Colin the Raven (song)
Colin the Raven song by Ben Gadd
Listen to Ben Gadd play and sing this song!
Start with the chorus:
Colin has feathers, and all of them black
Wings to fly far and to carry him back
Colin has eyes of a beautiful brown
And he looks down to you on the ground
And he calls out to you with this sound (Croak! Croak!)
Fly with me!
Fly with me!
Come fly in the sky with me – e – e
Now these two verses, with no chorus between them
Colin, oh Colin, you acted so dumb
You couldn’t remember where you had come from
You couldn’t remember the tumbling game
Or even your very own name
But Colin grew wiser and Colin grew strong
He flew very high and he flew very long
He found all the answers he’d been searching for
And he found out very much more.
He found out very much more.
Now the chorus, and repeat the second part of it (“Fly with me!”),
Ending with a loud “Rawk-a-taw!”
© 2000 by Ben Gadd performed at Mr. Belsey’s Grade 5 class (www.coolclass.ca)
at Springbank Middle School near Calgary, Alberta Canada