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Hey Hey (Sweet Sweet)
02:36
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Early on an April evening
Sitting in my garden weeding
I heard a sparrow softly sing
Hey hey, sweet sweet sweet sweetie!
Looking up, I can see
Sitting on a branch in my old pine tree
A sparrow sings his song to me
Hey hey, sweet sweet sweet sweetie!
Pulling weeds from dirt mulched black
I pause, to unbend my back
I whistle and he calls me back
Hey hey, sweet sweet sweet sweetie!
Here is where I find my peace
Sunning in a warm spring breeze
He and I are slow to leave
Hey hey, sweet sweet sweet sweetie!
I'll see you in late September
We can share the season's ember
We'll tell our stories and remember
Hey sweet sweet sweet sweetie!
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Oh, I'm gonna cry, for all the best reasons
And I'm gonna fly, with the sparrows this season
We'll take a tour, of the heart this spring
I'll lift up my voice, and with them I'll sing
Tra da da, da da da da da da
Tra da da, da da da da da da
We'll fly to the north, where the wind meets the water
And we'll splash with the sturgeon, and we'll play with the otter
With a wide open heart, and a light in my eye
I'll lift up my voice, and I'll sing to the sky
Tra ...
I'll learn every lake, from shoreline to bottom
And I'll stay 'til the aspen, turn yellow in autumn
When the wind takes a bite, and Orion shines bright
I'll rise with my flock and we'll sing through the night!
Tra ...
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3. |
Hitchin' Song
02:53
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I've been on the road so long
This loneliness just can't go on
I've been up to where the grass is brown
I've been down
And every time I think of you
I know just what I'd like to do
I'd put on my walkin' shoes
And walk right out of this town
I said head out on the road
Set down my load
Stick out my thumb... and
Find out where I'm from
Well a man pulls up in eighteen wheels
He knows just how I feel
He's been up, to where the grass is brown
He's been down
And every night around six o'clock
He turns his dial to classic rock
And this is how it goes
Just head out on the road
Set down your load
Stick out your thumb... and
Find out where you're from
Well I'm climbing up that mountain-top
My feet are cold, but I can't stop
The sun from going down
Or the world from spinning 'round
Ten more miles I'm almost there
The road is dark but I don't care
I've finally made it home
I've almost made it home
Cause I've been out on the road
Set down my load
Stuck out my thumb... and
Found out where I'm from
Now I've gone home
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4. |
Over Time Blues
01:53
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Well, I'm takin' my time
Easing 'cross the line
One foot down
Brings the other
From behind
Well, I'm easy in my mind
Left my troubles behind
One -- thing leads to the other
Over time
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Lonesome Sailor's Lament
03:34
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On this beautiful morning, I woke up feeling grey
Thinking of my sweetheart, a thousand miles away
Oh, a thousand miles away
Far away to the east I've been
To spend some time with kin
I'm counting all the days and nights 'til
I see my true love again
Oh, see my own true love again
If I had a ship to sail on, I'd leave here today
Chart a course for my true love, sail out from the bay
Oh, sail out from the bay
Call all hands to the capstan, boys
Trim the mainsail true
Send a cable to my own true love, sayin'
I'm a-comin home to you
Oh, I'm a-comin' home to you
Down at the public dock yard, I watch the tide come in
Like ships swinging at their anchor, how my heart does spin
Oh, how my heart does spin
'Cause I been kickin around this little port town
Pacing round and round
If I could snap my fingers, boys
I'd be home right now
Oh, I'd be home right now
Call all hands to the capstan boys
Trim the mainsail true
Send a cable to my own true love, sayin'
I'm a-comin home to you
Oh, I'm a-comin' home to you
I'm a-comin' home to you, oh
I'm a-comin' home
To you!
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Ocean of Love
03:19
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Tie the wind to the water, let it flow along my keel
It keeps me in motion while my spirit heals
One hand for the wind, and one hand for the water
I navigate by starlight, I am guided by wonder
(chorus)
Oh we are sailing
Oh we are sailing
Oh we are sailing, on an ocean of love!
(repeat)
Heave-to for a while, when the winds blow strong
A new course we'll set when the skies clear 'fore long
Reef your sails or not, when the winds are fair
As long as I can see the sky, I'll always be somewhere
(chorus)
I'll learn the winds by name, and perhaps they'll learn mine
If it wasn't for all this water, I'd have nothin' but time
When supplies are low and I've had my fill
I'll turn my bow towards morning
Chart a course for familiar shore
And a grand returning
(chorus)
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Jennifer Vena Wood Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jennifer Vena Wood is a singer-songwriter, who writes ballads, vignettes, and earnest, multipart circle songs -- occasionally reaching into other vernaculars as the song requires. Lifting voices and spirits with music and good company, in the richest of folk tradition. ... more
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