1.Alaska And Me
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
higher ground album, and has also been released on the gift you
are and the john denver collection - calypso albums.
When i was a child and i lived in the city
I dreamed of alaska so far away
And i dreamed i was flying over mountains and glaciers
Somehow i knew i'd live there one day
Well it took me some growin', and a fair bit of schoolin'
And a little bit of trouble to get on the move
And i felt like a loser but i turned out the winner
When i came to alaska the land that i love
Here's to alaska, here's to the people
Here's to the wild and here's to the free
Here's to my life in a chosen country
Here's to alaska and me
I was born in a cabin on little mulchatna
Raised in hard times but i had a good life
From the first time i flew with my father a singin'
I knew that i'd wind up a bush pilot's wife
We sleep near the sound of a slow running river
And wake up most mornings to a drizzling rain
And we face every day like the first or the last one
With nothin' to lose and heaven to gain
Here's to alaska, here's to the people
Here's to the wild and here's to the free
Here's to my life in a chosen country
Here's to alaska and me
Oh, for the fire on a cold winter's night
And once more to gaze at the great northern lights
For all of the beauty my children will see
Here's to alaska and me
Here's to alaska, here's to the people
Here's to the wild and here's to the free
Here's to my life in a chosen country
Here's to alaska and me
2.All This Joy
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the
higher ground album, and has also been released on the gift you
are and the john denver collection - annie's song albums.
All this joy, all this sorrow
All this promise, all this pain
Such is life, such is being
Such is spirit, such is love
City of joy, city of sorrow
City of promise, city of pain
Such is life, such is being
Such is spirit, such is love
World of joy, world of sorrow
World of promise, world of pain
Such is life, such is being
Such is spirit, such is love
All this joy, all this sorrow
All this promise, all this pain
Such is life, such is being
Such is spirit, such is love
Such is spirit, such is love
3.Amazon(Let This Be A Voice)
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the
different directions album, and has also been released on the
gift you are and the john denver collection - sunshine on my
shoulde
Ums. a live version appears on the wildlife concert album.
There is a river that runs from the mountains
That one river is all rivers
All rivers are that one
There is a tree that stands in the forest
That one tree is all forests
All trees are that one
There is a flower that blooms in the desert
That one blossom is all flowers
All flowers are that one
There is a bird that sings in the jungle
That one song is all music
All songs are that one
It is the song of life
It is the flower of faith
It is the tree of temptation
It is the river of no regret
There is a child that cries in the ghetto
That one child is all children
All children are that one
There is a vision that shines in the darkness
That one vision is all of our dreams
It is a vision of heaven
It is a child of promise
It is the song of life
It is the river of no regret
Let this be a voice for the mountains
Let this be a voice for the river
Let this be a voice for the forest
Let this be a voice for the flowers
Let this be a voice for the ocean
Let this be a voice for the desert
Let this be a voice for the children
Let this be a voice for the dreamers
Let this be a voice of no regret
4.American Child
Words：john denver and joe henry
Music：john denver and joe henry
This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the
autograph album, and has also been released on the earth songs,
the very best of john denver (single cd) and the john denver
colle
- calypso albums.
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 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 seas and the rivers and the trees
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
5.Ancient Rhymes
Words：john denver and bob samples
Music：john denver and bob samples
This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the
flower that shattered the stone album, and has also been
released on the stonehaven sunrise, the gift you are and the
john denver
Ction - sunshine on my shoulder albums.
Two days before the moon was round
You felt the urge of sun's light beams
The muffled world of dolphin sound
Slipped down and back into your dreams
For nine full months that passed before
You learned of all of life's ancient rhymes
Then mother sensed a farther shore
And brought you forth into these times
So taste the air of your new world
And gently guide us to your mind
It knows the winds and sails unfurled
And holds to heart the dolphin kind
Welcome precious earthmade child
We met you first in your father's songs
And mother's smile and waters wild
It's in this place you now belong
I know you know of all these things
And feel the faith of a dolphin's sigh
For you were born on silver wings
To taste the high blown crystal sky
To sing one day to all of us
The songs you learned in dolphin lair
Giving hope to life as all we must
And teach us how their grace to share
6.Annie's Song
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on twenty albums, and was first released on
the back home again album, and has also been released on the
changes, john denver (italian), favourites, greatest hits vol 2,
voice
Erica, the very best of john denver (double cd), the rocky
mountain collection, the country roads collection, reflections
and country classics albums. live versions appear on an evening
with joh
Ver, live in london,, live at the sydney opera house, the
wildlife concert and the best of john denver live albums. an
updated studio version has been released on the gift you are, a
portrait an
John denver collection - annie's song albums. a further new
version also appears on the love again album.
You fill up my senses
Like a night in the 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
Let me give my life to you
Come let me love you
Come love me again
You fill up my senses
Like a night in the 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
7.A Country Girl In Paris
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the
higher ground album, and has also been released on the a
portrait, the gift you are and the john denver collection -
annie's song
Ms.
A country girl in paris, moonlight on the seine
Memories of tennessee, nashville in the rain
It's such a contradiction, a heart that's filled with pain
A country girl in paris, dreamin' nashville in the rain
She walks along the boulevard, champs alysee
Thinks about a country boy three thousand miles away
Pride is such a hard thing, it's such a price to pay
To be all alone in paris with true love so far away
Up upon mont martre when she stops to rest awhile
All the artists look at her and they long to paint her smile
For even in her sorrow there's something in her eyes
That makes the young men jealous, makes the old men sigh
They say the loss of innocence is always linked to pain
For once the heart is opened nothing ever is the same
And so the evening lends itself to lovers and romance
The way to heal a broken heart is to give true love
One more chance
A country girl in paris, moonlight on the seine
Memories of tennessee, nashville in the rain
It's such a contradiction, a heart that's filled with pain
A country girl in paris, dreamin' nashville in the rain
A country girl in paris, longing for nashville in the rain
8.A Little Further North
Words：graeme connors
Music：graeme connors
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
flower that shattered the stone album, and has also been
released on the stonehaven sunrise and the john denver
collection - caly
Lbums.
