Words By Mary Ellen Meikle
A Summer Day (mp3) is a song dawn pieced together in 1990. We recorded it on a friend’s 1/4” 8-track in 1992 for a Vandal Children Records project which was eventually scrapped (a live version of the song was included on the Charlie’s cassette). The lyrics were taken from an Everyday Books collection of Mary Ellen Meikle’s heartbreaking poetry. Back then Everyday Books still had a cafe/bookstore in Willimantic.
The words to “A Summer Day” are buried under the guitars and drums, but Mary Ellen Meikle’s entire One Day I Went Looking For Myself collection has been scanned and can be read online. The book provides a glimpse at the reality of an often hard hit life.