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Your own amigo

from Rio's First Album by AMMRA

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This song covers gardening, meditating, baking and hanging out with friends. It’s just good stuff.

lyrics

Got to garden your own way (spray with water)
make sure to put on some bug spray (spray with something)
because those mosquitos they love you sweet blood, y’ know?
and my protective instinct ain’t just for show.
Plant some uchua 1 and garlic (what a combo!)
and start up a dance party (dance dance)
with the butterflies and the hummingbirds
who talk with dance moves instead of words.

Hi diddliho neighboreenos 2
You used to play with Mousa and Kadeem, 3
now we hang with our friends in the garden.

Sit in a quiet and dark place (you’ll find it),
concentrate on your breathing,
Notice how your thoughts will always come and go,
body sensations are in constant flow.

My own amigo
In this strange world we have but one body,
it burps, it farts, it is naughty.
But just be your own amigo.

To make some bread you need this (some flour)
and yeast and salt and water (some other stuff)
now mix it up into a sticky mess
let’s bake this bread — we got this.

Hi ho amigo
It’s not too late to bake at a friend’s house
a sleepover at Iggy or Lev’s house 4

1. “uchua” is what we call Physalis peruviana, a delicious fruit that grows well in the SF Bay Area
2. obligatory ‘Simpsons’ reference
3. Mousa and Kadim were our (older) kid neighbors who Rio would play with when he was 2 years old.
4. Iggy and Lev are two of Rio’s friends. Rio has had one sleepover at Iggy’s and it was a hit.

credits

from Rio's First Album, released December 19, 2019
Tyson Vogel on guitar, Steve backup vox

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AMMRA San Francisco, California

AMMRA = Antonio Miguel Martín Roman-Alcalá

Once musician, future musician, now dad, fan of the red and black

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