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Indoor Campfire Song
03:38
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A steel wind really knocks it all out of you
The snow falls to the north and the south of you
You say you're gonna go crazy if it don't stop soon
You say you're going crazy as a loon
I hear you
We'll sit inside looking down into the fire
Watching the flames getting higher and higher
The wind blows outside the window anyway
"Yeah, and that's the way to keep it " you say,
"Keep it outside, we're staring out at the night.
Keep it outside, we're staring at the night sky"
i hear you
You know that this could go on and on and on
We'll just sing an indoor campfire song
We'll make the rafters roar- we'll sing it some more tonight
We could make the stars shine bright
Baby we could make the stars shine bright
Can't you see em now?
You know you say you're gonna
keep it outside, staring out at the night
keep it outside staring at the night sky
You know that this could go on and on and on
We'll just sing an indoor campfire song
We'll make the rafters roar- we'll sing it some more tonight
We could make the stars shine bright
Baby we could make the stars shine bright
Yeah we could...
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Where the Sunflowers Grow
On a long dark night on a cold and snowy road
He turned to his love and he said "Love, here we go. I'm gonna spend my life with the only love I've known since I found you where the sunflowers grow"
She said " My love, you know I've always known that there's no one else I could ever call my own. We're gonna drive all night to a place that we both know - the place I found you where the sunflowers grow.
They can keep their silver and keep all of their gold since I found you where the sunflowers grow."
And In the morning sun In a field of yellow gold he took her in his arms and said "I'll never let you go" . And she said "My love. You know I've always known since I found you where the sunflowers grow. They can keep their silver and keep all of their gold since I found you where the sunflowers grow."
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My Morning Star
03:33
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My Morning Star
The cover blew onto the sand from her chilly fingered hand on a bright blue morning- the kind she'd waited for
They dipped into the water, cut through the waves together.
"You are my friend " she said, " lead me out beyond the Head, and I'll love you forever. I love you, my Morning Star"
Under the teacup waiting, a letter on the table. From kitchen window's glow the daylight skimmed it over.
A note for anyone to see. A tale as true as it was brief:
"To you and all my friends: I love you all.until the end, but I'm gone out beyond the Head. Nothing to say we haven't said"
The cold air curled around her heart.
The seagulls' cry from oh so high above was to her ears a song of love.
A lonely eye skimmed over sunset's horizon from the sand and with the back of his hand, wiped a tear away.
He heard the whistling wind and smiled. Words rose up from deep inside. Out on the air they sailed . Over the ocean waves."I'll see you in the Morning Star. I'll always know just where you are. Lead me out beyond the Head. It's all been done. It's all been said.
Twas on a bright blue morning. The kind she'd waited for.
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Lucky In Love
02:48
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Me On Your Mind
03:51
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He wasn't long awake before he poured another makers mark and wept
The apron hung like a tapered candle
The coffee on the stove went cold again
He thought about calling here when all the time her parting words resound:
"Oh my darling you're my finest hour, but I'm better at being lost than being found-
So don't you wait for me - you'll find better company
Yes my darlin' you'll be fine without me on your mind
The highway hides a hundred hearts. The motel sees another sun go down
Tomorrow's for the taking
The horizon don't know why and it don't care how
She wonders who would answer if she called the home she left so long ago
Where mama took her in her arms and tried to tell her why she had to go
She said
Don't you wait for me - you'll find better company
Yes my darlin' you'll be fine without me on your mind
She leans back on the bed, lets the day run through her head before she sleeps
And in the dark, that's where her heart goes hiding til the morning comes
And Marylin Monroe is lying rolled up on the floor in a magazine
How she wonders at her smile and how she learned to hide while being seen
In the morning light she likes the drive. The wind blows through her hair of platinum blond
The motel in the rear view mirror is slowly getting smaller til it's gone
Don't you wait for me - you'll find better company
Yes my darlin' you'll be fine without me on your mind
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In The Hollow
05:19
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I wandered out in the moonlight
I heard the song of you
So I followed your chorus
into the hollow of the forest
I looked around for a long time
Thinking maybe I'm wrong
Then I saw you on the water
I shoulda run but I called out out to you
"Hey I heard you crying
Yeah I heard you singing
Now what can a mortal do
To heal the heart of a one such as you
-tell.me, now."
She floated over the water
She took my hand and I saw
Into eyes of winter blue
She said "I wished for a one such as you
You see I've been waiting a long time
I've been singing my song
But as long as I sing alone
I can never ever go home
But tell me now - if we sing it together I can go home forever. The song will be in you. In the heart of a one such as you, so tell me, now. Will you sing with me now?
