1.THE MUSIC IS YOU
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
Music makes pictures
and often tells stories
all of it magic
all of it true
all of the pictures
all of the stories
all of the magic
The music is you
2.FAREWELL ANDROMEDA(Welcome To My Morning)
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
Welcome to my morning, welcome to my day
Oh yes, I'm the one responsible
I made it just this way
To make myself some pictures and see what they might bring
I think I made it perfectly
I wouldn't change a thing.
Welcome to my happiness, you know it makes me smile
And it pleases me to have you here
For just a little while
While we open up some spaces and try to break some chains
And if the truth is told
They will never come again.
Welcome to my evening, the closing of the day
You know I could try a million times
Never find a better way
To tell you that I love you, and all the songs I play
Are to thank you for allowing me
In the lovely day you made.
Welcome to my morning, welcome to my day
Oh yes, I'm the one responsible
I made it just this way
To make myself some pictures and see what they might bring
I think I made it perfectly
I wouldn't change a thing.
3.MOTHER NATURE'S SON
Written：John Lennon／Paul Mccartney
Born a poor young country boy,
Mother nature's son
All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone.
Sit beside a mountain stream
Watch the waters rise
Listen to the sound of pretty music as she flies
Find me in my field of grass
Mother nature's son
Swaying daisies sing a lazy song beneath the sun
Copyright 1968 by Northern Songs Limited
From the John Denver album 'Rocky Mountain High'
4.SUMMER
Written：John Denver／Mike Taylor／Dick Kniss
Silently the morning mist is lying on the water
Captive moonlight waiting for the dawn
Softly like a baby's breath a breeze begins to whisper
The sun is coming, quick you must be gone
Smiling like a superstar the morning comes in singing
The promise of another sunny day
And all the flowers open up to gather in the sunshine
I do believe that summer's here to stay
And oh I love the life within me
I feel a part of everything I see
And oh I love the like around me
A part of everything is here in me
Riding on the tapestry of all there is to see
So many ways and oh so many things
Rejoicing in the differences; there's no one just like me
Yet as different as we are we're still the same
And oh I love the life within me
I feel a part of everything I see
And oh I love the like around me
A part of everything is here in me
(This song is part of the 'Season Suite' on that album.)
5.TODAY
Lyrics：Randy Sparks
Music：Randy Sparks
Rit. Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine
A million tomorrows shall all pass away
Ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today.
I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover
You'll know who I am by the songs that I sing
I'll feast at your table I'll sleep in your clover
Who cares what tomorrow shall bring
Rit. Today...
I can't be contented with yesterday's glory
I can't live on promises winter to spring
Today is my moment and now is my story
I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing
Rit. Today...
6.SATURDAY NIGHT IN TOLEDO, OHIO
Lyrics：Randy Sparks
Music：Randy Sparks
Saturday night in Toledo, Ohio
Is like being now where at all
All through the day how the hours rush by
You sit the park and watch the grass die
Ah, but after the sunset
The dusk and the twilight
When shadows of night start to fall
They roll back the sidewalks precisely at ten
And people who live there are not seen again
Just two lonely truckers from Great Falls, Montana
And a salesman from places unknown
all right all together in downtown Toledo
To spend their big night all alone
You ask how I know of Toledo, Ohio
Well I spent a week there one day
They've got entertainment to dazzle your eyes
Go visit the bakery and watch the buns rise
Ah, but lets not forget that the folks of Toledo
Unselfishly gave us the scale
No springs honest weight, that's the promise they made
So smile and be thankful next time you get weighed
And wive and let wive
Let this be our motto
Lets let the sleeping dogs lie
And here's to the dogs of Toledo, Ohio
Ladies we bid you good-bye
7.MATTHEW
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
I had an uncle name of Matthew
He was his father's only boy
Born just south of Colby, Kansas
He was his mother's pride and joy
CHORUS
Yes, and joy was just a thing that he was raised on
Love was just a way to live and die
Gold was just a windy Kansas wheatfield
Blue was just the Kansas summer sky
All the stories that he told me
Back when I was just a lad
