Greatest Hits Vol2

John Denver Greatest Hits Vol2 Lyrics
1.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


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.FLY AWAY

Lyrics:John Denver
Music:John Denver

All of her days have gone soft and cloudy
All of her dreams have gone dry
All of her nights have gone sad and shady
She's getting ready to fly

Fly away, fly away, fly away

Life in the city can make you crazy
For sounds of the sand and the sea
Life in a high-rise can make you hungry
For things that you can't even see

Fly away, fly away, fly away

In this whole world there's nobody as lonely as she
There's nowhere to go and there's nowhere that
she'd rather be

She's looking for lovers and children playing
She's looking for signs of the spring
She listens for laughter and sounds of dancing
She listens for any old thing

Fly away, fly away, fly away


4.LIKE A SAD SONG

Lyrics:John Denver
Music:John Denver

Usually in the morning
I'm filled with sweet belonging
And everything is beautiful to see

Even when it's raining
The sound of heaven singing
Is simply joyful music to me

But sometimes I feel like a sad song
Like I'm all alone without you

So many different places
A million smiling faces
Life is so incredible to me
Especially to be near you
And how it is to touch you
Paradise was made for you and me
Sometimes I feel like a sad song
Like I'm all alone without you

I know that life goes on just perfectly
And everything is just the way that it should be
Still there are times when my heart feels like
breaking
And anywhere is where I'd rather be
Oh, and in the nighttime
I know that it's the right time
To hold you close and say I love you so
To have someone to share with
And someone I can care with
That is why I wanted you to know

Sometimes I feel like a sad song
Like I'm all alone without you....without you




5.LOOKING FOR SPACE

Lyrics:John Denver
Music:John Denver

On the road of experience
I'm trying to find my own way
Sometimes I wish that I could fly away
When I think that I'm moving
Suddenly things stand still
I'm afraid cause I think they always will

And I'm looking for space
And to find out who I am
And I'm looking to know and understand
It's a sweet sweet dream
Sometimes I'm almost there
Sometimes I fly like an eagle and
Sometims I'm deep in despair

All alone in the universe
Sometimes that's how it seems
I get lost in the sadness and the screams
Then I look in the center
Suddenly everything's clear
I find myself in the sunshine and my dreams

And I'm looking for space
And to find out who I am
And I'm looking to know and understand
It's a sweet sweet dream
Sometimes I'm almost there
Sometimes I fly like an eagle and
Sometims I'm deep in despair

On the road of experience
Join in the living day
If there's an answer
It's just that it's just that way

When you're looking for space
And to find out who you are
When you're looking to try and reach the stars

It's a sweet sweet dream
Sometimes I'm almost there
Sometimes I fly like an eagle and
Sometimes I'm deep in despair


6.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


7.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}


8.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.


9.I'm Sorry

Lyrics:John Denver
Music:John Denver

It's cold here in the city
It always seems that way
And I've been thinking about you almost everyday
Thinking about the good times
Thinking about the rain
Thinking about how bad it feels alone again

I'm sorry for the way things are in China
I'm sorry things ain't what they used to be
But more than anything else
I'm sorry for myself
'Cause you're not here with me

Our friends all ask about you
I say you're doing fine
And I expect to hear from you almost anytime
But they all know I'm crying
And I can't sleep at night
They all know I'm dying down deep inside

I'm sorry for all the lies I told you
I'm sorry for the things I didn't say
But more than anything else
I'm sorry for myself
I can't believe you went away

I'm sorry if I took some things for granted
I'm sorry for the chains I put on you
But more than anything else
I'm sorry for myself
For living without you


10.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


11.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


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.