[TOC] # 1 Jan 2015 ## Small Blue Thing / Suzanne Vega Today I am a small blue thing Like a marble or an eye With my knees against my mouth I am perfectly round I am watching you I am cold against your skin You are perfectly reflected I am lost inside your pocket I am lost against your fingers I am falling down the stairs I am skipping on the sidewalk I am thrown against the sky I am raining down in pieces I am scattering like light Scattering like light Scattering like light Today I am a small blue thing Made of China, made of glass I am cool and smooth and curious, I never blink I am turning in your hand Turning in your hand I am cold against your skin You are perfectly reflected I am lost inside your pocket I am lost against your fingers I am falling down the stairs I am skipping on the sidewalk I am thrown against the sky I am raining down in pieces I am scattering like light Scattering like light Scattering like light Today I am a small blue thing Made of China, made of glass I am cool and smooth and curious, I never blink I am turning in your hand Turning in your hand Turning in your hand Small blue thing Turning in your hand ## Gypsy / Suzanne Vega You come from far away With pictures in your eyes Of coffeeshops and morning streets In the blue and silent sunrise But night is the cathedral Where we recognized the sign We strangers know each other now As part of the whole design Oh, hold me like a baby That will not fall asleep Curl me up inside you And let me hear you through the heat You are the jester of this courtyard With a smile like a girl's Distracted by the women With the dimples and the curls By the pretty and the mischievous By the timid and the blessed By the blowing skirts of ladies Who promise to gather you to their breast chorus You have hands of raining water And that earring in your ear The wisdom on your face Denies the number of your years With the fingers of the potter And the laughing tale of the fool The arranger of disorder With your strange and simple rules Yes now I've met me another spinner Of strange and gauzy threads With a long and slender body And a bump upon the head chorus With a long and slender body And the sweetest softest hands And we'll blow away forever soon And go on to different lands And please do not ever look for me But with me you will stay And you will hear yourself in song Blowing by one day chorus ## Night Vision / Suzanne Vega By day give thanks By night beware Half the world in sweetness The other in fear When the darkness takes you With her hand across your face Don't give in too quickly Find the thing she's erased Find the line, find the shape Through the grain Find the outline, things will Tell you their name The table. the guitar The empty glass All will blend together when Daylight has passed chorus Now I watch you falling into sleep Watch your fist curl against the sheet Watch your lips fall open and your eyes dim In blind faith I would shelter you Keep you in light But I can only teach you Night vision Night vision Night vision ## Language / Suzanne Vega If language were liquid It would be rushing in Instead here we are In a silence more eloquent Than any word could ever be These words are too solid They don't move fast enough To catch the blur in the brain That flies by and is gone Gone Gone Gone I'd like to meet you In a timeless, placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences Let's go back to the building (Words are too solid) On Little West Twelfth It is not far away (They don't move fast enough) And the river is there And the sun and the spaces Are all laying low (To catch the blur in the brain) And we'll sit in the silence (That flies by and is) That comes rushing in and is Gone (Gone) I won't use words again They don't mean what I meant They don't say what I said They're just the crust of the meaning With realms underneath Never touched Never stirred Never even moved through If language were liquid It would be rushing in Instead here we are In a silence more eloquent Than any word could ever be And is gone Gone Gone And is gone ## Trees Still Bend / Girlyman Romance is everybody's best chance Of finding out the kind of things you're really made of And though it may end Water flows and trees still bend You cast a spell I couldn't protest But there's something that I found out That's not what love is all about And though we found bliss It came tumbling into this And if we follow rules For how we're supposed to be Why do the same mistakes eventually Haunt the ground we're walking 'round on yeah Breathe now, we're gonna do it somehow Maybe the worst is put behind us And we can look for stars to guide us And though it may end Water flows and trees still bend Water flows and trees still bend ## Dimming Of The Day / Alison Krauss This old house is falling down around my ears I'm drowning in a river of my tears When all my will is gone you hold me sway I need you at the dimming of the day You pulled me like the moon pulls on the tide You know just where I keep my better side What days have come to keep us far apart A broken promise or a broken heart Now all the bonny birds have wheeled away I need you at the dimming of the day Come the night you're only what I want Come the night you could be my confidant Come the night you're only one I want Come the night you could be my confidant I see you on the street in company Why don't you come and ease your mind with me? I'm living for the night we steal away I need you at the dimming of the day I need you at the dimming of the day ## Lullabye for my child / The Lyre Ensemble (in Sumerian) whether tomorrow is rainy, or sunny whether tomorrow is windy, or cold whether the lords come with their armies whether the barley grows or the bread fails tomorrow, my love tomorrow will be a good day because your mother, she loves you your aunts, your uncles, your cousins, all love you your father, and all who toil in the fields all, my love whatever tomorrow is, my love do not worry, my love my love # 2 Sep 2017 ## The Beauty Of The Rain / Dar Williams And you know the light is fading all too soon You're just two umbrellas one late afternoon You don't know the next thing you will say This is your favorite kind of day It has no walls, the beauty of the rain Is how it falls, how it falls, how it falls And there's nothing wrong, but there is something more And sometimes you wonder what you love her for She says you've known her deepest fears 'Cause she's shown you a box of stained-glass tears It can't be all, the truth about the rain Is how it falls, how it falls, how it falls But when she gave you more to find You let her think she'd lost her mind And that's all on you Feeling helpless if she asked for help Or scared you'd have to change yourself And you can't deny this room will keep you warm You can look out of your window at the storm But you watch the phone and hope it rings You'll take her any way she sings Or how she calls, the beauty of the rain Is how it falls, how it falls, how it falls How it falls, how it falls, how it falls ## Sigh No More / Maurissa Tancharoen Sigh no more, ladies, sigh nor more; Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never; Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny. Sing no more ditties, sing no more, For dumps so dull and heavy; The fraud of men was ever so, Since summer first was leavy. Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey, nonny, nonny. ## Rosemary / Suzanne Vega Do you remember when you walked with me Down the street into the square How the women selling rosemary Pressed the branches to your chest Promised luck and all the rest And put their fingers in your hair I had met you just the day before Like an accident of fate In the window there behind your door How I wanted to break in To that room beneath your skin But all that would have to wait In the Carmen of the Martyrs With the statues in the courtyard Whose heads and hands were taken In the burden of the sun I had come to meet you With a question in my footsteps I was going up the hillside And the journey just begun My sister says she never dreams at night There are days when I know why Those possibilities within her sight With no way of coming true Some things just don't get through Into this world, although they try In the Carmen of the Martyr With the statues in the courtyard Whose heads and hands were taken In the burden of the sun I had come to meet you With a question in my footsteps I was going up the hillside And the journey just begun All I know of you Is in my memory All I ask is you Remember me ## Northwest Passage / Bounding Main Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea Westward from the Davis Strait 'tis there 'twas said to lie The sea route to the Orient for which so many died Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones Three centuries thereafter, I take passage overland In the footsteps of brave Kelsey, where his Sea of Flowers began Watching cities rise before me, then behind me sink again This tardiest explorer, driving hard across the plain And through the night, behind the wheel, the mileage clicking west I think upon Mackenzie, David Thompson and the rest Who cracked the mountain ramparts and did show a path for me To race the roaring Fraser to the sea How then am I so different from the first men through this way? Like them, I left a settled life, I threw it all away To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men To find there but the road back home again Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea ## Gypsy / Suzanne Vega (see under 1) # 3 Dec 2017 ## Blackbird / Sarah McLachlan (McCartney / Lennon) Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes and learn to see All your life You were only waiting for this moment to be free Blackbird fly, blackbird fly Into the light of a dark black night Blackbird fly, blackbird fly Into the light of a dark black night Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise You were only waiting for this moment to arise You were only waiting for this moment to arise ## Songs In Red And Gray / Suzanne Vega The reproach in your daughter's most beautiful face Made me wonder just how she could know Of that something that happened between you and me So much more than a long time ago Her mother, I can see, lives within her still Cause she looked at me with her eyes Though I had only just met her right then I feel that she peeled back my guilty disguise Did I break the thread, or did you break the thread? Well at this point we could ask who cares As for the promises broken and frayed It's 19 years late for repairs The grey pewter vase held the deep red rose, One piece of coral shone white, By the brass candlestick near your red velvet coat, Is everything I can recall of one night Will you please tell me why I remember these things After all of this time, I don't know I must have left all those feelings inside Cause that year I had no courage to show Was I the name you could never pronounce? Or did I even figure at all? All of this happened before she was born Did I shadow her young pencil marks on the wall Still I am sure I was only but one Of a number who darkened that door Of your home and your hearth and your family and wife Who'd been darkened so often before Oh, the red leaf looks to the hard gray stone To each other, they know what they mean Somewhere, their future is still yet to come In ways that are yet as of now unforeseen ## Brighter In The Dark / Mouths of Babes Oh, my friend Was it quiet at the end? Was your voice sore from trying? Were your bones bent from crying? Cause I know how the dark Makes its way into your heart And whispers in your ear That it's better over here Oh, your heart Was an aching open part Growing outside with the weeds Like a mouth you could not feed And every waking day Was another debt to pay From an empty penny jar On the backseat of a car Now I guess you know What it's like to lead yourself back home What it's like to face it all alone Now you're with the moon and with the stars So tell me, is it brighter in the dark? Oh, this world Is an empty handed girl With a mouth too full of words And a sky too full of birds And the silent strings On her lonesome violin Will always feel her hands Though the years had other plans Now I guess you see What it's like to set your body free What it's like to have a place to be Now you're in the night sky with the stars So tell me, is it brighter in the dark? Tell me, is it brighter in the dark? Tell me, is it brighter in the dark? ## Early Morning Rain / Peter, Paul & Mary In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand With an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand I'm a long way from home, Lord, I miss my loved ones so In the early morning rain with no place to go Out on runway number nine a big 707 set to go And, I'm stuck here in the grass where the pavement never grows Now, the liquor tasted good and the women all were fast Well, there she goes, my friend, she'll be rolling down at last Hear the mighty engines roar, see the silver wing on high She's away and westward bound, far above the clouds she'll fly There the morning rain don't fall and the sun always shines She'll be flying over my home in about three hours time This old airport's got me down, it's no earthly good to me And I'm stuck here on the ground as cold and drunk as I can be You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train So, I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train So, I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain ## Half Acre / Hem I am holding half an acre Torn from the map of Michigan And folded in this scrap of paper Is a land I grew in Think of every town you've lived in Every room, you lay your head And what is it that you remember? Do you carry every sadness with you Every hour your heart was broken Every night the fear and darkness Lay down with you A man is walking on the highway A woman stares out at the sea And light is only now just breaking So we carry every sadness with us Every hour our heart were broken Every night the fear and darkness Lay down with us But I am holding half an acre Torn from the map of Michigan I am carrying this scrap of paper That can crack the darkest sky wide open Every burden taken from me Every night my heart unfolding My home # 4 Feb 2018 ## It Happens Everyday / Dar Williams The first part of every day for me is good I've got the bus stop in my neighborhood And everything's on purpose everywhere they go Hiding in my car and running in the snow Running with the friends they'll know for years I've seen it all from here, from here It happens every day, before they go to school They play until the bus drives up beside my lawn And there's always been a mother who waits 'til they are gone Then she turns away It happens every day Noon comes and turns this campus upside down I watch the students in this college town You would think they're carefree, I have seen their trials Frowning into Shakespeare and practicing their smiles Even underlining Nabokov When I am not in love, in love It happens every day with their journals in cafes Looking up at their reflection on the other wall With every new idea wondering if they've changed at all And then they look away It happens every day Well, life is as hard and as easy as they say Walking the steps we've chosen on this day Some will be outrageous, some have rarely shown Some will walk in couples, some will walk alone As I think about the world I see They stare and smile at me, at me It happens every day at the crossing of the street Walking out to see what's new and what is just the same And the only word for love is everybody's name And that will always stay It happens every day And every day will happen without you ## We Learned The Sea / Dar Williams I am the captain and I have been told That tomorrow we land and my ship has been sold Now losing this boat is worth scarce a mention I think of the crew, most of all the first ensign For all we learned the sea Guiding a ship, it takes more than your skill It's the compass inside it's the strength of your will The first ensign watched as tempests all tried me I sang in the wind as if God were beside me For all we learned the sea You take the wheel one more time like I showed you We've reached the strait once even I could not go through I am the captain and I have been told But I am not shaken, I am eight years old And you are still young, but you'll understand That the stars of the sea are the same for the land And we came to learn the sea ## Genevieve / Girlyman All last night it stormed Woke me up at two, three, and four I reached out for you Genevieve it's true, I have no doubt I've worked this one out Flooded all the snails Left them without shells Naked on the road, nowhere left to go I'd have no home if you left me alone And I can't be good I can't see far I just watch the fog burn off the water Canada in June I can't help but sing this tune Buoys out on the bay It's my birthday Boats pull in their traps Anything they catch Could be lobsters could be trash Somehow I found you Genevieve it's true, I have no doubt I've worked this one out I've worked this one out ## Don't Think Twice, It's All Right / Peter, Paul & Mary It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe It don't matter, anyhow And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don't know by now When the rooster crows at the break of dawn Look out your window and I'll be gone You're the reason I'm travelin' on Don't think twice it's all right It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe Light I never know'd It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe I'm on the dark side of the road Still I wish there was somethin' you would do or say To try and make me change my mind and stay We never did too much talkin' anyway So don't think twice it's all right I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babe Where I'm bound, I can't tell But goodbye is too good a word gal So I'll just say "fair-thee-well" I ain't saying you treated me unkind You could have done better, but I don't mind And you just sorta wasted my precious time But don't think twice it's all right It ain't no use in callin' out my name gal Like you never did before It ain't no use in callin' out my name gal I can't hear you anymore I'm thinkin' and wonderin' all the way down the road I once loved a woman, a child I'm told I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul Don't think twice it's all right ## Lullabye For A Stormy Night / Vienna Teng Little child, be not afraid The rain pounds harsh against the glass Like an unwanted stranger There is no danger I am here tonight Little child Be not afraid Though thunder explodes And lightning flash Illuminates your tearstained face I am here tonight And someday you'll know That nature is so This same rain that draws you near me Falls on rivers and land On forests and sand Makes the beautiful world that you'll see In the morning Little child Be not afraid The storm clouds mask your beloved moon And its candlelight beams Still keep pleasant dreams I am here tonight Little child Be not afraid Though wind makes creatures of our trees And their branches to hands They're not real, understand And I am here tonight And someday you'll know That nature is so This same rain that draws you near me Falls on rivers and land On forest and sand Makes the beautiful world that you see In the morning For you know, once even I Was a little child And I was afraid But a gentle someone always came To dry all my tears Trade sweet sleep for fears And to give a kiss goodnight Well, now I am grown And these years have shown That rain's a part of how life goes But it's dark and it's late So I'll hold you and wait 'Til your frightened eyes do close And I hope that you'll know That nature is so The same rain that draws you near me Falls on rivers and land And forests and sand Makes the beautiful world that you see In the morning Everything's fine in the morning The rain will be gone in the morning But I'll still be here in the morning # 5 Mar 2018 ## Blue Caravan / Vienna Teng Blue blue caravan, winding down to the valley of lights My true love is a man who would hold me for ten thousand nights In the wild wild wailing of wind, he's a house 'neath a soft yellow moon So blue, blue caravan, won't you carry me down to him soon? Blue blue caravan, won't you drive away all of these tears? For my true love is a man that I haven't seen in years He said, "Go where you have to, for I belong to you until my dying day." So like a fool, blue caravan, I believed him and I walked away Oh my blue blue caravan, oh the highway is my great wall For my true love is a man who never existed at all Oh he was a beautiful fiction I invented to keep out the cold But now, my blue blue caravan, I can feel my heart growing old Oh my blue blue caravan, I can feel my heart growing old ## By Way Of Sorrow / Cry Cry Cry You've been taken by the wind You have known the kiss of sorrows Doors that would not take you in Outcast and a stranger You have come by way of sorrow you have come by way of tears But you'll reach your destiny meant to find you all these years Meant to find you all these years You have drunk a bitter wine with none to be your comfort You who once were