So now it's come to this as we watch from just above you, And on the breeze, a kiss, to remind you that we love you, May all your troubles fly away, awash out in the blue, And forever on your journey now, may all your steps be true. And I remember the whisky and the wine, In the green of summer, when love was oh, so fine, And the world turned 'round you know, but the turning was much slower then, And there was time ahead along the road. Bill Staines, Author, Margot Zemach, Author, Margot Zemach, Illustrator Dutton Books $14. When we came together, and everyone would sing, And the melodies were fine, they hung sweet upon the vine, And the time was young and kind along the road. Oh, i water your farms with my silvery hand, and forever i'll travel in the heard of the land. So, here's to the rainbow that's followed me here, and here's to the friends that I know, And here's to the song that's within me now, I will sing it where ere I go. The seabirds call and the buoys ring, down at old Salt Air. Like the light of a fading sky. There's a cafe on the corner, you can hear the laughter there. BILL STAINES Lyrics, Songs & Albums | eLyrics.net. Well, I've been to the city and back again, I've been moved by some things that I've learned, Met a lot of good people and I've called them friend, felt the change when the seasons turned. I am the hudson, the merrimac, too, the snake and the pecos, the green and the blue, and my waters they run just as sure as a song, and forever i'll sing if you let me live on.
My rolling waters will round the bend, and flow into the open sea. You rolling old river, you changing old river. A collection of thoughts about part of my life — winding, revealing, and always moving, much like a river. Written by Bill Staines © Mineral River Records 1982. And here's to the friends that I know; And here's to the song that's within me now.
Nelson (Coretta Scott, reviewed Dec. 15), taking a break from a recent string of more sober topics, lets loose... Bill Staines, Author, Margot Zemach, Illustrator Puffin Books $6. Open D tuning: DAF#DAD; Capo 2nd fret, Key of E. I was born in the path of the winter wind. Early in his career, he was M. of the Sunday hootenanny at the famed Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass. Bill staines lyrics and chords. And I will dance like no tomorrow to a light and lively band. And if my luck, it sees me through, then I'll be striking again for shore, And if my hand and my heading's true, then I'll return to you once more. In 1975, he won a yodeling contest at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas — "defeating some crestfallen Swiss yodelers, " The Christian Science Monitor reported. Across the dakotas by he midwestern towns.
99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-85353-3. In the early 1960s he started his professional career in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. This was my first recording of this one, too. Among those who covered the tune was Nanci Griffith, who called Mr. Staines "the Woody Guthrie of my generation of songwriters. "
Musical notation of the melody plus chords for guitar or other instruments are provided, along with lyrics and three-line dulcimer tablature below. MY JENNYThere's a long, friendly field out before us, as her wheels they go rolling along, And the wind in wire's a chorus, and with a whisper it brings it's song. I am the border, the old rio grande. At least one fellow guitarist was impressed.
So I flipped it over and figured this must be the left-handed way of playing. We did the drunkard's dance, we played the poet's hymn, We searched for answers then, and found them deep within, And all words were wild, and all our stories young, We were the restless child, adrift beneath the sun. "About four years ago I met this fellow in California who was a wonderful guitar player, who said, 'I really like the way your style sounds, '" Mr. Staines told The Wenatchee World of Washington State in 2009. From the old allegheny forever i'll run, and i'll carry your people in the light of the sun. You rolling old river, You changing old river, Let's you and me, river, run down to the sea. Bill Staines – River Lyrics | Lyrics. And when their time on earth is through, old dogs are forever true, And round the bend they wait for you, come some tomorrow morning. Beneath your blue and endless skies, the seabirds call, the time slips by, The shrimp boats leave on the morning tides and slip out across the waves.
© 2023 Pandora Media, Inc., All Rights Reserved. He grew up in Lexington, Mass., and two boyhood friends, Dick and John Curtis, were the catalysts for his performing career. I was told that sometime way back when.............. "And I saw him a year ago, and he'd went out and bought a left-handed guitar and was playing it right-handed. A river runs down through the hollers and hills, skipping it's way past abandoned old mills, And the old ones tell stories from porches and stairs, of days when the time was all theirs. River take me along in your sunshine, sing me your song ever moving and winding and free. Bill staines - river lyricis.fr. "The otter hasn't got much to say, and the porcupine talks to himself. " SAVANNAHSavannah, sing your song for me, that lazy tune in a live oak tree, In my heart you will always be that sunny southern girl, I watch your river slip away, "Come follow me. " There was a time that I would learn to fly, and feel my wings rise high into the sky, Then set my craft upon the earth again, some fragile bird, just flirting with the wind. Magnolias shade the old cafe from the burning sun at the height of day, I've been gone so long now I'm on my way to Savannah ever fair. And my Jenny thinks she's an angel as we climb to the fading light, With her nose to a gentle zephyr, she's my damsel of dancing flight. Met a lot of good people, and I've called them friends.
Back to everything I know, back again to where that river slips away. 99 (36p) ISBN 978-0-689-86959-4. Where I live there is a river, and it freezes with the cold. Recorded by Bill on "Whistle of the Jay", FSI-70. Like many lyrics presented independently of their music, these lose much of their rhythm and depth... READ FULL REVIEW. So when all the music's done....... CAPITOLA DREAMSThere's a bird outside my window, singing sweetly to my ears, And a fogbank on the water that will slowly disappear, There are flowers in the alley, there are sails out on the bay, And there's magic in the morning of this California day. Others were character sketches — "pensive, probing narratives made especially memorable by their ability to translate the common details of common lives into songs of uncommon eloquence and beauty, " as L. E. McCullough put it in The Austin American-Statesman in 1986. And so adieu my own true lover, it is for you my heart has burned, But do not grieve for me on this cold grey sea, If I ever no more return. Includes companion CD. Felt my own music within me rise. So, it's once again I travel through this land of time and space, And I think of these old photographs and I long for simple grace, And my mind goes back to somewhere when my heart was standing still, Where the rivers end their journey in betwee these golden hills. Books by Bill Staines and Complete Book Reviews. And from that distant dawn, we were carried by a song, And lifted up when things went wrong along the way, And in the lateness of the night, as the music lofted lightly, All the darkness of the hours turned into day. By the banks of kentucky, i travel with pride. Written by: Joni Mitchell.
And in the early morning sun silver mare breaks on the run. And with a leap she belongs to the heavens, as the earth falls away from her tail, We are rising above the rivers, we are flying the morning mail. Bill staines river song lyrics. Pandora isn't available in this country right now... 'A Place in the Choir' has a life of its own. Here's to the song that's within me now. Where I live there is a road, that seen me come and seen me go. Feel you've reached this message in error?
So fly away, fly away, fly away, far, it's a long way from here to the moon and the stars, But there's something that tells me I'll know where you are, and to find you I'll know where to start, Somewhere down deep in my heart. As if I never felt a shadow and I never had a care. In the soul of a daytime dreamer, on the breath of a dancing wind. We were a different breed....... And the summer, it turns to fall, Sometimes I drift away and I hear the call, Of time and times gone by, of fond and fairest friends, They still before me fly, and I remember when. I've been to the city and back again, I've been moved by some things that I've learned. Jubilee Liverpool Light. There were friends we came to know, and some that had to go, There were highs and there were lows along the way, But through the laughter and the tears, we made our way across the years, Finding music in the heart of every day.