Autograph

John Denver Autograph Lyrics
1.Dancing With The Mountains

Lyrics:Johndenver
Music:Johndenver

Everybody's got the dancin' fever
Everybody'd love to rock and roll
Play it loud and baby play it better
Funky music's gotta stretch your soul

Just relax and let the rhythm take you
Don't you be afraid to lose control
If your heart has found some empty spaces
Dancin's just the thing to make you whole

I am one who dances with the mountains
I am one who dances in the wind
I am one who dances on the ocean
My partner's more than pieces more than friends

Were you there the night they lost the lightning
Were you there the day the earth stood still
Did you see the famous and the fighting
Did you hear the prophet tell his tale
We are one when dancing with the mountains
We are one when singing in the wind
We are one when thinking of each other
More than partners much more than pieces more than
friends


2.The Mountain Song

Lyrics:Tracey Wickland
Music:Tracey Wickland

I came here from the city
A thousand miles away
I came just for a little while
You know I never meant to stay
I meant to take my pleasure
Have a good time and be gone
But I feel in love with a lady
Now i sing a mountain song

I listened to the music
Of the night wind in the pines
I saw the quiet splendor
Of a field of columbine
I skied on crystal pathways
To a mountain peak so tall
And I walked the mighty summits
With the one who made it all

And I fell in love with a lady
'Cause I've seen her at her best
And I've walked her wild and rugged paths
Through her open wilderness
And now I never could betray her
Steal her riches and be gone
'Cause when you love a mountain lady
You're gonna sing a mountain song

Now people come from everywhere
To see what they can find
And some take lots of pictures
And some just take their time
But they're some who take her beauty
That can't be bought or sold
And think of only money
While destroying wealth untold

But you fall in love with a lady
When you've slept upon her breast
When you've walked her wild and rugged paths
To her open wilderness
And you never can betray her
Steal her riches and be gone
'Cause when you love a mountain lady
You gotta sing a mountain song


3.How Mountain Girls Can Love

Lyrics:Ruby Rakes
Music:Ruby Rakes

Get at 'em boys, go back home
Back to the girl you love
Treat her right, never wrong
How mountain girls can love

Ridin' at night in a high cold wind
On the trail of the old lonesome pine
Thinking of you baby
Feelin' so bly
Wondering why I left you behind

Get at 'em boys, go back home
Back to the girl you love
Treat her right, never wrong
How mountain girls can love

There's a lake in the hills
Where my true love goes
That's when she's thinkin' of me
Why I'm not there only heaven knows
Heaven knows that's where I'd rather be

Get at 'em boys, go back home
Back to the girl you love
Treat her right, never wrong
How mountain girls can love


4.Song for the Life

Lyrics:Rodney Crowell
Music:Rodney Crowell

I don't drink as much as I used to
Lately it just ain't my style
And the hard times don't hurt like they ought to
They pass quicker like when I's a child

Somehow I've learned how to listen
For the sound like the sun goin' down
In the magic the morning is bringing
There's a song for the life I have found
It's keep my feet on the ground

Don't the midsummer days sit so heavy
But don't they flow like a breeze through your mind
And nothin' occurs in a hurry
To make up for someone's lost time

Somehow I've learned how to listen
For the sound like the sun goin' down
In the magic the morning is bringing
There's a song for the life I have found
It's keep my feet on the ground

Somehow I've learned how to listen
For the sound like the sun goin' down
In the magic the morning is bringing
There's a song for the life I have found
It's keep my feet on the ground


5.The Ballad of St Annes's Reel

Lyrics:David Mallett
Music:David Mallett

He was stranded in some tiny town
On fair Prince Edward Isle
Awaitin' for a ship to come and find him
A one-horse place, a friendly face
Some coffee and a tiny trace
Of fiddlin' in the distance far behind him

A dime across the counter then
A shy hello, a brand new friend
A walk along the street in the wintry weather
A yello light, an open door
And a welcome friend, there's room for more
And then they're standing there inside together

He's said i've heard that tune before somewhere
But I can't remember when
Was it on some other friendly shore
Or did I hear it on the wind
Was it written on the sky above
I think I heard it from someone I loved
But I never heard it sound so sweet since then

Now his feet begin to tap
A little boy says 'I'll take your hat'
He's caught up in the magic of her smile
And leap the heart inside him went
And off across the floor he sent
His clumsy body graceful as a child

He said 'there's magic in the fiddler's arm'
'There's magic in this town'
'There's magic in the dancers' feet'
'And the way they put them down'
'People smilin' everywhere'
'Boots and ribbons...locks of hair'
'And laughter and old blue suits and Easter gowns'

Now the sailor's gone, the room is bare
The old piano settin' there
someone's hat's left hanging on the rack
And empty chairs, the wooden floor
That feels the touch of shoes no more
Awaitin' for the dancers to come back

And the fiddle's in the closet
Of some daughter of the town
The strings are broke and the bow is gone
And the cover's buttoned down
But sometimes on December nights
When the air is cold and the wind is right
There's a melody that passes through this town


6.In My Heart

Lyrics:John Denver
Music:John Denver

I don't know why
We still live together
We're so far apart
So much of the time
I don't know why
This beautiful weather
Is breaking my spirit
And tearing my mind all apart

Are you so lonely
Are you so sad
Have you lost your purpose
The faith that you had
If life is a question
I don't understand
If time is the reason
Then nobody can

In my heart it is just an illusion
It's not even real
Much more than you think
It's much more than you feel

My ears are still ringing
There's nothing to say
Why look to the ocean
To wash me away
There goes my best friend
There goes my last dime
If love is the answer
I'm wasting my time