The sun sinks behind me in the west
This is the time of day i love best
Salt breezes murmur through the coconut palm
As the colors change, they set a scene of tropic calm
Seagulls headed back to land
Over the mangrove and the salt pan
By a lazy creek with a six pack and a fishin' line
Win back some memories and losin' track of time
I head a little further north each year
Leave the cities behind, out of sight out of mind
Up where my troubles can all disappear
I head a little further north each year
Feeling the night wrap around me
Eases my mind's serenity
Ocean waves are hummin' on the outer reef
These balmy days and sultry nights are a welcome relief
I head a little further north each year
Leave the cities behind, out of sight out of mind
Up where my troubles can all disappear
I head a little further north each year
I head a little further north each year
Leave the cities behind, out of sight out of mind
Up where my troubles can all disappear
I head a little further north each year
I head a little further north each year
Leave the cities behind, out of sight out of mind
Up where my troubles can all disappear
I head a little further north each year
9.Bread And Roses
Words：james oppenheim (1912)
music：john denver
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
higher ground album, and has also been released on the gift you
are and the john denver collection - rocky mountain high albums.
As we go marching, marching
In the beauty of the day
A million darkened kitchens
A thousand mill lofts grey
Are touched with all the radiance
That a sudden sun discloses
For the people hear us singing
Bread and roses, bread and roses
As we go marching, marching
We battle too for men
For they are women's children
And we mother them again
Our lives shall not be sweetened
From birth until life closes
Hearts starve as well as bodies
Give us bread, but give us roses
As we go marching, marching
We bring the greater days
For the rising of the women
Means the rising of the race
No more the drudge and idler
Ten that toil where one reposes
But the sharing of life's glories
Bread and roses, bread and roses
10.Calypso
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on seventeen albums, and was first released on
the windsong album, and has also been released on favourites,
greatest hits vol 2, voice of america, john denver (italian),
the v
Est of john denver (double cd), the rocky mountain collection,
the country roads collection, reflections and country classics
albums. live versions appears on the live in london, the
wildlife co
And the best of john denver live albums. an updated studio
version has been released on the earth songs, the very best of
john denver (single cd), the john denver collection - calypso
and a por
Albums.
To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean
To ride on the crest of a 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
Aye, calypso, the places 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 the wind-swell
Joyful and loving in letting it be
Aye, calypso, the places 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
Aye, calypso, the places 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
11.Chained To The Wheel
Words：nick smith
music：joe camilleri
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
different directions album, and has also been released on the
gift you are and the john denver collection - annie's song
albums.
Know what you really need
You can't get enough
Too many mouths to feed
Ain't life enough
Call this survival
Don't pray for a sign
Know what you really want
You can't get it back
Down on the water front
Better watch out jack
Nights on the mainline
Rust on the rail
I've seen 'em swindle this town
I've seen 'em tumble it down
I've seen red rivers, fire and steel
I've felt the thunder chained to the wheel
Know what you mean to me
Goes deeper than that
Can't fight your destiny
Don't know where it's at
Don't look for light'n
Or pray for a sign
I've heard the legends
I've watched the skies
I feel the power
The flame in your eyes
I've seen 'em swindle this town
I've seen 'em tumble it down
I've seen red rivers, fire and steel
I've felt the thunder chained to the wheel
12.Children Of The Universe
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the
seasons of the heart. album, and has also been released on the
earth songs, the john denver collection - sunshine on my
shoulder a
E very best of john denver (single cd) albums.
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 lives 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
13.Deal With The Ladies
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
higher ground album, and has also been released on the gift you
are and the john denver collection - sunshine on my shoulder
albu
R
I like to deal with the ladies
I like to give ＆em a real hard time
Like to make ＆em sigh
Like to make ＆em cry over me
I like to swing with the good times
I like to have me a real live ball
Doin' what i can like a dirty old man
(tee hee)
Like to have ＆em just hangin' around
Wondering where i've been
Like to see ＆em with their big brown eyes
Just a drinkin' me in
I like to deal with the ladies
I like to hang ＆em up on my line
Treat ＆em kinda rough
But they never got enough of me
Rat a tat tat tat tat
14.Eagles And Horses(I'm Flying Again)
Words：john denver and joe henry
Music：john denver and joe henry
This song appears on five albums, and was first released on the
flower that shattered the stone album. it has also appeared on
the stonehaven sunrise, a portrait and the john denver
collection -
Me home, country roads albums. a live version also appears on
the wildlife concert album.
