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I was listening to B.B. King’s version of this tune last night and I was really feeling it. I think it fits the feeling I have for all of my friends and family right now – a kind of dependent gratitude.

Really, I think B.B. King’s version is probably better, but the guy was touring in Japan with a billion studio musicians when he made that one, and I made mine in my basement. If you listen closely, you can hear the water running through our pipes in the background. (But who cares what it sounds like? I’m on chemo. I can sound like a rat in a toaster and I’d just be happy I’m still walking. And come on, nobody’s going to tell me I suck, I have cancer. I should take advantage of this brief time when I can sound however I want to sound!) Hope you enjoy.

Hummingbird
Written by Leon Russell

Sometimes I get impatient,
but she cools me without words.
And she comes so sweet and so softly,
my hummingbird and have you heard
That I thought my life had ended?
But I find that it’s just begun,
’cause she gets me where I live.
I’ll give all I have to give.
I’m talking about that hummingbird.

Oh she’s little and she loves me,
too much for words to say.
When I see her in the morning sleeping,
she’s little and she loves me.
To my lucky day,
Hummingbird don’t fly away.

When I’m feeling wild and lonesome
she knows the words to say.
And she gives me a little understanding,
in her special way.
And I just have to say,
in my life I loved no other.
Because she’s more than I deserve,
and she gets me where I live.
I’ll give all I have to give,
I’m talking about that hummingbird.

Oh she’s little and she loves me,
too much for words to say.
When I see her in the morning sleeping,
she’s little and she loves me.
To my lucky day,
hummingbird don’t fly away.