All the mem'ries that he gave me
All the good times that he had
Growin' up a Kansas farm boy
Life is mostly havin' fun
Ridin' on his daddy's shoulders
Behind a mule beneath the sun
CHORUS
Well, I guess there were some hard times
And I'm told some years were lean
They had a storm in 'forty seven
A twister came and stripped 'em clean
He lost the farm and lost his family
He lost the wheat and lost his home
But he found the family Bible
A faith as solid as a stone
CHORUS
And so he came to live at our house
And he came to work the land
He came to ease my daddy's burden
And he came to be my friend
And so I wrote this down for Matthew
And it's for him this song is sung
Ridin' on his daddy's shoulders
Behind a mule beneath the sun
CHORUS
8.ROCKY MOUNTAIN SUITE(Cold Nights In Canada)
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
Up in a meadow in Jasper, Alberta
Two men and four ponies on a long lonesome ride
To see the high country and learn of her people
The ways that they lived there, the ways that they died
And one is a teacher and one a beginner just wanting to be there
And wanting to know
And together they're trying to us a story
That should have been listened to long, long ago
How the life in the mountains is living in danger
For too many people too many machines
And the time is upon us, today is forever
Tomorrow is just one of yesterdays dreams
Cold nights in Canada and icy blue winds
The man and the mountains are brothers again
Clear waters are laughing
They sing to the skies
The Rockies are living
They never will die
Up in a meadow in Jasper, Alberta
Two men and four ponies on a long lonesome ride.
9.SWEET SURRENDER
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
Lost and alone on some forgotten highway
Traveled by many, remembered by few.
Looking for something that I can believe in
Looking for something that I'd like to do with my life
There's nothing behind me and nothing that ties me
To something that might have been true yesterday
Tomorrow is open and right now it seems
To be more than enough to just be here today
I don't know what the future is holding in store
I don't know where I'm going. I'm not sure where I've been
There's a spirit that guides me, a light that shines for me
My life is worth the living....I don't need to see the end
(Chorus：)
Sweet, sweet surrender
Live, live without care
Like a fish in the water
Like a bird in the air
(Repeat Chorus)
10.GRANDMA'S FEATHER BED
Lyrics：Jim Connor
Music：Jim Connor
When I was a little bitty boy
Just up off the floor
We used to go down to Grandma's house
Every month end or so
We'd chicken pie and country ham
And home made butter on the bread
But the best darn thing about Grandma's house
Was her great big feather bed
It was nine feet high and six feet wide
Soft as a downy chick
It was made from the feathers of forty-'leven geese
Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
It'd hold eight kids 'n four hound dogs
And a piggy we stole from the shed
We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
On Grandma's feather bed
After supper we'd sit around the fire
The old folks'd spit and chew
Pa would talk about the farm and the war
And my Granny'd sing a ballad or two
I'd sit and listen and watch the fire
til the cobwebs filled my head
Next thing I'd know I'd wake up in the morning
In the middle of the old feather bed
(Chorus)
Well, I love my Ma, I love my Pa
Love my Granny and Grandpa too
Been fishing with my uncle, I rassled with my cousin
I even kissed Aunt Lou - OOOOOH
But if I ever had to make a choice
I guess it ought to be said
That I'd trade them all plus the gal down the road
For Grandma's feather bed
(Chorus)
Alternate live lyrics：
{I'd trade them all plus the gal down the road}
{spoken quietly： Maybe I'd better reconsider about the gal down
the road}
11.ANNIE'S SONG
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again
Come let me love you
Let me give my life to you
Let me drown in your laughter
Let me die in your arms
Let me lay down beside you
Let me always be with you
Come let me love you
Come love me again
You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again
12.The Eagle And The Hawk
Lyrics：John Denver／Mike Taylor
Music：John Denver／Mike Taylor
I am the eagle, I live in high country
In rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky
I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers
But time is still turning they soon will be dry
And all those who see me and all who believe in me
Share in the freedom I feel when I fly
Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops
Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars
