1.African Sunrise
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song was first released on the dreamland express album. it
is the only album it has been released on.
African sunrise, shine on a brand new day
African sunrise, show us a brand new way
Give us a brand new morning
Show us forever beginning to stand on our own
African sunrise, smile on my african home
In this hour of quiet contemplation
The stillness of the dawning calms my mind
I face the day with heartfelt exaltation
The light is both a promise and a sign
In the darkness we have lost the son of our sister
Though the beauty of his spirit lingers still
This was a child of love, a child of laughter
Who cannot understand the way i feel
Is it not the sun that gives the seasons
Is it not the sun that brings the rain
Our throats are choled with dust, but we're still singing
Our song will not be silenced by the rain
All around the village i could hear the roosters crowing
There was a time it was like music to my ears
Now all i can hear is the sound of hungry babies crying
I pray for rain to wash away their tears
African sunrise, light of a brand new day
African sunrise, light of a brand new way
With one who will be our brother
And one who will be our partner and teach us to know
African sunrise, smile on my african home
African sunrise.....
African sunrise.....
2.All My Memories
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the
aerie album, and has also been released on the country roads
collection album.
All of my memories lay in the life of the highway
All of my nights in old motels a sleepin' alone
All of my days on the road with no one beside me
All of my dreams of a place that i can call home
Somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singin' river
Somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky
Somewhere to build me a faith, a farm and a family
Somewhere to grow older, and somewhere a reason to try
＆cause i'm tired of big cities and so tired of big city ways
Scrathin' off sunset, and walkin' around in the maze
Some sweet taxi dancer tryin' to save me from bein' alone
Ah it's much worse than lonely there is no place that i really
belong
I want to be home
I'm leavin' this city life in my mind i'm flyin' away
I'm leavin' tomorrow and all of the old yesterdays
I'm leavin' the trash cans the bright lights of telephone lines
I'm leavin' my sorrows of all of my memories behind
I'll see what i find
Somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singin' river
Somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky
Somewhere to build me a faith, a farm, a family
Somewhere to grow older, and somewhere a reason to try
Somewhere to grow older, somewhere to laydown and die
3.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
4.A Wild Heart Looking For Home
Words：john denver and joe henry
Music：john denver and joe henry
This song was first released on the dreamland express album. it
is the only album it has been released on.
Life in the city gets all closed in
When you stand in a crowd all alone
Wishing that someone would call out your number
Hoping that someone might phone
Nights in the city can drive you crazy
There's so very much going on
Try to get quiet, you'll miss out on something
Like someone who's looking for
Someone who's looking...
There, i almost got caught again
Lost in the night all alone
With nowhere to hide, crying inside
A wild heart looking for home
Sleeping without you is always cold
The nights are so dark and so long
Dreaming of touching your face in the moonlight
Filling the silence with song
Living without you the days are endless
The clock winding steadily down
Imagining footsteps, your hand at the gatepost
The wind shuts the open door
The wind shuts the open...
There, i almost got caught again
Lost in the night all alone
With nowhere to hide, crying inside
A wild heart looking for home
The songbird, she trembles all day long
She sings as if her poor heart must break
Watching the freedom that flies past her window
Dreaming won't fit in a cage
Fly away songbird, the wind she loves you
Your prison is forsaken at last
Follow your dreaming, you're bound up to heaven
You're reaching for something more
Reaching for something...
There, i almost got caught again
Lost in the night all alone
With nowhere to hide, crying inside
A wild heart looking for home
There, i thought of your face again
A vision to have and to hold
My spirit still sings, i'm flying again
A wild heart looking for home
A wild heart looking for home
5.Back Home Again
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on fifteen albums, and was first released on
the back home again album, and has also been released on the
favourites, the greatest hits vol 2, voice of america, john
denver (it
), the very best of john denver (double cd), the rocky mountain
collection, the country roads collection and country classics
albums. live versions appear on the live in london, the live at
the
Y opera house, the wildlife concert and the best of john denver
live albums. an updated studio version also appears on the love
again and a celebration of life albums.
