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As I lay bathing in the blazing mountain heat
No, there was nothing between the sun and me
Except the shadow of an incidental bird
Who kept on circling to ensure I wasn’t hurt
It hung in the sky, and kept me in its shade
So once I'd gone inside, on my skin I found its shape
In pale relief now, I am believing
In the power of allowing and receiving
In the power of allowing and receiving
Something came to carry off my grieving like it was nothing
I am believing in the power of allowing and receiving
Riches from the hands that long to share their gold
If you’d just loosen up that old white-knuckle hold
That binds your burdens closer than you might would guess
Just set ‘em down now and dance around
Sung out to the sky, a song from balled-up roots
You’re bound to catch reply as sure as trees yield fruit
Their leaves are shining
I am believing in the power
In the power of allowing and receiving
Somehow it carries off my grieving like it was nothing
I am believing in the power of allowing and receiving
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Float a Cuppa Tea
02:27
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You draw me a bath
You make me laugh
Float a cuppa tea in the tub for me
I miss your smile
Stay awhile
Float a cuppa tea in the tub for me
Float a cuppa tea in the tub for me
Float a cuppa tea in the tub for me
When you're lukewarm
You do no harm
But you give no pleasure
Oh! twist my arm
Put the kettle on
Boil till it's gone
Steam up the window
Blow me a kiss, go
Draw me a bath
You make me laugh…
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Jenny
02:08
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Jenny, I got a thing to tell you
It’s cool on the porch but it’s warm here inside
Bring your sweet mug to the kettle as it’s boilin’
There’s cake on the table and nowhere to hide
Keep it slow
There’s a long way to go
Move in quick
Hey, my arms don’t want to wait
Open that window
Let’s feast our skin on sunlight
Hungry birds’ll fight each other
For the crumbs on this plate
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To Love You This Much
02:43
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Spring leads me to the plough
I love you so much I don’t even know how
I love you so much I don’t even know how
to love you this much
Big field before me now
I love you so much I don’t even know how
I love you so much I don’t even know how
to love you this much
But I long to learn
I long to learn so I keep in touch
I keep in touch, touch
I keep in touch
A few steps into the field
With blades so sharp but the ground won’t yield
You’d think it cut deep but the ground won’t yield
In the time it takes to wonder why
There’s a flash and a crash and an opening sky
Cryin’ down tears where it once was dry
Little seeds sprout in me now
How…
Spring leads me to the plough
I love you so much…
Big field before me now
I love you so much…
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Mama, Mom
01:34
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Mama, Mama, Mom
Mama, Mom, Mama, Mom, Mama
We Love You
We Love You
Mama, Mama, Mom
Mama, Mom, Mama, Mom, Mama
We Love You
We Love You
Got a smile for ev’ry mornin’
A smile for ev’ry eye
It’s not easy growing old
Though we rarely see you cry
We carry your love inside us
No matter where we are
The mother of our family
You are our guiding star
Mama, Mama, Mom
Mama, Mom, Mama, Mom, Mama
We Love You
We Love You
Mama, Mama, Mom
Mama, Mom, Mama, Mom, Mama
We Love You
We Love You
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6. |
Grandma Say
02:26
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I bake in haste
Eggshell in ev’ry cake I make
Now what would your Grandma say?
If she saw you cookin’ that way?
Turn the heat way down
And open that door ‘fore the cakes go brown
-eyed suzies nod and sway
They see you cookin’ that way, hey
What did you think it takes to do all this cookin’?
Keep yourself and the house good-lookin’?
Work to the bone till the bone’s gone bare
Notin’ the growth of new grey hair
Pullin’ strings on the purse for the things you bought
End of the day it seems you oughta negotiate your pay
Now what would your Grandma say, hey?
She’d say,
“Do the things you love, and do them well
‘Cause you can’t tell when things
Will go from good to worse
Don’t live life like it’s a curse.
Include the ones you love--
tell them so, make sure they know.
Try best to keep them in your song,
‘Cause no one’s here for long.”
That laundry’s dried
Pull the pins off and the line inside
Mend the holes until they’re gone
Now put those glad rags on
If your heels dig in
Shindig ‘em on out with your kith & kin
“You’d best get out there and play”--
That’s what your Grandma’d say
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Red August
02:22
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We pick and pack a knapsack
Full of staghorn sumac
Silver underbellies show
As leaves in the wind blow
So we make a little picnic stop
In the red clover cover crop
As sun beat our bones down
Buzzard drones wing around
Red August, it's hottest
The pale blue chicory's all gone withery
Red August, its hottest
Came and blasted the grass
That grew so fast
How does she walk on the side of this road
Where there's no shoulder there to hold her?
