Spirit

John Denver Spirit Lyrics
1.Come and Let Me Look In Your Eyes

Lyrics:John Denver/Joe Henry
Music:John Denver

I guess growing isn't hard to do
Just stand against the wall
Once I was just two feet high
Today I'm six feet tall

But knowing who to listen to
Is something else again
Words just whistle 'round my head
Like seasons in the wind

All across the water the clouds are sailing
They won't let me look at the sky
All I want to do is try and find myself
Come and let me look in your eyes

In searching for the way to go
I've followed all the rules
The way they say to choose between
The wise men and the fools

I listen to the words they say
I read what I should read
I do whatever's right to do
Try to be what I should be

Someone let me in I think the sky is falling
Seems I've gotten lost on my way
All I want to do is try and find myself
Come and let me look in your eyes

Ah, but wisdom isn't underground
Nor on a mountainside
And where am I to take myself
There's no place here to hide

All across the universe the stars are fading
Seems we've gotten lost on our way
All I want to do is try and find myself
Come and let me look in your eyes


2.Eli's Song

Lyrics:Jack Williams
Music:Jack Williams

Born in the month of June
No silver spoon to help you out
Your Mother had you naturally
Naturally's the way you came out

You know your own mine
And you show it to me
Give me the high sign
When you want to be free
And open up my eyes
To the wonders that you see

See the airplane fly
See the trees rush by
Be brave and strong when you hurt yourself
And don't you have a worry in the world

For the love that's been given you
Is the one thing time can't erase
And every day it's growin'
Like the knowin' smile upon your face

You're starting out strong
You get a kick out of life
You like to sing songs
And be in the spotlight
And when everybody's watchin' you
You shine so bright

See the airplane fly
See the trees rush by
Be brave and strong when you hurt yourself
And don't you have a worry in the world

You know your own mind
And you show it to me
Give me the high sign
When you want to be free
And open up my eyes
To the wonders that you see

See the airplane fly
See the trees rush by
Be brave and strong when you hurt yourself
And don't you have a worry in the world


3.Wrangle Mountain Song

Lyrics:John Denver
Music:John Denver

Sunday and it's raining in Alaska
Seven days I haven't seen the sun
Flying bush, flying low along the shoreline
Doin' everything I can to make it home

I can't wait to see the Wrangell Mountains
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 Wrangell Mountains
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

McCarthy 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 livin' there

I can't wait to see the Wrangell Mountains
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


4.Hitchhiker


5.In The Grand Way

Lyrics:John Martin Sommers
Music:John Martin Sommers

In the grand way she loves me
The way she holds me close to rest with me
And to know she is my life to me
My empty days are done
My runnin' days are run
And for the first time I love the morning

Burning sundowns, colored autumn trees
I can still hear the lonely sound
The engines of a midnight freight train northward bound
And to feel my life slowly losing ground
I never quite understood
Though I see it for the good
And it seems like I've just been dreaming


6.Polka Dots and Moonbeams

Lyrics:Johnny Burke
Music:Jimmy Van Heusen

A country dance was being held in a garden
I felt a bump and heard an 'Oh, beg you pardon'
Suddenly I saw polka dots and moonbeams
All around a pug-nosed dream

The music started and was I the perplexed one
I held my breath and said 'May I have the next one?'
In my frightened arms, polka dots and moonbeams
Sparkled on a pug-nosed dream

There were questions in the eyes of other dancers
As we floated over the floor
There were questions but my heart knew all the answers
And perhaps a few things more

Now in a cottage made of lilacs and laughter
I know the meaning of the words 'ever after'
And I'll always see polka dots and moonbeams
When I kiss my pug-nosed dream


7.It Makes Me Giggle

Lyrics:John Denver
Music:John Denver

It makes me giggle
It makes me giggle
Just havin' my baby around me
It makes me giggle
Sometimes I wiggle
'Cause I'm so glad she found me

Sometimes I wake up feelin' crabby
She gives me love as sweet as candy
It makes me giggle
It makes me giggle
Everytime I see my little boy child
It makes me giggle
Sometimes I wiggle
Sometimes I even jump for joy, child

He knows just how to make me happy
He gives me loves and calls me Daddy
If I ever felt better I can't seem to recall
It just blows me away to be part of it all

