Maybe Someday
by Mike Heron
Maybe someday she will come, come along long
Maybe someday she will come, come along long
Maybe someday she will come, come along long
maybe someday she will come along
Sitting here with my arms around my music
Thinking of the girl that I might spend
the whole of my days with
Until then I will do the best that I can
And any fine young girl that I might meet'That I could use, keep my eye on.
Mother tried the very best tat she could do,
That was no good, the one she chose,
I did not like the way her teeth grew.
One fine day I took a walk down by the river,
Fair maid did lie and she did sigh
As I stooped down to kiss her.
October Song
by Robin Williamson
I'll sing you this October song,
Oh, there is no song before it.
The words and tune are none of my own,
for my joys and sorrows bore it.
Beside the sea
The brambly briars in the still of evening,
Birds fly out behind the sun,
and with them I'll leavng.
The fallen leaves that jewel the ground,
They know the art of dying,
And leave with joy their glad gold hearts,
In the scarlet shadows lying.
When hunger calls my footsteps home,
The morning follows after,
I swim the seas within my mind,
And the pine-trees laugh green laughter.
I sed to search for happiness,
And I used to follow pleasure,
But I found a door behind my mind,
And that's the greatest treasure.
For rulers like to lay down laws,
And rebels like to break them,
And the poor priests like to walk in chains,
And God likes to forsake the.
I met a man whose name was Time,
And he said, "I must be goin,"
But just how long that was,
I have no way of knowing.
Sometimes I want to murder time,
Sometimes when my heart's aching,
But mostly I just stroll along,
The path that he is taking.
When the Music Starts To Play
by Mike Heron
All my life and it's been a short one;
I've met the happy and the sad together.
I chased the soft warm air that flew before me,
And through the storm on wings of love,
the song of life bore me.
And when the music starts to play let e be around, (I said)
When the music starts to play let me be around.
Oh, can't you see how my heart soars high,
When I hear that music.
When the music starts to play let me be around.
When sadness lays his cold fist on my shoulder,
And pushes me in icy waters drowning,
The gentle hand of music lifts me smiling,
And through these sounds my heart takes bounds,
I happy am.
Womankind
by Robin Williamson
I sing for love of womankind,
I have one in my heart and mind,
Low, my heart aches for her.
My soul swims naked in her streams,
And in her meadows lies to dream,
Hay, what need to waken.
Her breast blow blossom in my hands,
Her eyes shine moons on secret lands,
As through my clouds her raven thoughts go flying.
Space nearly parts and nearly joins,
Love's magic song moans through her loins,
Well hay, the league-long sweets of loving.
May she glow always in her sun,
have nothing lost and nothing won,
Oh, now what fear can chain her?
Oh blessed is he who joys and grieves
Who wears the coat the rainbow weaves
Lo, around his body.
The Tree
by Mike Heron
I had a Tree, in the dream hills where my childhood lay.
And I'd go there in the wide, long days,
And my Tree would listen to all that I'd say.
And the sun was shining brightly,
and the sky was smiling,
and the sun was shining brightly,
and the sky was smiling.
Dandelion Blues
by Robin Williamson
You meet a girl,
She moves soft eyes and pulls you in the game.
Perhaps you do not wonder her reasons or her name.
You'll follow her on out the room,
How sweet her body flows,
Say take it easy,
make it lazy,
That's the way to go.
Do believe it's easy, Do believe it's easy,
Do believe it's easy don't even have to try.
You may lip your flute or pick your strigs to hear the music grow,
Maybe you'll stand by a while, it all comes through you so,
Just maybe you will hit magic sounds that call you to your heart,
And gently you will follow down and view yourself apart
Do believe it's easy, Do believe it's easy,
Do believe it's easy don't even have to try.
If when the moon's a toothy smile you meet a whirling wind,
Whirls you clear to nowhere and forgets where you came in,
There is no call to worry, or be sorry that you came,
You may maze along there for a space, oh buddy and then come back to your name.
Do believe it's easy, Do believe it's easy,
Do believe it's easy don't even have to try.
Now, if your man gets busted and you hope to go his bail,
Suppose you cannot borrow money, you may go to borrow the mail,
Yes, if yor mangets busted and you hope to go his fine,
You may laze along to the judge's house, sweet woman, and set it on he line.
Do believe it's easy, Do believe it's easy,
Do believe it's easy don't even have to try.
Oh, Lord How Happy I Am
by Mike Heron
Oh, Lord how happy I am,
Oh, Lord how happy I am,
I won't feel sad 'till the whiskey's gone.
Oh, Lord how happy I am.
Oh, when I met my first woman,
you know, she was nice and kind as can be.
Now she go walking out all over towwn,
and she do just what she please.