left behind will be welcome at love's tables You have come by way of sorrow you have come by way of tears But you'll reach your destiny Meant to find you all these years Meant to find you all these years You will one day come to know You will one day come to know All the nights that joy has slept will awake to days of laughter Eone the tears that you have wept You'll dance in freedom ever after You have come by way of sorrow you have come by way of tears But you'll reach your destiny Meant to find you all these years Meant to find you all these years ## Loves Recovery / Indigo Girls During the time of which I speak It was hard to turn the other cheek To the blows of insecurity. Feeding the cancer of my intellect The blood of love soon neglected Lay dying in the strength of its impurity Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together They've all gone and left each other In search for fairer weather We sit here in our storm And drink a toast to the slim chance of love's recovery. Here I am in younger days star gazing Painting picture perfect maps Of how my life and love would be Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection My compass: faith in love's perfection. I missed ten million miles of road I should have seen Meanwhile my friends we thought were so together Left each other one by one on the road to fairer weather. And we sit here in our storm And drink a toast to the slim chance of love's recovery. Rain soaked and voice chocked Like silent screaming in a dream I search for our absolute distinction Not consent to bow and bend To whims of culture that swoop like vultures They're eating us away, (eating us away). They're eating us away to our extinction O how I wish I were a trinity So if lost a part of me I'd still have two of the same to live But nobody gets a life time rehearsal As specks of dust, we're universal To let this love survive be the greatest gift we could give Tell all the friends who think they're so together That these are ghosts and mirages All these thoughts of fairer weather Though its stormy now I feel safe Within the arms of love's discovery. ## You Rise and Meet the Day / Dar Williams We could pretend that we're walking on petals and light, golden light Flaunting our love like a dance step mastered, turning from left to right But after all the colored lights are gone Time will leave the ashes and the dawn You rise and meet the day I'm watching you go, it's like spying on hope ever onward with more to burn Giving your hands and your heart to the weave of the world, though it fights each turn But you do not give up so easily That's how I know you won't surrender me You rise and meet the day It's all I need, it's all I need to know, it's all I need to know And I love you all the time I had always feared that some gloomy ingratitude would seize me But you have held the dream like every morning finds A way to hang the sun up in the sky And now I think I have it too The greatest part I learned from you You rise and meet the day And I can see kids, maybe yours, maybe not, oh oh oh, I can hear what they'll say Laughing at pictures with the old-fashioned hats And the clothes that we're wearing today And they will know the true and humble power Of love that made it through the darkest hour You rise and meet the day It's all I need, it's all I need to know, it's all I need to know ## Burying Song / Hem (instrumental) # 6 Apr 2018 ## Don't Mind Me / Lucy Kaplansky Don't mind me, I'm just a, a bit maniacal about you And derailed when I'm without you, don't mind me Don't mind me, if you could love me just a little it'd be okay 'Cause I couldn't leave you anyway, don't mind me It doesn't matter what you say, I just like the way you sound And if you turn away, I'll just turn you back around Come on baby please play your song for me Don't blame me, it's just your burning gravity That brings me to my knees in front of you Don't blame me I just wanna get you on the ground Play a little lost and found, don't blame me It doesn't matter what you say, I just like the way you sound And if you turn away I'll just turn you back around Come on baby please, play your song for me If you could love me, if you could only love me I'd walk across hot coals to you, I'd stop the rain and wind for you I'd save all my sin for you for you for you It doesn't matter what you say, I just like the way you sound And if you turn away I'll just turn you back around Come on baby please, play your song for me ## Cracking / Suzanne Vega It's a one time thing It just happens A lot Walk with me And we will see What we have got My footsteps are ticking Like water dripping from a tree Walking a harline And stepping very carefully My heart is broken It is worn out at the knees Hearing muffled Seeing blind Soon it will hit the Deep Freeze And something is cracking I don't know where Ice on the sidewalk Brittle braches In the air The sun Is blinding Dizzy golden, dancing green Through the park in the afternoon Wondering where the hell I have been ## Woke Up New / The Mountain Goats On the morning when I woke up without you for the first time I felt free and I felt lonely and I felt scared And I began to talk to myself almost immediately Not being used to being the only person there The first time I made coffee for just myself, I made too much of it But I drank it all just 'cause you hate it, when I let things go to waste And I wandered through the house like a little boy, lost at the mall And an astronaut could've seen the hunger in my eyes from space And I sang, "Oh, what do I do?" "What do I do?" "What do I do?" "What do I do without you?" On the morning when I woke up without you for the first time I was cold, so I put on a sweater and I turned up the heat And the walls began to close in and I felt so sad and frightened I practically ran from the living room, out into the street And the wind began to blow and all the trees began to pant And the world, in its cold way, started coming alive And I stood there like a business man waiting for the train And I got ready for the future to arrive And I sang, "Oh, what do I do?" "What do I do?" "What do I do?" "But what do I do without you?" ## Remains / Maurissa Tancharoen Burn down my home My memories hardened and are bright as chrome Good times escape While every mistake seems to be caught on tape I will go rolling fast Arms out in the rain Feel momentum building 'til I lift off ground like an airplane Love ties you down to the pain A billion eyes are watching, fossilized They see what remains Remains Gave up this town What waste are we left with when it's boiled down Shine light on me Your image reflected is all you'll ever see I will go rolling fast Arms out in the rain Feel momentum building 'til I lift off ground like an airplane Love ties you down to the pain A billion eyes are watching, fossilized They see what remains Remains # 7 Jun 2018 ## Jubilee / Elizabeth Mitchell It's all out on the old railroad It's all out on the sea All out on the old railroad As far as I can see Swing and turn, Jubilee Live and learn Jubilee Swing and turn, Jubilee Live and learn Jubilee Hardest work I ever did Was working on the farm Easiest work I ever did Swing my true love's arm chorus If I had a needle and thread As fine as I could sew I'd sew my true love to my side And down this creek I'd go If I had no horse to ride I'd be found a-crawlin' Up and down this rocky road Lookin' for my darlin' chorus ## Wild Sage / The Mountain Goats I leave the house as soon as it gets light outside Like a prisoner breaking out of jail And I steal down to Business 15-501 Like I had a bounty hunter on my tail And somebody stops to pick me up But he drops me off just down the block And along the highway where the empty spirits breathe Wild sage growing in the weeds Walked down the soft shoulder and I count my steps Heading vaguely eastward, sun in my eyes And I lose my footing and I skin my hands, breaking my fall And I laugh to myself and look up at the skies And then I think I hear angels in my ears Like marbles being thrown against a mirror And along the highway, where unlucky stray dogs bleed Wild sage growing in the weeds And some days I don't miss my family And some days I do And some days I think I'd feel better if I tried harder Most days I know it's not true I lay down right where I fell, cold grass in my face And I hear the traffic like the rhythm of the tides And I stare at the scrape on the heel of my hand 'Til it doesn't sting so much And until the blood's dried And when somebody asks if I'm ok, I don't know what to say And along the highway, from cast-off, innumerable seeds Wild sage growing in the weeds ## Sleep Away / Django Jones (Girlyman) Go to sleep and sleep away sleep all night, sleep all day It just takes time, I think someone once said The sky is blue, the sky is red When you wake you will feel like before It doesn't matter any more So go to sleep and sleep away sleep all night, sleep all day sleep away # 8 Jun 2018 ## Wichita / Red Molly She went back to Wichita She went back to her ma and pa Reckon I saw her next to my truck Pumping gas with the car packed up We talked as neighbors will There waiting for the tanks to fill We talked about nothing How it might snow How far she had to go Going back where the grass grows tall And the fields burn in the fall You can still hear the night birds call Back in Wichita She came in '85 She came here as a July bride But it never got easy Never got rich Ain't got much but what she came here with Good times have all been spent She ain't broken but she's badly bent There's nothing she wants here Nothing that shines She's made up her mind Going back where the grass grows tall And the fields burn in the fall You can still hear the night birds call Back in Wichita She says for all my time Well I ain't got much to show You can tell that man of mine and anyone who wants to know Going back where the grass grows tall And the fields burn in the fall You can still hear the night birds call Back in Wichita You can still hear the night birds call Back in Wichita ## Speechless / Girlyman I don't know what is happening to me I think my mind's finally come undone The city's quiet and the hour is late And I'm afraid to face my life alone And I don't know why It's so hard to consider this I've reached up so many times To find my hands full of emptiness There's been nothing to help me to sleep I've got too much going on inside I never thought someone could pull me in this deep But now I find I'm losing this time So many times I've been put aside I was always second best (Through several tales of the past I've sailed) But nothing's sweeter than to be picked from the vine Like the treasure of a harvest (But nothing hides when you cast them aside) I have never been seen except in glimpses of my dreams But you're waiting here in the wings and I'm speechless And I don't know why It's so hard to consider this I've reached up so many times To find my hands full of emptiness ## Don't Think Twice It's Alright / Peter, Paul & Mary It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe It don't matter, anyhow And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don't know by now When the rooster crows at the break of dawn Look out your window and I'll be gone You're the reason I'm travelin' on Don't think twice it's all right It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe Light I never know'd It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe I'm on the dark side of the road Still I wish there was somethin' you would do or say To try and make me change my mind and stay We never did too much talkin' anyway So don't think twice it's all right I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babe Where I'm bound, I can't tell But goodbye is too good a word gal So I'll just say "fair-thee-well" I ain't saying you treated me unkind You could have done better, but I don't mind And you just sorta wasted my precious time But don't think twice it's all right It ain't no use in callin' out my name gal Like you never did before It ain't no use in callin' out my name gal I can't hear you anymore I'm thinkin' and wonderin' all the way down the road I once loved a woman, a child I'm told I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul Don't think twice it's all right ## Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall / Simon & Garfunkel Through the corridors of sleep Past shadows dark and deep My mind dances and leaps in confusion I don't know what is real I can't touch what I feel And I hide behind the shield of my illusion So I'll continue to continue to pretend My life will never end And flowers never bend with the rainfall The mirror on my wall Casts an image dark and small But I'm not sure at all it's my reflection I'm blinded by the light Of God, and truth, and right And I wander in the night without direction So I'll continue to continue to pretend My life will never end And flowers never bend with the rainfall No matter if you're born To play the king or pawn For the line is thinly drawn 'tween joy and sorrow So my fantasy becomes reality And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow So I'll continue to continue to pretend My life will never end And flowers never bend with the rainfall # 9 Jul 2018 ## River Waltz / Cowboy Junkies I'm going to find me a dying river And strike a deal with her I'll say, "I'll fold you in two and I'll carry you away To a place where your headwaters will flow Clean through to your mouth." In return I'll request a small sanctuary By her banks where we will live with our small family She will water our garden and clean the dirt from our skin. While the world clamours at our door We will dance and not let them in. And if one day we wake up to a bed dry as a bone Find our river stolen, find our sanctuary gone We will stand and take stock and be grateful For what we've not lost. We will pack up our bags, pack our small family Head across the valley to where the aspen trees Shiver as they ascend - the green hills rising to blue. At the edge of the chopping we will turn And bid fond "adieu". All that I know to be true Is the touch of your hand on my skin. One look from you can so easily soothe All this turmoil within As we dance cheek to cheek With our feet so completely Locked in a time all our own. I stop to speak But you gently keep me Moving in time to the song. And in a voice that is sloppy with gin You say, "let the world spin." I'm going to find me a dying river And strike a deal with her I'll say, "I'll fold you in two and I'll carry you away To place where your headwaters will flow Clean through to your mouth." In return I'll request a small sanctuary By her banks where we will live with our small family She will water our garden and clean the dirt from our skin. While the world clamours at our door We will dance and not let them in. ## Erev Ba / Traditional Shuv haeder noher Bimvo'ot hakfar Veolech haavak Mishvilei afar Veharchek od tzemed inbalim Melave et meshech batzlalim Erev ba, erev ba... Shuv haruach lochesh Bein gidrot ganim Uvtsameret habrosh Kvar namot yonim Veharchek al ketef hagvaot Od noshkot, karnaim achronot Erev ba, erev ba... Shuv havered cholem Chalomot balat Uforchim kochavim Bamaron at at Veharchek, baemek haafel Melave hatar et bo baleil Leil rad, leil rad... Again the flocks wander along the village street and the dust rises from sandy paths. And far away the bells merge with the gathering shadows. Evening falls, evening falls. Again the wind whispers amongst the garden fences and from the tops of the cypress the doves coo And in the distance the last rays of the sun caress the hilltops Evening falls, evening falls. Again the rose dreams languorous dreams and gradually on high the stars begin to twinkle And afar in the dark valley the jackal accompanies the approach of night. Night falls, night falls. # 10 Sep 2018 ## Nothing Called Home / Girlyman You sit and watch the ocean blue The colors stare right back at you There's love pulsing underneath that sea There's salt dusting painted benches Planks of deck and rusted wrenches Nature wants to taste this life The one you spit out every time Do you think there's nowhere to go Nothing called home Nowhere that you'd rather be Let it go, oh let it alone Someday you'll find what you need You kept the light inside you bright But shielded it as careful as a candle on a cold and rainy night You pushed away the oneswho loved you But held them high, right above you Caring more what we would think Offering us the first drink Most of all your sweaters packed away moved with you Though none of them got worn anyway You think you're leaving everything behind But no matter where you are You are there, you're the star Snow covers every corner Every fountain, every border Paving ancient roads and antique signs Most of what I know about you are memories, now far from truth We melt away our circumstance We all deserve a second chance ## Kathy's Song / Simon & Garfunkel I hear the drizzle of the rain Like a memory it falls Soft and warm continuing Tapping on my roof and walls And from the shelter of my mind Through the window of my eyes I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets To England where my heart lies My mind's distracted and diffused My thoughts are many miles away They lie with you when you're asleep And kiss you when you start your day And a song I was writing is left undone I don't know why I spend my time Writing songs I can't believe With words that tear and strain to rhyme And so you see I have come to doubt All that I once held as true I stand alone without beliefs The only truth I know is you And as I watch the drops of rain Weave their weary paths and die I know that I am like the rain There but for the grace of you go I ## Everyone / Elizabeth Mitchell We shall walk again down along the lane Down the avenue just like we used to do With our heads so high, smile at the passers by Then we'll softly sigh ay, ay, ay, ay, ay Everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone Everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone By the winding stream we shall lie and dream We'll make dreams come true if we want them to Yes, all will come play the pipes and drum Sing a happy song and we'll sing along Everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone Everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone We shall walk again down along the lane Down the avenue just like we used to do With our heads so high, smile at the passers by Then we'll softly sigh ay, ay, ay, ay, ay ## The Jack Pine / Hem (instrumental) # 11 Sep 2018 ## Babylon / The Cumberland Trio How far is it to Babylon? When will I have to go? How many miles to Babylon is what I'd like to know. All alone, all alone, to a distant land One by one, hear the drum Who will take my hand? What will I find in Babylon? Will there be fire and rain? And if I go to Babylon, can I come home again? chorus The road is wide to Babylon but I'm afraid to go How many miles to Babylon and will I ever know? chorus What will I find in Babylon? Will there be fire and rain? And if I go to Babylon can I come home again? chorus ## Witch Of The Westmorelands / Grace Notes Pale was the wounded knight, that bore the rowan shield Loud and cruel were the raven's cries that feasted on the field Saying "Beck water cold and clear will never clean your wound There's none but the witch of the Westmoreland can make thee hale and soond" So turn, turn your stallion's head 'til his red mane flies in the wind And the rider of the moon goes by and the bright star falls behind And clear was the paley moon when his shadow passed him by Below the hills were the brightest stars when he heard the owlet cry Saying "Why do you ride this way, and wherefore came you here?" "I seek the Witch of the Westmorland that dwells by the winding mere" And it's weary by the Ullswater and the misty brake fern way Til throught the cleft in the Kirkstane Pass the winding water lay He said "Lie down, by brindled hound and rest ye, my good grey hawk And thee, my steed may graze thy fill for I must dismount and walk, But come when you hear my horn and answer swift the call For I fear ere the sun will rise this morn ye will serve me best of all" And it's down to the water's brim he's born the rowan shield And the goldenrod he has cast in to see what the lake might yield And wet she rose from the lake, and fast and fleet went she One half the form of a maiden fair with a jet black mare's body And loud, long and shrill he blew til his steed was by his side High overhead the grey hawk flew and swiftly did he ride Saying "Course well, my brindled hound, and fetch me the jet black mare Stoop and strike, my good grey hawk, and bring me the maiden fair" She said "Pray, sheathe thy silvery sword. Lay down thy rown shield For I see by the briny blood that flows you've been wounded in the field" And she stood in a gown of the velvet blue, bound round withh a silver chain And she's kissed his pale lips once and twice and three times round again And she's bound his wounds with the goldenrod, full fast in her arms he lay And he has risen hale and sound with the sun high in the day She said "Ride with your brindled hound at heel, and your good grey hawk in hand There's none can harm the knight