Horses are creatures who worship the earth
As they gallop on feet of ivory
Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth
The horses still run, they are free
My body is merely the shell of my soul
But the flesh must be given its due
Like a pony that carries its rider back home
Like an old friend that's tried and been true
I had a vision of eagles and horses
High on a ridge in a race with the wind
Going higher and higher and faster and faster
On eagles and horses i'm flying again
Eagles inhabit the heavenly heights
They know neither limit nor bound
They're the guardian angels of darkness and light
They see all and hear every sound
My spirit will never be broken or caught
For the soul is a free-flowing thing
Like an eagle that needs neither comfort nor thought
To rise up on glorious wings
I had a vision of eagles and horses
High on a ridge in a race with the wind
Going higher and higher and faster and faster
On eagles and horses i'm flying again
My body is merely the shell of my soul
But the flesh must be given its due
Like a pony that carries its master back home
Like an old that's tried and been true
My spirit will never be broken or caught
For the soul is a free-flowing thing
Like an eagle that needs neither comfort nor thought
To rise up on glorious wings
I had a vision of eagles and horses
High on a ridge in a race with the wind
Going higher and higher and faster and faster
On eagles and horses i'm flying again
15.Earth Day Every Day(Celebrate)
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the
earth songs album. it is also on the albums the very best of
john denver (single cd) and the john denver collection -
sunshine on m
Ulder.
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§...
Celebrate earth day, every day
Celebrate earth day, every day
Celebrate land and sea
Celebrate you and me
Celebrate earth day, every day
16.Eclipse
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
the sun is slowly fadin' 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 smog 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 that people work with their machines
Serenity's a long time comin' to me
The fact i don't believe i know what it means
In the east a shaded moon is hangin' lazily
I do believe i saw the old man smile
I do believe i did
I do believe he's been hangin' all the while
I think it's kind of interesting the way things get to be
The way that people work with their machines
Serenity's a long time comin' to me
The fact i don't believe i know what it means any more
When the sun is slowly fadin' in the western sky
Sometimes it takes forever the day to end
Sometimes it takes a lifetime
Sometimes i think i'll never see the sun again
Sun again
17.Falling Leaves(The Refugees)
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
higher ground album, and has also been released on the gift you
are and the john denver collection - sunshine on my shoulder
albu
R
Thank you for this precious day
These gifts you give to me
My heart so full of love for you
Sings praise for all i see
Oh sing for every mother's child
For every childhood tear
Oh sing for all the stars above
The peace beyond all fear
This is for the refugees
The ones without a home
A boat out on the ocean
A city street alone
Are they not some dear mother's child
Are they not you and i
Are we the ones to bear this shame
And they this sacrifice
Or are they just like falling leaves
Who give themselves away
From dust to dust from seed to shear
And to another day
If i could have one wish on earth
Of all i can conceive
T'would be to see another spring
And bless the falling leaves
Thank you for this precious day
These gifts you give to me
My heart so full of love for you
Sings praise for all i see
Oh sing for every mother's child
For every childhood tear
Oh sing for all the stars above
The peace beyond all fear
18.For You
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on six albums, and was first released on the
higher ground album, and has also been released on the a
portrait, the john denver collection - take me home ountry roads
and the f
Ites albums. a live version also appears on the wildlife concert
album. a new version has also been released on the love again
album.
Just a look in your eyes again
Just to lay in your arms
Just to be the first one always there for you
Just to live in your laughter
Just to sing in your heart
Just to be everyone of your dreams come true
Just to sit by your window
Just to touch in the night
Just to offer a prayer each day for you
Just to long for your kisses
Just to dream of your sighs
Just to know that i'd give my life for you
For you for the rest of my life
For you all the best of my life
For you alone, only for you
Just to wake up each morning
Just to you by my side
Just to know that you're never really far away
Just a reason for living
Just to say i adore
Just to know that you're here in my heart to stay
For you for the rest of my life
For you all the best of my life
For you alone, only for you
Just the words of a love song
Just the beat of my heart
Just the pledge of my life, my love, for you
19.Grandma's Feather Bed
Words：jim connor
Music：jim connor
This song appears on twelve albums, and was first released on
the back home again album. it has been released on the greatest
hits vol 2, favourites, changes, the country roads collection
and ro
Ountain holiday albums. live versions also appear on the an
evening with john denver, live in london, country classics, the
very best of john denver (2 cd), the john denver collection -
rocky mo
N high and live at the sydney opera house albums.
When i was a little bitty boy
Just up off-a floor
We used to go down to grandma's house
Every monthend or so
We'd chicken pie and country ham
＆n homemade 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 the 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 grann'd sing a ballad or two
I'd sit and listen and watch the fire
Till 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
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
Well i love my ma, i love my pa
Love granny and grandpa too
Been fishing with my uncle, i rassled with my cousin
I even kissed aunt lou
But if 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
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
20.High, Wide And Handsome
Words：chuck pyle
Music：chuck pyle
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
flower that shattered the stone album, and has also been
released on the stonehaven sunrise and the john denver
collection - take
Ome country roads albums.
High, wide and handsome
Down from the great white north
More than enough and then some
Swept her up on his own
Tumbleweeds were meant to
Get stuck up on a fence
Heaven must have sent you
You've got no wire to roll against
Keep her steady cowgirl
Don't let go of the reigns
You are ready now girl
Never mind the growin' pains
Worlds out there are waiting
Big and wild as the sky
No more hesitating
It's now or never, do or die
Keep her steady cowgirl
Don't let go of the reigns
You are ready now girl
Never mind the growin' pains
As hard as you imagined
It being without me
We'll both be wishing it were that easy
Don't give me a pull, give me some room
When this round up is through, i'll be coming back home
Wide open spaces
Between these two prairie hearts
Wonderin' where their place is
In a world so far apart
Keep her steady cowgirl
Don't let go of the reigns
You are ready now girl
Never mind the growin' pains
Keep her steady cowgirl
Don't let go of the reigns
You are ready now girl
Never mind the growin' pains
21.Higher Ground
Music：john denver and lee holdridge
words：john denver and joe henry
This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the
higher ground album, and has also been released on the john
denver collection - rocky mountain high album.