It's so hot and dry on this road
Find your water, zombie daughter
Drivers flying blind on this road
Head for the ditches, scare up some witches
Green as it's gonna get
Summer isn't over yet
We make a little gang of three
As she tumbles in our cuppa tea
We leave behind the fallow field
For berries that the brambles yield
Middle summer in the south
These berries ripen/ripe in ev'ry mouth
So kissin' leaves a bloody stain
Burnin' August in the brain
Red August, it's hottest
The pale blue chicory's all gone withery
Red August, its hottest came
And blasted the grass
That grew so fast
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Pull Out the Bad Bone
01:55
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I went to the doctor
And what did I say?
"Pull out the bad bone
But let my skeleton stay
Pull out the bad bone
I'll be on my way"
I went to the doctor
And what did she say?
"Well, I'm sorry to tell you
If it were alone
I'd reach right inside you
And pull out the bad bone
But the evil is rampant
From basement to eave
Can't pull just one bone
And then let you leave...
"Oh, I'm just ribbin' you
I'm just pullin’ your leg
You're so full of goodness
And it's goodness for goodness' sake
I'm givin’ you the elbow
I'm just flappin’ my jaw
You're so full of everything
Don't let it trip you up when you fall"
I went to the doctor
I went to the doctor
I went to the doctor
I went to the doctor
And what did I say?
"Pull out the bad bone
Show it the light of day
Pull out the bad bone
I'll be on my way"
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The Smile
03:17
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Whenever I feel the well’s gone dry
The smile comes down from on high
The smile comes down from on high
To flow and fill me some
In seein’ a pearly sky gone grey
The smile comes to lift the day
The smile comes to lift the day
With a low ongoing hum
Whatever may rend this life apart
The smile comes to cheer the heart
The smile comes to cheer the heart
And to sound its gentle drum
Whenever I feel the well’s gone dry
The smile comes down from on high
The smile comes down from on high
To flow and fill me some
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Lie Quiet With Me
03:47
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Speak and speak, I start to choke
Lungs exchanging air and smoke
Oh, wisps and rings that divvy up the space
A veil that falls away
Around the freshness of your face
You say, "Lie quiet with me, friend
Words make shapes we don't intend
Slow down--soul can't always find
Its best expression through the mind
Just being near you
Is how I hear you
No need fear you won't be heard
Feel the love behind the word"
I wouldn't deign to train the vine
Shake down fruit and call it mine
Still I'm at stake with root aglow
Around which wildness can grow
I'm spun along ecstatic length
A spool summoning its strength--
Do you have any idea?
You say, "Lie quiet with me, friend
Words make shapes we don't intend
Slow down--soul can't always find
Its best expression through the mind
Just being near you
Is how I hear you
No need fear you won't be heard
Feel the love behind the word"
Sun warming sleeping seed covered over
Light will bleed through each cracked and wounded part
Respect for every waking heart
Lie quiet
Words make shapes
Slow down
Just being near is how we hear
Before you fear you won't be heard
Feel the love
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11. |
Learn to Lose
02:52
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All of the signs say
Learn to lose
Learn to lose
Learn to lose
Backwater brack flowin’ over my shoes
Learn to lose
Learn to lose
Learn to lose
Pickin’ through the ragpile–
Whose is whose?
Learn to lose
What have you now?
Whatever you choose
Old ball wreckin’ me now
Oh it’s long, I don’t know how
Old ball reckonin’ me now
Oh it’s long, I don’t know how
All of the signs say
Learn to lose
Learn to lose
Learn to lose
Give a little blood to the bruise…
Pickin’ through the ragpile–
Whose is whose?
Learn to lose
What have you now?
What have you now?
What have you now?
Whatever you choose
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Peace (hymn adaptation)
01:48
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Original by Weston Priory,
Gregory Norbet. O.S.B.
(Original):
Peace I leave with you, my friend
Peace the world cannot give
Peace I leave with you, my friend
So that your joy be ever full
(Adaptation):
If I seem peaceful,
Really at my core I am simply exhausted
From waging so much war
I am being turned, slowly
Becoming something more
Of the peaceful sort you take me for
(Original):
Peace I leave with you, my friend
Peace the world cannot give
Peace I leave with you, my friend
So that your joy be ever full
Peace I leave with you, my friend
So that your joy be ever full…
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Diane Cluck
Singer-songwriter in Charlottesville, VA
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