it’s a good point.

What happened was i looked out the window at my oak tree and noticed the leaves slowly starting to turn colour.

In my head in thought ‘my oak trees turning brown, oh no. when all the leaves drop on the ground i’m going to have to pick up 30 sacks of dead leaves’.

So i came up with the 1st line of my song, wrote it down – ‘My green oak tree’ – then i when i tried singing that line, it wouldn’t fit to 4 beats, ‘tree’ when i sing it takes 2 beats.
So i didn’t want ‘tree’ going in to the second bar, that’s why i wrote the sheet 5 beats to the bar instead of 4 beats to the bar to get the whole singing line fitting on one bar.

Then i made up the rest of the verses singing them in my head, later on i then played the tune on my sax and wrote down the notes on a music sheet, the lyrics came first, not the melody. After that i got the guitar out and added the guitar chords.

the last word in every bar when sung takes 2 beats. the solo should stick to the same rule when played.

i recorded two versions. the first version i sung and recorded the guitar, used that as a backing track and then recorded the sax.
the second version i recorded the sax first, used that as a backing track and then recorded the guitar.

i uploaded the second version, the first version is played slower than the second version.