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
Yes 'n' hey, it's good to be back home again
There's all the news to tell him, how'd you spend your time
What's the latest thing the neighbors say
And your mother called last friday, sunshine§ made her cry
You felt the baby move just yesterday
Hey it's good to be back home again - yes it is
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long-lost friend
Yes 'n' hey, it's good to be back home again
Oh the time that i can lay this tired old body down
Feel your fingers feather soft upon me
The kisses that i live for, the love that lights my way
The happiness that 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' supper on the stove
The light in your eyes that makes me warm
Hey it's good to be back home again
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long-lost friend
Yes 'n' hey, it's good to be back home again
Hey it's good to be back home again - you know it is
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long-lost friend
Hey, it's good to be back home again
I said hey it's good to be back home again
6.Druthers
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the i
want to live album, and has also been released on the changes
album.
If i had my druthers i'd go fishin'
Find myself a lake and a lazy day
If i had my druthers i'd quit wishin'
Get off the old caboose get on my way
Give me, whole lots of laughter
Great big barrels of fun
Nighttime full of romance
Daytime full of fun
If i had my druthers i'd go flyin' -ooh
Lookin' for the things i'd like to see - yeh
If i had my druthers i'd be tryin' tryin'
The only way to be what i can't be
Give me somebody to love me
Make me feel like the only one
Something that's worth doing more
I feel good when it's worked yeh yeh
If i had my druthers i'd go sailing - yes i would
Catch me campin' ou on the open sea
If i had my druthers i'd be singin'
Just how good this good life feels to me - feels so good
It just needs someone to talk to
Something you can't share
You don't need no reason for livin' long
It's already there - yes it is - ooh ooh
It makes me giggle
I can't sit down
7.Falling Out Of Love
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
it's about time album, and has also been released on the country
roads collection. a live version also appears on the wildlife c
T album.
This is what it's like falling out of love
This is the way you lose your very best friend
This is how it feels when it's all over
This is just the way true love ends
First of all there's no one to talk to
When there is they just don't seem to hear
Words don't seem to matter much anyway
They can't describe the pain
They can't explain the fear
Then the nights grow cold and hard to live through
Still you hate to see the morning come
Somehow tomorrow doesn't matter much anymore
The future holds no promise
Your life's already done
This is what it's like falling out of love
This is the way you lose your very best friend
This is how it feels when it's all over
This is just the way true love ends
The you find your heart no longer flutters
You no longer look through a lover's eyes
What's to see when the world falls down around you
You simply can't believe it
But it comes as no surprise
This is what it's like falling out of love
This is the way you lose your very best friend
This is how it feels when it's all over
This is just the way true love ends
What's the sense of failure
It's such an incredible loss
It's all the things you'll never do
And all the dreams that will never come true
This is what it's like falling out of love
This is the way you lose your very best friend
This is how it feels when it's all over
This is just the way true love ends
Oh this is just the way a true love ends
I don't believe a true love ever ends
8.Farewell Andromeda(Welcome To My Morning)
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on nine albums, and was first released on the
farewell andromeda, this is john denver, john denver (italian),
country classics, the country roads collection and the rocky
mount
Ollection albums, and has also been rerecorded on greatest hits
vol 2 and voice of america albums. live versions appear on the
various versions of the an evening with john denver albums.
Welcome to my morning
Welcome to my day
I'm the one responsible
I made it just this way
To make myself some pictures
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 the spaces
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
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
Inside this lovely day
Welcome to my morning
Welcome to my day
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
9.Heart To Heart
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the
seasons of the heart album. it has also been released on the
very best of john denver (double cd), the country roads
collection an
Country classics albums.