Yeah we'll sing."
I stood on the water .
I sang like a lark to the moon- yes I did
I looked around
She was gone she had vanished too soon
I was alone
Now I can never ever go home
Now she's gone and I can never ever go home
But tell me, now:
If you hear me singing
If you hear me bringing my song to your ear, will you follow me out here
Tell me,now.
Will you sing with me now?
Yeah we'll sing.
Yeah you'll sing like a lark to the moon.
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7. |
The Cross Of The Groves
03:42
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Jack 'Brien
05:03
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One blow after another caused the rocks to fly and fall
Jack 'Brien , he swung his pick- drove a hole in teh mountain wall
He never raised his head. The only words you'd hear him say was
"Boys, bring on the trolley. One more load for you to haul away, haul away, haul away, boys, bring on the trolley. One more load to haul away
Jack 'Brien, he'd been a carpenter and a sailor and a smith
and he'd oft heard told of the Rockies gold lying hidden deep within
So he brought his darling Mary and the one they had on the way
and he promised her a castle before his soul they'd come and haul away, haul away, haul away
He promised her a castle before his soul they'd haul away
Swing that pick, boys. Rise it to the stars
Pray they always smile on us and find us where we are
Then came that early morning and the shout from down below that said
"Jack come quick. you're Mary's sick. The labor's laying her low. The doctor sent me running. He said return without delay. Just go and get Jack and bring him back before her soul they come and haul away, haul away, haul away. Go and get Jack and bring him back before her soul they haul away
Jack's giant hands were gentle as he held hers to his cheek
And through the tears he said "Mary dear, no castle will thee be.
Unless you're right here with me I won't build and I wont stay.
Hold my hand , dear Mary, or it's me they'll have to haul away, haul away, haul away, Hod y hand dear Mary or it's me they'll haul away
Mary's lips grew silent. She just smiled and closed her eyes
She drifted away, so the nurses say, til she heard the baby's cries
She said "Jack I head the trumpets come to call on me this day
but it's here I'll stay they'll have to wait for my soul to come and
haul away, haul away, haul away
it's here I'll stay they'll have to wait for my soul to
haul away
Swing that pick, Jack. Rise it to the stars
Pray they always smile on us and find us where we are
Now young Willie 'Brien he bides his time underneath the morning sun
And with all he knows of the town below, well there's plenty to be done
He kisses his darling mother and he hears his father say
"Willie don't work the men too hard- you know there's always more to
haul away, haul away, haul away
Willie don't work the men too hard- you know there's more to
haul away,
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Though many tried your freedom for to gain
It was a nation scared. No reasons would they hear explained
And for your views you were accused, and murderers they had you called
And with sentence passed they finally did rest when you were dead and gone
When Sacco and Vanzetti we're gone.
Though you traveled far, your words have faded none
Though the voices of generations have come and gone
Though they stole the breath from flesh and bone, your voices for to quell
Well they tried and failed. Your words still prevail. We're keeping them alive and well.
We're keeping them alive and well.
For today the migrant workers sing the words that they know so well of a workers right to rise and unite- words that we heard you tell. Words that we heard you tell.
So come all you working sons of a foreign land.
Take heed your rights always and understand that the right to choose to air their views two men had stripped away
And though they're gone their words linger on - remember your rights today
Remember your rights today.
For today the migrant workers sing the words that they know so well of a workers right to rise and unite- words that we heard you tell. Words that we heard you tell.
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10. |
Man On The Moor
03:27
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Over hills where the heather fills all your senses- that's where you'll see him
And all this time with the howling wild wind against him- that's where he's been
And he spends his time on the black hillside searching, or so they say
And in the dark of night, you can hear him cry.
And I don't know how the story goes
But the folks 'round here, they claim they know.
They say it just takes rain and time for a fire to die.
So hold my hand. Keep the hard dry land underneath me where I'm safe and sure
And hold my heart. Don't let it fall apart. We don't need another man on the moor.
And I don't know how the story goes
But the folks 'round here, they claim they know.
They say it just takes rain and time for a fire to die.
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At The End
02:49
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The songs that I sing
Should have told you an Easter story
Of a long sweet Spring
With its gold and its feasts and its glory.
Of the moons then that married
Green May to the mellow September,
Long noons that ne'er tarried
Life's hail and farewell to remember--
But the haste of the years
Had rushed to the fall of our sorrow,
To the waste of our tears,
The hush and the pall of our morrow.
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