There are those who can live
With the things they don't believe in
They are giving up their lives
For something that is less than it can be
Some have longed for a home
In a place of inspiration
Some will find the emptiness inside
By giving it all for the things that they believe
They believe
Maybe it's just a dream in me
Maybe it's just my style
Maybe it's juat the freedom that i've found
Given the possibility
Of living up to the dream in me
You know i'll be reaching for higher ground
I will stand on my own
I will live up to the vision
I will trust in what i feel
I'd follow my heart until it brings me home
Brings me home
Maybe it's just a dream in me
Maybe it's just my style
Maybe it's juat the freedom that i've found
Given the possibility
Of living up to the dream in me
You know i'll be reaching for higher ground
Keep me through the night
Lead me to the light
Teach me the magic of wonder
Give me the spirit to fly
Maybe it's just a dream in me
Maybe it's just my style
Maybe it's juat the freedom that i've found
Given the possibility
Of living up to the dream in me
You know i'll be reaching for higher ground
Maybe it's just a dream in me
Maybe it's just my style
Maybe it's juat the freedom that i've found
Given the possibility
Of living up to the dream in me
You know i'll be reaching for higher ground
22.Hold On To Me
Words：nick smith
music：joe camilleri
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on
different directions album, and has also been released on the
john denver collection - take me home country roads album.
We were live on arrival
Safe home at last
No cannon fire dockside
No flags half-mast
We were sold out for siver
And a string of black pearls
On the loneliest island
At the edge of the world
Like destiny's children
Souls lost at sea
No room on the lifeboat
You can hold on to me
Now the voyage is over
We're back on dry land
In our eyes are the stories
The rope and the brand
Like destiny's children
Souls lost at sea
No room on the lifeboat
You can hold on to me
23.Home Grown Tomatoes
24.In A Far Away Land
25.Islands
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the
seasons of the heart album, and has also been released on the
earth songs, the john denver collection - sunshine on my
shoulder an
Very best of john denver (single cd) albums.
Islands call out to me
Like the highlands that i always see
In my dreams of home
I am never alone when i am 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
26.I Want To Live
there are children raised in sorrow
On a scorched and barren plain
There are children raised beneath a golden sun
There are children of the water
Children of the sand
And they cry out through the universe
Their voices raised as one
I want to live i want to grow
I want to see i want to know
I want to share what i can give
I want to be i want to live
Have you gazed out on the ocean
Seen the breaching of a whale？
Have you watched the dolphins frolic in the foam？
Have you heard the song the humpback hears five hundred miles
away
Telling tales of ancient history of passages and home？
I want to live i want to grow
I want to see i want to know
I want to share what i can give
I want to be i want to live
For the worker and the warrior the lover and the liar
For the native and the wanderer in kind
For the maker and the user and the mother and her son
I am looking for my family and all of you are mine
We are standing all together
Face to face and arm in arm
We are standing on the threshold of a dream
No more hunger no more killing
No more wasting life away
It is simply an idea
And i know its time has come
I want to live i want to grow
I want to see i want to know
I want to share what i can give
I want to be i want to live
27.I Watch You Sleeping
Words：mike batt
Music：mike batt
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
flower that shattered the stone album, and has also been
released on the stonehaven sunrise and the john denver
collection - take
Ome, country roads albums.
I watch you sleeping little angel face
And on behalf of the human race
Welcome to this crazy place
I watch you sleeping innocent and free
I don't know what your dreams may be
You don't know what you mean to me
You have never heard thunder
You have never seen the rain
But you can still feel the wonder
You can still feel the pain
And sometimes you look at me
So wise and so sure
I could easily believe you have been here before
I watch you sleeping little angel face
And on behalf of the human race
Welcome to this crazy place
I won't be here forever
But as long as i'm around
I promise you i will never let you down
To help make a world you can feel worthy of
I will teach you to fly on the wings of my love
I watch you sleeping brave and unaware
You don't know yet so you don't care
I want you to know it's hard out there
I watch you sleeping little angel face
And on behalf of the human race
Welcome to this crazy place
I watch you sleeping
I watch you sleeping
I watch you sleeping
I watch you sleeping
I watch you sleeping
I watch you sleeping
28.Never A Doubt
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the
higher ground album, and has also been released on a portrait,
john denver (italian) and the john denver collection - take me
home
Ntry roads albums.
There was never a doubt, never a doubt in my mind
We weren't meant to be lonely
Never a doubt i knew that i'd find you some day
There was never a doubt, after all of those nights alone
All those desperate mornings
Never a doubt, there was never a doubt in my mind
I suppose there have been times when you felt like a room filled
with darkness
Not a window around
There must have been moments you felt you were truly alone
Then again each of us knows, in a night of unbearable sadness
Still a light can be found
In each morning the promise that someday your true love will
come
I suppose there are some people who never believe in the magic
Oh the magic of love
They think nothing is precious and life is just pleasure and
pain
Then again each of us knows, when a heart has been broken it's
tragic
Oh the magic of love
Even that which is broken with love can be mended again
All the things that you fear, at the most they mean nothing
All the sorrow and sadness can just disappear
There was never a doubt, never a doubt in my mind
We weren't meant to be lonely
Never a doubt i knew that i'd find you some day
There was never a doubt, after all of those nights alone
All those desperate mornings
Never a doubt, there was never a doubt in my mind
There was never a doubt in my mind
Never a doubt in my mind
29.Ponies
Words：jeffrey bullock
Music：jeffrey bullock
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
different directions album, and has also been released on the
gift you are and the john denver collection - take me home,
country
S albums.
