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Can you write a song for me? Can it be about the way I learn as I travel?

This project can be done by an individual or a group.

Nothing but your voice or the London Philharmonic orchestra, the choice is yours (or maybe theirs). You will also need a device to record your song, save it and send it to me.

You have to write us the words of a song and then record it and send it to us. The song can be in any style from opera to rap. The only rule is that it has to be about Owlbut and it must include his name and the fact that he likes to learn things by travelling around.

However, we thought that might be a bit difficult for some of you, so we had a go and wrote a song and recorded a backing track for it, just the music, like Karaoke. There is also a printed version of the words. This means that you could either sing our words to our backing track or, if you're feeling clever, make up your own words but fit them to our tune or write your own song, words and music.

Three different ways for you to join in. What more could you want. We look forward to hearing your versions.

Here is the backing track



Here, in PDF form, are the written lyrics.

Once you've written your song and recorded it, you should email us a version, in any recognised format, including as a video. Versions that are sent to us will be judged and the best fifty will be uploaded to our site. Send the recorded package to song@owlbut.co.uk. Make sure you add your age and all names if you have been working with others.

All entries need to be in by December 31st 2025. The top ten songs, and maybe a few others, will be on the site fom April 2026. If you send yours in early we might put a few teasers on our site. Watch this space.

Feel free to upload the finished song to the special part of your school website called Owlbut's World of Learning. However, only examples sent to the above email address will be judged and, if successful, put on our site.

NOTE: You will retain full copyright of your song. However, by sending it to us, you give us permission to upload it to this site.

Once we'd written our song, we thought we would get a local school to record a version of it. Then the schools all closed because of COVID. This is why the news got bad. Richard decided he would record his version so, with no thought for the ears of others, he did, in our living room. It's here.



THANKS

Our thanks to Tony Meloy and Rhion Davies, who together are better known as Dad's Old Pants, and produced the backing track. They are now neatly folded in a drawer waiting to come back out and perform again but not before you hear Tony and Rhion's version



If you get the timing right, you can even have Richard and Tony singing a duet. Simon and Garfunkel eat your heart out. Musical joke coming up: Troubling and maybe A Bridge Too Far.

And finally.....................Richard hasn't yet decided whether to make a music video of the song. I told him we were too busy but he just said "um". I'm scared.