who's lain with the Witch of the Westmorland." ## (Talk To Me Of) Mendocino / Kate & Anna McGarrigle I bid farewell to the state of ol' New York My home away from home In the state of New York I came of age When first I started roaming And the trees grow high in New York state And they shine like gold in Autumn Never had the blues from whence I came But in New York state I caught 'em Talk to me of Mendocino Closing my eyes I hear the sea Must I wait, must I follow? Won't you say "Come with me?" And it's on to Southbend, Indiana Flat out on the western plain Rise up over the Rockies and down on into California Out to where but the rocks remain And let the sun set on the ocean I will watch it from the shore Let the sun rise over the redwoods I'll rise with it till I rise no more Talk to me of Mendocino closing my eyes, I hear the sea Must I wait, must I follow? Won't you say "Come with me?" # 12 Dec 2018 ## Soap And Water / Suzanne Vega Soap and water Take the day from my hand Scrub the salt from my stinging skin Slip me loose of this wedding band Soap and water Hang my heart on the line Scour it down in a wind of sand Bleach it clean to a vinegar shine Daddy's a dark riddle Mama's a headful of bees You are my little kite Carried away in the wayward breeze Soap and water Wash the year from my life Straighten all that we trampled and tore Heal the cut we call husband and wife Daddy's a dark riddle Mama's a handful of thorns You are my little kite Caught up again in the household storms Daddy's a dark riddle Mama's a headful of bees You are my little kite Carried away in the wayward breeze ## Scarborough Fair - Canticle / Simon & Garfunkel Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine Tell her to make me a cambric shirt (in the deep forest green) Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Tracing of sparrow on snow-crested ground) Without no seams nor needle work (Bedclothes the child of the mountain) Then she'll be a true love of mine (Sleeps unaware of the clarion call) Tell her to find me an acre of land (A sprinkling of leaves) Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (Washes the grave with silvery tears) Between the salt water and the sea strands (And polishes a gun) Then she'll be a true love of mine Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather (Blazing in scarlet battalions) Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Generals order their soldiers to kill) And gather it all in a bunch of heather (A cause they've long ago forgotten) Then she'll be a true love of mine Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine ## Shine / Vienna Teng In this desert land I know some rain must fall See where we began We've come so far On this harbor shore We hear the ocean call In our minds at war We have so far to go Shine with all the untold Hold the light given unto you Find the love to unfold In this broken world we choose In unending storms We search for space to breathe How our hearts are worn We've come so far In this desert How we blossom and we cease Tell your story now We have so much to know ## The Lark in the Clear Air / Loreena McKennitt (instrumental) # 13 Jan 2019 ## Thanksgiving Eve / Sally Rogers It's so easy to dream of the days gone by So hard to think of the times to come And the grace to accept every moment as a gift Is a gift that is given to some What can you do with your days But work and hope Let your dreams bind your work to your play What can you do with each moment of your life But love 'till you've loved it away Love 'till you've loved it away There are sorrows enough for the whole world's end There are no guarantees but the grave But the lives we have lived and the times we have spent Are a treasure to precious to say ## Turning Toward the Morning / Wendy Grossman When the deer has bedded down And the bear has gone to ground And the northern goose has wandered off To warmer bay and sound It's so easy in the cold to feel The darkness of the year And the heart is growing lonely For the morning Oh, my Joanie, don't you know That the stars are swinging slow And the seas are rolling easy As they did so long ago? If I had a thing to give you I would tell you one more time That the world is always turning Toward the morning Now October's growing thin And November's coming home; You'll be thinking of the season And the sad things that you've seen And you hear that old wind walking Hear him singing high and thin You could swear he's out there singing Of your sorrow chorus When the darkness falls around you And the Northwind come to blow And you hear him call your name out As he walks the brittle snow: That old wind don't mean you trouble He don't care or even know He's just walking down the darkness Toward the morning chorus It's a pity we don't know What the little flowers know They can't face the cold November They can't take the wind and snow: They put their glories all behind them Bow their heads and let it go But you know they'll be there shining In the morning chorus Now, my Joanie, don't you know That the days are rolling slow And the winter's walking easy As he did so long ago? And, if that wind would should and ask you "Why's my Joanie weeping so?" Won't you tell him that you're weeping For the morning? chorus ## May I Suggest / Red Molly May I suggest May I suggest to you May I suggest this is the best part of your life? May I suggest This time is blessed for you? This time is blessed and shining almost blinding bright Just turn your head And you'll begin to see The thousand reasons that were just beyond your sight The reasons why Why I suggest to you Why I suggest this is the best part of your life There is a world That's been addressed to you Addressed to you, intended only for your eyes A secret world A treasure chest to you Of private scenes and brilliant dreams that mesmerize A tender lover's smile A tiny baby's hands The million stars that fill the turning sky at night Oh I suggest Yes I suggest to you Yes I suggest this is the best part of your life There is a hope That's been expressed in you The hope of seven generations, maybe more This is the faith That they invest in you It's that you'll do one better than was done before Inside you know Inside you understand Inside you know what's yours to finally set right And I suggest And I suggest to you And I suggest this is the best part of your life This is a song Comes from the west to you Comes from the west, comes from the slowly setting sun This is a song With a request of you To see how very short the endless days will run And when they're gone And when the dark descends We'd give anything for one more hour of life May I suggest this is the best part of your life? ## Good People / Magpie Good people I will sing to you This song came to me sleeping And it's a thank you for the love you share And the friends that we're keeping Oh, I've tasted wine while all alone And as one friend among others But by far the cups we've overturned Together they were sweeter And if its ever from me you must go Or your life you must surrender Do not have a thought that you'll be lost For its you I will remember Oh, I am a poor and simple man And my favorite dream of any Is that faster shall my spirit rise With my hands and pockets empty Good people I will sing to you This song came to me dreaming And its a thank you for the love you share And the friends that we're keeping. # 14 Jun 2019 ## Love and Happiness / Emmylou Harris & Mark Knopfler Here's a wishing well, here's a penny for Any thought it is that makes you smile Every diamond dream, everything that brings Love and happiness to your life Here's a rabbit's foot, take it when you go So, you'll always know you're safe from harm Wear your ruby shoes when you're far away So, you'll always stay home in your heart You will always have a lucky star That shines because of what you are Even in the deepest dark because your aim is true And if I could only have one wish, darlin' then It would be this, love and happiness for you Here's a spinning wheel, use it once you've learned There's a way to turn the straw to gold Here's a rosary, count on every bead With a prayer to keep the hope you hold You will always have a lucky star That shines because of what you are Even in the deepest dark because your aim is true And if I could only have one wish, darlin' then It would be this, love and happiness for you And if I could only have one wish, darlin' then It would be this, love and happiness for you ## Your House is Strong / Nerissa Neilds What if all the moments that felt like failure Were really the ones that made me strong? What if all the time when you thought you'd ruined me There actually was nothing wrong? I know there are times when you think our house Will crumble and fall on our heads Believe me when I say Your hoosue is strong and so are you The broken spots are where the light shines through Your house is strong and so are we It's the forgiving of each other that sets us, sets us free I know it wasn't easy to watch me struggle To finally get to my feet I know it wasn't easy to work to feed us When we kept interrupting your sleep You always had time to hold me close To listen & believe when I heard a ghost I believed you when you said (chorus) / The haunted rooms are where the truth comes through / It's the believing in each other that sets us free And there were those years when we couldn't speak without it ending in a fight You had the wisdom to let me go Crashing thru with no headlights I don't know how you did it One day in the summer we made the time To gather like the women we'd grown to be Gathered like the harvest, we heard the news And everything vanished from the screen The mother we get is the mother we need Even when we're all alone I hear you sing to your own mama (chorus) ## Bright Morning Stars / Wailin' Jennys Bright morning stars are rising Day is a'breaking In my soul Oh where are our dear fathers? They are down in the valley a'praying Day is a'breaking In my soul Oh where are our dear mothers? They are gone to heaven a'shouting Day is a'breaking In my soul Bright morning stars are rising Day is a'breaking In my soul ## Durme Durme / Tanja Solnik Durme, durme mi alma donzella durme, durme sin ansia y dolor durme, durme sin ansia y dolor. Heq tu sclavo tanto dezea ver tu sueño con grande amor ver tu sueño con grande amor. Hay dos años que sufre mi alma por ti, joya, mi linda dama por ti, joya, mi linda dama. Sleep, sleep My beloved damsel Sleep, sleep Without anxiety or pain Sleep, sleep Without anxiety or pain Here is your slave, who wishes a lot To watch over your sleep with the greatest of love To watch over your sleep with the greatest of love For two years mi soul is suffering Because of you, my jewel, my beautiful lady Because of you, my jewel, my beautiful lady # 15 Sep 2019 ## Light of a Clear Blue Morning / Wailin' Jennys It's been a long dark night And I've been waiting for the morning It's been a long hard fight But I can see a brand new day dawning And I've been looking for the sunshine 'Cause I ain't seen it in so long Everything's gonna work out just fine Everything's gonna be alright That's been all wrong 'Cause I can see the light of a clear blue morning I can see the light of a brand new day I can see the light of a clear blue morning Everything's gonna be alright It's gonna be okay It's been a long, long time Since I've known the taste of freedom And those clinging vines That had me bound, well I don't need them I've been like a captured eagle You know an eagle's born to fly Now that I have won my freedom Like an eagle I am eager for the sky 'Cause I can see the light of a clear blue morning I can see the light of a brand new day I can see the light of a clear blue morning Everything's gonna be alright It's gonna be okay 'Cause I can see the light of a clear blue morning I can see the light of a brand new day I can see the light of a brand new day Everything's gonna be alright It's gonna be okay Everything's gonna be alright It's gonna be okay ## Long Time Traveller / Wailin' Jennys These fleeting charms of earth Farewell, your springs of joy are dry My soul now seeks another home A brighter world on high I'm a long time travelling here below I'm a long time travelling away from home I'm a long time travelling here below To lay this body down Farewell kind friends whose tender care Has long engaged my love Your fond embrace I now exchange For better friends above I'm a long time travelling here below I'm a long time travelling away from home I'm a long time travelling here below To lay this body down... I'm a long time travelling here below I'm a long time travelling away from home I'm a long time travelling here below To lay this body down To lay this body down ## One Voice / Wailin' Jennys This is the sound of one voice One spirit, one voice The sound of one who makes a choice This is the sound of one voice This is the sound of one voice This is the sound of voices two The sound of me singing with you Helping each other to make it through This is the sound of voices two This is the sound of voices two This is the sound of voices three Singing together in harmony Surrendering to the mystery This is the sound of voices three This is the sound of voices three This is the sound of all of us Singing with love and the will to trust Leave the rest behind, it will turn to dust This is the sound of all of us This is the sound of all of us This is the sound of one voice One people, one voice A song for every one of us This is the sound of one voice This is the sound of one voice ## The Parting Glass / Wailin' Jennys Oh, all the money that e'er I spent I spent it in good company And all the harm that e'er I've done Alas, it was to none but me And all I've done for want of wit To memory now I can't recall So fill to me the parting glass Goodnight and joy be with you all Oh, all the comrades that e'er I've had Are sorry for my going away And all the sweethearts that e'er I've had Would wish me one more day to stay But since it falls unto my lot That I should rise and you should not I'll gently rise and I'll softly call Goodnight and joy be with you all # 16 Nov 2019 ## Asleep At Last / Wailin' Jennys Be my asleep at last, Kiss me slow and hold me fast. Be my sail and be my mast, In the blue forever cast Your love far from pain and past, Be my this one's meant to last. Be my I want nothing more, Pull the blinds and lock the door. Be my calm after the storm, In the winter wind my warm. Be my anchor be my moor, Pull my heart onto your shore. And I could be the one to make you see That you could be the one for me, If you could be the one to tell me true That I could be the one for you. Be my uncovering, Every colour opening. Be my gills and be my wings, I'll be queen to your king, And I will show you everything, A vow that doesn't need a ring. And I could be the one to make you see That love is all we'll ever need, If you could be the one to see it through, See that I'm the one for you. ## By Way of Sorrow / Wailin' Jennys You've been taken by the wind You have known the kiss of sorrow Doors that would not take you in Outcast and a stranger You have come by way of sorrow You have come by way of tears But you'll reach your destiny Meant to find you all these years Meant to find you all these years You have drunk a bitter wine With none to be your comfort You who once were left behind You will be welcome at love's table You have come by way of sorrow You have come by way of tears But you'll reach your destiny Meant to find you all these years Meant to find you all these years All the nights that joy has slept Will awake to days of laughter All the tears that you have wept We'll dance in freedom ever after You have come by way of sorrow You have come by way of tears But you'll reach your destiny Meant to find you all these years Meant to find you all these You have come by way of sorrow You have come by way of tears You'll reach your destiny Meant to find you all these years Meant to find you all these years ## This Is Where / Wailin' Jennys The wind howls 'cross the ice floes Send the frozen snow skimming A river on a river hardened over It doesn't know the way it's going Is it north or south or westward It just glides across the shoreline 'til it's over You came for me in fast forward On a claim for something ordered A way through and past the history that held you I'd tell my own story through you Tell it loud to never lose you A moth caught be the flame it could cannot measure And there we go again, wishing something bolder Trying to push and pull inside this moment Trying to mold this life within our hands This is where the whole world keeps on turning This is where we come undone...undone Will they measure me by branches Count the rings and take my ashes Mark the ground where I fell and carry on Or will we bite against the silence Fill our days with noise and violence Not recognize our hearts when we are done There we'll go again wishing something bolder Trying to push and pull inside this moment Trying to mold this life within our hands This is where the whole world keeps on turning This is where we come undone We don't know where it's going Is it north or south or westward It just glides across the shoreline 'til it's over ## Daughter / Vienna Teng Well it's you and it's me Me with a drink in my hand The ice is tinkling like a wind chime And late afternoon settles over the land And you're talking about things Interesting just slightly And things that matter too much To say any way but lightly Did you know you're so beautiful On the edge of summer That years from now I'll cry to remember How very close you were Knowing this will I reach for you Knowing this will I reach for you The way you want me to Well it's time to be wise Wise in the ways of the heart To come out from under the covers This voluntary state of apart From the faces Oasis In this Sahara of sorrow These graces that hold me It's from you that I borrow Did you know you're so beautiful On the edge of summer That years from now I'll cry to remember How very close you were Knowing this will I reach for you Knowing this will I reach for you The way you want me to # 17 Jan 2020 ## Whatever You Want / Vienna Teng He's a company man, your right hand, 13 years and counting. No detectable ambition, a model of efficiency, far as you can see. He knows every loophole, the art of fine print, massages the numbers 'til they fit. And every time you ask him for another vanishing act, he half-smiles as if to say: whatever you want, whatever you want, whatever you want is fine by me. Whatever you want, whatever you want, whatever you want is fine by me. never a real moment together but she understands: you're an important man. Another late night. don't know if you're coming home or when. she's alone again. But she goes on curating your domestic museum. she disappears in her loyalty. She is a dress wearing a face in the doorway, opening her arms out to you: chorus no one would dare to question you, oh no. No one would dare to stand up. but in the night she leaves the papers in a tiny pile: evidence for her reasons. And in the night he takes the main accounts and pulls the files, detailing every treason. I am the last one you'd ever suspect of setting the fire, of setting the fire. But as you switch on your TV tomorrow morning, you'll hear me saying quietly: chorus oh whatever you say, oh whatever you say: I'll do what you ask me, I'll do what you ask me. Oh whatever you say, oh whatever you say. But do you know who's listening? Oh whatever you say, oh whatever you say, You know it's over! ## Blowin' In The Wind / Peter, Paul & Mary How many roads must a man walk down Before they call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? How many times must the cannonballs fly Before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind How many years must a mountain exist Before it is washed to the sea? How many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free? How many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn't see? How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? How many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? How many deaths will it take 'til he knows That too many people have died? ## All the Stars / Wailin' Jennys All the stars in the sky burn the black, close your eyes All the stars in the sky say 'Goodbye', say 'Goodbye.' We were here yesterday, now you seem so far away We were here yesterday, I heard you saying you don't know me You know one side of a story, oh you don't know me So open wide your wounded heart, feel yourself be blown apart Open wide your wounded heart, it's a funny place to start In the light of the sun, we are found, we are undone In the light of the sun, we are a one And you don't know me, you know one side of a story Oh you don't know me All the seeds beneath the snow start to grow, start to grow All the seeds beneath the snow say 'Hello', say 'Hello.' All the seeds lie below, deep in heart and what we know All the seeds lie below, the ones we sowed And you don't know me, you know one side of a story But if could be free, one with all this glory If we could be free... ## Prayer of St. Francis / Sarah McLachlan Lord make Me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness joy. O Divine master