Somewhere out on the prairie
Is the greatest cowboy that's ever been
And when he lays his hands upon the ponies
They shudder with an understanding skin
And he says ponies
Now ponies don't you worry
I have not come to steal your fire away
I want to fly with you across the sunrise
Discover what begins each shining day
When the storm clouds in the west
Are quickly gathering
The ponies they run wild there
Before it rains
You'll see their sleek dark bodies
Brightly gleaming
You know the fire is flying through
Their brains
And he says ponies
Now ponies don't you worry
I have not come to steal your fire away
I want to fly with you across the sunrise
Discover what begins each shining day
And he says ponies
Now ponies don't you worry
I have not come to steal your fire away
I want to fly with you across the sunrise
Discover what begins each shining day
And he says ponies
Ponies don't you worry
I have not come to steal your fire away
I want to fly with you across the sunrise
Discover what begins each shining day
I want to fly
30.Postcard From Paris
31.Potter's Wheel
Words：bill danoff
Music：bill danoff
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
different directions album, and has also been released on the
john denver collection - annie's song album. it has also been
rele
On the john denver collection - calypso album, as a live
version.
The world is fast becoming younger
The news is all they've ever known
They've seen the wars, the hurt, the hunger
How will they choose when they are grown
What do you tell forever's children
When it's their turn to hurt and heal
Whatever spins a grim tornedo
Can also turn a potters wheel
Take a little clay
Put it on a wheel
Get a little hint
How god must feel
Give a little turn
Listen to a spin
Make it into the shape
You want it in
Tell with your life the bloody story
Teach to they're dreams not burning steel
It's not in bombs where lies the glory
But in what's shattered on the field
The potter's wheel takes love and caring
Skill and patience fast and slow
The works it makes are easily broken
Once they survive the potter's throw
Take a little clay
Put it on a wheel
Get a little hint
How god must feel
Give a little turn
Listen to a spin
Make it into the shape
You want it in
Some day some children will be digging
In some long forgotten ground
And they'll find our civilisation
Or what's left of it to be found
They'll find the weapons of destruction
But buried deeper in the hole
They'll find a message and a promise
In the sand, the potter's bowl
Take a little clay
Put it on a wheel
Get a little hint
How god must feel
Give a little turn
Listen to a spin
Make it into the shape
You want it in
Earth and fire and wind conspire
With human hands, and love, and fire
32.Raven's Child
Words：john denver and joe henry
Music：john denver and joe henry
This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the
earth songs album. it has been released on the flower that
shattered the stone, the very best of john denver (single cd)
and the j
Enver collection - rocky mountain high albums.
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
33.Rocky Mountain High
Words：john denver
music：john denver and mike taylor
This song appears on twenty-one albums, and was first released
on the rocky mountain high album. this version has also been
released on this is john denver, the country roads collection
and the
Mountain collection albums. it has been rerecorded on the
greatest hits vol 1, take me home country roads ＆ other hits,
favourites, voice of america, john denver (italian) and country
class
Lbums. it has been rerecorded again on the earth songs, the very
best of john denver (single cd), a portrait and the john denver
collection - rocky mountain high albums. it has been rerecorded
a
On the love again and a celebration of life albums. live
versions also appear on the an evening with john denver, live at
the sydney opera house, the wildlife concert and the best of
john denver
Albums.
He was born in the summer of his 27th year
Comin' home to a place he'd never been before
He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again
You 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 hangin' by a song
But the string's already broken and he doesn't really care
It keeps changin' fast and it don't last for long
But the colorado rocky mountain high
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
The shadow from the starlight is softer than a lullabye
Rocky mountain high (high colorado) rocky mountain high (high
colorado)
He climbed cathedral mountains, he saw silver clouds below
He saw everything as far as you can see
And they say he got crazy once, and he tried to touch the sun
And he lost a friend but kept his memory
Now he walks in quiet solitude the forests and the streams
Seeking grace in every step he takes
His sight has 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 rainin' fire in the sky
You can talk to god and listen to the casual reply
Rocky mountain high (high colorado) rocky mountain high (high
colorado)
Now his life is full of wonder but his heart still knows some
fear
Of a simple thing he cannot comprehend
Why they try to tear the mountains down to bring in a couple
more
More people, more scars upon the land
And the colorado rocky mountain high
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly
Rocky mountain high
It's a colorado rocky mountain high
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
Friends around the campfire and everybody's high
Rocky mountain high (high colorado) rocky mountain high (high
colorado)
Rocky mountain high (high colorado) rocky mountain high do de do
34.Rocky Mountain Suite(Cold Nights In Canada)
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 live there, the ways that they die
One is a teacher, and one a beginner
Just wanting to be there, wanting to know
And together they're trying to tell us a story
That should have been listened to long, long ago
How the life in the mountains is living in danger
From too many people, too many machines
And the time is upon us, today is forever
Tomorrow is just one of yesterday's 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.
