Thanks

Thanks for the oxygen
Thanks for the frogs
Thanks for the fleas and thanks for the dogs
Thanks for the sunshine
Thanks for the ice
I gotta say the color scheme
you’re using here is really nice

Thanks for the butterflies
Thanks for the laughs
Thanks for armadillos and thanks for giraffes
Thanks for the rain
Thanks for the wind
You’re so dang amazing gotta say it again
Thanks!
Yeah thanks!

Thanks for the swoosh
Thanks for the plunk
Thanks for the stripes
on the back of the skunk
Thanks for volcanoes
Thanks for earthquakes
The motion of the ocean
and the music that it makes

Thanks for the rainbows
Thanks for the stars
Thanks for what we was
and thanks for what we are
Thanks for my belly
Thanks for my heart
For giving every living thing
a special kind of smarts
Thanks!
Yeah thanks!

Thanks for bacteria
Thanks for the rocks
Thanks for a little black cat
with white socks
Thanks for the geysers
Thanks for the bugs
When I look at all the beauty
oh my heart just fills with love

Thanks for the continents
Thanks for the poles
Thanks for the mountains
and thanks for the moles
Thank you for gravity
Thank you for night
For weasels and wallabies
and eagles in flight
Thanks!
Yeah thanks!

Thanks for the buffalo
Thanks for the tick
Thanks for the way
that the gecko feet stick
Thanks for the flippers
Thanks for the fins
The paws and the claws
the teeth and the chins

Thanks for the puddles
Thanks for the sky
Thanks for the how and thanks for the why
Thanks for the honeybees
Thanks for the flowers
For cow’s milk and spider silk and termite towers
Thanks!
Yeah thanks!
Thanks!

© 2007 Amy Martin

Vocals – The Missoula Coyote Choir, Erin McKeown
Drums & Percussion – Allison Miller
Bass – Todd Sickafoose
Keys – Julie Wolf
Guitar – Adam Levy

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