And reach for the heavens and hope for the future
And all that we 'can' be, not what we are
13.My Sweet Lady
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
Lady, are you crying, do the tears belong to me
Did you think our time together was all gone
Lady, you've been dreaming, I'm as close as I can be
And I swear to you our time has just begun
Close your eyes and rest your weary mind
I promise I will stay right here beside you
Today our lives were joined, became entwined
I wish that you could know how much I love you
Lady, are you happy, do you feel the way I do
Are there meanings that you've never seen before
Lady, my sweet lady, I just can't believe it's true
And it's like I've never, ever loved before
(Chorus)
Lady, are you crying, do the tears belong to me
Did you think our time together was all gone
Lady, my sweet lady, I'm as close as I can be
And I swear to you our time has just begun
14.Annie's Other Song
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
I'm bringing me home to you,
That's all that I have to give,
My life, my love, my everything
It's you I choose to be with
Had a wonderful time in the city
I smile when I recall
The space, the songs, the company
I really had a ball
It's a funny set of circumstances
Sends me out on the road alone
With the moon looking over my shoulder
I'm finding my way back home
I'm bringing me home to you,
That's all that I have to give,
My life, my love, my everything
It's you I choose to be with
Riding high in the Rocky Mountains
They're quiet and peaceful times
I'd sweat the stars are smiling
Like they know what's on my mind
You see, on any such an occasion
My thoughts will turn to you
The time I spend all by myself
I mostly spend with you
I'm bringing me home to you,
That's all that I have to give,
My life, my love, my everything
It's you I choose to be with
La, la......
When I lay down beside you,
All the love that you show,
I wanna live my life with you
It's all the dreams that I know
I'm bringing me home to you,
That's all that I have to give,
My life, my love, my everything
It's you I choose to be with
It's you I choose to be with
It's you I choose to be with
It's you I want to live with
La, la, la......
15.Boy From The Country
Written：Michael Martin Murphey／Owens B.Castleman
Because he called the forest brother
Because he called the earth his mother
They drove him out into the rain
Some people even said that
the boy from the country was insane
Because he spoke to fish in the creek
He tried to tell us that the animals could speak
Who knows, perhaps they do
How do you know they don't just because
they've never spoken to you？
Boy from the country left his home when he was young
Boy from the country, he loves the sun
He tried to tell us we should love the land
We just turned our heads and laughed
You see we did not understand
Sometimes I think the boy from the country
Is the only one who sees
'Cause the boy from the country
Doesn't want to see the forest for the trees
Boy from the country left his home when he was young
Boy from the country, he loves the sun
16.RHYMES AND REASONS
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
So you speak to me of sadness and the coming of the winter,
Fear that is within you now that seems to never end,
And the dreams that have escaped you and a hope that you've
forgotten
And you tell me that you need me now and you want to be my
friend,
And you wonder where we're going,
where's the rhyme and where's the reason,
And it's you cannot accept it is here we must begin
To seek the wisdom of the children
and the graceful way of flowers in the wind.
For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers,
Their laughter and their loveliness would clear a cloudy day.
Like the music of the mountains and the colors of the rainbow
They're a promise of the future and a blessing for today.
Though the cities start to crumble and the towers fall around us
The sun is slowly fading and it's colder than the sea.
It is written： From the desert to the mountains they shall lead
us,
By the hand and by the heart they will comfort you and me.
In their innocence and trusting they will teach us to be free.
For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers,
Their laughter and their loveliness would clear a cloudy day.
And the song that I am singing is a prayer to non believers,
Come and stand beside us we can find a better way.
17.Forest Lawn
Oh lay me down in Forest Lawn in a silver casket
put golden flowers over my head in a silver basket
While the drum and bugle corps
play taps while cannons roar
while sixteen liveried employees
Sell souvenirs from the funeral store.