grant that I may Not so much seek to be consoled as to console To be understood, as to understand. To be loved. as to love For it's in giving that we receive And it's in pardoning that we are pardoned And it's in dying that we are born... To eternal life. Amen... # 18 Feb 2020 ## Java Jive / The Manhattan Transfer I love coffee, I love tea I love the java jive and it loves me Coffee and tea and the java and me A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup (boy!) I love java, sweet and hot Whoops mr. moto, I'm a coffee pot Shoot the pot and I'll pour me a shot A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup Oh slip me a slug from the wonderful mug And I'll cut a rug just snug in a jug A sliced up onion and a raw one Draw one - Waiter, waiter, percolator I love coffee, I love tea I love the java jive and it loves me Coffee and tea and the java and me A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup Boston bean (soy beans) Green bean (cabbage and greens) I'm not keen about a bean Unless it is a chili chili bean (boy!) I love java sweet and hot Whoops mr. moto I'm a coffee pot (yeah) Shoot me the pot and I'll pour me a shot A cup, a cup, a cup (yeah) Slip me a slug of the wonderful mug 'an I'll cut a rug just as snug in a jug Drop a nickel in the pot joe Takin' it slow Waiter, waiter, percolator I love coffee, I love tea I love the java jive and it loves me Coffee and tea and the java and me A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, boy! ## Tumbalalayka / Theodore Bikel Shteyt a bocher, shteyt un tracht, tracht un tracht a gantze nacht. Vemen tsu nemen un nit far shemen, vemen tsu nemen un nit far shemen. Tumbala, tumbala, tumbalalaika, Tumbala, tumbala, tumbalalaika tumbalalaika, shpiel balalaika tumbalalaika - freylach zol zayn. Meydl, meydl, ch'vel bay dir fregen, Vos kan vaksn, vaksn on regn? Vos kon brenen un nit oyfhern? Vos kon benken, veynen on treren? Narisher bocher, vos darfstu fregn? A shteyn ken vaksn, vaksn on regn. Libeh ken brenen un nit oyfhern. A harts kon benkn, veynen on treren. ## Liljano mome / Djaima Liljano mome, Liljano / Liljana, young lady ja stani rano pri zori / get up early at dawn libeto si pregârni / and give your sweetheart a hug Ne e izlezla, Liljana/ / Liljana didn't come out naj izlezla majka i / but her mother did instead Ljuti si kletvi kâlneše / and she moaned i na Georgi dumaše / and said to Georgi Idi si, Georgi, idi si / Go home, Georgi Liljana bolna legnala / Liljana is sick in bed i ne može da stane / and cannot get up Ne mi go laži, mamo ma / Don't lie to him, mama ja sam si Georgi ljubila / I've fallen in love with Georgi za nego ke se ožena / and will marry him ! # 19 Mar 2020 ## Dodi Li Dodi li, va'ani lo haro'eh bashoshanim. Mi zot ola min hamidbar? Mi zot ola, mekuteret mor, mor ulevona? Libavtini achoti kala libavtini kala. Uri, tsafon, u'vo'i teiman. My beloved is mine, and I am his, a shepherd among roses. Who is this coming up from the desert? Who is this coming up, perfumed with myrrh, myrrh and frankincense? You have captured my heart, my sister, you have captured my heart, my bride. Awake, north wind, and come south. ## The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face / Peter, Paul & Mary The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave To the dark and the empty skies, my love To the dark and the empty skies The first time ever I kissed your mouth I felt the earth move in my hand Like the trembling heart of a captive bird That was there at my command, my love That was there at my command The first time ever I held you near And felt your heartbeat close to mine I thought our joy would fill the world And would last 'till the end of time, my love And would last 'till the end of time ## Mori Shej / Peia Buter káj egy berseszki szán, Móri drágo piko séj, Vorbisz mánge káki-koki, Móri drágo piko séj. Áj mori séj, mori drago pikonyéj, Álálálá….. Áj mori séj, mori drago pikonyéj, Álálálá….. Kináu tuke szomnákáj, Móri drágo piko séj, Lá lumáko szomnákáj, Móri drágo piko séj. chorus ai nana nai nananainanana nanananananana nanana nananana na Áldin dévlá murá sá, Mura cina pikonya, Mura cina pikonya, Murá sukár szábiná. chorus Aldin dévlá murá sá, Mura cina pikonya, Mura cina pikonya, Murá sukár szábiná. chorus You are only just one-year-old, Little, tiny dear daughter, You are chattering to me, Little, tiny dear daughter. Oh daughter, my dear tiny baby, Alalala….. Oh daughter, my dear tiny baby, Alalala….. I'll buy some gold jewels for you, Dear tiny daughter, All the gold jewels in the world, Dear tiny daughter. chorus God bless my daughter, My tiny baby, My tiny baby, My beautiful Sabina. chorus # 20 Apr 2020 ## Spring / Mouths of Babes Make a joyful noise unto the world Be you gentle boy or big strong girl Break the silence with your song, it's the only cure Make a joyful noise unto the sun The wind chime orchestra has just begun Daffodil trumpets proclaim Old Man Winter dead and gone Life is lived, spring is sprung Make a joyful noise unto the rain Bullfrog choirs join in the refrain Thunder is just a belly laugh at our silly human pain Make a joyful noise unto the field Every blade of grass a Zorba, kicking up his heels The lowing of the calf baptized By mother's patient tongue Life is lived, spring is sprung Make a joyful noise unto the moon Crying of coyote, howling of the loon Call out to the one you love, hurry up, it's almost June Make a joyful noise unto your heart Whisper secrets to the evening star Do the best to twinkle in the eye of everyone Know that every ending makes a space for new life to come As tiny sticky fingers wrap around my giant calloused thumb Life is lived, spring is sprung ## Fly Away / Indigo Girls Fly away little bird Any place in this open mouthed world Begs to be fed like a bed that beckons you, but you won't rest Everyone's got a need to go Most of us stick with our row to hoe But not you, you're the black crow With a straight line, and no time For the birds of prey who wreck your nest Twice your size steal your best They set you on this course of your collision I am a stop along your way I am the words you'll never say I crossed the great beyond of fear I opened my eyes and saw us there, what a view You went there too Fly away little bird Find the song in you that no one's heard Strengthen your wings as you sing your solo flight Through this short life Everyone's got a deep regret We try to ground ourselves to forget But your race to the end is neck and neck You love them, you love them not The birds of prey who wreck your nest, Twice your size steal your best They set you on this course of your collision I am a stop along your way I am the words you'll never say I crossed the great beyond of fear Opened my eyes and saw us there, what a view And you went there too But all along your chosen path are Window panes and sheets of glass That you won't see You fly too fast One day it will be over Fly away little bird The saddest song I ever heard Was the one that I wrote you in my heart That never made it to the world ## May This Be Love / Elizabeth Mitchell Waterfall, nothing can harm me at all, My worries seem so very small With my waterfall. I can see my rainbow calling me Through the misty breeze Of my waterfall. Some people say day-dreaming's For the lazy minded fools With nothing else to do. So let them laugh, laugh at me, So just as long as I have you To see me through, I have nothing to lose 'long as I have you. Waterfall, don't ever choose your ways. Come with me for a million days, Oh, my waterfall ## You're Aging Well / Dar Williams with Joan Baez Why is it that as we grow older and stronger The road signs point us adrift and make us afraid Saying "You never can win, " "Watch your back, " "Where's your husband?" Oh, I don't like the signs that the sign makers made. So I'm going to steal out with my paint and brushes I'll change the directions, I'll hit every street It's the Tinseltown scandal, the Robin Hood vandal She goes out and steals the king's English And in the morning you wake up and the signs point to you They say "I'm so glad that you finally made it here, " "You thought nobody cared, but I did, I could tell, " And "This is your year, " and "It always starts here, " And oh "You're aging well." Well I know a woman with a collection of sticks She could fight back the hundreds of voices she heard And she could poke at the greed, she could fend off her need And with anger she found she could pound every word. But one voice got through, caught her up by surprise It said, "Don't hold us back, we're the story you tell, " And no sooner than spoken, a spell had been broken And the voices before her were trumpets and tympani Violins, basses and woodwinds and cellos, singing "We're so glad that you finally made it here You thought nobody cared, but we did, we could tell And now you'll dance through the days while the orchestra plays And oh, you're aging well." Now when I was fifteen, oh, I knew it was over The road to enchantment was not mine to take 'Cause lower calf, upper arm should be half what they are I was breaking the laws that the sign makers made. And all I could eat was the poisonous apple And that's not a story I was meant to survive I was all out of choices, but the woman of voices She turned round the corner with music around her, She gave me the language that keeps me alive, she said: "I'm so glad that you finally made it here With the things you know now, that only time could tell Looking back, seeing far, landing right where we are And oh, you're aging, oh and I am aging, Oh, aren't we aging well?" # 21 May 2020 ## Defy Gravity / Amy Torchia & Jennie Avila I love it when you defy gravity up on the high wire swallow fire juggle swords, spit poetry come on I dare you, defy gravity I'm in the safety net, you are a silhouette you lose your balance, you recover it got the audience on our knees we love it when you defy gravity now you're look the ground and they're thinking don't look down I can't help but laugh out loud 'cause I know, I know I wanna see you, come on I dare I love it when you, you defy gravity ## I Love I Love / Dar Williams I heard love can fall so hard, it can bury a kingdom I heard it makes the spring appear out of season It's a storm in a shadowbox, a force to be reckoned with, When it finds you and find you, it will. And I'd not believed it til I loved, I love The rivers sing and stars awaken above me And the wind and the moon in fits of restless conspiring Turn night to heaven for you. But I am going to a far, far land I know it sure as I've a past and a future With my maps on the table, you see, I have lost many things So many I won't turn back. And were I a deadwood ship, my heart a compass I would leave with inanimate grace, no love could touch me But I live and I know that I'll burn as I grow Though it might break my heart to walk away and so As a moon may adore you and remain, high moon The wind may crown your head with leaves, and keep blowing So I'll stop and I'll watch you, for I love, I love And then be on my way. And then be on my way. ## Seven Days / Azure Ray They're seven days below us That keep me hovered above the ground And nights just blend into the morning Definition is the first to go down If I were to stay here between us I might forget where I'm bound So I can't stay in between us I guess I'll walk away And here to read the future But forced to breathe out the past And too many conversations To uncover what was purposefully lost And we all look so desperate Showing the guidance that we lack And we used to be so wistful I guess we feel it's safer holding back If I were to stay here between us I might forget where I'm bound So I can't stay in between us I guess I'll walk away ## Wherever You Keep / Girlyman You, you seem so far away Fog comes rolling in Don't know where you've been No excuse and no idea How dark it seems to me You make me want to leave But if I go Wherever you go Every step I follow you Down to the deep Wherever you keep I always feel blue I will try to clear the way All that we will be Sailing on the sea But you, you tend an aching place Wrapped inside you tight Away from all the light But if I go Wherever you go Every step I follow you Down to the deep Wherever you keep I always feel blue Like a bird I call to you Fly in circles, nothing I can do Every time I close the door Wind blows on my face Feels good to leave this place You will go and live your life I hold you close to me Wherever you may be But if I go Wherever you go Every step I follow you Down to the deep Wherever you keep I always feel blue # 22 Aug 2020 ## Break Me Slow / Girlyman Build me a home on the Gulf Coast Where lightning lights up all the life boats And beds float away just like freed ghosts When the hurricanes come to call I've got bricks still to lay of my own fate Like cards that you weigh under tables I never could have my hand both ways So the winner takes it all Lay my body low Save me once then let me go I'll pay every cent that I owe Just break me slow Give me a farm on the west coast Where blackberries climb over fence posts And barefoot and breezy on back roads And water turns to wine Well over and out, I've got to forge Can't sing one more note of this ragged score I've run out of scraps for the very poor Scratching at my mind Lay my sins down low Burn me once, now let me go I'll reap every trouble I sow Just break me, break me slow So find me a field on the flood plain Where storm chasers drive into dark rain And lay me down flat in the cornrows As a sound like a freight train grows Lay this burden low You told me once, now I should know I'll shoulder each debt that I owe Just break me, break me slow ## Heart Like A Wheel / Kate & Anna McGarrigle Some say a heart is just like a wheel When you bend it, you can't mend it And my love for you is like a sinking ship And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean They say that death is a tragedy It comes once, and it's over But my only wish is for that deep dark abyss For what's the use of living with no true lover When harm is done, no love can be won I know it happens frequently What I can't understand, oh please god hold my hand Is why it should have happened to me And it's only love and it's only love That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out Some say a heart is just like a wheel When you bend it, you can't mend it And my love for you is like a sinking ship And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean (chorus) ## Dobrou noch / Djaima ? ## The Pearl in Sorrow's Hand / Julie Vallimont (instrumental) # 23 Nov 2020 ## Dream House / Nate Borofsky (Girlyman) The trees have lost their leaves by now I still see your face somehow in between the lines between you and my mind I've looked around the clouds for you Still the sunshine feels so new like a dream I had there was a time I felt so sad I was writing a story Making up a tale I was putting our dream house up for sale I've looked in the mirror – I don't understand ‘Cause this is the place where the ship sighted land And we all gave thanks to God that the seas had spared the rod I was writing a story Making up a tale I was putting our dream house up for sale You can't sit still on a moving train the world don't care we're all insane And you know I love you still There're some things time just won't kill I was writing a story Making up a tale I was putting our dream house up for sale ## Gulf Coast Highway / Red Molly Gulf Coast Highway He worked the rails He worked the rice fields With their cool dark wells He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico The only thing we've ever owned Is this old house here by the road And when he dies he says he'll catch Some blackbird's wing Then he will fly away to Heaven come Some sweet blue bonnet spring She walked through springtime When I was home The days were sweet The nights were warm The seasons change, the jobs would Come, the flowers fade This old house felt so alone When the work took me away And when she dies she says, she'll Catch some blackbirds wing Then she will fly away to Heaven come Some sweet blue bonnet spring Highway 90 The jobs are gone We tend our garden We set the sun This is the only place on earth Blue bonnets grow Once a year they come and go At this old house here by the road And when we die we say, we'll Catch some blackbirds wing Then we will fly away to Heaven come Some sweet blue bonnet spring And when we die we say, we'll Catch some blackbirds wing We will fly away together come Some sweet blue bonnet spring ## One True Thing / Tylan (Girlyman) I got one true thing, mother told me to reach out my hand and that thing would land, and then it would sing ??? in the morning it circles my head I lay in bed, no words can be said I got one true thing It's not the thing that they taught us in school it's not really a rule, a god or a king it's something that grows in the ground it's perfectly round, it don't make a sound it's high, it's kinda like a wire you walk until you fly or you die trying me I wanted to believe in something I can't see but it's always hiding from me I got one true thing I'll tell you sometimes when I drink, I forget to think and then it's right there if I try to look close then it's gone so i don't look long sometimes I don't care It's loud, it's kinda like a cloud, a shadow on the ground like something movin' in I don't know what it is, I don't know where its been but it knows just where I'm bound I got one true thing not that feeling I had when we kiss or when we would dance or when we'd agree ??? it's more like a shot in the dark making its mark no matter who sees it's tough it's never quite enough but sometimes it's too much and I push it far away I wish that it would come I wish that it would stay but it's always moving on I got one true thing I don't know what you see when you die but I see the sky and I hear it rain it seems like the world is on fire higher and higher just like a choir ## Waltz / Hem (instrumental) # 24 Apr 2021 ## The Circle Game / Joni Mitchell Yesterday a child came out to wander Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star And the seasons, they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return, we can only look Behind, from where we came And go round and round and round, in the circle game Then the child moved ten times round the seasons Skated over ten clear frozen streams Words like, "When you're older" must appease him And promises of someday make his dreams And the seasons, they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return, we can only look Behind, from where we came And go round and round and round, in the circle game 16 springs and 16 summers gone now Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town And they tell him, "Take your time, it won't be long now 'Til you drag your feet to slow the circles down" And the seasons, they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return, we can only look Behind, from where we came And go round and round and round, in the circle game So the years spin by and now the boy is 20 Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true There'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty Before the last revolving year is through And the seasons, they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return, we can only look Behind, from where we came And go round and round and round, in the circle game And go round and round and round, in the circle game ## Urge For Going / Joni Mitchell I awoke today and found the frost perched on the town It hovered in a frozen sky, then it gobbled summer down When the sun turns traitor cold And all trees are shivering in a naked row I get the urge for going but I never seem to go I get the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in I had me a man in summertime He had summer-colored skin And not another girl in town My darling's heart could win But when the leaves fell on the ground And bully winds came around pushed them face down in the snow He got the urge for going and I had to let him go He got the urge for going When the meadow grass was turning brown And summertime was falling down and winter was closing in Now the warriors of winter they gave a cold triumphant shout And all that stays is dying and all that lives is getting out See the geese in chevron flight flapping and racing on before the snow They've got the urge for going and they've got the wings so they can go They get the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in I'll ply the fire with kindling and pull the blankets to my chin I'll lock the vagrant winter out and I'll bolt my wandering in I'd like to call back summertime and have her stay for just another month or so But she's got the urge for going so I guess she'll have to go She get the urge for going when the meadow grass is turning brown And all her empires are falling down And winter's closing in And I get the urge for going when the meadow grass is turning brown And summertime is falling down ## House Of The Rising Sun / Joni Mitchell There is a house in New Orleans they call the rising sun It's been the ruin of many a poor girl And me oh God for one If I had listened to what my mamma said I'd be at home today But I was young and foolish poor girl Let a gambler