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THERE IS A RIVER
There is a river runs through you
Whose water is love
Whose banks are the shores of your mind
And the name of the river is life
The water is yours, freely given
If you let it freely pass
But if you dam the river,
Slow the flow,
Expand the banks,
And make yourself a lake
For men to wonder at,
Be certain to make spillways
(Wide and generous)
And see that they’re kept clean
Otherwise, the river swells
And bursts the dam
And your private lake becomes
A sea of public mud
Without your help or with it
Life will flow,
The river will run.
FOREVER SEVENTH LOVED TIME
I’d like to live in sunshine
Beside tall and rocky mountains
Where the air is clean and biting
And smells of strength and pine trees.
I would like to know forever
The feel of freezing free streams,
To know the strong true seasons
Where snow is hard and sun is close forever.
And I’d like to see the green below
Up here where I can feel and sing
As deep and loud or soft and low
Where I can run and laugh and cry
Among the clouds that always fly
In storms or in clear weather
For there is where I’d take my love
So it could be completely fine forever.
I’d share my love of brightness
And my heart among the rocks and pines
I’d sing for him a love song
Of life and all its splendor.
There Is A River
Words: Michael Hanks
Music: Ernie Mansfield
© Windsailor Music (BMI)
Forever Seventh Loved Time
Words: Kathi Bennett
Music: James Cuomo
© Pigeon Music
This sound recording © 2022 Windsailor Music
ISRC number: QZ-T7X-22-00002
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Big Sugar Plantation
03:08
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I thought I’d found a new career,
Loll around and feed the birds
That come in from the sea,
That’s alright with me.
But I found my calculations wrong,
There is no beach, no birds,
That hover up above
You can’t be free,
Why must if happen to me?
Cuz I’ve been working on that
Big Sugar Plantation in the Sky
Big Sugar Plantation in the Sky
Big Sugar Plantation in the Sky
Escape from here, go somewhere new,
Where people care about
The songs you sing and naturally agree,
That’s the way it should be.
There’s no escape when you’re a fool,
Who thinks whatever happens,
Happens because it’s meant to be.
All you’ll find is misery.
Cuz I’ve been working on that
Big Sugar Plantation in the Sky
Big Sugar Plantation in the Sky
Big Sugar Plantation in the Sky
Words & Music: James Cuomo
© Pigeon Music (BMI)
This sound recording © 2022 Windsailor Music
ISRC number: QZ-T7X-22-00011
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Doves Are White
02:04
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Doves are white
Pigeons grey
What a sad day.
Doves Are White
Words & Music: James Cuomo, Elliott Delman
© Pigeon Music (BMI)
This sound recording © 2022 Windsailor Music
ISRC number: QZ-T7X-22-00005
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St. Ives
03:15
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A woman with a hunk of wool
Two penguins
A man with a drum
Has anyone been to St. Ives?
Has anyone been to St. Ives?
Words: Tobia Taylor & James Cuomo
Music: James Cuomo
© Pigeon Music
This sound recording © 2022 Windsailor Music
ISRC number: QZ-T7X-22-00007
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5. |
Good Friday Spell
02:44
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Good Friday Spell, tonight, tonight, tonight,
Good Friday Spell, tonight, tonight, tonight,
Your golden suited knights ride their somber elephants through the sky, tonight
Reaching far above the unexpected skies, tonight, tonight.
Good Friday Spell, tonight, tonight, tonight,
Good Friday Spell, tonight, tonight, tonight.
Dead living trash made beautiful tonight, tonight
In the thin braids of sweet green smoke tonight, tonight.
That gather above your head as a halo
Gather above your head as a halo.
