Young Amelia

©2007 Hans York, all rights reserved

I woke up early after playing a house concert in Grass Valley, CA. My hosts were both still asleep and the sun was about to break through the horizon. I sat on the couch and started playing guitar softly so I don't wake anybody. It was the first melody that came to mind and thirty minutes later I captured all. The lyrics came about a month after that while in the car. My thoughts drifted back to Germany where my family owned a bookstore for three generations, so whenever there was an opportunity for a present I got a - guess what - yes, a book! I loved it though and when I was about 12 years old I fell in love with a picture I had seen on the inside cover of Amelia Earhart's Biography.