Butterfly Free
by Rusty Wright and Springs Romano (BMI)
If you have never seen one of our Hula Teaching Videos, we invite you to try this one. As shown below, we first show you what the dance looks like, then we teach it verse by verse with practices for each verse. Then there is a rehearsal of the entire dance. Butterfly Free is a gift of song and dance, written, choreographed, and performed by us.
For the audio track, click on Music above, find the free album called PATH, and download Track #5 - Butterfly Free.
Butterfly Free
Key of C (same as recording).
Happy strum. Vamp twice: D7, G7, C and D7, G7, C (G7)
CHORUS
C
Sing a song to butterfly free
C
Listen well, oh humanity,
C
As your wings unfold on your way
G7 Dm G7
Bring new joy to you every day.
C C7
For the things that you leave behind,
F
There'll be so much more you can find
C G7
Transform life to all it can be
C F C - G7
Love is the way to butterfly free.
Verse 4
C
Earth is calling for change, we hear her voice.
G7
In the chrysalis of life we make our choice
C C7 F
To move to a lighter world, where no one crawls to live
G7 C - F - C
So we give so we all live. CHORUS - 2x
Verse 3
C
If tomorrow was a mirror, I could see
G7
But no matter what the dream, the truth is me
C C7 F
Though it all seems a mystery, aloha is my style
G7 C - F - C
And I smile, let’s all smile. CHORUS
Verse 2
C
If the past had a price, I let it go
G7
Called it only advice and now I know
C C7 F
I emerge like the butterfly, and joyful for the chance
G7 C - F - C
So I fly, and so I dance. CHORUS
Verse 1
C
From the isles of Hawai‘i comes my song.
G7
Mid the trade winds and rainbows all day long
C C7 F
Grows the will for a better world inside a living thing,
G7 C - F - C
So I sing, so I sing. CHORUS