35.Sing Australia
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the
higher ground album, and has also been released on the a
portrait, the john denver collection - calypso and the gift you
are album
I come to australia as many people do
To see the old koala, hitch a ride on a kangaroo
To hear somebody call me mate and call somebody blue
To hear the aboriginee play a didgeridoo
Some of you came as prisoners two centuries ago
Some of you come as kings and queens your blessing to bestow
Some of you stand all swelled with pride, some with shattered
wings
But all of us come with open hearts to hear australia sing
In the desert, in the city
In the mountains and in the sea
In the stories and in the people
I can hear australia sing
Waltzing matilda, the men of galipoli
Clancy of the overflow, crocodile dundee
The myth of all creation, the teaching of baiame
The legends of a dreamtime for all eternity
And in this celebration of a brief two hundred years
The cost to build a nation in blood and sweat and tears
And if we stand divided, divided we will fall
But if we stand together we shall conquer all
In the desert, in the city
In the mountains and in the sea
In the stories and in the people
I can hear australia sing
Sing australia, sing australia, sing australia, sing australia
In the sails on sydney harbour
I can hear australia sing
36.Stonehaven Sunset
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
flower that shattered the stone album, and has also been
released on the stonehaven sunrise and the john denver
collection - caly
Lbums.
Stonehaven sunset the water's on fire
My true love of singing, we kiss and conspire
Sing a song for the ocean a song for the sky
A song for tomorrow love sweet by and by
For the child who is coming and for dreams that come true
Sing a song for each other for me and for you
Sing a song for all lovers all the stars in the skies
Sing of stonehaven water home, stonehaven sunrise
Stonehaven sunset the desert's on fire
Christ on the cross again burns with desire
They are shooting at random though they aim at us all
It's the children who rise up and children who fall
All the angels are weeping the sweetest of tears
Fall like rivers of mercy to wash all our fears
Sing a song for old glory and a future that dies
Sing of stonehaven desert home, stonehaven sunrise
Stonehaven sunset the city's on fire
The soldiers just smile and say this gun's for hire
Give in to the beast boy give in to the thrill
It's just human nature to hunt and to kill
We all die together and yet somehow alone
Just together we have memories and many are gone
Singing songs for old soldiers a chorus of sighs
Sing of stonehaven city home, stonehaven sunrise
Stonehaven sunset the mountain's on fire
My spirit is lifted, rising higher and higher
All the prophets are laughing they say we told you so
It's one thing to play guessing games, another to know
For the needs of many are the sins of a few
And the day is forthcoming when accounting is due
Sing a song for sweet justice with a fire in her eyes
Sing of stonehaven mountain home, stonehaven sunrise
Stonehaven sunset the water's on fire
My true love of singing, we kiss and conspire
Sing a song for the ocean a song for the sky
A song for tomorrow love sweet by and by
For the child who is coming and for dreams that come true
Sing a song for each other for me and for you
Sing a song for all lovers all the stars in the skies
Sing of stonehaven water home, stonehaven sunrise
37.Sunshine On My Shoulders
Words：john denver
music：john denver, dick kniss and mike taylor
This song appears on twenty-one albums, and was first released
on the poems, prayers and promises album. this version has also
been released on the very best of john denver (double cd), this
is
Denver, reflections：songs of love and life, the country roads
collection and the rocky mountain collection albums. it has been
rerecorded on the greatest hits vol 1, take me home country
roads
Other hits, favourites, voice of america, john denver (italian)
and country classics. it has been rerecorded again on the earth
songs, the very best of john denver (single cd), the john denver
Ction - sunshine on my shoulder and a portrait albums, and again
on the love again and a celebration of life albums. live
versions also appear on the live in london, the wildlife concert
and the
Of john denver live albums.
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 a 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 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 always makes me high
Sunshine almost all the time makes me high
Sunshine almost always
38.Take Me Home, Country Roads
Words：bill danoff, taffy nivert and john denver
Music：bill danoff, taffy nivert and john denver
This song appears on twenty-one albums, and was first released
on the poems, prayers and promises album. this version has also
been released on the very best of john denver (double cd), this
is
Denver, the country roads collection and the rocky mountain
collection albums. it has been rerecorded on the greatest hits
vol 1, take me home country roads ＆ other hits, changes,
favourites
Ce of america, john denver (italian) and country classics
albums. it has been rerecorded again on the a portrait and the
john denver collection - take me home, country roads albums, and
again on
Love again and a celebration of life albums. live versions also
appear on the an evening with john denver, live in london, live
at the sydney opera house, the wildlife concert and the best of
jo
Nver live albums.
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
Country roads, take me home
To the place 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
Teardrops in my eye
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
The radio reminds me of my home far away
And drivin' down the road i get a feelin'
That i should have been home yesterday, yesterday
Country roads, take me home
To the place i belong
West virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads
Country roads, take me home
To the place i belong
West virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads
Take me home, now country roads
Take me home, now country roads
39.Tenderly Calling
Words：jan garrett
Music：jan garrett
This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the
different directions album, and has also been released on the
john denver collection - sunshine on my shoulder album.
Home, come on home
Ye who are weary come home
Softly and tenderly calling
Home, come on home
Sometimes when i'm feeling lonesome
And no one on earth seems to care
I'm all by myself in the darkness
With no one and nothing to share
Just when it feels like it's hopeless
And i'll never make it alone
I hear the voices of angels
Tenderly calling me home
Home, come on home
Ye who are weary come home
Softly and tenderly calling
Home, come on home
I try to keep it together
I never let on that i'm scared
Still sometimes i fall to pieces
Scattered and lost everywhere
Just when it feels like there's no one
To mend all my broken down dreams
I hear a voice deep inside me
Tenderly calling to me
Home, come on home
Ye who are weary come home
Softly and tenderly calling
Home, come on home
So don't be afraid of the darkness
And don't run away from the storm
Stand up and face your reflection
The feelings you try to ignore
After the tempest is over
You've let yourself come on through
You'll hear a voice in the silence
Tenderly calling to you
Home, come on home
Ye who are weary come home
Softly and tenderly calling
Home, come on home
40.Thanks To You
Words：john l. christopher, john denver, conrad
Music：john l. christopher, john denver, conrad
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
flower that shattered the stone album, and has also been
released on the stonehaven sunrise and the john denver
collection - anni
Song albums.
