From the recording shut down, jump in
BShaw – acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocals
Lee Kennedy – bass
Linda Bolley – drums, backing vocals
Lenny Lasater – backing vocals
Sonia Tetlow – banjo, backing vocals
Beth Wheeler – mandolin
Lyrics
Little Boy Beauty Queen (LBBQ)
All my days
I’ve been feeling like I need to disappear
Like a branch that's hanging, broken, from a picture-perfect tree
I can't stay here - just cut me free
You ask me
To tell you all about the fear inside of me
So I will never blame you for the lie I've had to live
But I'm on my way - yes I'm on my way
At night when I lay dreaming and no one else can see
There's a pretty girl in the mirror and she's looking back at me
I wish that I could show you what's so very plain to me
Here I am
Here I am
Here I am – your little boy beauty queen
Please, mama, please, you must have seen
the girl that I was meant to be
I woke up from my dream and I started grieving
the joke was on me …
Can you see?
All this either-or is just neither-nor for me
I'm just lookin’ for the safety of a place where I can be
simply free ... just me
I'll find a place I can be free
At night when I lay dreaming and no one else can see
There's a pretty girl in the mirror and she's looking back at me
I wish that I could show you what's so very plain to me
Here I am
Here I am
Here I am – your little boy beauty queen