I haven't seen all there is to see
But i've seen quite a bit
Some things i'll always remember
Some things i wish that i could forget
I haven't quite been around the world
But i've been around the block
I know that distances are meaningless
Like the hands that move around a clock
And i know that love is everywhere
Always safe, always true
And exactly where it comes from
Is where it's going to
Your heart to mine
My heart to yours
Talk about opening windows
Talk about opening doors
My heart to yours
Your heart to mine
Love is a light that shines
From heart to heart
Here i am sitting in old hong kong
The harbor and the lights
They're like diamonds in the heavens
Enough to brighten the darkest of nights
There's another side to sorrow
As there is to everything
Like the other side of lonely
Is falling in love again
And then you know that there's an answer
To the suffering we see
And though it isn't easy
It's still as simple as you and me
And you'll know that love is everywhere
Always safe, always true
And exactly where it comes from
Is where it's going to
Your heart to mine
My heart to yours
Talk about opening windows
Talk about opening doors
My heart to yours
Your heart to mine
Love is a light that shines
From heart to heart
Your heart to mine
My heart to yours
Talk about opening windows
Talk about opening doors
My heart to yours
Your heart to mine
Love is a light that shines
From heart to heart
10.In My Heart
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the
autograph album, and has also been released on the country roads
collection album.
I don't know why
We still live together
We're so far apart
So much of the time
I don't know why
This beautiful weather
Is breaking my spirit
And tearing my mind all apart
Are you so lonely
Are you so sad
Have you lost your purpose
The faith that you had
If life is a question
I don't understand
If time is the reason
Then nobody can
In my heart it is just an illusion
It's not even real
Much more than you think
It's much more than you feel
My ears are still ringing
There's nothing to say
Why look to the ocean
To wash me away
There goes my best friend
There goes my last dime
If love is the answer
I'm wasting my time
In my heart it is just an illusion
It's not even real
Much more than you think
It's much more than you feel
Do you feel
Is this real
How i feel
In my heart
11.It's About Time
Words：john denver
music：john denver and glen d hardin
This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the
it's about time album, and has also been released on the country
classics album.
There's a full moon over india and gandhi lives again
Who's to say you have to lose for someone else to win
In the eyes of all the people the look is much the same
For the first is just the last one when you play a deadly game
It's about time we realize it we're all in this together
It's about time we find out it's all of us or none
It's about time we recognize it these changes in the weather
It's about time, it's about changes and it's about time
There's a light in the vatican window for all the world to see
And a voice cries in the wilderness and sometimes he speaks for
me
I suppose i love him most of all when he kneels to kiss the land
With his lips upon our mother's breast he makes his strongest
stand
It's about time we start to see it the earth is our only home
It's about time we start to face it we can't make it here all
alone
It's about time we start to listen to the voices in the wind
It's about time, it's about changes and it's about time
There's a man who is my brother, i just don't know his name
But i know his home and family because i know we feel the same
And it hurts me when he's hungry and when his children cry
I too am a father and that little one is mine
It's about time we begin to turn the world around
It's about time we start to make it the dream we've always known
It's about time we start to live the family of man
It's about time, it's about changes and it's about time
It's about peace and it's about plenty and it's about time
It's about you and me together and it's about time
12.It's A Possibility
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song was first released on the one world album. it is the
only album it has been released on.
For all the times that you've wondered why
The world turned out this way
And all of the times that you've asked yourself
About the games that people play
About the politics of hunger
And the politics of need
How the politics of power
Seem to be the politics of greed
For all of the times that you've struggled in an effort
To work your way back upstream
And all of the times you've held on to it
When most of us had lost the dream
And for all of the ones who have walked with you
By your side or way back home
Maybe much more than any of us
You know that no one is really alone
Because the heart is still a hunter
It's like a beacon in the night
And though the heart is just a lover
It's never afraid to fight
We are fighting for more than survival
We are working for more than peace
We are giving ourselves to each other
Making sure all injustice is will someday cease
You can take a look around you
And you can see how far we've come
All the separate parts
All the hundreds of hearts
That are beating together as one
It's a possibility
For many tomorrows
It's a possibility
Of a world to be made for everyone
It's a possibility
No more suffering and sorrow
It's a possibility
It's in everyone
It's a possibility
For many tomorrows
It's a possibility
Of a world to be made for everyone
It's a possibility
No more suffering and no more sorrow
It's a possibility
It's in everyone
13.It Amazes Me
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the
i want to live album. it has been released on the rocky mountain
collection, the country roads collection and the country
classics
Ms.
