All Songs ©2003 Kathleen Pierson - Feel free to learn and sing these songs yourself, download with the composer's blessing, use these songs as accompaniment for choreography etc. ("You See Me" has already been used by two different choreographers), just please always acknowledge Kathleen Pierson as the composer, particularly if public performance is involved. Contact Kathleen at piersonk@denison.edu

A Gallery of Songs

This page is my singer/songwriter work. To read about and hear my compositions for dance, click here. To read about my compositions for concert performance, for theatre, etc, click here

Over the years, I have written and performed hundreds of songs, and though I have never yet had the chance to make a "professional" studio CD of these songs, I do have variously home-made versions which I hope you might enjoy.

With Piano:

From The Very First - From The Very First mp3 - From The Very First Lyrics

This is what I would call a "working copy," recorded Live to DAT here in Denison Dance with the sweet 1927 Steinway baby grand that I regularly play for the dance classes.

With Guitar:

Tatters and Rags - Tatters And Rags mp3 - Tatters And Rags Lyrics

This is an archival recording made at Al Gould's living room/ studio in New Hampshire in 1984

You See Me - You See Me mp3 - You See Me Lyrics

From The Brief Time In My Life When I Actually Owned A Korg M1 Synthesizer And A Little Fostex 4-Track!

I Took That Risk - I Took That Risk mp3 - I Took That Risk Lyrics

Yes it sounds like the eighties - because it WAS the eighties! But I really enjoyed the chance to overdub my own voice, and to multitrack in the sequencer up to EXACTLY the point where the Korg's internal memory would be one millisecond short of Full (ah, an art unto itself).

If you have any curiosity about chords or tunings (I use some of the once-unusual Joni-Mitchell tunings, and the best compliment I've ever gotten so far in my guitar-playing life was when the late great multi-tuning guitar guru Michael Hedges publicly praised my guitar playing at Sunfest one summer long ago when we both were booked there), or if you have questions about the piano style, please just e-mail me at piersonk@denison.edu. In my ideal imaginary universe, EVERYbody sings and plays guitar and plays piano and writes music, so if you are personally involved in any of that, well I would just love to hear from you.