Tag Archives: folk music
Pete’s Smile
I have the album, and always enjoyed the story and the song, but didn’t know there was a film of it.
Wake Up
“You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what …
I promise you
Sunshine, come on back another day, I promise you I’ll be singing This old world, she’s gonna turn around, brand new bells will be ringing… Full lyrics HERE. Jonathan Edwards is still touring and putting out albums, and is on the web HERE.
“We are all connected…”
From an interview with Peter Yarrow: Q: Per the lyrics of the Peter, Paul and Mary song, “And When I Die,” do you truly not fear death? A: That song expressed something the trio all embraced, but it wasn’t so much about not being afraid of dying. It’s saying that life isn’t just there when …
Taking a Walk
It doesn’t tell a story as much as it paints a mood. Different mediums, but John Prine creates with musical notes and words in the same way that Claude Monet created with pigments and colors. Full lyrics HERE.
You forgot to close the garage door.
Full lyrics at BobDylan.com.
“No matter what your reasons for…”
Full lyrics HERE. There are several live versions on YouTube that are a lot of fun, too: LINK
That’s How Every Empire Falls
Padlock the door and board the windows Put the people in the street “It’s just my job,” he says “I’m sorry.” And draws a check, goes home to eat But at night he tells his woman “I know I hide behind the laws.” She says, “You’re only taking orders.” That’s how every empire falls. Full …
All the people who don’t fit
A very compassionate song about Mean People. I like it a lot. Full lyrics HERE.
And now you know… the REST of the story
Full lyrics at BobDylan.com
“I ain’t seen the sunshine since, I don’t know when…”
Full lyrics HERE.
And she could laugh away the dark clouds…
On this the first anniversary of Rod McKuen’s death, here is Johnny Cash covering one of his songs. Full lyrics HERE.
And he is still falling in love…
We got to meet Michael Johnson before his concert in Winnsboro, and he’s one of the nicest people you’d ever want to meet. (He’s also more handsome in person than his album covers indicate.) This song is my favorite of his. The full lyrics are HERE. You can find him on the web HERE.
I don’t mind failing…
I don’t mind failing in this world, Somebody else’s definition Isn’t going to measure my soul’s condition, I don’t mind failing in this world. It was MySweetGrace who reminded me of this song.
Abbie's Tree House 