Claudia's Latest Album for Kids

Track 1. Little by Little [4:02]

Songwriter/Composer: Claudia Robin Gunn

ISRC: NZRI12300604

Instrumentation: trombone, glockenspiel, xylophone, piano, bass, organ, keyboards, percussion and guitars - Dean Jones

Vocals: Claudia Robin Gunn, Dean Jones

Producer/Mixer: Dean Jones

Mastering Engineer: Alan Douches

Little by little 
Day by day
We know we’re gonna make it
If we try and try again 
Little by little
Step by step
One foot in front of the other
We keep on no matter how tough it’s getting

Little by little we’re gaining ground
Little by little we can find our own sound
Little by little we’ll never lose heart     
To try and try again is the best part 

Little by little
Branch by branch 
Leaf by leaf by leaf
We’re reaching out far
Little by little
Row by row
We’re dropping in the tiny seeds
And watchin em grow

Little by little we’re gaining ground
Little by little we can turn this right round
Little by little we’ll never lose heart    
To try and try again is the best part
Little by little we’re gaining ground
Little by little we can rock this town
Little by little we’ll never lose heart     
To try and try again's the most important part

Fear by fear, doubt by doubt
Worry by worry we can break it down
Joy by joy, grin by grin                      
Moment by moment letting happiness in 

Little by little we’re gaining ground
Little by little we can turn this right round
Little by little we’ll never lose heart       
To try and try again is the best part
Little by little we’re gaining ground (little by little)
Little by little we can rock this town (little by little)
Little by little we’ll never lose heart    (little by little)
To try and try again's the most important part

Roly by poly
Scuffle by scuffle
Shuffle by shuffle
Tumble by tumble

Move by move
Brick by brick
Smidgen by smidgen
Inch by inch 

Mile by mile
Song by song 
Breath by breath
All life long

Rhythm by rhythm
Beat by beat
Letter by letter
Dream by dream

Little by little we’re gaining ground
Little by little we can climb this mountain
Little by little we’ll never lose heart   
To try and try again is the best part 

Little by little we're gaining ground...

Track 2. Colours [02:19]

Songwriter/Composer: Claudia Robin Gunn

ISRC: NZRI12300605

Instrumentation: Bass, Keyboards, percussion, flutes, and guitars

Vocals: Claudia Robin Gunn, Little Miss Ann, Suzi Shelton, Dean Jones

Producer/Mixer: Dean Jones

Mastering Engineer: Alan Douches

Hello friends, how’re ya feeling
What colour is your day ?
Welcome in to the circle
Your colours light the way

Shine your colours
Shine my friends
Shine your colours
Cos everybody’s welcome in

Red is so excited (red)
Yellow's full of fun (yellow)
Green brings calm, purple charm (green)
Colours for everyone

Shine your colours
Shine my friends
Shine your colours
Cos everybody’s welcome in

If you’re grey, we’ll invite the sun (if you're grey)
To share its golden rays (share its golden rays)
If you’re blue (blue)
We'll paint the rainbow
Chase those blues away

Shine your colours
Shine my dears
Shine your colours
Cos everybody’s welcome here

Shine your colours (everybody's gonna shine shine shine)
Shine my friends
Shine your colours (everybody's gonna shine shine shine)
Cos everybody’s welcome in

Tell me friends
What colour is your day?
All through all the ups and downs
Your colours light the way

Shine your colours (shine)
Shine my dears
Shine your colours (shine)
Cos everybody's welcome here

Shine your colours (everybody's gonna shine shine shine)
Shine my friends
Shine your colours (everybody's gonna shine shine shine)
Cos everybody’s welcome in

Shine your colours (everybody's gonna shine shine shine)
Cos everybody’s welcome in

Track 3. Only One You [02.13]

Songwriter/Composer: Claudia Robin Gunn

ISRC: NZRI12300606

Instrumentation: 2 different guitars (one regular sized and one kid sized), rhumba box, talking drum, cajon and tom tom, 3 moogs - Dean Jones

Vocals: Claudia Robin Gunn, Dean Jones

Producer/Mixer: Dean Jones

Mastering Engineer: Alan Douches

365 days in a year, 366 in a leap year
7 days in a week, 24 hours a day
But only one you

8 planets in our solar system
9 if you count Pluto - I miss him
Ten fingers and toes I can wiggle
But only one you

