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I wrote 'True Friend' with the help of Karin Steiner and my beautiful friends at New Leaf Link in Sydehman, Ontario. We were talking about friends and what a true friend is like. One of the group, Mike Brown, got very animated and said, "A true true friend!" And the song was born.

lyrics

A True Friend

With true true friend—a true true friend
With a hand to hold or a hand to lend
And If you are lucky and I hope that you are
You’re true true friend loves you just as you are

Having a friend is a beautiful thing
It’s like having a beautiful song to sing
And having a beautiful song to sing
Is like having a friend and that’s a beautiful thing

With a true true true friend—a true true friend
A hand to hold or a hand to lend
If you are lucky and I hope that you are
You’re true true friend loves you just as you are

Having a friend is like singing a song
You find out that others are singing along
And everything’s right and not much is wrong
You find yourself singing all day long
You knew you were singing it all along

Friendship’s old fashioned—it’s new fangled too
You can visit an old friend out of the blue
you can facebook or skype or send a text too
Friendship’s old fashioned and it’s new fangled too


With a true true true friend— a true true friend
A hand to hold or a hand to lend
If you are lucky and I hope that you are
You’re true true friend loves you just as you are

If you are lucky and I know that you are
You’re true true friend loves you just as you are

credits

from The Very Next Day, released November 12, 2014
Composed by Gary Rasberry

Producer
Dave Clark
www.thewoodshedorchestrra.com

Recording & Mixing
Matt Roglasky (Memory Device)
www.memory-device.com

Mastering
www.Fedge.ca

Original Cover Art (“Razzletone with Top Hat”)
Wallace Edwards

Graphic Design
Kathy Daw/Summit Sound
www.summitsound.com

Musicians

Gary Rasberry vocals, acoustic guitar

The Woodshed Orchestra

Dave Clark drums, vocals, bells, whistles, fun

Nicolas Buligan trumpet, flugel horn, bkg vocals

Tania Gill piano, bkg vocals

Julia Hambleton clarinet

Rebecca Hennessy trumpet, bkg vocals

Michael Herring upright bass, bkg vocals

Paul Kolinski bkg vocals

Joe Lapinski electric guitar, pedal steel guitar

Karen Ng saxophone, bkg vocals

Karl Silveira trombone

Whitney Peterson bkg vocals, True Friend

Laurel Minnes bkg vocals, True Friend

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Gary Rasberry Kingston, Ontario

JUNO-nominated artist, Gary Rasberry, is a poet, singer-songwriter & Imagination Consultant.

Genre-bending artist Gary Rasberry is equally at home on a children's stage or an intimate coffeehouse.

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