Well, if she thinks I'm sitting here
An' I'm waiting for her to come home,
She wanna come a little closer to me right now,
and I'll tell you how happy I am.
Now, a whole lot of women in this world,
They making trouble for all you men;
They're strutting around all over town,
And then walking back home again;
Well, if you think that she's got you down,
And she's started to count to ten,
Just look at her with one eye closed,
And sing to her again.
Smoke Shovelling Song
by Robin Williamson
Last winter blew so cold no lies,
And my fire smoke would not rise;
Soon as the smoke tried to depart,
It'd be froze up harder thatn a landlord's heart.
I called up the police and they came around
Three days later and very brought down.
The sergeant he gave me this hysterical croak.
Says, "What do you think you have going here, some kind of joke?"
(of course I wasn't laughing)
He says, "You're causing us officers so much grief,
Why don't you give us some relief?
Why don't you call the fire brigade?
Or maybe why don't you try shovelling the smoke up the chimney with a spade."
I borrowed a spade from the woman next door,
And I broke up the smoke that remained on the floor,
I was shovelling away, 'till the closing day singing a smoke-shovelling song.
After working so hard I went out to my yard,
And I looked up to my chimney so long, (there was nothing to see there)
Just a thousand foot high, way into the sky,
Was a pillar of smoke full of song.
There was an airplane stuck in it,
but I didn't notice at first it was so cunningly disguised as a dragon.
Came the summer at last, though it was rainy and fast,
The pillar it melted away,
The airplane fell with a big smoky smell,
And echoing around all over the town,
Was the words of the smoke shovelling song.
Any anyone telling a bigger story would have to be telling a lie,
And anyone think a bigger one up,
Have to be very high.
Can't Keep Me Here
by Mike Heron
I'm going way over the white skyline
And I'll sing and be happy
And you can't keep me here no how.
And I'll sing and be happy
and my world is my own
And I'll do what I want to
And you can't keep me here no how.
Hey baby, don't cry for me
Hey baby, when the sun comes up I'll be free.
And I'm going way over the white skyline
And I'll sing and be happy
And you can't keep me here no how.
Ah baby, don't cry for me
Hey baby, when the sun comes up I'll be free.
And I'm going way over the white skyline
And I'll sing and be happy
Cause you can't keep me here no how.
Good As Gone
by Robin Williamson
A strange thought just crossed my mind paid the rains back in kind.
Twas the thought of sweet May coming on.
The days are running so slow, my heart is aching to go,
and my feet surely itch for the road.
Um the long hard summer.
Oh now the summer long.
Things I must do places to see,
Things I must do, I've nothing now to hold me here,
And I'll take the southward road.
I have been tied to this land since the day I was planned,
By the need to feed my body and my mind;
Look can you work 'till you're grey, waste your whole life away;
What security then do you find?
I doon't have no one to cheat, don't have no one to beat,
I just need some roon to uncurl,
I don't have no aim in view, just some dreams to pursue,
As I wallow around in the world.
Foot steps of the Heron
by Mike Heron
One day as I sat in a big noisy crowd,
There was me and the whole of my conscience.
And I thought that I wouldn't be missed if I went,
and that my going would be of no importance.
And I've nothing to do,
And I've nowhere to go;
I'm not in the slightest way upset.
I'm not chasing a hope,
or a dream or a plan;
And I'm not even chasing the sunset.
The pussycat laughed and he followed me down,
As we walked through the crowds without motion;
He said he would stay, but he ran clear away,
I just laughed at his lack of devotion.
I met this fink, tried to buy me a drink,
And he says, I don't care 'bout no money."
I said, "Neither do I, but I'd buy you a guy,
If I thought you were trying to get funny."
This man I did meet, spoke to me through his feet,
And he said, "I don't care either 'bout no money."
I said, "Neither do I but I buy wings to fly,
'Cause without them the sun ain't so sunny."
Everything's Fine Right Now
by Mike Heron
Who's that knocking on my door?
Can't see no-one right now.
Got my baby here by me,
can't stop, no, no, not now.
Oh, come a little closer to my breast,
I'll tell you that you're the one I really love the best,
and you don't have to worry about any of the rest,
'cause everything's fine right now.
And you don't have to talk and you don't have to sing,
You don;t have to do nothing at all;
Just lie around and do as you please, you don't have for to fall.
Oh, come a little closer to my breast,
I'll tell you that you're the one I really love the best,
and you don't have to worry about any of the rest,
'cause everything's fine right now.
Oh, my, my, it looks kind of dark.
Looks lie the night's rolled on.
Best thing you do is just lie here by me, of course only just until the dawn.
Oh, come a little closer to my breast,
I'll tell you that you're the one I really love the best,
and you don't have to worry about any of the rest,
'cause everything's fine right now.
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