One one one one rare and beautiful
Unique, incredible, never been seen before
Cannot count up the ways that I adore you

26 letters in the alphabet
How many stars have we not counted yet?
238 thousand 855 miles to moon (give or take)
But only one you

One world, so many souls
One path, so many roads
One breath in and out again
One heart, so many friends

365 days in a year, 366 in a leap year
7 days in a week, 24 hours a day
But only one you

8 planets in our solar system
9 if you count Pluto - I miss him
Ten fingers and toes I can wiggle
But only one you

One one one one rare and beautiful
Unique, incredible, never been seen before
Cannot count up the ways that I adore

One one one one rare and beautiful
Unique, incredible, never been seen before
Cannot count up the ways that I adore
You

Track 4. Firefly [03:37]

Songwriter/Composer: Claudia Robin Gunn, Dean Jones

ISRC: NZRI12300607

Instrumentation: Bass Keyboards, percussion and guitars - Dean Jones

Vocals: Claudia Robin Gunn, Dean Jones

Producer/Mixer: Dean Jones

Mastering Engineer: Alan Douches

Ain’t you just a little ball of light
Make the world glow every time you smile
Light the room up like a buttercup
Oh my little firefly

Talented
Colourful
Brilliant
Indelible
Show-stopper
Spectacular
Unique
That’s what you are

You make me wanna sing out loud
You make me wanna dance around
You make me wanna clap my hands
And throw them in the air
Yeah yeah

Little firefly burning bright
Let the nighttime buzz with your light
Sparkling, dazzling
Oh my little firefly

Interesting
Imaginative
Street smart
You get what you give
And you give it all
Not a know it all
Just a true blue original

You make me wanna sing out loud
You make me wanna dance around
You make me wanna clap my hands
And throw them in the air
Yeah yeah
You make me wanna sing out loud
You make me wanna dance around
You make me wanna clap my hands
And throw them in the air
Yeah yeah

But if the shadows fall and you can’t feel the light you’re beaming
If people say mean words
And you don’t even know the word for how you’re feeling
Does the sun know that it shines?
Can a lighthouse see its own light?
Do the stars know we admire them in distant space and time
Don’t you know you’re a firefly?

Interesting
Imaginative
Street smart
You get what you give
And you give it all
Not a know it all
Just a true blue original

Talented
Colourful
Brilliant
Indelible
Show-stopper
Spectacular
Unique
That’s what you are

You make me wanna sing out loud
You make me wanna dance around
You make me wanna clap my hands
and throw them in the air
Yeah yeah
You make me wanna sing out loud
You make me wanna dance around
You make me wanna clap my hands
and throw them in the air
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
yeah yeah

Track 5. Hope is a Verb [02:42]

Songwriter/Composer : Claudia Robin Gunn

ISRC: NZRI12300608

Instrumentation:
Upright Bass - Jason Sarubbi
Keyboards, percussion and guitars, cavaquinho - Dean Jones

Vocals: Claudia Robin Gunn, Dean Jones

Producer/Mixer: Dean Jones

Mastering Engineer: Alan Douches

Hope

Hope is a verb
We create with a word and an action
So much more than a feeling
Hope is a wish
That takes hold in the world
Giving light to the dark
And air to the breathing

Hope is a spell
Potent and powerful
Active and crackling
With fire and fever
Hope is a moment
That brings us together
It’s clear and it’s urgent
It’s cool and it’s clever

Hope, hope is a verb
Hope, hope is a verb

Hope is a change
It’s begins with the way that we speak
To each other, hope is the river
Hope is a prayer
That we all be aware and awake
To the possible, it’s our nature

Hope is a spell
Potent and powerful
Active and crackling
With fire and fever
Hope is a moment
That brings us together
It’s clear and it’s urgent
It’s cool and it’s clever

Hope, hope is a verb
It begins with a word and an action
Hope is a verb
So much more than a feeling
Hope is a force
Like a magnet or gravity calling
And drawing us back to our future
Hope, hope is a verb
Hope, hope is a verb

Track 6: Winning [02.20]

Songwriter/Composer : Claudia Robin Gunn

ISRC: NZRI12300609

Instrumentation: Drums, shaker, electronic percussion, 2 guitars, bass, organ, wurlitzer, 2 trombones - Dean Jones

