere tractor just so he could get towed away in the end. Needless to say, I was very happy to play the song for him when I finished. But now that I've had time to think about this song, it's much more than that. I think it's a testament to the hard work all farmers put in everyday and when one passes, something that's a part of us all dies too. So Here's to John and Allis, may they forever sit beneath the willow tree and watch the sunset, after chores of coarse. Allis and John
Written and produced by Scott Wilcox (c) 2008

It was 1952 on the day that they met.
Allis wore and orange dress to match the sunset.
John was plowin up cropland for the very first time,
some called it love at first sight.

It was not soon after that John said, "Be Mine".
It was under the Willow tree that they would combine.
So they sat and watched the sunset and confessed their love,
and it was always enough.

Chorus
John said, "Allis you got a beautiful design",
and they made hay while the sunshines.
She was Allis Chalmers he was good 'ol John Deere,
out there in the backyard it was perfectly clear,
that they were in love and as sure a you'd bet,
Every night they'd watch the sunset.

It was 40 years and I remember to this day,
The look of Allis when they towed John away
Now she sits in the back yard and she's sittin there yet.
Every night she'll watch the sunset.

Chorus

Some of you might think this is just a silly song,
singin bout two tractors in love, is all wrong.
But if you love farmin' as much as some do,
you might believe that its true.

Chorus

My Best Friend and My Wife

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I origially wrote this song for my wife but did not finish it.  I had difficulty finding words for the second verse of the song.  About 5 years later, as I was trying to think of something to play for a friends wedding, the second verse hit me and TA DA, it was finished.

You Are My Best Friend and My Wife

By Scott Wilcox

Written 2003 finished 2008 © 2008

 

 

When I see you smile it makes me happy

Think of all the things that we’ve been through       

All the times I left you laughing

And all the times I made you blue

But you know that I’m gonna love you for the rest of my life

Cause you are my best friend and my wife.

 

When I’m by your side I feel your heartbeat

When I hold you close so warm and still

I think some times I might be dreaming

But then I wake and it’s all real

And I know that I’m gonna love you for the rest of my life.

Cause you are my best friend and my wife.

 

Piano interlude

 

When I’m far away I know you’re with me.

And when I speak I know what you’d say

It feels like we share one spirit

Like we began a brand new day

And you know that I’m gonna love you for the rest of my life

Cause you are my best friend and my wife  

Easy Kind of Love

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When I was a freshman in college. I wrote this song for to reasons: First, I wrote it as a dedication to my Jr. High choir Director ad mentor Beverly rood for teaching me the love of music, a gift which I still enjoy today. Second, I wrote it to describe music as a kind of love that is both easy and dependable.  I have always found that no matter how stressful my life becomes it is music that seems to soothe me.  Like a soul mate, music comforts me and warms me when I need a boost of self confidence or need to feel more secure.

Easy Kind of Love

By Scott Wilcox

 

I look out my window

It’s midnight, through the city lights I remember

I don’t know the reasons

I’m looking back through the seasons

Do you realize you’re the music in my eyes?

 

I know that I believe

Everyone looks for an easy kind of love

I don’t know the reasons

I’m looking back through the seasons

I owe to you the music in my soul.

 

Everybody’s looking for an easy kind of love

Don’t search your whole life, depend on musical love

If you want to grow older, and not grow colder

Let music be your easy kind of love.

 

Now I know a forever love

It comes in from the cold winter snow

I don’t know the reasons

I’m looking back through the seasons

Music is a love to follow

 

Teacher teach me all I need

To survive in the world and with love

I now know the reasons

I’ve been looking back through the seasons

An now I know an easy kind of love

 

Everybody’s looking for an easy kind of love

Don’t search your whole life, depend on musical love

If you want to grow older, and not grow colder

Let music be your easy kind of love.