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Butterfly Dance

from Every Day Is Earth Day by Joanie Calem

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13. Butterfly Dance ©2015: Butterflies seem so magical to me, starting off as caterpillars, turning into chrysalises, and then hatching as butterflies. Monarch butterflies, who migrate every spring from Mexico to the northern part of the United States, and then back again in the fall, can travel up to 3,000 miles! Amazing!

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Butterfly Dance, by Joanie Calem © 2015
Chorus
Butterfly dance, butterfly dance, everybody do the butterfly dance
Flap your wings and prance and prance, everybody do the butterfly dance

Monarch butterflies love to fly, Every year traveling thousands of miles
They crawl, they eat, they sleep, grow wings, Goin’ south in the fall, north in the spring
Chorus

They make their way along the milkweed path, Layin’ their eggs and then they pass….
The first caterpillars hatch in April and May, then go munchin’ all through those days
Alternative Chorus:
Caterpillar Dance, caterpillar dance, everybody do the caterpillar dance,
Crawl along and prance and prance, everybody do the caterpillar dance.

When it’s time they spin chrysalis strings, sleep a bit, then flap new wings
Further north their migration goes, Feeding on the milkweed that they see below
Butterfly Chorus…

The summer generation goes flying around, Drinking from the flowers down on the ground
First scent of autumn they’ll be ready to go, From Canada back to Mexico
Chorus

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from Every Day Is Earth Day, track released April 20, 2020
Joanie Calem: guitar and vocals
Tom Boyer: bowed bass

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Joanie Calem Columbus, Ohio

Joanie Calem is a folk musician, singer/song-writer, storyteller and inclusion advocate for audiences of all ages. Joanie writes songs and sings about life's different twists and turns, angles and perspectives, telling stories through her songs of the ups and downs of reality. She performs regularly at festivals, retirement homes, shelters, libraries and schools throughout the US and abroad. ... more

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