lead me astray My mother, she's a tailor She sews those old blue jeans My father he's a gamblin' man Drinks down in New Orleans Go tell my baby sister Not to do as I have done You shun that house in New Orleans They call it the rising sun Well I'm going back to New Orleans My race is almost run I'm going to spend the rest of my days Beneath that rising sun Well one foot is on the platform And the other one's on the train I'm going to spend the rest of my days Wearing that ball and chain # 25 Sep 2021 ## True Colours / Cyndi Lauper You with the sad eyes Don't be discouraged Oh I realize It's hard to take courage In a world full of people You can lose sight of it all And the darkness inside you Can make you feel so small But I see your true colors Shining through I see your true colors And that's why I love you So don't be afraid to let them show Your true colors True colors are beautiful Like a rainbow Show me a smile then Don't be unhappy, can't remember When I last saw you laughing If this world makes you crazy And you've taken all you can bear You call me up Because you know I'll be there And I'll see your true colors Shining through I see your true colors And that's why I love you So don't be afraid to let it show Your true colors True colors are beautiful Like a rainbow If this world makes you crazy And you've taken all you can bear You call me up Because you know I'll be there And I'll see your true colors Shining through I see your true colors And that's why I love you So don't be afraid to let it show Your true colors True colors True colors Shining through I see your true colors And that's why I love you So don't be afraid to let them show Your true colors True colors are beautiful Like a rainbow ## Blooming Heather / Kate Rusby Oh the summertime is coming And the trees are sweetly blooming And the wild mountain thyme Grows around the blooming heather Will ye go, Lassie go? And we'll all go together To pluck wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, Lassie go? I will build my love a tower Near yon' pure crystal fountain And on it I will build All the flowers of the mountain Will ye go, Lassie go? And we'll all go together To pluck wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, Lassie go? If my true love she were gone I would surely find another To pluck wild mountain thyme Grows around the blooming heather Will ye go, Lassie go? And we'll all go together To pluck wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, Lassie go? Let us go, lassie, go ## Weakest State / Broken Fences Is it that you're running from all that brings you here? Lies that bring the sweetness all falter and appear You've lost your will to penetrate You are, you are your weakest state You are the fool that blames your flame But you carry on Deceive your own true love so you would be alone All that you ever were, not forgotten but gone You've lost your will to penetrate You are, you are your weakest state You are the fool that blames your flame But you carry on You've lost your will to penetrate You are, you are your weakest state You are the fool that blames your flame But you carry on What has it come to? A falling back on sin Feel the difference now that you're old A running race to the end ## Craigie Hill / Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan It being in spring and the small birds they were singing Down by a shady arbour I carelessly did stray Where the thrushes they were warbling, the violets were charming For to view two lovers talking a while I did delay She said, "My dear, don't leave me all for another season Though fortune may be pleasing I'll go along with you I'll leave friends and relations and quit this Irish nation And to the bonnie Bann banks forever I'll bid adieu" He said, "My dear, don't grieve me or yet annoy my patience You know I love you dearly although I'm going away I'm going to some foreign nation to purchase a plantation For to comfort us hereafter all in America." The landlords and their agents, their bailiffs and their beagles The land of our forefathers we're forced for to give o'er And we're sailing on the ocean for honor and promotion And we're parting with our sweethearts, it's them we do adore If you were in your bed lying and thinking of dying One sight of the bonny Bann banks, your sorrows you'd give o'er And if your were but one hour all in her shady bower Pleasure would surround you, you'd think on death no more So fare thee well, sweet Craigie Hill, where oftentimes I have roved in I never thought in my childhood days I'd part you any more But we're sailing on the ocean for honour and promotion And the bonny boat's a-sailing way down by Doorin's shore # 26 Nov 2021 ## Little Potato / Metamora You're my little potato, you're my little potato, You're my little potato, they dug you up, You come from underground, The world is big, so big, so very big To you, it's new, it's new to you. You're my little potato, you're my little potato, You're my little potato, they dug you up, You come from underground. Let's talk about root crops (they dug you up), And lamb chops (they chew on you), And things to eat... like apples And cheese and 'nanas and cream, Jellies and butter, It's late at night, I hope this little bottle helps you go to sleep. They must have grown you wild, You make a grown man a child, I'll go and play in the mud To be with you my spud (potato). When you came out looking red as a beet, You had wrinkles on the bottoms of your feet! Oh, you are so sweet potato! You're my sweet potato, You're my sweet potato, dug you up You come from underground. You smile, a smile, a little smile The world is small, so small, it's very small You're my little potato, you're my little potato, You're my little potato, they dug you up, You come from underground You're my little potato, you're my little potato, You're my little potato! ## Farthest Field / Julie Vallimont There is a land high on a hill where I am going There is a voice that calls to me The air is sweet, the grasses wave The wind is blowing away up in the farthest field (chorus) Oh walk with me and we will see the mystery revealed When one day we wend our way up to the farthest field The sun will rise, the sun will set Across the mountains and we will live with beauty there The fragrant flowers the days and hours Will not be counted and peaceful songs will fill the air I know one day I'll leave my home Here in the valley and climb up to that field so fair And when I'm called and counted in That final tally I know that I will see you there Oh my dear friends I truly love To hear your voices lifted up in radiant song Though through the years we all have made our separate choices We've ended here where we belong. ## Across the Great Divide / Kate Wolf I've been walkin' in my sleep Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep Where the years went I can't say I just turned around and they've gone away I've been siftin' through the layers Of dusty books and faded papers They tell a story I used to know And it was one that happened so long ago It's gone away in yesterday Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction Across the Great Divide Now, I heard the owl a-callin' Softly as the night was fallin' With a question and I replied But he's gone across the borderline He's gone away in yesterday Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction Across the Great Divide The finest hour that I have seen Is the one that comes between The edge of night and the break of day It's when the darkness rolls away And it's gone away in yesterday Now I find myself on the mountainside Where the rivers change direction Across the Great Divide And it's gone away in yesterday Now I find myself on the mountainside It's where the rivers change direction Across the Great Divide ## A Swallow Song / Mimi and Richard Farina Come wander quietly and listen to the wind Come near and listen to the sky Come walking high above the rolling of the sea And watch the swallows as they fly There is no sorrow like the murmur of their wings There is no choir like their song There is no power like the freedom of their flight While the swallows roam alone Do you hear the calling of a hundred thousand boys? Hear the trembling in the stone? Do you hear the angry bells ringing in the night? Do you hear the swallows when they've flown? And will the breezes blow the petals from your hand? And will some loving ease your pain? And will this silence drive confusion from your soul? And will the swallows come again? # 27 Jan 2022 ## Crack In The Wall / Suzanne Vega A crack appeared inside a wall, A door sprang up around it Each of these so finely drawn I could not believe I found it A wildish wind blew it open wide My childish mind followed on outside And so I found myself among My heart's delight surrounded A world of wonder lay without It was all of nature's calling With field and forest, clouds and sun Cascades of salt water falling With heights and valleys, dark ravines Ivy thick and wild, deep and thorny scenes And yet each thing did love its place In the lap of all of nature's sprawling And so and so it goes, and so and so it goes I asked the one whose land this was If I might have a token To take with me back to the other side To have and to keep unspoken I asked three times and was thrice denied I asked again without my pride And found I'd lost that world I'd lived Returned as one now broken To a crumb, a rag, a withered leaf In the chilly winds of cold relief I knew myself as I had been As from a dream awoken And so and so it goes, and so and so it goes But then a crack appeared inside a wall And a door sprang up around it. ## Calypso / Suzanne Vega My name is Calypso And I have lived alone I live on an island And I waken to the dawn A long time ago I watched him struggle with the sea I knew that he was drowning And i brought him into me Now today Come morning light He sails away After one last night I let him go. My name is Calypso My garden overflows Thick and wild and hidden Is the sweetness there that grows My hair it blows long As i sing into the wind My name is Calypso And I have lived alone I live on an island I tell of nights Where I could taste the salt on his skin Salt of the waves And of tears And though he, pulled away I kept him here for years I let him go My name is Calypso I have let him go In the dawn he sails away To be gone forever more And the waves will take him in again But he'll know their ways now I will stand upon the shore With a clean heart And my song in the wind The sand will sting my feet And the sky will burn It's a lonely time ahead I do not ask him to return I let him go I let him go ## If I Wrote You / Dar Williams I never thought you were the letter writing type So now I see the words you chose the way you write So I started to write back about the trees in the snow And I saw a bird, couldn't see what it was but I thought you'd know You always surprised me And if I wrote You If I wrote You You would know me And you would not write me again And when the spring came and flooded all the streams It's like how you got the night you told me all your dreams And when the barn roof sagged after an icy bout It's like how you got when you knew the truth was the only way out But not the only way And if I wrote you If I wrote you You would know me And you would not write me again We drew our arms around the bastard sons We never would drink to the chosen ones Well you know the way I left was not the way I planned But I thought the world needed love and a steady hand So I'm steady now And I'm so happy I had to tell you And I love you And you will not write me again You will not write me again You will not write me again ## Now Three / Vienna Teng City fast asleep Clouds up on the hill So quiet, so still Dreams of rain in sheets Dreams of ice and wings So delicate, these things Love, love, love is a word so small Let it fill up, up, up 'til I can't see at all I want to be blind, only my hands to guide me Bring all of you inside me City fast asleep Lights hum in the gray Like her breathing will someday Strangest beauty cries One and one, by and by Now three of us here lie Love, love, love for one so small Come fill me up, up, up 'til I can't see at all I want to be blind, only my hands to guide me Gather all the world inside me ## Nothing Called Home / Girlyman You sit and watch the ocean blue The colors stare right back at you There's love pulsing underneath that sea There's salt dusting painted benches Planks of deck and rusted wrenches Nature wants to taste this life The one you spit out every time Do you think there's nowhere to go Nothing called home Nowhere that you'd rather be Let it go, oh let it alone Someday you'll find what you need You kept the light inside you bright But shielded it as careful as a candle on a cold and rainy night You pushed away the ones who loved you But held them high, right above you Caring more what we would think Offering us the first drink Most of all your sweaters packed away moved with you Though none of them got worn anyway You think you're leaving everything behind But no matter where you are You are there, you're the star Snow covers every corner Every fountain, every border Paving ancient roads and antique signs Most of what I know about you are memories, now far from truth We melt away our circumstance We all deserve a second chance ## The Shape I Found You In / Girlyman You were spoken for I spent twenty lifetimes at your door But your heart was busy within Building bomb shelters under your skin That's the shape I found you in That's the shape I found you in I was calling to you It was one thing I knew how to do But my heart tried to cheat Building safety nets under my feet So if I fell I would fall right in That's the shape you found me in You were delivered to me We were closed as the stores on Christmas Eve So I felt around in the dark Building rope ladders into your heart Climbing hand over hand to get in That's the shape I found you in That's the shape I found you in ## Angel of the Morning /Girlyman There'll be no strings to bind your hands Not if my love can't bind your heart There's no need to take a stand For it was I who chose to start I see no need to take me home I'm old enough to face the dawn Just call me angel of the morning, angel Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby Just call me angel of the morning, angel Then slowly turn away from me Maybe the sun's light will be dim And it won't matter anyhow If morning's echo says we've sinned Well, it was what I wanted now And if we're victims of the night I won't be blinded by the light Just call me angel of the morning, angel Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby Just call me angel of the morning, angel Then slowly turn away I won't beg you to stay with me Through the tears Of the day Of the years Baby Just call me angel of the morning, angel Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby Just call me angel of the morning, angel Just touch my cheek before you leave me, darling Just call me angel of the morning, angel Just touch my cheek before you leave me, darling ## Spark in the Dark / Julie Vallimont (instrumental) # 28 Mar 2022 ## Winter / Tori Amos Snow can wait, I forgot my mittens Wipe my nose, get my new boots on I get a little warm in my heart when I think of winter I put my hand in my father's glove I run off where the drifts get deeper Sleeping Beauty trips me with a frown I hear a voice, "You must learn to stand up For yourself 'cause I can't always be around" He says, when you gonna make up your mind? When you gonna love you as much as I do? When you gonna make up your mind? 'Cause things are gonna change so fast All the white horses are still in bed I tell you that I'll always want you near You say that things change, my dear Boys get discovered as winter melts Flowers competing for the sun Years go by and I'm here still waiting Withering where some snowman was Mirror, mirror, where's the crystal palace? But I only can see myself Skating around the truth who I am But I know, Dad, the ice is getting thin When you gonna make up your mind? When you gonna love you as much as I do? When you gonna make up your mind? 'Cause things are gonna change so fast All the white horses are still in bed I tell you that I'll always want you near You say that things change, my dear Hair is grey and the fires are burning So many dreams on the shelf You say I wanted you to be proud I always wanted that myself When you gonna make up your mind? When you gonna love you as much as I do? When you gonna make up your mind? 'Cause things are gonna change so fast All the white horses have gone ahead I tell you that I'll always want you near You say that things change, my dear Never change All the white horses aah-aah Mmm-mmm ## Time After Time / Cyndi Lauper Lying in my bed, I hear the clock tick and think of you Caught up in circles Confusion is nothing new Flashback, warm nights Almost left behind Suitcase of memories Time after Sometimes you picture me I'm walking too far ahead You're calling to me, I can't hear What you've said Then you say, "go slow" And I fall behind The second hand unwinds If you're lost you can look and you will find me Time after time If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting Time after time If you're lost, you can look and you will find me Time after time If you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting Time after time After my picture fades and darkness has Turned to gray Watching through windows You're wondering if I'm okay Secrets stolen from deep inside (deep inside) And the drum beats out of time If you're lost you can look and you will find me Time after time If you fall I will catch you, I'll be waiting Time after time If you're lost, you can look and you will find me Time after time If you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting Time after time Time after time I've got a suitcase of memories that I almost left behind Time after time Time, time, time But you say to go slow but I fall behind Time after time after time (after time, oh) ## Language or the Kiss / Indigo Girls I don't know if it was real or in a dream Lately waking up I'm not sure where I've been There was a table set for six and five were there I stood outside and kept my eyes upon that empty chair And there was steam on the windows from the kitchen Laughter like a language I once spoke with ease But I'm made mute by the virtue of decision And I choose most of your life goes on without me Oh the fear I've known That I might reap the praise of strangers And end up on my own All I've sown was a song But maybe I was wrong I said to you the one gift which I'd adore The package of the next 10 years unfolding But you told me if I had my way I'd be bored Right then I knew I loved you best born of your scolding When we last talked we were lying on our backs Looking at the sky through the ceiling I used to lie like that alone out on the driveway Trying to read the Greek upon the stars The alphabet of feeling Oh I knew back then It was a calling that said if joy then pain The sound of the voice these years later Is still the same I am alone in a hotel room tonight I squeeze the sky out but there's not a star appears Begin my studies with this paper and this pencil And I'm working through the grammar of my fears Oh mercy what I won't give To have the things that mean the most Not to mean the things I miss Unforgiving the choice still is The language or the kiss ## Sashas / Nor'Easter (instrumental) # 29 Jun 2022 ## I Believe in Love / Indigo Girls When we tried to rework all of this Each to her rendition Painted ourselves in a corner Lost for ideas blindly fishing For a compliment or kindness Just to bring us into view But you could not interpret me and I could not interpret you I remember that cold morning when the trees were black with birds I tried to make out some connection We were at a loss for words After all that we've been through I could not see giving up Despite the picture of our coffee growing colder in the cups I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough And I believe in you and I believe in love So we went rolling on down through the years Taking time off we could steal Until the thief of things unreconciled Stuck it's stick into the wheel Now we're tumbling in a freefall No one's gonna go unscathed But it's not because you held back and its not how I behaved I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough I believe in you and I believe in love There are avenues and supplements and books stacked on the shelf Labyrinths of recovery in search of our best self But most of what will happen now is way out of our hands So just let it go and see where it lands I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough I believe in you and I believe in love I believe in you and I believe in love ## Always, Joni / Trousdale I heard you've been fine But I cry all the time Cuz all I really want is a case of you With a little green California view You're telling me I'm gonna be alright but I'm not, oh Joni Why you gotta break my heart all over again? Joni I gotta get over you all over again Always You were oh so rare But you never really cared All you ever played was the circle game You'd spin me around and skate