It makes me giggle
It makes me giggle
Just singin' these love songs for you
It makes me giggle
Sometimes I wiggle
There ain't nothin' that I'd rather do

I like to see you with a smile on your face
I'd like to give one to the whole human race
If I ever felt better I can't seem to recall
It just blows me away to be part of it all


8.Baby, You Look Good To Me Tonight

Lyrics:Bill Danoff
Music:Bill Danoff

I've been out on this highway now five days in a row
My words all run together and my feet are movin' slow
I've got to stop and eat while it's still light
There's a local angel sittin' on my right
Do you believe in love at first sight?
Baby, you look good to me tonight

Well I'm ordinarily very shy
And I'd be polite if I had the time
Baby, you look good to me tonight
Tomorrow I'll be good and gone
Please don't make me wait that long
Baby, you look good to me tonight

'I get off at eleven,' she said and walked away
She poured a cup of coffee and she brought it on a tray
She said, 'It would be nice if you could stay,
You're the best idea I've had all day,
Usually I put up a fight
But baby, you look good to me tonight'

Well I'm ordinarily very shy
But I grinned at her as I ate my pie
Said, baby, you look good to me tonight
I thought I must be in a dream
When she asked me if I wanted cream
Baby, you look good to me tonight

All in all you know it's not a bad life on the road
If you've got wheels to roll and lucky stars above
Your destiny's your own, you go as far as you can go
And if there's time to sleep
There's time to make love

I came I saw I conquered and I rode off in the sun
But I know the look she left me with keeps telling me she won
Her face is the only thing I see
Whispering these words of prophecy:
'Well, I may come easy but I don't come free
You're never gonna see the last of me'

Baby, you look good to me
I was born to love you now can't you see
Baby, you look good to me tonight
Well, I'm ordinarily very shy
But I take the time to satisfy
Baby, you look good to me tonight
Baby, you look good to me tonight


9.Like A Sad Song

Lyrics:John Denver
Music:John Denver

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

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

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

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

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

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


10.San Antonio Rose

Lyrics:Bob Wills
Music:Bob Wills

Deep within my heart lies a melody
A song of old San Antone
Where in dreams I live with a memory
Beneath the stars all alone

It was there I found beside the Alamo
Enchantment strange as the blue up above
A moonlit pass that only she would know
Still hears my broken song of love

Moon in all your splendor
Hear only my heart
Call back my Rose, Rose of San Antone
Lips so sweet and tender
Like petals falling apart
Speak once again of my love, my own
Broken song, empty words I know
Still live in my heart all alone
For the moonlit pass by the Alamo
And Rose, my Rose of San Antone


11.Pegasus

Lyrics:Joe Henry
Music:John Denver

CHORUS
Peaceful valleys, animals and children asking me
Tell the story that you told, of sailors drinking tea
Tell the one about the man who saddled up the wind
Pegasus and flying fish and woodmen made of tin.

A kid knows what he wants to be
Before he's nine or ten
Cowboys, clowns and men of war
And someone else's friend
But nine grows into big boy's pants
And then to scars and pain
Twenty's fast and hard as nails
But doesn't come again.

There's days to fall and days to rise
And days for making haste
Days for seeking out yourself
But no days you can waste
Night times filled with love so good
It aches to rest it down
Endless hallways dark with sleep
And rivers dark with sound

CHORUS
Peaceful valleys, animals and children asking me
Tell the story that you told, of sailors drinking tea
Tell the one about the man who saddled up the wind
Pegasus and flying fish and woodmen made of tin.

Children climbing on my arms
And pigeons on my head
Get thee up my little man
And dream a dream instead
Dream a dream of rocking chairs
And flying through the night
Then dream until the morning's gone
And turned the dark to light

Then come and get your daddy
If he hasn't blown away
Rock him in your children's hands
And help him find his way
Take him to your hiding place
And let him come inside
He'll never tell your secret
Cross my heart and hope to die.

CHORUS
Peaceful valleys, animals and children asking me
Tell the story that you told, of sailors drinking tea
Tell the one about the man who saddled up the wind
Pegasus and flying fish and woodmen made of tin.


12.The Wings That Fly Us Home

Lyrics:Joe Henry
Music:John Denver

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
(You are never 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