Questions
This is one of Leon's children's songs from the 1980s. It was composed as part of a play Leon was preparing with Sandra Kerr (with whom he recorded a good many children's songs around this time), although the project was eventually shelved. "Questions" survived, and had its first airing on a Roy Bailey album in 1989, where it sat with a clutch of Leon's other children's songs. Leon himself recorded a version in 1994 on an album named after the song.
The song is clearly extrapolated from the much earlier "Can Anyone Tell Me That?". It has the same general theme - endless questions from children which the adults are too busy to answer - and more of them - and even shares a line: "Why do our legs have to end in feet?"
The song is clearly extrapolated from the much earlier "Can Anyone Tell Me That?". It has the same general theme - endless questions from children which the adults are too busy to answer - and more of them - and even shares a line: "Why do our legs have to end in feet?"
"'Questions' was written for a play I worked on with Sandra Kerr which was never produced but which formed the basis for my children's book I Thought I Heard A Goldfish Singing." - LR (Turning Silence Into Song (songbook), 2003)
Recordings
Cover version (1989) By Roy Bailey
Version 1 (1994)
- Why Does It Have to Be Me?
Version 1 (1994)