I want to go simply when I go
they'll give me a simple funeral there I know
With a casket lined in fleece
And fireworks spelling out 'rest in peace'
Oh, take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn
Oh lay me down in Forest Lawn they understand there
they have a heavenly choir and military band there
Just put me in their care
I'll find my comfort There
with sixteen planes in a last salute
they'll drop a cross in a parachute.
I want to go simply when I go,
they'll give me a simple funeral there I know
With a hundred strolling strings
and topless dancers in golden in golden wings.
Oh, take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn.
Oh, come, come, come, come.
Come to the church in the wild wood
kindly leave a contribution in the pail.
be as simple and as trusting as a child would
and we'll sell you the church in the dale.
To find a simple resting place is my desire
to lay me down with a smiling face comes a little bit higher.
My likeness cast in brass
will stand in plastic grass
while hidden weights and springs
tips my hat to the mourners filing past
I want to go simply when I go
they'll give me a simple funeral there I know
I'll lie beneath the sand
with piped in tapes of Billy Graham.
Oh, take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn.
Rock of ages cleft for me, for a slightly higher fee
Oh, take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn
18.Pickin' The Sun Down
Music：John Martin Sommers
(instrumental)
19.THANK GOD, I'M A COUNTRY BOY
Lyrics：John Martin Summers
Music：John Martin Summers
Well, life on the farm is kinda laid back
Ain't much an old country boy like me can't hack
It's early to rise, early in the sack
Thank God, I'm A Country Boy
Well a simple kinda life never did me no harm
A raisin' me a family and workin' on a farm
My days are all filled with an easy country charm
Thank God I'm a country boy
When the work's all done and the sun's settin' low
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin' up the bow
The kids are asleep so I keep it kinda low
Thank God I'm a country boy
I'd play 'Sally Goodin'' all day if I could
But the Lord and my wife wouldn't take it very good
So I fiddle when I can, work when I should
Thank God, I'm a country boy
Well, I got me a fine wife, I got me old fiddle
When the sun's comin' up I got cakes on the griddle
Life ain't nothin' but a funny, funny riddle
Thank God I'm A country boy
Well I wouldn't trade my life for diamonds or jewels
I never was one of them money hungry fools
I'd rather have my fiddle and my farmin' tools
Thank God I'm a country boy
Yeah, city folk drivin' in a black limousine
A lotta sad people thinkin' that's a mighty keen
Son, let me tell ya now exactly what I mean
I thank God I'm a country boy
Well, I got me a fine wife, I got me old fiddle
When the sun's comin' up I got cakes on the griddle
Life ain't nothin' but a funny, funny riddle
Thank God I'm a country boy
Well, my fiddle was my daddy's til the day he died
And he took me by the hand and held me close to his side
He said...'Live a good life and play my fiddle with pride
And thank God you're a country boy'
My daddy taught me young how to hunt and how to whittle
He taught me how to work and play a tune on the fiddle
Taught me how to love and how to give just a little
Thank God I'm a country boy
Well, I got me a fine wife, I got me old fiddle
When the sun's comin' up I got cakes on the griddle
Life ain't nothing but a funny, funny riddle
Thank God I'm a country boy
20.TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS
Written：Bill Danoff／Taffy Danoff／John Denver
Almost heaven, West Virginia,
Blue Ridge Mountains
Shenandoah River.
Life is old there,
Older than the trees,
Younger than the mountains
Growin' like a breeze.
CHORUS
Country roads, take me home
To the place where I belong：
West Virginia, mountain momma,
Take me home, country roads.
All my memories gathered 'round her,
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water.
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky,
Misty taste of moonshine,
Teardrop in my eye.
CHORUS
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong：
West Virginia, mountain momma,
Take me home, country roads.
I hear her voice, in the mornin' hour she calls me,
Radio reminds me of my home far away
And driving down the road I get a feeling
I should have been home yesterday, yesterday
CHORUS
Country roads, take me home
To the place where I belong：
West Virginia, mountain momma,
Take me home, country roads.