You came looking for the answers
To some questions on his mind
Seeking truth and understanding
In the hope that he would find
A way to better serve his brothers
And his sisters in the sun
Sharing all that he has given
Giving all to everyone
Come and listen to the story
Of a journey once begun
Of a people and their plenty
And their season in the sun
And how they gave themselves to symbols
And things that they could hold
Living lives in desperation
In the fear of letting go
It amazes me
And i know the wind will surely one day
Blow it all away
It amazes me
And i'm so very grateful that you made the world this way
For our plans have come together now
Where do we go from here
Will our differences divide us
Must we always live in fear
For there are things that we must move through
Some things to cast aside
But our father watches over us
Our mother will provide
It amazes me
And i know the wind will someday surely
Blow it all away
It amazes me
And i'm so very grateful that you made the world this way
It amazes me
It amazes me
It amazes me
14.I'm Sorry
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on eleven albums, and was first released on
the windsong album, and has also been released on the greatest
hits vol 2, favourites, the very best of john denver (double
cd), cou
Classics, reflections, the country roads collection and the
rocky mountain collection albums. a new studio version has been
released on the love again and a celebration of life albums. a
live ve
Also appears on the best of john denver live album.
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 ask all about you
I say you're doing fine
And i expect to hear from you almost anytime
But they all know i'm crying
I can't sleep at night
They all know i'm dying down deep inside
I'm sorry fro 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
15.Let Us Begin(What Are We Making Weapons For)
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song was first released on the one world album. it is the
only album it appears on.
I am the son of a grassland farmer
Western oklahoma nineteen forty three
I always felt grateful to live in the land of the free
I gave up my father to south korea
The mind of my brother to vietnam
Now there's a banker who says i must give up my land
There are four generations of blood in this topsoil
Four generations of love on this farm
Before i give up i would gladly give up my right arm
What are we making weapons for
Why keep on feeding the war machine
We take it right out of the mouths of our babies
Take it away from the hands of the poor
Tell me, what are we making weapons for
I had a son and my son was a soldier
He was so like my father, he was so much like me
To be a good comrade was the best that he dreamed he could be
He gave up his future to revolution
His life to a battle that just can't be won
For this is not living, to live at the point of a gun
I remember the nine hundred days of leningrad
The sound of the dying, the cut of the cold
I remember the moments i prayed i would never grow old
What are we making weapons for
Why keep on feeding the war machine
We take it right out of the mouths of our babies
Take it away from the hands of the poor
Tell me, what are we making weapons for
For the first time in my life i feel like a prisoner
A slave to the ways of the powers that be
And i fear for my children, as i fear for the for the future i
see
Tell me how can it be we're still fighting each other
What does it take for a people to learn
If our song is not sung as a chorus, we surely will burn
What are we making weapons for
Why keep on feeding the war machine
We take it right out of the mouths of our babies
Take it away from the hands of the poor
Tell me, what are we making weapons for
Have we forgotten
All the lives that were given
All the vows that were taken
Saying never again
Now for the first time
This could be the last time
If peace is our vision
Let us begin
Have we forgotten
All the lives that were given
All the vows that were taken
Saying never again, never again
Now for the first time
This could be the last time
If peace is our vision
Let us begin, let us begin
16.Looking For Space
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on seven albums, and was first released on the
windsong album, and has also been released on the greatest hits
vol 2, the very best of john denver (double cd), country
classics
Country roads collection and the rocky mountain collection
albums. a live version appears on the live at the sydney opera
house album.
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
Sometimes 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 centre
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
Sometimes 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 sweet dream
Sometimes i'm almost there
Sometimes i fly like an eagle and
Sometimes i'm deep in despair
Sometimes i fly like an eagle
Like an eagle, ooh
17.Love Is The Master
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the
one world album, and has also been released on the country roads
collection album.