Words & Music: Jim Cuomo
© Pigeon Music
This sound recording © 2022 Windsailor Music
ISRC number: QZ-T7X-22-00009
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Paranoid Nightdream
02:43
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Frozen in my bed
I hear the drunken night hunters
Howling down the mountain,
With their hound dogs mauling
In the cold moonlight
They jump past the distance
Of the hills
Their coal oil lamps
Shoot white and yellow flashes through my head
And flush the prowlers hiding there I run
The hounds behind me sound like
Lumps of flesh are catching in their maws
I run
The hunters yelp and follow hard
I run
I choose my death through barbs and branches
Broken tree trunks, almost yelling from the joy
I run, four-footed, small, important me
I feel the bark caught in my claws
I climb into the screaming brilliance
Of the topmost limb and laugh at God
I am free to raid the night, and dance behind my mask
The hunters crowd the trees,
Their flashlights glaring up to blind the moon
I cannot move
The echo of a gunshot
Moves around the corners of the farthest hill
To report the end of some insignificant thing.
Words: Michael Hanks
Music: James Cuomo
© Pigeon Music
This sound recording © 2022 Windsailor Music
ISRC number: QZ-T7X-22-00006
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Homeside
03:48
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My brother carried me, naked in naked arms,
to the deep side of the tank.
He said I'd learn to swim,
I said Nossirree!
He said he'd hold me up-
I said I bet he would.
He said he'd throw me in,
I'd have to swim.
But I was certain I would drown
or else be eaten up by snakes; so I invoked the magic
spell of Mother's wrath and made him take me
Homeside, Home is where the heart is
Homeside, Home is where the heart is
Later, though, I had to swim and floundered badly,
The arms that held me up were not my brother's
and I touched bottom on the far side from home.
Words: Michael Hanks
Music: Ernie Mansfield
© Windsailor Music (BMI)
This sound recording © 2022 Windsailor Music
ISRC number: QZ-T7X-22-00012
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Great Wall of China
04:06
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Where the great wall of China meets the ground,
A man can stand and know mountain beyond
And brick beside and, ignorant of how it cause or when,
Can recognize the hand of brother man.
Where the great wall of China meets the ground,
A man can stand and know mountain beyond
And even this mountain is walked by shepherds and yeti.
Words: Tobia Taylor
Music: James Cuomo
© Pigeon Music
This sound recording © 2022 Windsailor Music
ISRC number: QZ-T7X-22-00004
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RIT Yellow
06:26
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The RIT yellow of the sun
The RIT yellow of the sun
The RIT yellow of the sun
Splashes across the arena.
Soaking up the bullfight
Soaking up the bullfight
Soaking up the bullfight
An animated travel poster.
The bull fighting for room to die
From an unclean kill.
The crowd displeased
The matador swearing blue satin.
But the bull
But the bull
But the bull
Had found a way to die a week ago.
Words: Deborah Cuomo
Music: Jim Cuomo
© Pigeon Music
This sound recording © 2022 Windsailor Music
ISRC number: QZ-T7X-22-00003
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10. |
Deep River Blues
04:03
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Let it rain, let it pour, let it rain a whole lot more
'Cause I got them deep river blues
Let the rain drive right on, let the waves sweep along
'Cause I got them deep river blues
My old gal's a good old pal, and she looks like a water fowl
When I get them deep river blues
Ain't no one to cry for me, and the fish all go out on a spree
When I get them deep river blues
Give me back my old boat, I'm gonna sail if she'll float
'Cause I got them deep river blues
I'm goin' back to Muscle Shoals, times are better there I'm told
'Cause I got them deep river blues
Let it rain, let it pour, let it rain a whole lot more
'Cause I got them deep river blues
Let the rain drive right on, let the waves sweep along
'Cause I got them deep river blues
If my boat sinks with me, I'll go down, don't you see
'Cause I got them deep river blues
Now I'm gonna say goodbye, and if I sink, just let me die
'Cause I got them deep river blues
Let it rain, let it pour, let it rain a whole lot more
'Cause I got them deep river blues
Let the rain drive right on, let the waves sweep along
'Cause I got them deep river blues
Words & Music: Doc Watson
© Downtown Dlj Songs o/b/o Budde Music Inc.
This sound recording © 2022 Windsailor Music
ISRC number: QZ-T7X-22-00001
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