On tbhe First Violin

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Dave Pierce

Dave Pierce (born October 24, 1972) is a Canadian songwriter, composer, producer, arranger, orchestrator. Pierce was the music director for the opening, closing, and victory ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, for which he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction in 2010; arranger/orchestrator for Twyla Tharp's Frank Sinatra musical, Come Fly Away (opened March 2010) in New York at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway and later that year opening as Sinatra Dance With Me at the Wynn Las Vegas; and music director of the Calgary Stampede Evening Grandstand Show. Pierce was the musical director of the 2009 Gemini Awards television show in Canada. He is father of two daughters. Pierce has worked with a variety of performers, including Mic… more »

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I sat writing on a liner in the starboard lounge
Looking out over the sea
And as I wrote, I listened to the band
Playing in a plaintive key
On the first violin was a brown-eyed girl
Her hair hung down in a flaxen curl
And when she had completed what she had to play
She looked up from her music and I caught her eye

On the first violin was a brown-eyed girl
Her hair hung down in a flaxen curl
And as she played in a plaintive key
I caught her eye and she was looking at me

After the recital she demurely rose
Turning away from me
Out upon the deck breathing the salt-spray air
Gazing on a troubled sea
We engaged in talk and her eyes turned sad
She was recently bereaved of a long-loved lad
He was fighting as a conscript in the Kenyan war
When a Mau-Mau bullet struck him and it laid him low

On the first violin was a brown-eyed girl
Her hair hung down in a flaxen curl
And as she played in a plaintive key
I caught her eye and she was looking at me

I did not see her disembark
We had connected but too soon
Her healing heart would find a path
To someone else
With a busy schedule to pursue
Of publishers and speaking coast-to-coast
At small cafés, I ended days
In missed romance

I was on a sister-liner when a year had passed
Homeward bound and free
In the starboard lounge, I was waiting for the band
Without expectancy
The conductor stood with his baton poised
Gesturing the audience to quell their noise
When the first violin took the stage to play
My brown-eyed girl was smiling and she caught my eye

On the first violin was a brown-eyed girl
Her hair hung down in a flaxen curl
And as she played in a major key
She caught my eye and she was smiling at me
And as she played in a major key
She caught my eye and she was smiling at me

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