Almost exactly a year ago
I came here for the very first time
Looking up at the spanish window
From a trail on the edge of the timberline
I've been off on a journey to find myself
Maybe find my way back home
Been many an hour all by myself
In the darkest of nights
I was never ever alone
Back in the san juan mountains again
On a ride with some good old boys
Telling stories around a campfire
The sound of laughter is the loudest noise
There's something in a night in the wilderness
It's a magical thing to me
Like the sky is just a little bit brighter
And your life is everything that you'd like it to be
There'll be snow on the passes tomorrow
You can feel it in the chill of the wind
Let the rain wash away all my sorrow
Today is the day that my life starts all over again
I guess that it's just about over now
Everything's about to change
Everything's a brand new number, darlin'
Everything's a brand new game
And it's funny i could even call you that
After all the pain we've been through
Ah, but time is the master of healing
Love is the master of everything that we do
There'll be snow on the passes tomorrow
You can feel it in the chill of the wind
Let the rain wash away all my sorrow
Today is the day that my life starts all over again
18.On The Wings Of A Dream
on the wings of a dream
Yesterday i had a dream about dying, about laying to
Rest and then flying,
How the moment at hand is the only
Thing we really own.
And i lay in my bed and i wondered, after all has been
Said and is done for,
Why is it thus we are here and so
Soon we are gone？
Is this life just a path to the place that
We all have come from？
Does the heart know the way and if not,
Can it ever be found
In a smile or a tear or a prayer
Or a sigh or a song？
And if so, then i sing for my father, and in truth, you
Must know i would rather
He were here by my side, we could fly on the
Wings of a dream.
To a place where the spirit would find us and the joy and
Surrender would bind us.
We are one anyway, anyway we are more
Than we seem.
There are those who will lead us, protect us
Each step of the way.
From beginning to end, for each moment,
Forever, each day.
Such a gift has been given, it can
Never be taken away.
Though the body in passing must leave us, there is one who
Remains to receive us.
There are those in this life who are friends
From our heavenly home.
So i listen to the voices inside me, for i know they
Are there just to guide me.
And my faith will proclaim it is so,
We are never alone.
From the life to the light, from the dark of
The night to the dawn,
He is so in my heart, he is here, he
Could never be gone.
Though the singer is silent, there still is the
Truth of the song, in the song.
Yesterday i had a dream about dying, about laying to
Rest and then flying,
How the moment at hand is the only
Thing we really own.
And i lay in my bed and i wondered, after all has been
Said and is done for,
Why is it thus we are here and so
Soon we are gone？
Oh, why is it thus we are here and so
Soon we are gone？
19.Relatively Speaking
Words：arthur hancock
Music：john denver
This song was first released on the seasons of the heart album.
it is the only album it has been released on.
Relatively speaking you make me who i am
I need you exactly like the ocean needs the land
I need you like the sunshine needs the shadows and the night
I need you the way love needs the savage hurtful fight
Relatively speaking i'm nothing without you
You are where i've been before you are where i'm going to
You are living out my dreams and you are all my fears
You evoke my laughter, you unleash every tear
The rich ones need the poor ones
The blind need those with sight
Sinners need the pure of heart
The black ones need the white
Relatively speaking the contrast make sit go
Every action taken is related in the flow
Stars and losers, kings and fools go dancing hand in hand
Relatively speaking you make me who i am
Relatively speaking the contrast make sit go
Every action taken is related in the flow
Stars and losers, kings and fools go dancing hand in hand
Relatively speaking you make me who i am
Who i am
20.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.
21.Season Suite：(Summer Fall Winter Spring)
Words：john denver, mike taylor and dick kniss
Music：john denver, mike taylor and dick kniss
This medley was first released on the rocky mountain high album.
it is the only album it has been released on. summer also
appears on the an evening with album.
Summer
Silently the morning mist is lying on the water
Captive moonlight waiting for the dawn
Softly like a baby's breath a breeze begins to whisper
The sun is coming, quick you must be gone
Smiling like a superstar the morning comes in singing
The promise of another sunny day
And all the flowers open up to gather in the sunshine
I do believe that summer's here to stay
And oh i love the life within me
I feel part of everything i see
And oh i love the life around me
A part of everything is here in me
Riding on the tapestry of all there is to see
So many ways and oh so many things
Rejoicing in the differences, ther's no one just like me
Yet as different as we are we're still the same
And oh i love the life within me
I feel part of everything i see
And oh i love the life around me
A part of everything is here in me
Fall
Reflections on the water like shadows in my mind
Speak to me of passing days and nights and passing time
The falling leaves are whispering winter's on it's way
I close my eyes remembering the warmth of yesterday
It seems a shame to see september swallowed by the winter
And more than that it's oh so sad to see the summer end
And though the changing colors are a lovely thing to see
If it were mine to make the change i'd let it be
But i don't remember hearing anybody asking me
Winter
It's cold and it's getting colder
It's gray and white and winter all around
And oh i must be getting older
All this snow is trying to get me down
There's a fire in the corner slowly dyin'
Sometimes i just don't feel like goin' on
And yet i know it's more than worth the waiting
For another chance to see the summer sun
Come on, shine on me!