away I knew what I had was always gone, oh Joni Why you gotta break my heart all over again? Joni I gotta get over you all over again Always, Joni Always, Joni (over and over and over) You turn me on, I'm a yellow taxi Night ride home, you know you got me Both sides now in the conversation Come in from the cold, come on home Joni Why you gotta break my heart all over again? Joni I gotta get over you all over again Always, Joni Always, Joni Always, Joni (Oh my God Joni) Always, Joni ## Manic Monday / Kate Rusby Six o'clock already I was just in the middle of a dream I was kissin' Valentino By a crystal-blue, Italian stream But I can't be late 'Cause then I guess I just won't get paid These are the days When you wish your bed was already made It's just another manic Monday (Woah, woah) I wish it was Sunday (Woah, woah) 'Cause that's my fun day (Woah, woah, woah, woah) My I don't have to run day (Woah, woah) It's just another manic Monday Have to catch an early train Got to be to work by nine And if I had an aeroplane I still couldn't make it on time 'Cause it takes me so long (Oh, oh) Just to figure out what I'm gonna wear Blame it on the train But the boss is already there It's just another manic Monday (Woah, woah) I wish it was Sunday (Woah, woah) 'Cause that's my fun day (Woah, woah, woah, woah) My I don't have to run day (Woah, woah) It's just another manic Monday Of all my nights Why did my lover have to pick last night To get down? (Last night, last night) Doesn't it matter That I have to feed the both of us? Employment's down He tells me in his bedroom voice C'mon honey, let's go make some noise Time it goes so fast (When you're having fun) It's just another manic Monday (Woah, woah) I wish it was Sunday (Woah, woah) 'Cause that's my fun day (Woah, woah, woah, woah) My I don't have to run day (Woah, woah) It's just another manic Monday (Woah, woah) I wish it was Sunday (Woah, woah, woah, woah) 'Cause that's my fun day (Woah, woah) It's just another manic Monday ## All Through the Night / Girlyman All through the night I'll be awake and 'lll be with you All through the night This precious time when time is new Oh, all through the night today Knowing that we feel the same without saying We have no past we wont reach back Keep with me forward all through the night And once we start the meter clicks And it goes running all through the night Until it ends there is no end All through the night Stray cat is crying so stray cat sings back All through the night They have forgotten what by day they lack Oh under those white street lamps There is a little chance they may see We have no past we wont reach back Keep with me forward all through the night And once we start the meter clicks And it goes running all through the night Until it ends there is no end Oh the sleep in your eyes is enough Let me be there let me stay there awhile We have no past we won't reach back Keep with me forward all through the night And once we start the meter clicks And it goes running all through the night Until it ends there is no end Keep with me forward all through the night And once we start the meter clicks And it goes running all through the night Until it ends there is no end ## Scarborough Fair / Rachel Hardy Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine Tell her to make me a cambric shirt (in the deep forest green) Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Tracing of sparrow on snow-crested ground) Without no seams nor needle work (Bedclothes the child of the mountain) Then she'll be a true love of mine (Sleeps unaware of the clarion call) Tell her to find me an acre of land (A sprinkling of leaves) Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (Washes the grave with silvery tears) Between the salt water and the sea strands (And polishes a gun) Then she'll be a true love of mine Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather (Blazing in scarlet battalions) Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Generals order their soldiers to kill) And gather it all in a bunch of heather (A cause they've long ago forgotten) Then she'll be a true love of mine Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine # 30 Jul 2022 ## All Is Found / Evan Rachel Wood Where the North wind meets the sea There's a river full of memory Sleep, my darling, safe and sound For in this river, all is found In her waters, deep and true Lie the answers and a path for you Dive down deep into her sound But not too far or you'll be drowned Yes, she will sing to those who'll hear And in her song, all magic flows But can you brave what you most fear? Can you face what the river knows? Where the North wind meets the sea There's a mother full of memory Come, my darling, homeward bound When all is lost, then all is found ## To The Mountains / Lizzy McAlpine Oh, I'm headed to the mountains I'll be back in a week or two Don't you try to reach me 'cause I won't pick up for you I've got some things I need to do Hmm Oh I'm headed to the mountains Where the air is sweet and new Don't you try to reach me 'cause I don't want to talk to you I've got some thinking to do I'm trying to let go I think it could help being alone And I'm trying not to let you make me cry I've spilled too many tears And I think I deserve to be alone And don't you try to reach me while I pick myself up and go I've got to do this on my own I need to build myself a home Oh, I'm headed to the mountains The only place I feel the peace And I knew you'd come after me so I threw away the keys But I know you never go when I say leave I'm headed to the mountains don't wait up for me ## Oh Canada Girls / Dar Williams And if I did not dream, who would you be? And if you did not dream, who would I be? Yes, there is gold in this mountain This they cannot mine Tell me who they need it for I'll tell you now, they need me more O Canada girls I have seen you in your sweaters In the late-night sun at Winnipeg Growing up with friends, and so unhurried With your secrets, I believe Kept in the longer sleeve Oh, girls Highways seen from hotel windows Pumping highway blood If I say they run from fear Are things much different standing here? O Canada girls When I saw the geese flying north I remembered the friends of my vision And a sense I had of other wings Like faith, light threaded through a psalm Like our boys fleeing Vietnam Oh, girls If I drove up 87 Up past Montreal Following the bluest veins Following through icy rains Would I emerge in the present And know just where to begin? I'm so sick of forgetting myself to remember who I am And you say, yeah, but why so cold, and so Canadian? Well, I guess it's gotta feel like some exodus And if I succeed, well, there will be more of us And if I don't, well, I don't really know Girls who have found our unsung nation Where we left so much land to itself That everyone had her own mountain Well, if you think of this girl and the dreams that made her Write your secrets on hornet-nest paper And blow it high across the border 'Cause if you did not dream, who would I be? And if I did not dream, who would you be? ## Good Enough / Girlyman Every time you look at me, I think, "It's not so bad, you see" My heart still beats, time to lift the catch And then another day goes out to sea, you close your mouth, you try to be The brave one, the one who matters And if I could fly or change the tides Weather rocks into dust Then I'd know why I was mystified Cause baby, look what we've become Somewhere back in time we made each other laugh And I could see how that was good enough You never read my mind but you could fill a gap so fine And I loved the way you could make things up chorus No one makes the rules you see You are in charge of destiny Sympathy and wine is all you seem to want And time to be a stranger to yourself Rigidly I stand about to seize on what I am Here's my existence, I'd put it on a shelf ## Turnagain / Julie Vallimont (instrumental) # 31 Sep 2022 ## Somewhere Different Now / Girlyman I took a long drive by the church and the high dive Past the riverbank hillside, where we looked at the clouds I believe in the big god, and the multitude of love And the fact that it's just us helping each other out Now I've just been reeling, staring up at my ceiling Wishing someone would reach out, come and bust up my hideout I'm not quite lost, not quite found Just somewhere different now I went walking past the corner lot, teeming With weeds and trailers abandoned, people wandering around I've been dreaming of gardens, crops that grow without dusting In the San Rafael highlands, where we listened to bugs sing Now I don't mind saying, I believe in the waiting In the visions of grandeur, and the random encounter I'm not on fire, not burned out Just somewhere different now Woke up this morning with a familiar feeling Like the angels were crying 'stead of their normal flying When did you get so certain, boldly draw back your curtains Lightning strikes in the tall place, water flows to the street grates Now I look in the mirror, can't abide what I see there Still I'll play you a strong hand, what remains of a good plan It's not quite gone, but it's not around Must be somewhere different now Now I caught a red light past the coffeeshop Starlight And plastic Christmas adornments someone left on the pavement Just to drive feels like passion, just to let the wheels roll on Engine light keeps on flashing, don't know what has gone wrong Now I keep believing, don't know if there's a reason I search under the pillow for the crumbs in the willow Cause they got me here, and I'm not sure how But I'm somewhere different now ## Going In / Wild Child I ask for another way home You say there's just one way to go God, I hope that isn't true Looks like I'm livin' a lie Might say I did everything but try There's not much I didn't do I'm goin' up and up and up and up I'm goin' in I'm goin' up and up and up and up I'm goin' in I know I left you alone Can't say you could ever call me home Girl, I know how much it aches I know there's more to this life Too many knots to untie But I know you got what it takes chorus I know you're not alone So I'm letting it go There's so much I can't explain You know that I love But it wasn't enough Still I'll see you all again chorus ## O Canada Girls / Dar Williams (see under 30) ## Anita's Waltz / Rachel Bell (instrumental) # 32 Nov 2022 ## Tell Me There's a Reason / Girlyman Why should I be stunned when winds begin to change? Clearest skies turn slowly into rain The leaves throw off their green Nothing new about this scene Still I want you here with me Cause that's the way it used to be Tell me there's a reason For every stupid season November freezes everything in sight I'm fine all day, I think of you at night Loving you was like a trip around the world Spires of gold, skylines made of pearls From the mountains of Peru all the way to Kathmandu Now I'm sitting here alone And I just want you to come home Maybe I was not The person that you thought A joke I made You never got Time has its way with everyone You can't stop the circle of the sun But you can pull down all the shades You can wait for better days Throw another blanket on Til the winter's come and gone ## How Shall I Love Thee / Rose Polenzani Once you kissed a roman nose Once you drew in dirty prose Once you fucked a red, red rose How shall I love thee when you have gone? A girl in solemn photograph A girl who made you moan and laugh A girl who blamed herself for half chorus Pretend you never laid me down Pretend you never kinged my crown Pretend you never left this town I dropped the crumbs to mark my track The wedding was a load of crap And I can't find my way back chorus A smile that launched a thousand smiles A mile became a hundred miles A pile of shit turned into piles chorus ## Fare Thee Well / Indigo Girls Fare thee well my bright star I watched your taillights blaze into nothingness But you were long gone before I ever got to you Before you blazed past this address And now I think of having loved and having lost But never know what it feels like to never love Who can say what's better when my heart's become the cost A mere token of a brighter jewel sent from above Fare thee well my bright star The vanity of youth the color of your eyes And maybe if I'd fanned the blazing fire of your day-to-day Or if I'd been older I'd been wise Too thick the heat of those long summer evenings For a cool evening I began to yearn But you could only feed upon the things which feed a fire Waiting to see if I would burn Fare thee well my bright star It was a brief brilliant miracle dive That which I looked up to and I clung to for dear life Had to burn itself up just to make itself alive And I caught you then in your moment of glory Your last dramatic scene against a night sky stage With a moment so clear that it's as if you're still before me My once in a lifetime star of an age So fare thee well my bright star Last night the tongues of fire circled me around And this strange season of pain will come to pass When the healing hands of autumn cool me down ## April Come She Will / Simon and Garfunkel April, come she will When streams are ripe and swelled with rain May, she will stay Resting in my arms again June, she'll change her tune In restless walks she'll prowl the night July, she will fly And give no warning to her flight August, die she must The autumn winds blow chilly and cold September, I'll remember A love once new has now grown old ## Hope Street / Julie Vallimont (instrumental) # 33 Dec 2022 ## This is Mine / Lucy Kaplansky I can bend back And reach the days When everything was new When witches were birds that lived in trees When dreams were movies God made for me I talked to dogs I knew why trees and kids cried Why snow was white why people died In show and tell I talked about the shapes of clouds And all the schoolyard angels who protected me I am here and this is mine I'm everywhere flying in line Always looking for a place to rest I hid in trees and built my nest I made my nest of buried things And the roots ran like secrets Through six year rings I found that secret places were better places Nicer places that villains could not find I do not lie These places are mine Now I lean and bend To where I begin and end chorus ## Water Flowing Downward / Andrea von kampen Water's always flowing downward Maybe I should go there too With the people who know hunger And feel the rains come flooding through Take what's given And don't ask questions Do your best to look away But I can't go softly I won't go gently I'll choose the water everyday What a woman with a secret Something that is buried deep In a house that's filled with sunlight Rays that warm her while she sleeps chorus I could tell you of that evening When it all came tumbling down With my family gathered 'round me In a house half underground chorus But I can't go softly I won't go gently I'll choose the water everyday ## Easy Pearls / Girlyman Maybe I just refuse to be here for you Maybe that's who I am underneath my official plan We dive for easy pearls and leave the rest forgotten We leave the best of worlds on the bottom I can be frozen, I'm no salt water lake Maybe I'm broken, can't be blamed for my mistakes Maybe I'm cruel just like I seem to be How I can't stand to see you in front of me Maybe I'm just a child who needs to throw a fit Maybe I'm mad and wild underneath all I try to fit We dive for easy pearls and leave the rest forgotten We leave the darkest worlds on the bottom I recognize the way you hide your pain Asking me questions you don't really mean Maybe I pull against the way you lean Into the things I say, I'll give you less that way Or maybe I just refuse to be here for you Maybe that's who I am underneath my official plan We dive for easy pearls and leave the rest forgotten We leave the best of worlds on the bottom ## How You've Grown / 10,000 Maniacs "My, how you've grown." I remember that phrase from my childhood days too. "Just wait and see." I remember those words and how they chided me, when patient was the hardest thing to be. Because we can't make up for the time that we've lost, I must let these memories provide. No little girl can stop her world to wait for me. I should have known. At your age, in a string of days the year is gone. But in that space of time, it takes so long. Because we can't make up for the time that we've lost, I must let those memories provide. No little girl can stop her world to wait for me. Every time we say goodbye you're frozen in my mind as the child that you never will be, you never will be again. I'll never be more to you than a stranger could be. Every time we say goodbye you're frozen in my mind as a child that you never will be, will be again. ## Doireann's Waltz / Nor'Easter (Traditional) (instrumental) # 34 Apr 2023 ## Your Belgian Things / The Mountain Goats The men were here to get your Belgian things They'll store them for you in an airplane hangar There's guys in biohazard suits Mud caking on their rubber boots They've come to keep your pretty things from danger The men were here to get your Belgian things They'll spend the whole day hauling them downstairs I shot a roll of thirty-two exposures My camera groans beneath the weight it bears I can see you in my sleep Playing the points for all you're worth Walking gingerly across the bruised earth The men were here to get your Belgian things They waltzed right through the door and went fluorescent Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent The arteries are clogging in the mainframe There's too much information in the pipes I saw the mess you left up in the east bedroom A tiger's never gonna change its stripes I guess I guess but Jesus what a mess One way in and no way out The men were here to get your Belgian things And only I was here to see them do it I wish you had a number where you are It's hard with no one here to help me through it I can see you in my sleep Playing the points for all you're worth Walking gingerly across the bruised earth ## Je pense à toi / Les Frangines (in French) If you feel alone, abandoned by life, If no one offers you comfort, if you believe you’ve been forgotten... If you feel soiled, walking the streets of Paris, If no one looks your way, if you have no friends left... If your heart is locked away, And the key has been cast aside— Swept away by the Seine, Drowned in sorrow... I think of you, my brother, in my prayers, And I beg the heavens to watch over you in your misery. You, who no longer have the courage or the hope to face the world— If you are weary, if you feel you no longer have a place... You, who find meaning only in violence— If love has deserted you, if it has made you weep too many tears... It isn’t much, I know— I feel so small sometimes— But even though I am far away from you, I weep alongside you. French lyrics: Si tu te sens seul, délaissé par la vie Que personne ne te console, si tu crois qu'on t'oublie ... Si tu te sens sale, dans les rues de Paris Que personne ne te regarde, si tu n'as plus d'amis Si ton cœur est enfermé Que la clé est jetée Emportée par la seine Inondée par la peine Je pense à toi mon frère dans mes prièrеs Et je supplie le ciеl de veiller sur ta misère Toi qui n'as plus le courage ni plus l'espoir de faire face Si tu es las, si tu n'as plus ta place Toi qui ne trouve plus de sens qu'en la violence Si l'amour a déserté s'il t'as trop fait pleurer C'est pas grand chose ma foi Je me sens si petite parfois Et Même si j'suis loin de toi J'pleure avec toi ## Viola / Girlyman Viola, I swear I miss you. You were the wisest girl I knew. Like when you told me of Katrina, How she rose and cried, "Hallelujah." Viola, Viola. I once heard Chester speak. He said he saw you dancing on the stage. He told me that, despite your years, Your style had not changed with age. I drowned myself tonight in sangria Made with sliced up fruit and cheap marsala. Viola, Viola. I tried to remember a dream I had with you. We were trying to swim across the ocean in the black of night. There were lightning storms outside of Panama Before we reached the shores of Angola. Viola, Viola. Viola, I swear I miss you. ## Winter's Come And Gone / Elizabeth Mitchell Oh little red bird come to my window seal Been so lonesome shakin that morning chill Oh little red bird open your mouth and say "Been so lonesome, just about flown away, so alone now ive been out in the rain and snow." But winters come and gone a little bird told me so. Oh little blue bird, burley feather breast, five cold nickles all that i got left Oh little blue bird what am i gonna do? Five cold nickles aint gonna see me through So alone now ive so alone now ive been out in the rain and snow, but winters come and gone, a little bird told me so. ## Carry Me Over / Julie Vallimont I sailed out on the gentle sea i feel the waves and they carry me they carry me o the currents down the ?? the moon she pulls upon the tide she pulls me too and i let it glide, i let it glide o'er the deep, o'er the dark i feel weightless i am just a spark i see my hands think of what they've grown i feel your hands, and they carry me home they carry me ?? o'er the cares of the day ?? time will soon be washed away we lived our lives doing what we loved with the deer and the turtledove they carry me ?? o'er the hills and the