Not so long ago, i packed my bags a hundred times
Didn't seem to know how to stop or to unwind
Goin' nowhere, a man without a dream
Guess my lucky star fell the day you came along
To my lonely heart you are like a special song
Singing sweetly your tender melody
Thanks to you
The child in me lives again
Thanks to you
I have found a peace within
I know where i'm goin' and what i want to do
Thanks to you
Lying in you arms i found my greatest pleasure
I look into your eyes and dream about forever
Wakin' up with you and lookin' forward to the day
What we plan to do, knowin' anything at all's okay
A life has a meaning
Love has got a name
Thanks to you
The child in me lives again
Thanks to you
I have found a peace within
I know where i'm goin' and what i want to do
Thanks to you
Thanks to you
The child in me lives again
Thanks to you
I have found a peace within
I know where i'm goin' and what i want to do
Thanks to you
reeder and
Sam hogin
41.The Chosen Ones
Words：nick smith
music：joe camilleri
This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the
different directions album, and has also been released on the
john denver collection - rocky mountain high album.
I heard how all the lights went out in memphis
On the death night anniversary of the king
The pretenders talking dirty in the palace
But it doesn't have that old familiar ring
I see there's been some changes in the valley
All the renegades have finally settled down
Now they worship in the temples of their rivals
And desecrate the holy heart of town
Can't you hear all those sweet voices singing
Takin' care of the chosen ones
Can't you hear all those mission bells ringin'
Say a prayer for the chosen ones
I read they're pourin' oil on troubled waters
Yet they cast a giant shadow on the land
Let's spend another night across the border
And bury all our secrets in the sand
Now they claim there is a message in the bible
They swear there is no master and his slave
But the future's lookin' dim for the lonesome cowboy
When the hand that rocks that cradle digs the grave
42.The Eagle And The Hawk
Words：john denver and mike taylor
Music：john denver and mike taylor
This song appears on twelve albums, and was first released on
the aerie album, and has also been released on the greatest hits
vol 1, earth songs, the very best of john denver (single cd),
voice
Merica and the rocky mountain collection albums. live versions
also appear on the an evening with john denver, live in london,
thank god i'm a country boy, greatest hits, country classics and
l
T the sydney opera house albums.
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 of those who see me, 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 and not what we are
43.The Flower That Shattered The Stone
Words：joe henry and john jarvis
Music：joe henry and john jarvis
This song appears on five albums - plus twice with a reprise and
a duet on the album of the same title. it was first released on
the flower that shattered the stone album. it has been released
o
Stonehaven sunrise, a portrait and the john denver collection -
calypso albums.
The earth is our mother just turning around
With her trees in the forest and roots underground
Our father above us who's sigh is the wind
Paint us a rainbow without any end
As the river runs freely the mountain does rise
Let me touch with my fingers and see with my eyes
In the hearts of the children of pure love still roams
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
Then i hear someone whisper it's something pass by
As the river runs freely the mountain does rise
Let me touch with my fingers and see with my eyes
In the hearts of the children of pure love still roams
Like a bright star in heaven that lights our way home
Like the flower that shattered the stone
Like a bright star in heaven that lights our way home
Like the flower that shattered the stone
44.The Foxfire Suite
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
different directions album, and has also been released on the
gift you are and the john denver collection - rocky mountain
high a
.
Spring is alive
Spring is alive
In carolina
Deep in the forest
Where the foxfire glows
High on a mountain
Down in a holler
Thunder and lightning
So it goes
Over a hundred years ago
We came to carolina
Far across the water
It's a long hard road
With little more than courage
We came seeking independence
A little less than nothin'
Is a heavy load
From the heather of the highlands
We have found the smokie mountains
Hard work and simple ways
And life is good
Life is good
Spring is alive
In carolina
Deep in the forest
Where the foxfire glows
High on a mountain
Down in a holler
Thunder and lightning
So it goes
You are
You are every morning sunrise
You are every rain
You are every peal of laughter
You are every cry of pain
You are all the summer flowers
You are all the falling leaves
You are everyone rejoicing
You are everyone who greaves
You are all my unknown secrets
You are all my hidden fears
You are known in lover's kisses
You are seen in childhood tears
You are where the stars are shining
You are where the rainbow ends
You are why the war is over
You are how the peace begins
Whisper the wind
Whisper the wind over the water
Whisper the wind all through the night
Whisper the wind along the canyon
Whisper the wind into the night
Whisper the wind brothers and sisters
Whisper the wind all the same
Whisper the wind love one another
Whisper the wind your precious name
Spring is alive (reprise)
Spring is alive
In carolina
Deep in the forest
Where the foxfire glows
High on a mountain
Down in a holler
Thunder and lightning
So it goes
Over a hundred years ago
We came to carolina
Far across the water
It's a long hard road
With little more than courage
We came seeking independence
A little less than nothin'
Is a heavy load
From the heather of the highlands
We have found the smokie mountains
Hard work and simple ways
And life is good
Life is good
Spring is alive
In carolina
Deep in the forest
Where the foxfire glows
High on a mountain
Down in a holler
Thunder and lightning
So it goes
45.The Gift You Are
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the
flower that shattered the stone album, and has also been
released on the stonehaven sunrise, the gift you are and the
john denver
Ction - annie's song albums.