Late winter, early spring
(when everybody goes to mexico)
(instrumental only)
Spring
Open up your eyes and see a brand new day
A clear blue sky and brightly shining sun
Open up your ears and hear the breezes say
Everything that's cold and gray has gone
Open up your hands and feel the rain come down
Taste the wind and smell the flowers' sweet perfume
Open up your mind and let the light come in
The earth has been reborn and life goes on
Do you care what's happening around you
Do your senses know the changes when they come
Can you see yourself reflected in the seasons
Can you understand the need to carry on
Riding on the tapestry of all there is to see
So many ways and oh so many things
Rejoicing in the differences, there's no one just like me
Yet as different as we are we're still the same
And oh i love the life within me
I feel a part of everything i see
And oh i love the life within me
A part of everything is here in me
A part of everything is here in me
A part of everything is here in me
22.Spirit
Words：john denver and joe henry
Music：john denver and joe henry
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
windsong album, and also on the the country roads collection. it
has also been released on the live in london album, as a live tr
His spirit joined and so was formed
Ten thousand years ago
Between the swan and hercules
Where even dark clouds glow
To live with grace, to ride the swell
To yet be strong of will
To love the wind, to learn it's song
And empty space to fill
Apollo taught me to rhyme
Orpheus taught me to play
Andromeda cast down her sign
And vega lights my way
Smoke rings in a galaxy
An endless flight through time
Lyra gave her harp to him
And left him free to climb
A winter's journey from the moon
To reach the summer sun
To rise again, to sing for you
A song that's yet unsung
Apollo taught me to rhyme
Orpheus taught me to play
Andromeda cast down her sign
And vega lights my way
His spirit joined and so was formed
Ten thousand years ago
Between the swan and hercules
Where even dark clouds glow
To live with grace, to ride the swell
To yet be strong of will
To love the wind, to learn her song
And empty space to fill
23.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
24.The Wings That Fly Us Home
Words：joe henry
music：john denver
This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the
spirit album. it also appears on the country classics album.
There are many ways of being in this circle we call life
A wise man seeks an answer, burns his candle through the night
Is a jewel just a pebble that found a way to shine
Is a hero's blood more righteous than a hobo's sip of wine
Did i speak to you one morning on some distant world away
Did you save me from an arrow, did you lay me in a grave
Were we brothers on a journey, did you teach me how to run
Were we broken by the waters, did i lie you in the sun
I dreamed you were a prophet in a meadow
I dreamed i was a mountain in the wind
I dreamed you knelt and touched me with a flower
I awoke with this： a flower in my hand
I know that love is seeing all the infinite in one
In the brotherhood of creatures; who the father, who the son
The vision of your goodness will sustain me through the cold
Take my hand now to remember when you find yourself alone
And the spirit fills the darkness of the heavens
It fills the endless yearning of the soul
It lives within a star too far to dream of
It lives within each part and is the whole
It's the fire and the wings that fly us home
Fly us home, fly us home
25.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
26.What One Man Can Do
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the
seasons of the heart album. it has also been released on the
very best of john denver (double cd) album.