trees carry me into the mystery # 35 Jul 2023 ## Who Will Sing Me Lullabies / Kate Rusby Lay me down gently, lay me down low I fear I am broken and won't mend I know There's one thing I ask when the stars light the skies Who now will sing me lullabies? Oh, who now will sing me lullabies? In this big world I'm lonely, for I am but small Oh, angels in heaven, don't you care for me at all? You heard my heart breaking for it rang through the skies So why won't you sing me lullabies? Oh, why won't you sing me lullabies? I lay here, I'm weeping for the stars they have come I lay here not sleeping, now the long night has begun The man in the moon, oh, he can't help but cry There's no one to sing me lullabies Oh, there's no one to sing me lullabies So lay me down gently, oh lay me down low I fear I am broken, I won't mend I know There's one thing I ask when the stars light the skies Who now will sing me lullabies? Oh, who now will sing me lullabies? ## Chilly Winds / Bill Staines I'm goin' where the chilly winds don't blow I'm gonna find true love That's where I want to go Out where those chilly winds don't blow Sing me a song, Sing it soft and low Sing it for your baby Then I'll have to go Out where those chilly winds don't blow I wish I were a headlight on a westbound train I'd shine my light on cool Colorado rain Out where those chilly winds don't blow If you're feeling lonely If you're feeling low Remember that I loved you More than you will ever know Out where those chilly winds don't blow I'm leaving in the springtime Won't be back 'til fall And if I can forget you I may not come back at all Out where those chilly winds don't blow I'm goin' where the chilly winds don't blow I'm gonna find true love That's where I want to go Out where those chilly winds don't blow Sing me a song, Sing it soft and low Sing it for your baby Then I'll have to go Out where those chilly winds don't blow ## Julian of Norwich / Gordon Bok Loud are the bells of Norwich and the people come and go. Here by the tower of Julian, I tell them what I know. Ring out, bells of Norwich, and let the winter come and go All shell be well again, I know. Love, like the yellow daffodil, is coming through the snow. Love, like the yellow daffodil, is Lord of all I know. Ring for the yellow daffodil, the flower in the snow. Ring for the yellow daffodil, and tell them what I know. All shall be well, I'm telling you, let the winter come and go All shall be well again, I know. Loud are the bells of Norwich and the people come and go. Here by the tower of Julian, I tell them what I know. ## Leatherwing Bat / Peter, Paul, and Mary I said, the little leatherwing bat I'll tell to you the reason that The reason that I fly by night Is because I've lost my heart's delight Howdy dowdy diddle-dumb day Howdy dowdy diddle-dumb day Howdy dowdy diddle-dumb day Hey le lee-lee lie-lee low I said, the blackbird sittin' on a chair Once I courted a lady, fair She proved fickle and turned her back And ever since then I've dressed in black chorus I said the woodpecker sittin' on a fence Once I courted a handsome wench She got scared and from me fled And ever since then my head's been red chorus I said, the little turtle dove I'll tell you how to win her love Court her night and court her day Never give her time to say o-neigh! chorus I said, the bluejay and away he flew If I were a young man I'd have two If one were faithless and chanced to go I'd add the other string to my bow chorus # 36 Jan 2024 ## Saucy Sailor / Storm Weather Shanty Choir Come my own one, come my fair one, Come now unto me, Could you fancy a poor sailor lad Who has just come from sea. You are ragged love, you are dirty love, And your clothes smell much of tar, So be gone you saucy sailor lad, So be gone you Jack Tar. If I am ragged love and I am dirty love, And my clothes smell much of tar, I have silver in my pocket love And gold in great store. And then when she heard him say so On her bended knees she fell, I will marry my dear Henry For I love a sailor lad so well. Do you think that I am foolish love, Do you think that I am mad, For to wed with a poor country girl Where no fortune's to be had? I will cross the briny ocean, I will whistle and sing, And since you have refused the offer love Some other girl shall wear the ring. ## The Maid on the Shore / Stan Rogers There is a young maiden who lives all alone She lives all alone on the shore-o There's nothing she can find to comfort her mind But to roam all alone on the shore shore shore But to roam all alone on the shore T'was of the young captain who sailed the salt sea Let the wind blow high blow low-o I will die I will die the young captain did cry If I don't have that maid on the shore shore shore If I don't have that maid on the shore Well, I have lots of silver I have lots of gold I have lots of costly ware-o I'll divide I'll divide with my jolly ship's crew If they row me that maid on the shore shore shore If they row me that maid on the shore After much persuasion they got her aboard Let the wind blow high blow low-o They replaced her away in his cabin below Here's adieu to all sorrow and care care care Here's adieu to all sorrow and care They replaced her away in his cabin below Let the wind blow high blow low-o She's so pretty and neat she's so sweet and complete She sung captain and sailors to sleep sleep sleep She sung captain and sailors to sleep Then she robbed him of silver she robbed him of gold She robbed him of costly ware-o Then took his broadsword instead of an oar And paddled away to the shore shore shore And paddled away to the shore Well, me men must be crazy me men must be mad Me men must deep in despair-o For to let you away from my cabin so gay And to paddle your way to the shore shore shore And paddle your way to the shore Well, your men was not crazy your men was not mad Your men was not deep in despair-o I deluded your sailors as well as yourself I'm a maiden again on the shore shore shore I'm a maiden again on the shore ## The Long Black Veil / Johnny Cash Ten years ago, on a cold dark night There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light There were few at the scene, but they all agreed That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me The judge said, "Son what is your alibi? If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die" I spoke not a word though it meant my life For I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife She walks these hills in a long black veil She visits my grave when the night winds wail Nobody knows, nobody sees Nobody knows but me The scaffold is high, and eternity nears She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear But sometimes at night when the cold wind mourns In a long black veil she cries over my bones chorus ## When Fall Comes to New England / Cheryl Wheeler When Fall comes to New England The sun slants in so fine And the air's so clear You can almost hear the grapes grow on the vine. The nights are sharp with starlight And the days are cool and clean And in the blue sky overhead The northern geese fly south instead And leaves are Irish Setter red When Fall comes to New England. When Fall comes to New England And the wind blows off the sea Swallows fly in a perfect sky And the world was meant to be. When the acorns line the walkways Then winter can't be far From yellow leaves a blue jay calls Grandmothers walk out in their shawls And chipmunks run the old stone walls When Fall comes to New England. The frost is on the pumpkin The squash is off the vine And winter warnings race across the sky The squirrels are on to something And they're working overtime The foxes blink and stare and so do I. 'Cause when Fall comes to New England Oh I can't turn away From fading light on flying wings And late good-byes a robin sings And then another thousand things When Fall comes to New England. # 37 Mar 2024 ## This is Me / Girlyman This old highway is just a lonely patch of blue and gray And late at night my memory obfuscates my line of sight And in my mind I really had no choice, the stars were cold In my eyes they hung there in dark skies, just still and cold The wheels of this pickup are rusted and cracked The lines are uneven, there is no turning back This is me All that I am You will see The noble mind, it traps four pieces of the heart inside We came in twos, and two by twos it seemed of little use We felt the rain, our faces cold and pale, the colors drained The oceans grew until we floated on a deeper hue You will become a stranger, you will seize all the land You will breach the other, count the hours, spill the sand chorus A little star of brilliant hope in skies of black we are And Danish blue is the color of your eyes in June For many days I've woken with head pains, my eyes ablaze You never knew because I never told you The hours of the day wonder how they've been spent The creases on the bed grow deep, I've made my descent chorus ## Till min sparv / Siv Ågren (in Swedish) ## Lulu's Pie Song / Sara Bareilles Let's make a new one Mama, what do you say? I love you when you let me pick out the name Sugar and butter and flour and mother I think today we'll start with strawberry cream I'm calling this one: Lulu's Strawberry Dream Sugar and butter and flour and mother Sugar and butter and flour and mother Sugar, butter, flour ## Gracias a la a vida / Mercedes Sosa (in Spanish) Thank you to life, that has given me so much It has given me two bright stars that when they are shown I can perfectly distinguish black from white And on the sky, their big starry sky And in the crowd, the man that I love Thank you to life, that has given me so much It has given me the ear that in all its width Every night and day Crickets and canaries, hammers, turbines Barks, rain And the very sweet voice of my good lover Thank you to life, that has given me so much It has given me sound and the alphabet Which came with words that I think and proclaim A mother, a friend, a brothеr, and a shining light The route to the soul of thе one that I love Thank you to life, that has given me so much It has given me the stride of my tired feet With which I walked through cities and puddles Beaches and deserts, mountains and plains And the house of yours, your street and your backyard Thank you to life, that has given me so much It gave me the heart that beats in its frame When I look at the fruits of the human brain When I look at the good, that is far from the bad When I look at the bottom of your clear eyes Thank you to life, that has given me so much It has given me laughter and it has given me crying So I can distinguish blessings from brokenness The two ingredients that make up my chants And your chants, that are the same chants And everyone's chants, that are my own chants # 38 May 2024 ## Pancho and Lefty / Emmylou Harris Living on the road my friend Was gonna keep you free and clean And now you wear your skin like iron And your breath as hard as kerosene Weren't your mama's only boy But her favorite one it seems She began to cry when you said goodbye And sank into your dreams Pancho was a bandit boy His horse was fast as polished steel He wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel Pancho met his match you know On the deserts down in Mexico Nobody heard his dying words Ah but that's the way it goes All the Federales say They could have had him any day They only let him slip away Out of kindness, I suppose Lefty, he can't sing the blues All night long like he used to The dust that Pancho bit down south Ended up in Lefty's mouth The day they laid poor Pancho low Lefty split for Ohio Where he got the bread to go There ain't nobody knows chorus The poets tell how Pancho fell And Lefty's living in cheap hotels The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold And so the story ends we're told Pancho needs your prayers it's true But save a few for Lefty too He only did what he had to do And now he's growing old chorus ## The City of New Orleans / Arlo Guthrie Riding on the City of New Orleans, Illinois Central, monday morning rail, fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders, three conductors, twenty-five sacks of mail. All along the southbound Odyssey the train pulls out of Kankakee and rolls along past houses, farms and fields, passing trains that have no name and freight yards full of old black men and the graveyards of the rusted automobiles. Good morning America, how are ya? Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son. I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans, I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done. Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car, penny a point ain't no one keepin' score, pass the paper baq that holds the bottle, you can feel the wheels rumblin' neath the floor. And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their fathers' magic carpets made of steel mothers with their babes asleep are rockin' to the gentle beat and the rhythm of the rails is all they feel. Good morning America, how are ya? Say don't you know me, I'm your native son. I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans, I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done. Night-time on the City of New Orleans changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee halfway home, we'll be there by mornin through the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea. But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream the steel rails still ain't heard the news the conductor sings his songs again: the passengers will please refrain, this train's got to disappear in railroad blues. Good night America, how are ya? Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son. I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans, I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done. ## Bang bang / Mareva (in French) I was five and he was six We rode on horses made of sticks He wore black and I wore white He would always win the fight Bang bang, he shot me down Bang bang, I hit the ground Bang bang, that awful sound Bang bang, my baby shot me down... My baby shot me down... ## Freeze Tag / Suzanne Vega We go to the playground In the wintertime The sun is fading fast Upon the slides into the past Upon the swings of indecision In the wintertime In the dimming diamonds Scattering in the park In the tickling And the trembling Of freeze tag In the dark We play that we're actors On a movie screen I will be Dietrich And you can be Dean You stand With your hand In your pocket And lean against the wall You will be Bogart And I will be Bacall And we can only say yes now To the sky, to the street, to the night Slow fade now to black Play me one more game Of chivalry You and me Do you see where I've been hiding In this hide-and-seek? We go to the playground In the wintertime The sun is fading fast Upon the slides into the past Upon the swings of indecision In the wintertime Wintertime Wintertime We can only say yes now To the sky, to the street, to the night We can only say yes now To the sky, to the street, to the night ## Holding On / Cheryl Wheeler I won't let you fall Hear me loud and clear I will not let go I will be right here Holding on What's that someone said Of a closed and opened door? Brighter days ahead Look that way while you're Holding on, holding on, holding on When some lonesome wind Has hemmed you in Don't you believe that sound You will surely rise Above these tides To higher ground With the past not far behind And the future not in stone I suppose from time to time We'll be howling at the moon And holding on I won't let you fall Hear me loud and clear I will not let go I will be right here Holding on, holding on, holding on # 39 Nov 2024 ## The Farthest Field / Lumber Jills See #26 ## All Is Found / Kacey Musgraves Where the north wind meets the sea There's a river full of memory Sleep, my darling, safe and sound For in this river, all is found All is found When all is lost, then all is found In her waters, deep and true Lie the answers and a path for you Dive down deep into her sound But not too far or you'll be drowned She will sing to those who'll hear And in her song, all magic flows But can you brave what you most fear? Can you face what the river knows? Until the river's finally crossed You'll never feel the solid ground You had to get a little lost On your way to being found chorus ## Crossing the Bar / Andrea von kampen Sunset and evening star And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I go out to sea But such a tide as moving seems asleep Too full for sound and foam When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home Twilight and evening bell And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embark; For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost thе bar ## Old Tom Bombadil / Rachel Hardy Now let the song begin Let us sing together Of sun stars moon and Mist Rain and cloudy weather Light on the budding leaf Dew on the feather Wind on the open hill Bells on the heather Oh, Slender as a willow wand, Oh clearer than clear water Oh, reed by the living pool Fair River daughter Oh, spring time and summertime And spring again after Oh, wind on the waterfall And the leaves laughter Oh Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow Bright blue his jacket is And his boots are yellow Reeds by the Shady pool Lillies on the water Old Tom Bombadil and the river daughter chorus x 2 Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow ## Sinking Ship / Wild Child Feel like wasting time Feel like wasting time Feel like wasting time with you See the rising tide Know it's only a matter of time See the rising tide So blue Oh, if it's cold in the water Am I better for it, oh I can learn from my mother If this sinking ship goes down Take my broken hands Takes a sunrise to understand Both my broken hands are true Always here and now Tried to drift dear but don't know how Always here and now with you chorus ## One For Me / Mouths of Babes I've had violent dreams, sometimes it seems there's no peace now to be found Like the country's sailed, but the maps have failed and the ship is sinking down Well I've studied art, and the human heart, and I've studied history And I've tried to learn how pain can turn your restless spirit free But the only thing I've learned is you're the one for me Well the earth swings round without a sound, knows its way around the sun But my path's been wild like a drunken child crashing into everyone Still I've traveled far in this beat up car and I'm glad for all I've done And I've tried to find a light down every dark abandoned street But the only thing I've found is you're the one for me And when I met you, it just felt true, like rain that's finally here After fires burned the countryside, and the sky had disappeared There will be those days when crime it pays, you lose track of who you are And there will be those years of a million tears, crying into your guitar And when I was young I learned to run, but I never got that far And I don't know if we're souls and stardust, or just biology Seems the one thing that I know is you're the one for me # 40 Jan 2025 ## The Logging Song / Bill Staines It's early in the morning When the birds sing in the pines The sun peeks through the forest Where the cold river climbs The men are up at five o'clock And to the trees at six A hard day's work, a good night's sleep Is all they ever mix Way, hey Another brand-new day On the wild and windy shores Of old super-i-ay From North Bay to Fort William On the rocky northern shore The mills are filled with cedar pulp And the boats are filled with ore I worked in a logging camp My daddy did before We're calloused hands and weathered skin And iron to the core chorus Now the flies are thick and the men get sick It's as cold as it can be And nothing's unexpected In the north coun-ter-y When the summer ends and the winter comes It's forty-two below We settle down in plywood shacks And cover up with snow chorus Now, when I die I will have seen The wonders of the sea And I will have climbed the mountains In the western coun-ter-y But most of all I won't forget The wild and wondrous thing The falling of the timber When it's early in the spring chorus ## I've Been Everywhere / Johnny Cash I was totin' my pack along the dusty Winnemucca road When along came a semi with a high an' canvas-covered load "If you're goin' to Winnemucca, Mack, with me you can ride" And so I climbed into the cab, and then I settled down inside He asked me if I'd seen a road with so much dust and sand And I said, "Listen, I've traveled every road in this here land" I've been everywhere, man I've been everywhere, man Crossed the deserts bare, man I've breathed the mountain air, man Of travel I've had my share, man I've been everywhere I've been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo Tocapillo, Baranquilla, and Perdilla, I'm a killer chorus I've been to Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana Washington, Houston, Kingston, Texarkana Monterey, Faraday, Santa Fe, Tallapoosa Glen Rock, Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa Tennessee, Hennessey, Chicopee, Spirit Lake Grand Lake, Devils Lake, Crater Lake, for Pete's sake chorus I've been to Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville, Ombabika