I Need A Man... With A Chainsaw

by Jannie Sue
(Austin, Texas)

Thus begins the lyric for my "I Need A Man," a song I almost didn't write because I thought it was about the stupidest lyric I'd heard in my whole life.

But... I sang the first lines to a friend, she loved it and the rest is history!

Backstory: In 1994 we planted 2 oaks and built a deck around them. Fast forward 12 years later and the trees had grown so much the deck openings needed serious enlarging to let the tree trunks grow unencumbered.

I tried a sawzall but it didn't work, not powerful enough.

As I stood fretting on that spring morning about how to cut back those wolmonized 2 x 6s, "I need A Man With A Chainsaw," came bubbling out of me, words and melody together.

As luck would have it, our friend, Bo, who wanted to learn to play drums had a very fine chainsaw... and I had a drum metronome I no longer used, so switcheroo. Even trade, a drum metronome for an hour of chain-sawing.

And the birth of a song that continues to entertain.

Jannie Sue

http://www.janniefunster.com

(Mp3 of said song can be heard on my site.)