I suppose that there are those
Who'll say he had it easy
Had it made in fact
Before he'd even begun
But they don't know the things i know
I was always with him
It may sound strange
We were more than friends
It's hard to tell the truth
When no one wants to listen
When no one really cares
What's going on
And it's hard to stand alone
When you need someone beside you
Your spirit and your faith
They must be strong
What one man can do is dream
What one man can do is love
What one man can do is change the world
And make it young again
Here you see what one man can do
As shaded as his eyes might be
That's how bright his mind is
That's how strong his love
For you and me
A friend to all the universe
Grandfather of the future
And everything i would like to be
What one man can do is dream
What one man can do is love
What one man can do is change the world
And make it young again
Here you see what one man can do
What one man can do is dream
What one man can do is love
What one man can do is change the world
And make it young again
Here you see what one man can do
27.World Game
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song was first released on the it's about time album. it is
the only album it has been released on.
I want to play in the world game
I want to make it better it's ever been before
I want to play in the world game
I want to make sure everybody knows the score
About using less, doing so much more
Everywhere i'm going i see trouble
Everywhere i'm looking i see all kinds of pain
Maybe we can get back on the double
Maybe we can turn around and make it all change
They say it's you against your neighbor
If it gets right down to it, you against your friend
I swear that this is not the answer
As far as i can see it is the way it all ends
I want to play in the world game
I want to make it better it's ever been before
I want to play in the world game
I want to make sure everybody knows the score
About using less and doing so much more
Hey man, you know me i don't worry
Hey man, you know me i am never afraid
Only one thing can make me sorry
Something to say and then it never gets said
What kind of man turns on his brother
What kind of man turns his back on a friend
Who has the right to say it's over
Who has the right to see how far it can bend
I want to play in the world game
I want to make it better it's ever been before
I want to play in the world game
I want to make sure everybody knows the score
About using less, doing so much more
Yaweh yaweh yaweh jah
Yaweh yaweh yaweh jah
Yaweh yaweh yaweh jah
Yaweh yaweh yaweh jah
You and me you and me
You and me you and me
I and i - i and i
I and i - i and i
I want to play in the world game
I want to make it better it's ever been before
I want to play in the world game
I want to make sure everybody knows the score
About using less, doing so much more
28.Wrangle Mountain Song
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
spirit album, and has also been released on the autograph and
voice of america albums. on the latter two albums, the song is
call
E wragell mountain song.
Sunday and it's rainin' in alaska
Seven days, i haven't seen the sun
Flyin' bush, flyin' low along the shore lune
Doin' everything i can to make it home
I can't wait to see the wrangle mountain
I can't wait to do what i will do
Honey, did i never say how time goes by so slowly
When i can't wait to get back home to you
Three years from the war and settled down now
I did my time and served my country well
In the freedom i defended i fly beneath the north star
And i just don't know a better way to feel
I can't wait to see the wrangle mountain
I can't wait to do what i will do
Honey, did i never say how time goes by so slowly
When i can't wait to get back home to you
It's a quiet life out here among the mountains
In a cabin that was built with these two hands
Mccarthey lies asleep beside the glacier
It's colder now, winter's in the air
If you think they're wild it's just because they can't be broken
It's a strong and gentle people living there
I can't wait to see the wrangle mountain
I can't wait to do what i will do
Honey, did i never say how time goes by so slowly
When i can't wait to get back home to you
29.You're So Beautiful
Words：john denver
Music：john denver
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the
john denver album, and has also been released on the reflections
and the country roads collection albums.
Born on a quiet morning
Just a dream in someone's eyes
A dream that's like a promise meant to be
Giving rise to speculation
On a place called paradise
If i've ever been there
It's when you were with me
You're so beautiful
I can't believe your eyes
Each time i see you again
You're so beautiful
That i'm in paradise
Each time i see you again
I remember some hidden valley
Where the skies are never still
And alpine meadows burn in the evening light
I remember the path to glory
And the way around the hill
I remember true love's eyes
Shining in the night
You're so beautiful
I can't believe your eyes
Each time i see you again
You're so beautiful
That i'm in paradise
Each time i see you again
And if paradise is everything you see
Then the place you must be coming from
Is ecstasy
You're so beautiful
I can't believe your eyes
Each time i see you again
You're so beautiful
That i'm in paradise
Each time i see you again
Just want to see you again
I want to be with you again
I just need to love you again
Just wanna touch you again
I just need to love you again
I want to be with you again
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