Schefferville, Jacksonville, Waterville, Costa Rica Pittsfield, Springfield, Bakersfield, Shreveport Hackensack, Cadillac, Fond du Lac, Davenport Idaho, Jellico, Argentina, Diamantina, Pasadena, Catalina, see what I mean chorus I've been to Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Gravelburg, Colorado Ellensburg, Rexburg, Vicksburg, El Dorado Larimore, Atmore, Haverstraw, Chatanika Chaska, Nebraska, Alaska, Opelika Baraboo, Waterloo, Kalamazoo, Kansas City Sioux City, Cedar City, Dodge City, what a pity chorus ## The Chicken in Black / Johnny Cash For two long years my head hurt bad So the doctor checked me an he shook his head He said, "I'm sorry to tell you But your body's outlived your brain" He said, "I know this doctor in New York, son And he'll fix you right up with a brand new one" So the head doctor met me when I stepped down off of the train He said, "We had this bank robber killed last night His body's shot but his brain's alright I'll give you a transplant, boy, and you'll be okay" I got my new brain in and I was feelin' great I went right back to Nashville with no headache But something strange happened when I walked in the bank one day I said, "Stick 'em up everybody, I'm robbin' this place Drop all of your money in my guitar case Don't nobody move and don't nobody reach for that door" A lady said, "Why, you're Johnny Cash" I said, "No ma'am, I'm the Manhattan Flash And I am the best bank robber in New York" Now the other night, Roy Acuff called me He said, "John, I'd like for you to do the Opry So I went out on the stage, but I couldn't sing" I got into a half a verse of "I Walk The Line" And something snapped in this head of mine I yelled, "Stick 'em up Give me your money, your watches and rings" Well, I called New York and talked to that brain quack I said, "Doc, I've gotta have my old brain back" He said, "I'm sorry there, Mr. Cash, but I can't do that" He said, "I put your brain in a chicken last Monday He's singing your songs and makin' lots of money And I got him signed to a ten-year recording contract" Now, friends, if you see me walkin' down the street Remember what you see ain't necessarily me And if I try to hold you up, don't pay me no mind But when you got ten bucks that you can blow You oughta catch that Johnny Chicken show He's doin' fairs and concert dates all up and down the line chorus Well, I don't pay any income tax You don't pay tax on money you steal You oughta catch that Johnny Chicken show Chicken in black ## Lemon Tree / Peter Paul and Mary When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree" "Don't put your faith in love, my boy" my father said to me "I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree" Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat One day beneath the lemon tree, my love and I did lie A girl so sweet that when she smiled, the stars rose in the sky We passed that summer lost in love, beneath the lemon tree The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me chorus One day she left without a word, she took away the sun And in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done She left me for another, it's a common tale but true A sadder man, but wiser now, I sing these words to you ## Spanish Ladies / Storm Weather Shanty Choir Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain Cause we've received orders for to sail for old England, But we hope in a short time to see you again. We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors, We'll rant and we'll rave across the salt seas, Until we strike soundings in the Channel of England, From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-four leagues. We hove our ship to, with the wind at southwest, boys, We hove our ship to, for to take soundings clear. In fifty-five fathoms with a fine sandy bottom We filled our main tops'l, up Channel did steer. The first land we made was a point called the Deadman, Neaxt Ramshead off Plymouth, Start, Portland and Wight; We sailed then by Beachy, by Fairlee and Dover, Then bore straight away for the South Foreland Light. Then the signal was made for the Grand Fleet to anchor, We clewed up our tops'ls, stuck out tacks and sheets We stood by our stoppers, we brailed in our spankers, Then anchord ahead of the noblest of fleets Let every man here drink up his full bumper, Let every man here drink up his full bowl, And let us be jolly and drown melancholy, Singing, here's a good health to all true-hearted lass. ## Morning Morgantown / Joni Mitchell When morning comes to Morgantown The merchants roll their awnings down The milk trucks make their morning rounds In morning, Morgantown We'll rise up early with the sun To ride the bus while everyone is yawning And the day is young In morning, Morgantown Morning, Morgantown Buy your dreams a dollar down Morning, any town you name Morning's just the same We'll find a table in the shade And sip our tea and lemonade And watch the morning on parade In morning, Morgantown Ladies in their rainbow fashions Colored stop and go lights flashing We'll wink at total strangers passing in- Morning, Morgantown chorus I'd like to buy you everything A wooden bird with painted wings A window full of colored rings In morning, Morgantown But the only thing I have to give To make you smile, to win you with Are all the mornings still to live In morning, Morgantown chorus ## Wait / Broken Fences Slow down, it seems A reassuring dream I will let you hold on to me And always knowing what it means Cause falling down is what I found But wait, 'cause I can see the silence In the space between us Slow down, I'm here Let them all disappear I will hear your voice always And you will see my weakest face Cause falling down is what I found But wait, cause I can see the silence In the space between us When is our time? When is our time? But wait, cause I can see the silence In the space between us But wait, cause I can see the silence In the space between us # 41 Jun 2025 ## Homeward Bound / Simon and Garfunkel I'm sittin' in the railway station Got a ticket for my destination On a tour of one-night stands My suitcase and guitar in hand And every stop is neatly planned For a poet and a one-man band Homeward bound I wish I was Homeward bound Home where my thought's escapin' Home where my music's playin' Home where my love lies waitin' Silently for me Every day's an endless stream Of cigarettes and magazines And each town looks the same to me The movies and the factories And every stranger's face I see Reminds me that I long to be chorus Tonight I'll sing my songs again I'll play the game and pretend But all my words come back to me In shades of mediocrity Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me chorus ## You And Me On The Rock / Brandi Carlile They build wooden houses on frozen ponds In the summertime when the water's gone Diagonal lines in their rolled-out lawns And the sage always smells so pretty But nobody cares where the birds have gone When the rain comes down on Babylon The stonemason's phone rings all day long And you gotta get back to the city I build my house up on this rock, baby Every day with you There's nothin' in that town I need After everything we've been through Me out in my garden and you out on your walk Is all the distance this poor girl can take Without listenin' to you talk I don't need their money, baby Just you and me on the rock It's you and me on the rock I built paper planes when I learned to fly Like a 747 fallin' out of the sky I folded 'em crooked and now I'm wonderin' why I could always end up in the water But nobody's askin' why she lookin' so thin Why she's laughin' too hard, why she drinkin' again A falling star, she's a paper plane And she was goin' down when you caught her chorus It's an earthquake, it's a hard wind It's a record-breakin' tide and it is rollin' in It's a big sea, but it can't touch you and me It's just a water view And what a view chorus ## Wildflowers / The Wailin' Jennys You belong among the wildflowers You belong on a boat out at sea Sail away, kill off the hours You belong somewhere you feel free Sail away, go find a lover Go away somewhere bright and new I'd see no other That compares with you chorus-ish ## The Priest / Joni Mitchell The priest sat in the airport bar He was wearing his father's tie And his eyes looked into my eyes so far Whenever the words ran dry Behind the lash and the circles blue He looked as only a priest can through And his eyes said me and his eyes said you And my eyes said, "Let us try" He said, "You wouldn't like it here No, it's no place you should share The roof is ripped with hurricanes And the room is always bare" I need the wind and I seek the cold He reached past the wine for my hand to hold And he saw me young, and he saw me old And he saw me sitting there Then he took his contradictions out And he splashed them on my brow So which words was I then to doubt When choosing what to vow? Should I choose them all? Should I make them mine The sermons, the hymns and the valentines? And he asked for truth, and he asked for time And he asked for only now Now the trials are trumpet scored Oh, will we pass the test? Or just as one love's more and more Will one love less and less? Oh come, let's run from this ring we're in Where the Christians clap and the Germans grin Saying, let them lose crying, let them win Oh, make them both confess ## Song For A Winter's Night / Gordon Lightfoot The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top The snow is softly fallin' The air is still in the silence of my room I hear your voice softly callin' If I could only have you near To breathe a sigh or two I would be happy just to hold the hands I love On this winter night with you The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead My glass is almost empty I read again between the lines upon the page The words of love you sent me chorus (That you were lonely too) The fire is dying now, my lamp is growing dim The shades of night are liftin' The mornin' light steals across my windowpane Where webs of snow are driftin' chorus To be once again with you # 42 Oct 2025 ## If You Could Read My Mind / Gordon Lightfoot If you could read my mind, love What a tale my thoughts could tell Just like an old time movie 'Bout a ghost from a wishin' well In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet You know that ghost is me And I will never be set free As long as I'm a ghost, you can't see If I could read your mind, love What a tale your thoughts could tell Just like a paperback novel The kind the drugstore sells When you reach the part where the heartaches come The hero would be me But heroes often fail And you won't read that book again Because the ending's just too hard to take I'd walk away like a movie star Who gets burned in a three-way script Enter number two A movie queen to play the scene Of bringing all the good things out in me But for now love, let's be real I never thought I could act this way And I've got to say that I just don't get it I don't know where we went wrong But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back If you could read my mind, love What a tale my thoughts could tell Just like an old time movie 'Bout a ghost from a wishing well In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet The stories always end If you read between the lines You'll know that I'm just trying to understand The feeling that you left I never thought I could feel this way And I've got to say that I just don't get it I don't know where we went wrong But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back ## Streets of Laredo / Suzanne Vega As I walked out on the streets of Laredo As I walked out on Laredo one day I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay "I can see by your outfit that you are a cowboy" These words he did say as I boldly walked by "Come and sit down beside me and hear my sad story I'm shot in the breast and I know I must die" "It was once in the saddle, I used to go dashing Once in the saddle, I used to go gay It was first to the card-house and down to old Rosie's But I'm shot in the breast and I'm dying today" "So beat the drum slowly, play the fife lowly Play the dead march as you carry me along Take me to the valley, lay the sod o'er me I'm a young cowboy, I know I've done wrong" "Six jolly gamblers to carry my coffin Six dance-hall maidens to bear up my pall Throw bunches of roses all over my coffin Roses to deaden the clods as they fall" "Then go write a letter to my gray-haired mother Please send the same to my sister so dear Please not one word of all this would you mention When others should ask for my story to hear" "There is another more dear than a sister She'll bitterly weep when she know that I'm gone If some other man ever wins her affection Don't mention my name and my name will pass on" When thus he had spoken, the hot sun was setting The streets of Laredo grew cold as the clay We took the young cowboy down to the green valley There stands his marker we made to this day We beat the drum slowly, played the fife lowly Bitterly wept as we bore him along Down in the green valley we laid the sod o'er him Just a young cowboy who'd surely gone wrong ## Follow The Heron / Karine Polwart The back of the winter is broken And light lingers long by the door And the seeds of the summer have spoken In gowans that bloom on the shore By night and day we'll sport and we'll play And delight as the dawn dances over the bay Sleep blows the breath of the morning away And we follow the heron home In darkness we cradled our sorrow And stoked all our fires with fear Now these bones that lie empty and hollow Are ready for gladness to cheer chorus So long may you sing of the salmon And the snow scented sounds of your home While the north wind delivers its sermon Of ice and salt water and stone chorus ## Underneath The Stars / Kate Rusby Underneath the stars I'll meet you Underneath the stars I'll greet you There beneath the stars I'll leave you Before you go of your own free will Go gently Underneath the stars you met me Underneath the stars you left me I wonder if the stars regret me At least you'll go of your own free will Go gently Here beneath the stars I'm landing And here beneath the stars not ending Why on earth am I pretending? I'm here again, the stars befriending They come and go of their own free will Go gently Go gently Underneath the stars you met me And Underneath the stars you left me I wonder if the stars regret me I'm sure they'd like me if they only met me They come and go of their own free will Go gently Go gently Go gently ## This Part of the World / Rachel Bell (instrumental) # 43 Jan 2026 ## Soon May the Wellerman Come / Gordon Bok There once was a ship that put to sea And the name of the ship was the Billy of Tea The winds blew up, her bow dipped down Blow, my bully boys, blow (huh) She had not been two weeks from shore When down on her a right whale bore The captain called all hands and swore He'd take that whale in tow Soon may the Wellerman come To bring us sugar and tea and rum One day, when the tonguin' is done We'll take our leave and go ## April Come She Will / Tracy Grammer April, come she will When streams are ripe and swelled with rain May, she will stay Resting in my arms again June, she'll change her tune In restless walks she'll prowl the night July, she will fly And give no warning to her flight August, die she must The autumn winds blow chilly and cold September, I remember A love once new has now grown old ## China Doll - Cassidy / Suzanne Vega A pistol shot at 5 o'clock The bells of heaven ring Tell me what you done it for No, I won't tell you a thing Yesterday I begged you Before I hit the ground All I leave behind me is only what I found If you can abide it let the hurdy-gurdy play Stranger ones have come by here Before they flew away I will not condemn you nor yet would I deny I would ask the same of you But failing will not die Take up your china doll it's only fractured And just a little nervous from the fall I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream I can tell by the mark he left you were in his dream Ah, child of countless trees Ah, child of boundless seas What you are, what you're meant to be Speaks his name, though you were born to me Born to me, Cassidy Lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac I can tell by the way you smile, he's rolling back Come wash the nighttime clean Come grow this scorched ground green Blow the horn, and tap the tambourine Close the gap of the dark years in between You and me, Cassidy Quick beats in an icy heart, catch-colt draws a coffin cart There he goes now, here she starts, hear her cry Flight of the seabirds, scattered like lost words Wheel to the storm and fly Fare-thee-well now Let your life proceed by its own design Nothing to tell now Let the words be yours, I'm done with mine Fare-thee-well now Let your life proceed by its own design Nothing to tell now Let the words be yours, I'm done with mine Flight of the seabirds, scattered like lost words Wheel to the storm and fly ## Terminal Star / Karine Polwart You're a beautiful trace of time and space You're a thing that once shone And you still shine bright in the darkest night Though you're already gone You have travelled so far, my terminal star In your coats of red But I still don't know how I can watch a thing now When it's already dead When it's already dead Just to reach my eyes you traverse the skies For a hundred million years I behold your power in this walk refound Just before it disappears All the stories and stones and the beakers and bones All the salt in the sea Are eclipsed by the might of your fading light You're dying so beautifully So beautifully So beautifully So beautifully You're a beautiful trace of time and space You're a thing that once shone And you still shine bright in the darkest night Though you're already gone Though you're already gone Though you're already gone ## Songbird / Julie Vallimont (instrumental) # 44 Jan 2026 ## If I Had a Hammer / Peter, Paul & Mary If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning I'd hammer in the evening, all over this land I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out a warning I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land If I had a bell, I'd ring it in the morning I'd ring it in the evening, all over this land I'd ring it in danger, I'd ring out a warning I'd ring in love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land If I had a song, I'd sing it in the morning I'd sing it in the evening, all over this land I'd sing it in danger, I'd sing out a warning I'd sing in love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land Well I got a hammer and I got a bell And I got a song to sing all over this land It's the hammer of justice, it's the bell of freedom It's a song about love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land ## Bird Song / The Wailin' Jennys I hear a bird chirping up in the sky I'd like to be free like that, spread my wings so high I see the river flowing, water running by I'd like to be that river, see what I might find I feel the wind a-blowing, slowly changing time I'd like to be that wind; I'd swirl and shape the sky I smell the flowers blooming, opening for spring I'd like to be those flowers, open to everything I feel the seasons change: the leaves, the snow and the sun I'd like to be those seasons, made up and undone I taste the living earth, the seeds that grow within I'd like to be that earth, a home where life begins I see the moon a-rising, reaching into night I'd like to be that moon: a knowing, glowing light I know the silence as the world begins to wake I'd like to be that silence as the morning breaks I hear a bird chirping up in the sky I'd like to be free like that, spread my wings so high I see the river flowing, water running by I'd like to be that river, see what I might find I feel the wind a-blowing, slowly changing time I'd like to be that wind, I'd swirl and shape the sky I smell the flowers blooming, opening for spring I'd like to be those flowers, open to everything I'd like to be those flowers, open to everything ## One Voice / The Wailin' Jennys (see 15) ## Bring Me a Rose / The Limeliters Bring me a rose in the wintertime When it’s hard to find Bring me a rose in the wintertime I've got roses on my mind A rose is sweet Most any time, and yet Bring me a rose in the wintertime It’s so easy to forget Bring me a friend when I’m far from home When it’s hard to find Bring me a friend when I’m far from home I’ve got friendship on my mind A friend is sweet … It’s so easy to forget Bring me a smile when I'm all alone When it’s hard to find Bring me a smile when I'm all alone I've got smiles on my mind A smile is sweet … It’s so easy to forget Bring me a kiss when my child is grown When it’s hard to find Bring me a kiss when my child is grown I've got kisses on my mind A kiss is sweet … It’s so easy to forget Bring me love in my autumn years When it's hard to find. Bring me love in my autumn years I've got loving on my mind. Love is sweet … It’s so easy to forget Bring me peace when there's talk of war When it's hard to find Bring me peace when there's talk of war Peace is on my mind Peace is sweet … It’s so easy to forget ## Sierra / Julie Vallimont (instrumental)