GREEN GRASS ON-SCREEN LYRICS VIDEO IS READY!  As promised  – my on-screen lyrics video version of my song, “Green Side of the Grass” has now been uploaded to YouTube and I will soon be adding it to my website.   Feel free to share the video link with your friends and family.   It’s been about a week in the making, adjusting the background mix in the recording, implementing some new photos, and inserting the lyrics in just the right places.  Video editing is very time consuming!

This on-screen lyrics version was created to assist the hearing impaired.  I’ve received numerous emails from listeners asking for an on-screen lyrics version of my song/video because they were having difficulty hearing the words to the song because of the busy background mix in the original video.   I’ve listened!   Hope everyone enjoys the new sing-along version!

THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG:

For those of you who don’t know, I wrote the song, “Green Side of the Grass” about a year ago as a spoof on aging since I was turning 50 myself.   (Birthday #51 is just around the corner – October 16th)   It seemed like at 50, I started experiencing some arthritis in my right hand, some vision loss (I  now wear bifocal glasses now) and a few other other ailments discussed in the video that I don’t care to mention!  I got the idea for the title of the song from a good friend who, when asked how he was doing, would always use the saying, “I’m on the Green Side of the Grass”.   With that clever little saying, a little bell went off in my songwriting mind and I knew a song would evolve from it.

I actually give God the glory for giving me the words and music to all of my songs, this one included!  I feel that God uses me as his instrument to relay important messages to people.

As with the majority of my songs, there is in fact an important message in the song “Green Side of the Grass”.  The blessing comes from the lyrics found in the prayer at the end of the song/video.  Listen carefully!

ABOUT THE PHOTOS IN THE VIDEO:

If you don’t see yourself in my video, perhaps you will be reminded of someone you know!    It took me weeks running around taking photos for my video.   First, I’d like to thank my good friend Vic, for posing for “the hearing fails” photo, and my dad for participating in the video clip of “you can’t be in a hurry.   Both men were great sports about helping me with my project!

I shot the video footage of chickens that appear in the video with my Iphone.  (The chickens belong to a neighbor down the street – the video features “Henry”, the rooster!)

The gold “50” at the beginning of the video is a close-up of a cake topper saved as a memorial from my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary on my dad’s side.

The cane shown in my family room with the red wall was my husband’s grandfather’s cane.

In case you are wondering, that is in fact a picture of my toilet bowl!

The photo of the little handheld mirror was taken in my guest bathroom.

I diligently searched for the perfect wrinkled dog photograph, but ultimately purchased the photo of the wrinkled dog shown in the video from an on-line internet source.

That is my refrigerator and those are my keys – I lose them all the time!  (A little embarrassed about the shelves not being clean!)  Being from the south, I’m a big boiled peanut fan!!! – note items on refrigerator shelf #2)

I enjoyed creating the Arthritis and Gravity clips using a word program and adding some special effects in my editing program.

Dug through the medicine cabinet and found some old pill bottles – and no I don’t take all of those medicines now!  (just bad about not throwing away expired medication…)

That is my hand with the red ribbon tied around my finger.

The photo of the Gerber daisy in the dirt pile is a story in itself – I had this kind of photo in mind, so I bought the plant at Lowes, needed a dirt pile, so I rode to a local nursery where I found the perfect pile of dirt (they were selling sand and sod)  I climbed on top the dirt pile (being careful not to be spotted), and posed my yellow daisy plant and took the photo – unfortunately, once home, the daisy in the pot only lasted a few weeks – my pretty plant is no longer on the green side of the grass L .

The beach sunset photo was taken in Destin, Florida.   The clock in the video hangs on my wall in the kitchen.

Those are my slippers on the scale in my bathroom but I may have altered the scale a little……

The snail photo was publisher clip art.

I took the mailbox photo on my street – my own mailbox just wouldn’t do….

The man checking the mail is no relation – it was a free publisher clip art photo.

I had a hard time finding an early- bird menu – after about 5 trips to different establishments – success!

Lets just say the snoring devices live in our household.

The graveyard shot was taken at a cemetery here in Tallahassee.

The stained glass chapel is located at Callaway Gardens in Georgia – we vacationed there a few years ago.

I took the cross photo featured near the end of the video  where it says “You’ll one day be with Jesus” in Italy a few years ago.

PHOTO CREDITS:

I would like to thank my friend Jim Peters for contributing the lighthouse photo and the nighttime photo of the moon over the bay.

Thank you also to Sarah Schauer for use of the beautiful green grass photo taken in Switzerland, her photo of the cluster of yellow daisies in the green grass, her sunflower photo, the photo of the sun fading over the large rock , and the photo of the sunset in the clouds, taken in Hawaii.

Last but not least, thank you to Kristi Boniella for use of her her photo of the wooden fence with the yellow flowers,  and for the inspirational photo of the white daisy facing the sky that appears at the end of the video.

As Paul Harvey would say, now you know “the rest of the story”.

Please know, I wrote this song to inspire the listener to live each day to be the best you can be. It was in no way written to offend any one.  It is my hope that you will be blessed by the important message found in my song.

In Christian Love,

Libby