Author Archives: Sage Harrington

Practicing my curtsies. And my french singing. <3 -s

This is a song that appears on the beautiful (if I do say so myself) album I made with Meredith Wilder called “There Will Come Soft Rains.” It’s an album of Sara Teasdale poems we made into songs and I am pretty sure it is the one thing among all things I am proudest to […]

This is one in which I use my Mother Maybelle voice! Plus I had the bright idea to sing with myself, what do you think? <3 -s

This is a song where I started exploring composing for the music box. That is the way it appears on Beautiful William’s album, “There Will Come Soft Rains” (available on a streaming service near you). See the music box—and my beautiful friend Meredith Wilder—in action here. But said music box is having some troubles so […]

This is a song I wrote four years ago what felt like a revelation. When will I feel like writing again? Hm… I am very excited about this album of originals (many of them featured here) that is in production right now. “In production” means that early in the pandemic I visited my folks and […]

This is one of them golden oldies. I had forgotten that it was from 1911, as the versions I know of so many of these jazz tunes were recorded by Ella and her cohorts in the 1930s or later. I’d also like to add — if you’re feeling melancholy right now, that’s totally okay and […]

This song breaks my heart in a way that it can only be broken when I realize that another artist has recognized some truths about my experience and put it down in a song decades before I was even born. I love this song by Molly Drake. I have been so preoccupied with it that […]

Oh, I could let the world go byIts loud new wonders and its warsBut how could I give up the skyWhen winter dusk is set with stars?And I could let the cities goTheir changing customs and their creedsBut, oh, the summer rains that blowIn silver on the jewel-weeds! This is a poem by Sara Teasdale […]

Today I am proud to present my arrangement of Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps! I love this tune. The first time I remember hearing it was in the hit 1990s Baz Luhrmann classic (in my mind anyway) film Strictly Ballroom where Doris Day’s version provided the soundtrack to a sexy secret tango. Thank you to the patrons […]

Nature Boy! What a cool, weird song. I grabbed the chords online and came up with the little ukulele figure that opens and closes the tune. I love the ukulele and I love jazz tunes <3 Would you be interested in tabs for this sort of thing (the intro/outro)? I would consider making them if […]