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We Were Only Children

from Songwriter, Volume 1 (15 songs) by Bill Naughton, Jr.

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This has always been one of my favorite songs, and one that my two kids absolutely love. It's a really pretty little song about a guy and a girl who first met in grade school and have been best friends like forever and they end up spending their whole life together. It's written with a somewhat older demographic in mind because it references baseball cards and hula hoops, which brings you back to the 60s, but like that song that Frankie Valli sang, "My Eyes Adored You," I think this will appeal to just about any age group. It's a love song, and love knows no boundaries. It's just a nice little love song and everybody likes a love song. I asked my daughter, Vanessa, who was 11 at the time, to play a flute solo on this song and she came into the studio and did such a beautiful job playing the flute on this song that I asked her to come back and play on another song too, and she did. I'm really proud of her, and I'm so happy that she plays flute on two songs on my album. I think the flute solo on this song is really special, it gives it a really nice feel and makes the song sound so much stronger.

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We Were Only Children
(Bill Naughton, Jr.)
c 2014 Biliolga Music (ASCAP)

We were only children when we met,
On the playground of the State Street School,
And I only lived a block away from you,
So it got to be that I'd walk you home
Each afternoon when school was through,
We were only children when I fell in love with you...

No one else could ever catch my eye,
Though every now and then some girl we knew,
Would try to steal my heart away from you,
But they soon found out I didn't stray
Too far from you, my love was true,
We were only children when I fell in love with you...

-middle eight-
From baseball cards and paper dolls,
To hula hoops and summer jobs,
We became a legend in our time,
I promised you when we were young,
You'd always be the only one,
I'd never want another to be mine...

-flute solo-

-repeat middle eight and first verse-

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from Songwriter, Volume 1 (15 songs), released September 19, 2014
Bill Naughton, Jr.: acoustic guitar, ukulele, vocals
Terry Miggins: electric guitar, bass
Jay Miggins: drums
Vanessa Naughton: flute solo
Michael Arafeh: recording engineer and producer

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Bill Naughton, Jr. East Hampton, Connecticut

Songwriter Bill Naughton, Jr. is a former Nashville radio disc jockey - WSIX and WSM-FM - with two15 track albums of studio demos released to showcase his original material for recording artists, producers and label A&R reps in an effort to get his songs cut by other singers. All 30 tracks, produced by Michael Arafeh at the Coffeehouse in Middletown CT, can be downloaded FREE here on Bandcamp.com. ... more

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