In my heart it is just an illusion
It's not even real
Much more than you think
It's much more than you feel
Do you feel
Is this real
How I feel
In my heart


7.Wrangell Mountain Song

Lyrics:John Denver
Music:John Denver

Sunday and it's raining in Alaska
Seven days I haven't seen the sun
Flying bush, flying low along the shoreline
Doin' everything I can to make it home

I can't wait to see the Wrangell Mountains
I can't wait to do what I will do
Honey, did I never say
How time goes by so slowly
When I can't wait to get back home to you

Three years from the war and settled down now
I did my time and served my country well
In the freedom I defended
I fly beneath the North Star
And I just don't know a better way to feel

I can't wait to see the Wrangell Mountains
I can't wait to do what I will do
Honey, did I never say
How time goes by so slowly
When I can't wait to get back home to you

It's a quiet life out here among the mountains
In a cabin that was built with these two hands

McCarthy lies asleep beside the glacier
It's colder now, winter's in the air
If you think they're wild
It's just because they can't be broken
It's a strong and gentle people livin' there

I can't wait to see the Wrangell Mountains
I can't wait to do what I will do
Honey, did I never say
How time goes by so slowly
When I can't wait to get back home to you


8.Whalebones and Crosses

Lyrics:Joe Henry/Lee Holdridge
Music:Joe Henry/Lee Holdridge

Whalebones and crosses
Stand against the Arctic sky
The wind blows through the graveyard
Where our fallen fathers lie
Eternal snow that covers them
The shadows of the son
The mighty struggle on the seas
A way of life is run

I'll sing for you my father
For the ancient sacred ways
How the hunter loved the hunted
How the night becomes the day
The circle of the mighty spirit
Keeps us in its fold
The warmth of understanding
Like a light shot through the cold

Then bring me to my people
Touch them with your loving hands
Lead them from confusion
Lead them back unto the land
For a sickness seems to block their path
It clouds my peoples' eyes
The promise that an idle truth
Will reap a golden lie

Whalebones and crosses
Stand against the Arctic sky
The wind blows through the graveyard
Where our fallen fathers lie
The timeless hunt a journey back
To what we once came from
Compassion and nobility
Beneath the midnight sun
The mighty struggle on the seas
A way of life is run


9.American Child

Lyrics:John Denver/Joe Henry
Music:John Denver/Joe Henry

Goin' up to Alaska
Up to the land of the midnight sun
Where the whale and the polar bear run
O'er the icy blue sea

Goin' up to Alaska
Up to the north and the pioneer life
Where courage and strength still survive
And a man can be free

American Child, does the call of the wild
Ever sing through the mist of your dreams?
Does it fly with the wind when you waken again
When it's gone do you know what it means?

Can you picture the time when a man had to find
His own way through an unbroken land
Before the machine changed the blue and the green
To something you can't understand

American Child, there's a burning inside you
That calls you away through the cold
To come back again to all that you've been
Can't you see that it's time to come home

To the flowers and trees and the rivers and the seas
And the earth who's the mother of all
A promise once made - will it shine, will it fade
Will we rise with the vision or fall

Goin' up to Alaska
Up to the land of the midnight sun
Where the whale and the polar bear run
O'er the icy blue sea

Goin' up to Alaska
Up to the north and the pioneer life
Where courage and strength still survive
And a man can be free

Men can be free
Goin' up to Alaska
Goin' up to Alaska
Goin' up to Alaska


10.You Say That the Battle Is Over

Lyrics:David Mallett
Music:David Mallett

And you say that the battle is over,
And you say that the war is all done-
Go tell it to those with the wind in their nose
Who run from the sound of the gun,
And write it on the sides of the great whaling-ships,
Or on ice floes where conscience is tossed-
With the wild in their eyes, it is they who must die
And it's we who must measure the loss.

And you say that the battle is over,
And finally the world is at peace-
You mean no one is dying, and mothers don't weep,
Or it's not in the papers, at least.

There are those who would deal in the darkness of life,
There are those who would tear down the sun,
And most men are ruthless, but some will still weep
When the gifts we were given are gone.

Now the blame cannot fall on the heads of a few,
It's become such a part of the race;
It's eternally tragic for that which is magic
To be killed at the end of the glorious chase.

From young seals to great whales,
From waters to woods,
They will fall just like weeds in the wind;
With fur coats, and perfumes, and trophies on walls:
What a hell of a race to call men.

And you say that the battle is over,
And you say that the war is all done-
Go tell it to those with the wind in their nose
Who run from the sound of the gun.
And write it on the sides of the great whaling-ships,
Or on ice floes where conscience is tossed;
With the wild in their eyes, it is they who must die,
And it's we who must measure the loss.

With the wild in their eyes, it is they who must die,
And it's we who must measure the cost.


11.Autograph

Lyrics:John Denver
Music:John Denver

Here I am closing my eyes again
Trying so hard not to see
All the things that I see
Almost willing to lie again
I swear that it just isn't so
It just isn't me

We are never alone
Even though we'd like to be
Then I go and open my eyes again
Love in your eyes is the thing
That I'd most like to see
I'd be willing to die again
To know of a place and a time
Where it always could be
To be always with you
And you always with me

This is my autograph
Here in the songs that I sing
Here in my cry and my laugh
Here in the love that I bring
To be always with you
And you always with me

Say a prayer and open your heart again
You are the love and the life That we all need to see
Always willing to shine and then
Peace on this earth is the way That it always can be
To be always with you And you always with me

This is my autograph
Here in the songs that I sing
Here in my cry and my laugh
Here in the love that I bring
To be always with you And you always with me