Imagine a month of sundays
Each one a cloudy day
Imagine the moment the sun came shining through
Imagine that ray of sunshine as you
Remember your darkest hour
With dawn still far away
Remember the way that you longed for morning's light
And think of yourself as a candle in the night
Make believe this is the first day
Everything all brand new
Make believe that the sun is your own lucky star
And then understand the kind of gift you are
The gift you are
Like the very first breath of spring
The gift you are
All the joy that love can bring
The gift you are
All of our dreams come true
The gift you are
The gift of you
You are the promise of all the ages
You are the prodigal son
You are the vision of prophets and sages
You are the only one
Dream of a bright tomorrow
Know that your dream will come true
Carry your dream in a sparkling crystal jar
Then you will know the kind of gift you are
The gift you are
Like the very first breath of spring
The gift you are
All the joy that love can bring
The gift you are
All of our dreams come true
The gift you are
The gift of you
The gift you are
Like the very first breath of springtime
The gift you are
All the joy that love can bring
The gift you are
All of our dreams come true - yes they do
The gift you are
The gift of you
The gift you are
The gift of you
46.The Marvelous Toy
When i was just a wee little lad, full of health and joy
My father homeward came one night and gave to me a toy.
A wonder to behold it was with many colors bright
And the moment i laid eyes on it, it became my heart's delight.
It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped whirrrrr when
it stood
Still
I never knew just what it was and i guess i never will.
The first time that i picked it up i had a big surprise.
For right on it's bottom were two big buttons that looked like
big green eyes.
I first pushed one and then the other, then i twisted it's lid.
And when i set it down again, this is what it did.
It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped whirrrrr when
it stood still
I never knew just what it was and i guess i never will.
It first marched left and then marched right, then marched under
a chair
And when i looked where it had gone it wasn't even there.
I started to cry but my daddy laughed 'cause he knew that i
would find.
When i turned around my marvelous toy would be chugging from
behind.
It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped and whirrrrr
when it stood
Still
I never knew just what it was and i guess i never will.
The years have gone by too quickly it seems, i have my own
little boy.
And yesterday i gave to him my marvelous little toy
His eyes nearly popped right out of his head and he gave a
squeal of glee...
Neither one of us knows just what it is but he loves it just
like me.
It still goes zip when it moves and bop when it stops, whirrrrr
when it
Stands still
I never knew just what it was and i guess i never will.
47.To The Wild Country
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on five albums, and was first released on the
i want to live album, and has also been recorded on the earth
songs, country classics, the very best of john denver (single
cd) an
John denver collection - rocky mountain high albums.
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 stonewall
My finger in the dam
Losin' strength and goin' down again
And i take a look around me
My eyes can't find the sun
There's nothing wild as far as i can see
Then my heart turns to alaska
And freedom on the run
I can hear her spirit callin' me
To the mountains, i can rest there
To the rivers, i will be strong
To the forest, i'll find peace there
To the wild country, where i belong
Oh, i know some times i worry
On worldly ways and means
And i can see the future killing me
On a misbegotten highway
Of prophecies and dreams
A road to nowhere and eternity
And i know it's just changes
Yes, 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 forest, i'll find peace there
To the wild country, where i belong
To the wild country, where i belong
48.Two Different Directions
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
different directions album, and has also been released on the a
portrait and the john denver collection - annie's song albums.
They say they love each other
I've no doubt they do
They say they'll always be together
That may not be true
They come from different places
Different points of view
They find themselves in different spaces
Everything is all brand new
Two different directions
Too many different ways
One always on the road somewhere
The other one always stays
Too often unhappy
Too often on your own
When you are moving in different directions
True love is all alone
Old stories start to surface
Patterns from long ago
And loving quickly turns to anger
For reasons they don't even know
The strongest heart can be broken
With one insensitive word
The deepest feelings remain unspoken
No one is seen and nothing heard
Two different directions
Too many different ways
One always wants to work things out
The other one wants to play
To ready for changes
To much that just can't wait
When you are moving in different directions
True love can turn to hate
If opposites attract each other
What's the reason for
One being like an open window
One just like a closing door
Two different directions
Two many different ways
One likes to see the morning sunrise
The other one sleeps in late
To many tomorrows
To many times too late
When you are moving in different directions
True love may have to wait
If you are committed to different directions
True love will have to wait
49.Whispering Jesse
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on six albums, and was first released on the
higher ground album, and has also been released on the a
portrait and the john denver collection - take me home, country
roads albu
T was rerecorded on the love again and a celebration of life
albums. a live version also appears on the wildlife concert
album.
I often have wandered in deep contemplation
It seems that the mind runs wild when you're all alone
The way that it could be
The way that it should be
Thing's i'd do differently if i could do them again
I've always loved spring time, the passing of winter
The green of the new leaves and life goin' on
The promise of morning
The long days of summer
Warm nights of loving her beneath the bright stars
I'm just an old cowboy from high colorado
Too old to ride anymore, too blind to see
I sleep in the city now
Away from the mountains
Away from the cabin we always called home
I dream i left there
On an old palomino
Whispering jesse rode right by my side
I long to hold her
To hear her soft breathing
The touch of her cool hands on my fevered brow
Whispering jesse still rides in the mountains
Still sings in the canyons
Still lives in my heart
50.Windsong
Words：john denver and joe henry
Music：john denver and joe henry
This song appears on seven albums, and was first
Released on the windsong
Album. it has also been released on the rocky
Mountain collection and country
Classics albums. it has been rerecorded on the
Earth songs and the very best
Of john denver (single cd) albums, and rerecorded
Again on the love again
And a celebration of life albums.
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 warning
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
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