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3) Props! Most importantly flowers; some growing in the ground (hopefully by the shore and in ‘everyone’s yard’, and large expanses of land that’s all flowers, but if not, we’ll make do with botanical gardens or other flowers around the place. We will not actually pick any of these flowers [ETA: Unless they’re really plentiful wildflowers], but we might pretend to, and we might need a stunt-flowerbed that we can pretend is the other flowerbed after being picked bare) and plenty that we can pass around to people and put in our hair (we can buy these at one of the florists on St. Maarten and/or maybe @sunnytana could bring flauxers) and, heck, we’re a crafty bunch and if we can get people swirling around in skirts that look like flowers in some of the nice swirly-sounding bits of the song such as the beginning, that’d also be cool.
Other things which we could need props for are:
- ‘old houses’. If anyone sees any on the islands, let me know (or film/photograph them yourself when you see them), otherwise it’ll probably be a row of cabanas.
- ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’. I am certain some sea monkeys will have top hats and monocles. If we can borrow them to demonstrate ‘haves’, that’d be awesome.
- Things for planting new flowers. I have some plastic beach ‘gardening tools’ I bought for another video, so I could use those. I also have a packet of seeds, now that I think about it, but I’d rather not introduce a species to the island.
4) Cameras! I am sure we have plenty, and I even have one that’s safe to use around sand and water. But if we do things from the perspective of ‘you’ then it might be nice to have a head-mounted camera. Will anyone be bringing one? I know @weberic has one but I am not sure if he’s coming this year.
Here are the lyrics:
She went to pick flowers by the ocean this morning
And now she’s sailing away
She must have seen something that you could not give her
To leave without a goodbye
She had told you that love is the land where you live
And the flowers that grow by the shore
So you bought her the shore
You said now it is yours, we can rent those old houses to pay
Now all the ocean and flowers belong just to you
She had whispered of days when the land was all flowers
And everyone’s yard had a few
You smiled, amused by her simplistic dreams
And you explained about “haves” and “have nots”
You said, “darling, this world is made up so if you really want it [ETA: the lyrics on her site say ‘child’ instead of ‘darling’, which confused me, as you might have seen before I edited the above post, until I listened again]
You just pull yourself up and it’s yours!”
One day she went to the shore for her flowers
And someone had picked them all bare
You went and you saw all your tenants were laughing
The flowers all wrapped through their hair
In your anger you tore all the flowers away shouting,
“these were not planted for you!”
And you carried them back and you planted again
So her flowers would grow by the spring
She went to pick flowers by the ocean this morning
And now she’s sailing away
She saw all the tenants were boarding a ship
For a land that had flowers to spare
She took them her flowers and boarded the ship, saying
“I never wanted to own these
I never wanted to take them from you
I dreamt of a land where the flowers grew freely
Enough so we all had a few”
I think I as going to give some more vague ideas here, but I was nervous about not being able to save such long drafts, so I just went ahead and posted, and I think I’ll give people time to digest this much and give their own opinions before I start over-planning to convince myself it’ll work.