1.Windsong
Lyrics：John Denver／Joe Henry
Music：John Denver／Joe Henry
The wind is the whisper of our mother the earth
The wind is the hand of our father the sky
The wind watches over our struggles and pleasures
The wind is the goddess who first learned to fly
The wind is the bearer of bad and good tidings
The weaver of darkness, the bringer of dawn
The wind gives the rain, then builds us a rainbow
The wind is the singer who sang the first song
The wind is a twister of anger and warming
The wind brings the fragrance of freshly mown hay
The wind is a racer, a wild stallion running
The sweet taste of love on a slow summer's day
The wind knows the songs of the cities and canyons
The thunder of mountains, the roar of the sea
The wind is the taker and giver of mornings
The wind is the symbol of all that is free
So welcome the wind and the wisdom she offers
Follow her summons when she calls again
In your heart and your spirit let the breezes surround you
Lift up your voice then and sing with the wind
2.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.
3.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.
4.Sunshine On My Shoulders
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
Sunshine almost always makes me high
If I had a day that I could give you
I'd give to you the day just like today
If I had a song that I could sing for you
I'd sing a song to make you feel this way
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
Sunshine almost always makes me high
If I had a tale that I could tell you
I'd tell a tale sure to make you smile
If I had a wish that I could wish for you
I'd make a wish for sunshine for all the while
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
Sunshine almost all the time makes me high
5.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
6.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
7.The Flower That Shattered the Stone
Lyrics：Joe Henry／John Jarvis
Music：Joe Henry／John Jarvis
The earth is our mother Just turning around
With her trees in the forest And roots underground
Our father above us whose sigh is the wind
Paint us a rainbow Without any end
As the river runs freely (CHORUS)
The mountain does rise
Let me touch with my fingers
And see with my eyes
In the hearts of the children
A pure love still grows
Like a bright star in heaven
That lights our way home
Like the flower that shattered the stone
Sparrows find freedom Beholding the sun
In the infinite beauty We're all joined in one
I reach out before me And look to the sky
Did I hear someone whisper
Did something pass by
(CHORUS)
Like a bright star in heaven
That lights our way home
Like the flower that shattered the stone
8.Raven's Child
Lyrics：John Denver／Joe Henry
Music：John Denver／Joe Henry
Raven's child is chasing salvation
Black beak turned white from the crack and the snow
On the streets of despair the answer is simple
A spoonful of mercy can set free the soul
The drug king sits on his arrogant throne
Away and above and apart
Even children are twisted to serve him
And greed has corrupted what once was a heart
Raven's child keeps vigil for freedom
Trades for the arms that once made her strong
With nuclear warheads and lasers in heaven
Fear does the choosing between right and wrong
The arms king sits on his arrogant throne
Away and above and apart
Bankers assure him that he needn't care
And greed makes a stone of what once was a heart
Raven's child is washing the water
All of her wing-feathers blackened with tar
Prince William shoreline's an unwanted highway
Of asphalt and anger an elegant scar
The oil king sits on his arrogant throne
Away and above and apart
Lawyers have warned him he mustn't speak
And greed has made silent what once was a heart
You know there are walls that come tumbling down
For people who yearn to be free
Still there are hearts that long to be opened
And eyes that are longing to see
Raven's child is our constant companion
Sticks like a shadow to all that is done
Try as we may we just can't escape him
The source of our sorrow and shame
We are one
The true King sits on a heavenly throne
Never away nor above nor apart
With wisdom and mercy and constant compassion
He lives in the love that lives in our hearts
9.Children of the Universe
Lyrics：John Denver／Joe Henry
Music：John Denver／Joe Henry
A heritage of vision
Was given to us all
To smell the rose's fragrance
To hear the songbird's call
To watch the distant moonlight fill
The coming of the tides
To understand that life is more
Than always choosing sides
And some have seen what can be seen
Of sailing ships and kings
And some are given feet of clay
And some are given wings
And some must struggle just to breathe
Some have a golden spoon
And some will never leave the nest
While some walk on the moon
And don't you know the life that lives
Within the silent hills
Is just as rich and beautiful
And just as unfulfilled
As man with all his intellect
His reason and his choice
Oh, who's to say the nightingale
Has any less a voice
The silver dolphins twist and dance
And sing to one another
The cosmic ocean knows no bounds
For all that live are brothers
The whippoorwill, the grizzly bear
The elephant, the whale
All children of the universe
All weavers of the tale
So palomino lie back down
And dream yourself to sleep
The hawk flies with the morning dove
The lion with the sheep
As far away as you may go
We'll never be apart
It's in your dreams that you will know
The seasons of the heart
10.To the Wild Country
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
There are times I fear I lose myself,
I don't know who I am
I get caught up in the struggle and the strain
with my back against a stone wall
My finger in the dam
I'm losin' strength and goin' down again
When I take a look around me
My eyes can't find the sun
There's nothin' wild as far as I can see
Then my heart turns to Alaska
And freedom on the run
I can hear her spirit calling me
To the mountains
I can rest there
To the rivers
I will be strong
To the forests
I'll find peace there
To the wild country where I belong
Oh I know sometimes I worry on worldly ways and means
And I can see the future killing me
On a misbegotten highway
Of prophesies and dreams
A road to nowhere and eternity
And I know it's just changes
And mankind marchin' on
I know we can't live in yesterday
But compared to what we're losin'
And what it means to me
I'd give my life and throw the rest away
to the mountains
I can rest there
To the rivers
I will be strong
To the forests
I'll find peace there
To the wild country where I belong
I belong to the wild country
Where I belong
11.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
12.Calypso
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
Dedicated to Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau and all
who served on the good ship, 'Calypso'
To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean
To ride on the crest of the wild raging storm
To work in the service of life and the living
In search of the answers to questions unknown
To be part of the movement and part of the growing
Part of beginning to understand
CHORUS
Aye Calypso
The place's you've been to
The things that you've shown us
The stories you tell
Aye Calypso
I sing to your spirit
The men who have served you
So long and so well
Like the dolphin who guides you
You bring us beside you
To light up the darkness and show us the way
For though we are strangers in your silent world
To live on the land we must learn from the sea
To be true as the tide
And free as a wind-swell
Joyful and loving in letting it be
CHORUS
Aye Calypso
The place's you've been to
The things that you've shown us
The stories you tell
Aye Calypso
I sing to your spirit
The men who have served you
So long and so well
13.Islands
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
Islands call out to me
Like the highlands that I always see
In my dreams of home
I am never alone when I'm there
Islands like so many dreams
Are like canyons but off the main stream
And there's no one there
The dreamer is always alone
And the mighty blue ocean
Keeps rolling on every shore
Like the spirit that binds us together
We are so much more - than islands
Islands belong to the sea
Like the dark sands of my memory
When the morning comes
They are stepping stones to the sun
And the mighty blue ocean
Keeps rolling on every shore
Like the spirit that binds us together
We are so much more - than islands
14.Earth Day Every Day (Celebrate)
Lyrics：John Denver
Music：John Denver
Celebrate morning,
The cry of a loon on a lake in the night
The dreams that are born in the dawn's early light
Celebrate morning.
Celebrate living,
The laughter that sings in the heart of a child,
The freedom that flies at the call of the wild,
Celebrate living.
Celebrate evening,
The stars that appear in the loss of the sun,
Whispering winds, 'We are one, we are one'...
CHORUS
Celebrate Earth Day, every day,
Celebrate Earth Day, every day
Celebrate land and sea
Celebrate you and me
Celebrate Earth Day, every day
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