1.BACK HOME AGAIN
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
There's a storm across the valley, clouds are rollin' in
The afternoon is heavy on your shoulders.
There's a truck out on the four lane a mile or more away
The whinin' of his wheels just makes it colder.
He's an hour away from ridin' on your prayers up in the sky,
And ten days on the road are barely gone,
There's a fire softly burnin', supper's on the stove,
But it's the light in your eyes that makes him warm,
Hey, it's good to be back home again,
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long-lost friend,
Hey, it's good to be back home again.
There's all the news to tell him, how'd you spend your time,
And what's the latest thing the neighbors say？
And your mother called last Friday 'Sunshine' made her cry,
And you felt the baby move just yesterday.
Hey, it's good to be back home again.
Sometimes this old farm seems like a long-lost friend.
Hey it's good to be back home again.
And oh the time that I can lay this tired old body down,
And feel your fingers feather soft upon me.
The kisses that I live for, the love that lights my way,
The happiness that livin' with you brings me.
It's the sweetest thing I know of just spending time with you
It's the little things that make a house a home.
Like a fire softly burnin' and supper on the stove and the
Light in your eyes that make me warm.
Hey, it's good to be back home again.
Sometimes this old arm feels like a long-lost friend.
Hey, it's good to be back home again.
Hey, it's good to be back home again.
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long-lost friend.
Hey, it's good to be back home again.
2.On The Road
Lyrics：Carl Franzen
Music：Carl Franzen
Back in 1958 we drove an old V8
and when it'd gone a hundred thou' we got out
and pushed it a mile.
We didn't know who we were, we didn't know what we did
We were just on the road
Headin' down from Canada on a gravel road a mile from Montana
then my Daddy read a sign and took us in the wrong direction
I asked my Daddy where are we goin'？, he said we'll just
follow our nose. So I looked out the window and dreamed
I was a cowboy.
We didn't know who we were, we didn't know what we did
We were just on the road
I met a girl in a truck cafe, fell in love almost right away,
then the Mercury was ready to go and I had to leave her.
Shoo-be-doo-be-doo-sh-doo
Shoo-be-doo-be-doo-sh-doo-sh-doo
Go home said the man in the moon go home
Go home said the man in the moon go home
Because it's gettin' sorta late and I'll soon turn out my light
Go home said the man in the moon
Go home.
We didn't know who we were, we didn't know what we did
We were just on the road
We didn't know who we were, we didn't know what we did
We were just a ridin' on
We were just a ridin' on the road
3.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}
4.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
5.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
6.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
7.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
8.IT'S UP TO YOU
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
You can do whatever you want to do
Wherever you want to go
It's up to you
Wouldn't it be fine
Following your heart playing your own part
You and me out on the farm
Let the sun be our alarm
Kicking off our shoes
Doing what we choose
Wouldn't it be fine
Knowing that your mind any time you want to be
I don't want to hold you
I just want to hold you
I don't want to need (？？？) you
I just like to see you smile and stay for a while
If the times get rough
being free might be enough to keep our feelings warm
See us through the storm
Wouldn't it be fine
Looking back and knowing that we helped each other fine
You can do whatever you want to do
Wherever you want to go
It's up to you
Wouldn't it be fine
Following your heart
Knowing from the start it's up to you
It's up to you
It's up to you
9.COOL AND GREEN AND SHADY
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
Saturdays, holidays, easy afternoon
Lazy days, summer days, nothing much to do
Rainy days are better days for hanging out inside
Rainy days and City ways make me wanna to hide
Somewhere cool, and green and shady
Find yourself a piece of grassy ground
Lay down, close your eyes
Find yourself and maybe lose yourself
While your free spirit flies
Find yourself a piece of grassy ground
Lay down, close your eyes
Find yourself and maybe lose yourself
While your free spirit flies
All the skies, lullabies, promises to keeps
Dandelions and twisting vines, clover at your feet
Memories of Aspen leaves trembling on the wind
Honey bees and fantasies,
Where to start again？
Somewhere cool, and green and shady
Cool and green and shady
Cool and green and shady
Cool and green and shady...
10.Eclipse
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
The sun is slowly fading in the western sky
Sometimes it takes forever for the day to end
Sometimes it takes a lifetime
Sometimes I think I'll never see the sun again
There's a heavy fog between me and my mountains
It's enough to make a grown man sit and cry
It's enough to make you wonder
It's enough to make the world roll up and die
I think it's kind of interesting
The way things get to be
The way the people work with their machines
Serenity's a long time coming to me
In fact I don't believe I know what it means anymore
In the east a shaded moon is hanging lazily
I do believe I saw the old man smile
I do believe I did
I do believe he's been laughing all the while
I think it's kind of interesting
The way things get to be
The way the people work with their machines
Serenity's a long time coming to me
In fact I don't believe I know what it means anymore
The sun is slowly fading in the western sky
Sometimes it takes forever for the day to end
Sometimes it takes a lifetime
Sometimes I think I'll never see the sun again
The sun again, sun again woo oo oo
11.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)
12.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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