Saxophone - Jessica and Tony Jones

Vocals: Claudia Robin Gunn, Dean Jones

Producer/Mixer: Dean Jones

Mastering Engineer: Alan Douches

Winning isn’t always coming first
Sometimes it’s doing better than we did before
Beating our own personal top score

Winning isn’t always number one
Second and third are also fun
And in the top ten
We get a feeling when

We’re all winning
I’ll help you out when you’re low
All winning
No one gets left behind in this show
All winning
If I fall down will you pick me up again?
All winning
Can’t get far without our friends

Winning isn’t always being top dog
Maybe winning’s more like leapfrog
If we cheer each other on
Everybody singing their own song
Winning isn’t always being number one
Second, third are also fun
And in the top ten
We get a feeling when

We’re all winning
I’ll help you out when you’re low
All winning
No one gets left behind in this show
All winning
If I fall, will you pick me up again?
All winning
Can’t get far without our friends, yeah

Oh oh, when we ‘re all winning
It’s a good feeling when we’re all winning
(Can’t get by without our friends)

One for the sun and two for the dew
Three for the trees and four for me and you
Five is for striving, six for the kicks
Seven, eight, nine, ten
Can we all begin again
When we’re all winning, oh
It’s a good feeling when we’re all winning
(Can’t get by without our friends)

7: Superheroes [03:16]

Songwriter/Composer : Claudia Robin Gunn

ISRC: NZRI12300610

Instrumentation: Bass, drums, keys, electric guitar - Dean Jones

Vocals: Claudia Robin Gunn, Dean Jones

Producer/Mixer: Dean Jones

Mastering Engineer: Alan Douches

I met the new kid in my class today
She smiled a lot like me
We both liked video games
She asked me what’s your name?
I invited her to sit by me

I said if you want, I can be your friend
I’ll stick by you through thick and thin and
I know how to make daisy chains
And a real good paper plane
We’ll stick together like glue

She came from far away across the sea
There was a war out there
She said her family just had to leave
The waves were dark and crashing everywhere

She said if you want, I can be your friend
I’ll stick with you through thick and thin
I know how to make tourniquets
And a real good paper plane
We’ll stick together like glue

We’ll light the darkest shadows
We’ll take on all the bullies
We’ll take the world on like superheroes (superheroes)
We’ll light the darkest shadows

Now everywhere we go
We tell everyone we meet
It doesn’t matter where you’ve been
Only where you’re going to
And if you’ve got a smile
Use it to break down walls
And If you got peace
Peace is the biggest prize of all

So light the darkest shadows
We’ll take on all the bullies
We’ll take the world on like superheroes
We’ll light the darkest shadows
We’ll light the darkest shadows

I was the new kid in my class today
One of the other girls smiled at me
We both liked video games
I asked her what’s your name
And now the rest is history

Track 8: Lettuce Dance [02:23]

Songwriter/Composer : Claudia Robin Gunn

ISRC: NZRI12300611

Instrumentation: Triangle, tambourine, electric guitars, udu drum, hindewhu, organ pipes, hand claps - Dean Jones

Vocals: Claudia Robin Gunn, Dean Jones

Producer/Mixer: Dean Jones

Mastering Engineer: Alan Douches

One, two
One, two
One, two, three, four, five
Ooh yeah yeah

You are the apple to my pie
The icing sugar on my custard slice
You make miso happy
And I’m noodles about you

Am I the fish to your chips?
Your watermelon without the pips?
You are an iceberg that could really sink a ship

So lettuce dance
I’m a really snappy dressing
I’ll take a chance
If you tell me what you’re thinking

You’re the cherry on my sundae
The crispy crust of my chocolate brownie
You make miso happy
And I’m udon noodles about you

Am I the fish to your chips?
Watermelon without the pips?
Fruit salad with a wooden spoon
Pineapple singing a tune

Let’s dance
I donut mind if I get the steps wrong
Lettuce dance
Cos this is just my berry berry favourite song
Lettuce dance
Before we get tired and wilted
Lettuce dance
Oh lettuce dance
ohhh

You’re the peanut butter to my jam
Whipped cream straight from the can
You are the boba in my bubble tea
Wasabi on my sushi

Am I the fish to your chips?
Watermelon without the pips?
You are an iceberg that could really sink a ship

So lettuce dance
I donut mind if I get the steps wrong
Lettuce dance
Cos this is just my berry berry favourite song
Lettuce dance
Before we get tired and wilted
Lettuce dance
Oh lettuce dance
ohhh

