Bill Staines is an American songwriter and folk singer from New England, well known for composing children's songs as well as folk songs with a timeless quality. There's a field of winter rye that smells sweet when it is high. ALONG THE ROADBeneath some lucky star, I picked up an old guitar, And it seemed to know the music of my soul, And day by day, on end, that guitar became a friend, And I took it with me everywhere I'd go. We were a different breed, we knew the Dharma Bums, We caught the endless trains out toward the setting sun, And when the morning came and lifted up the sky, We found a fiery flame, a thought we'd never die. A collection of thoughts about part of my life — winding, revealing, and always moving, much like a river. I am the hudson, the merrimac, too, the snake and the pecos, the green and the blue, and my waters they run just as sure as a song, and forever i'll sing if you let me live on. River, take me along in your sunshine, Sing me your song. In the early 1960s he started his professional career in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. Now it's west, we head into the sundown, as the light of the evening fails, surrounded by deepening darkness, we are flying the nightly mail. In 1975 he won the National Yodeling Championship at the Kerrville Folk Festival. So Sang the River: Songs of Bill Staines, Vol. I for M - Heidi Muller. Ms. Griffith, who died in August, credited Mr. Staines with encouraging her in her own career. Chorus: River take me along. So when all the music's done....... CAPITOLA DREAMSThere's a bird outside my window, singing sweetly to my ears, And a fogbank on the water that will slowly disappear, There are flowers in the alley, there are sails out on the bay, And there's magic in the morning of this California day. Here's to the song that's within me now.
Ms. Staines, who works in special education, said the song, which first appeared on Mr. Staines's 1979 album, "The Whistle of the Jay, " didn't leap out at either of them as a career highlight. Where I live there is a road, that seen me come and seen me go. But when he peered out the tent flap, it wasn't extraterrestrials; it was a porcupine talking to itself. But all of their memories linger still. La suite des paroles ci-dessous. CEREMONYThere is singing in the wind and it is a day for dancing, As you gather with your friends at this flaming hour of fancy, Set out to find a future place, in a love where you belong, We've traveled over time and space, and are with you in this song. But what about the line that ends one of the verses? BILL STAINES Lyrics, Songs & Albums | eLyrics.net. And with the stars overhead in the heavens, and with the last of the dying day, There are beacons ablaze in the distance, and there are arrows that point the way. Bill Staines, Author, Kadir Nelson, Illustrator, illus. There's a cafe on the corner, you can hear the laughter there. "It was a Sears Silvertone three-quarter-size guitar with a cowboy painted on it. There springtime waters came dancing down. I was told that sometime way back when.............. The whistling ways of my younger days, Too quickly have faded on by, But all of their memories linger on, Like the light in a fading sky.
And I've listened to love's melodies. I've sung all the songs that the children sing, and I've listened to loves melodies, And I've my own music within me rise, like the wind in the autumn trees. Wingin' in across the pines along the ridge. You rolling old river, You changing old river, Let's you and me, river, run down to the sea. From the old allegheny forever i'll run, and i'll carry your people in the light of the sun. Bill staines song list. © 2023 Pandora Media, Inc., All Rights Reserved. We did the drunkard's dance, we played the poet's hymn, We searched for answers then, and found them deep within, And all words were wild, and all our stories young, We were the restless child, adrift beneath the sun.
In 1975, he won a yodeling contest at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas — "defeating some crestfallen Swiss yodelers, " The Christian Science Monitor reported. Ever moving, and winding and free. "But I'm left-handed, and it just didn't feel right. Written by: Joni Mitchell. Bill staines - river lyrics collection. Like light in a fading song. Old dogs lie alone at night, they tuck their tails, they curl up tight, They howl when moons are full and bright, and recall when they were lovers.
E called them friends. Use the citation below to add these lyrics to your bibliography: Style: MLA Chicago APA. Among those who covered the tune was Nanci Griffith, who called Mr. Staines "the Woody Guthrie of my generation of songwriters. Bill staines river sheet music. " "Obviously and luckily, we were wrong. Shining stars have been my compass light, as I have journeyed long into the night, Fought the fury of a winter snow, felt the years as the rivers flow. Titles include: All of Me Bless My Soul (Sweet Wind). Lying awake in their tent at 4 a. m., he heard an odd chattering outside.
Like the light of a fading sky. MY JENNYThere's a long, friendly field out before us, as her wheels they go rolling along, And the wind in wire's a chorus, and with a whisper it brings it's song. "And I figured, Well, they've landed, " he told the story to an audience in 2009. Recorded by Bill on "Whistle of the Jay", FSI-70. It's like a child that's grown up and gone away. For I'll be steering to open water, and I'll be dancing across the tide, And with my lines all set, I'll be casting my nets, with Saint Peter by my side. Met a lot of good people, and I've called them friends. Lyrics to the song So Sang the River - Bill Staines. And from that distant dawn, we were carried by a song, And lifted up when things went wrong along the way, And in the lateness of the night, as the music lofted lightly, All the darkness of the hours turned into day. Back in the 80's I learned the melody and would murder a few of the verses, so I thought I should take the time to learn the song. 99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-054838-9. In addition to Ms. Staines, whom he married in 1976, Mr. Staines is survived by a son, Bowen, and a brother, Stephen.
Early in his career, he was M. of the Sunday hootenanny at the famed Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass. He was still a road warrior half a century later. Oh, the years have rolled away, and the world has turned in passing, Still we bless this golden day and this moment everlasting, Life's memories and younger years remain forever strong, They stand as silent souvenirs and with love we pass them on. There's a truck that's broken down, that I used to take to town. "Songs are like children you care about, " Mr. Staines, who recorded almost 30 albums, told The Register of Yarmouth, Mass., in 2013. Shining like a satin sea beneath the moon when it is spring. May my words....... Oh, I have stood and stared across the sea, and felt a wild wave washing over me, And in its breath above the fickle foam, I;ve felt the hand and the heart of home. Felt the change when the seasons turned. Taken me so far I thought I lost my way, Where I live there is my heart. Oh, i water your farms with my silvery hand, and forever i'll travel in the heard of the land. Album Name: The Second Million Miles.
Now we're steering to open water, and we are dancing across the tide. FLY AWAY FARIt's the touch of a hand reaching out in the night, a mandolin melody playing just right, It's a long slow dance taking place in a dream, and a wonder that's all that it seems. There's a tree that stands out back, waiting for the falling axe. And island roses they line the lane, and they lift their heads to the falling rain, But the sunshine follows so you don't complain, down at old Salt Air. But since you're here, feel free to check out some up-and-coming music artists on. In your sunshine sing me your song.