If I Had A Boat - Lyle Lovett Cover

Hi Everyone

These past month or so my father and I have been regularly visiting a town called Newburgh which lies on the Tay Estuary here in Fife , east central Scotland.

In the weeks leading up to Christmas last year, Newburgh was voted as the number one most beautiful town to visit during the Winter months. I was curious as to why this was, this town is only a 20-minute drive from my home and until very recently I had never visited it.

As soon as I started filming and photographing the area I realized right away why it was rated so highly, it is a very beautiful picturesque area, almost everywhere I point my camera I capture something wonderful.

One of the most unique things I have photographed here is this old boat which appears to have broken free of its moorings and finds itself now resting in these reedbeds. Perhaps this boat belonged a local sailor or more likely from somewhere further up the Tay estuary perhaps near the city of Dundee or Perth.

There are many boats moored along the edge of the water here, while filming them I had the song "If I had a boat" by Lyel Lovett playing in my mind.

I thought it might be a good idea to take the footage I have from filming the coastal walk along the estuary and edit it to my version of "If I Had A Boat". This afternoon I recorded the song on my Takamine G series guitar which has just recently been restrung after 18 months or so of having the same old strings.

I cross-dissolved the footage of the boats and footage of me singing in an attempt to create a nice little music video for this community.

I'm pretty happy with the results,I will try and continue using this method of taking footage from local spots and trying to find a song that suits the footage,its a lot more enjoyable to create something by combining my music and footage.Im sure you will see many videos like this from me this year.

Let me know what you guys think of this one?

"If I Had a Boat"
Lyle Lovett

And if I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Id sit me up on my pony on my boat

If I were Roy Rogers
I'd, sure enough, be single
I couldn't bring myself to marry an old Dale
Well, it'd just be me and Trigger
We'd go riding through them movies
Then we'd buy a boat and on the sea we'd sail

And if I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Id sit me up on my pony on my boat

The mystery masked man was smart
He got himself a Tonto
'Cause Tonto did the dirty work for free
But Tonto he was smarter
And one day said kemo sabe
Kiss my ass, I bought a boat
I'm going out to sea

And if I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Id sit me up on my pony on my boat

And if I were like lightning
I wouldn't need no sneakers
I'd come and go wherever I would please
And I'd scare 'em by the shade tree
And I'd scare 'em by the light pole
But I would not scare my pony on my boat out on the sea

And if I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Id sit me up on my pony on my boat
It'd just be me an trigger,riding through them movies
Then we'd buy a boat and on the sea we'd sail.

And if I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Id sit me up on my pony on my boat
Sit me up on my pony on my boat