And I’ll take a chance
So lettuce dance
Oh lettuce dance

Track 9: Focus on the Good [02:43]

Songwriter/Composer: Claudia Robin Gunn

ISRC: NZRI12300612

Instrumentation: Synth bass, percussion, drums, bass, guitar, synths, organ, tambourine - Dean Jones

Vocals: Claudia Robin Gunn, Dean Jones

Producer/Mixer: Dean Jones

Mastering Engineer: Alan Douches

I am a star
I focus on the good, the good gets better
Focus on the ditch, the ditch gets deeper
So lighten the load, keep my eyes on the road
Don’t believe it if they say the story’s been told

I focus on the light, the light gets brighter
Focus on the dark it’ll try to pull me under
So maybe it’s time
To mind for my mind
Sing a little mantra of the positive kind

I am enough
I am joy and I am love
I am brave and I am calm
I am kind and I am strong
I am a seed
Growing exponentially
I am shining, I’m a star
I am grateful with all my heart

I focus on the future and the future expands
Don’t forget the past, ancestors guide my hands
Help me to remember the connection to the
Stars and the sky and sea and the land

Focus on the soil and the garden I’m planting
Focus on the little things and big things happen
Bloom when I’m ready
Keep my hands steady
The biggest gift is knowing I’m enough already

I am enough
I am joy and I am love
I am brave and I am calm
I am kind and I am strong
I am a seed
Growing exponentially
I am shining, I’m a star
I am grateful with all my heart

I am enough
I am joy and I am love
I am brave and I am calm
I am kind and I am strong
I am a seed
Growing exponentially
I am shining, I’m a star
I am grateful with all my heart

I focus on the good, the good gets better
Focus on the light, the light gets brighter
Lighten the load
Keep my eyes on the road
The world is waiting for a story that hasn’t been told

Track 10: Opposite Miracles [02:19]

Songwriter/Composer: Claudia Robin Gunn

ISRC: NZRI12300613

Instrumentation: Drums, bass, keys, prophet synth, 2 acoustic guitars, vocoder - Dean Jones

Vocals: Claudia Robin Gunn, Dean Jones

Producer/Mixer: Dean Jones

Mastering Engineer: Alan Douches

Oooh

Up is the opposite of down
Smile is the opposite of frown
Easy is the opposite of difficult
And miracles are everywhere if we look around

Big is the opposite of small
Short is the opposite of tall
Quick is the opposite of slow
And no matter where you go
You’re my favourite miracle

Oooh opposite
Oooh miracles

Hot is the opposite of cold
Stop is the opposite of go
Early is the opposite of late
And love wins over hate
That’s a miracle you know

Oooh opposite
Oooh miracles

Real is the opposite of fake
Give is the opposite of take
Hopeful is the opposite of hopeless
So blessed
Miracles are what we make

Silence is the opposite of sound
Humble is the opposite of proud
Falling is the opposite of flying
And we’re all miracles dreamed out loud

Oooh opposite
Oooh miracles
Oooh opposite
Oooh miracles

Track 11: Scooter [03:39]

Songwriter/Composer: Claudia Robin Gunn

ISRC: NZRI12300614

Instrumentation: Keys, synth bass, hulusi, guitar - Dean Jones

Vocals: Claudia Robin Gunn, Dean Jones

Producer/Mixer: Dean Jones

Mastering Engineer: Alan Douches

I got my scooter, got my helmet on
I’m gonna ride it until the day is gone
So are you coming? We’re going up to school
And all our friends will be there
And it’s gonna gonna be cool

I’m growing super fast
Choose my own road
All the way to Sydney and Tokyo
Got my backpack and a travel guitar
Promise I’ll call you when I get there
I’ll make my own rock band
When we get a record you can be our number 1 fan

Just watch me go
Watch me go

I got my scooter I got my helmet on
I’m gonna ride it until the day is gone
Are you coming? The world is wide
And your wheels are waiting
So get your helmet on

Just watch me go
Watch me go

I got my scooter, I got my helmet on
I’m gonna ride it until the day is gone

I’m growing super fast
Choose my own road
All the way to Sydney and Tokyo
Got my backpack and a travel guitar
Promise I’ll call you when I get there
I’ll make my own rock band
When we get a record you can be our number 1 fan

Just watch me go
Watch me go