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Courage

Courage

Otis Is Flying

  Liner notes by Kathy Mattea

     The listener is drawn in from the opening track, "Otis is Flying," a quirky imagining of "the existential angst of the Labrador Retriever." It is a sweet, affectionate pondering of human-ness and dog-ness, an easy gateway to draw us into this journey, to prime us to want to hear more.   Read the rest

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Me and Otis down by the river
Walking together in the heat of the day
Me on my two feet, Otis on his four feet
As the geese fly south down the Hudson River flyway

     And the geese look down at the old railway station.
     In his imagination Otis is flying
     It's the existential angst of the Labrador Retriever
     And it will last until suppertime

What if our lives were measured in dog years?
Would I still be here? I can't figure it out
So we turn toward home where supper is waiting
The river flows on and the geese fly south

     And the geese look down at the old railway station.
     In his imagination Otis is flying
     It's the existential angst of the Labrador Retriever
     And it will last until suppertime
     And it will last until suppertime

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