21.POEMS, PRAYERS AND PROMISES
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
I've been lately thinking about my life's time
All the things I've done and how it's been
And I can't help believin' in my own mind
I know I'm gonna hate to see it end.
I've seen a lot of sunshine, slept out in the rain
Spent a night or two all on my own
I've known my lady's pleasures had myself some friends
Spent a time or two in my own home.
CHORUS
I have to say it now it's been a good life, all in all,
It's really fine to have a chance to hang around.
Lie there by the fire and watch the evening tire,
While all my friends and my old lady, sit and pass a pipe around
(alt- sit and watch the sun go down)
And talk of poems and prayers and promises
And things that we believe in
How sweet it is to love someone,
How right it is to care.
How long it's been since yesterday,
What about tomorrow and what about our dreams
And all the memories we share.
Days they pass so quickly now, the nights are seldom long
Time around me whispers when it's cold.
The changes somehow frightens me, still I have to smile
It turns me on to think of growing old.
Although my life's been good to me, there's still so much to do
So many things my mind has never known
I'd like to raise a family, I'd like to sail away
And dance across the mountains on the moon.
CHORUS
I have to say it now it's been a good life, all in all,
It's really fine to have a chance to hang around.
Lie there by the fire and watch the evening tire,
While all my friends and my old lady, sit and pass a pipe around
(alt- sit and watch the world turn 'round)
And talk of poems and prayers and promises
And things that we believe in
How sweet it is to love someone,
How right it is to care.
How long it's been since yesterday,
What about tomorrow and what about our dreams
And all the memories we share.
22.ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
He was born in the summer of his 27th year,
coming home to a place he'd never been before.
He left yesterday behind him you might say he was
born again,
might say he found a key for every door.
When he first came to the mountains
His life was far away
on the road and hanging by a song.
But the strings already broken
and he doesn't really care,
it keeps changin' fast, and it don't last for long.
It's a Colorado Rocky Mountain High,
I've seen it raining fire in the sky
The shadows from the starlight are softer than a lullabye.
Rocky Mountain High, ...in Colorado....Rocky Mountain High.
He climbed cathedral mountains, he saw silver clouds below,
saw everything as far as you can see.
And they say that he got crazy once and that he
tried to touch the sun,
and he lost a friend, but kept the memory.
Now he walks in quiet solitude, the forest and the stream,
seeking grace in every step he takes,
his sight is turned inside himself, to try and
understand, the serenity of a clear blue mountain lake.
And the Colorado Rocky Mountain High,
I've seen it raining fire in the sky
You can talk to God and listen to the casual reply.
Rocky Mountain High, ....in Colorado....Rocky Mountain High.
Now his life is full of wonder,
but his heart still knows some fear,
of the simple things he can not comphend.
Why they try to tear the mountains down
to bring in a couple more.
More people, more scars upon the land.
It's the Colorado Rocky Mountain High,
I've seen it raining fire in the sky
I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an Eagle fly
Rocky mountain high
It's the Colorado Rocky Mountain High,
I've seen it raining fire in the sky.
Friend around the camp fire and everybody's high....
Rocky Mountain High, Rocky Mountain High, Rocky Mountain High,
Rocky Mountain High.
23.THIS OLD GUITAR
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
This old guitar taught me to sing a love song
It showed me how to laugh and how to cry
It introduced me to some friends of mine
and brightened up some days
And it helped me make it through some lonely nights
What a friend to have on a cold and lonely night.
This old guitar gave me my lovely lady
It opened up her eyes and ears to me
It brought us close together and I guess it broke her heart
It opened up the space for us to be
What a lovely place and a lovely space to be.
This old guitar gave me my life my living
All the things you know I love to do
To serenade the stars that shine form a sunny mountainside
And most of all to sing my songs for you
I love to sing my songs for you.
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