Тексты песен «Gordon Lightfoot»

He came down through fields of green On the summer side of life His love was ripe There was no illusions On the summer side of life Only tenderness And if you saw him now You'd wonder why he would cry A whole day long...

Where the road runs down by the Butternut Grove To old Bill Skinners Stream Do tell at the noonday bell It's time for a summertime dream In a lunch pail town, in a one horse way You can live like a king and queen Let's...

I can see her lyin' back in her satin dress in a room where ya do what ya don't confess Sundown ya better take care if I find you been creepin' 'round my back stairs (repeat) She's been lookin' like a queen...

Sweet Guinevere, you're off to the coal town tonight And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, if you're kind She loves...

I heard you talking in your sleep Is there anything that I can do I don't believe we've had a word all day 'Bout anything at all I heard you talking in the night That's right, yes I heard ya call Though I could hardly...

Whatever you think of me I'm still your friend So other than nothin' what's new The water 's still flowin' Through the rose on my skin This here tattoo is for you The boys at the parlor downtown Didn't waste anytime...

Thank you for the promises we make I know I can't complain I think I did all right No failures are in sight Only now and then I'd like to reminisce Do you remember when Even if we're angels we can't ask To wander...

I come to this garden I come here to rest Early each day upon risin' I think of my lost love From over the sea And sometimes I've wondered If she thinks of me I long to recall every kiss, every kind word I miss her so...

Hey y've all reg'stered, open the gate 'n let 'em out and walk 'em 'bout. Ere we come a letter number twenty-nine, what're you gonna gimme for 'er Ah, wenta-five wunna bid me biddle, wanna five wanna five wanna five,...

It's alright for some, but not alright for me When the one that I'm lovin' slips around You think it's fine to do things I cannot see And you're doin' it to me, baby, can't you see That I know how it is? I can see it...

The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and the stars were the gift you gave To the dark and the empty skies, my love To the dark and the empty skies The first time ever I...

Step inside my tent, said she, "I'd like to read you palm" Leave the dollar in the jar, this won't take very long Leave the circus noise behind, close your eyes, relax your mind I'll tell you, if you should quit now or...

Go first in the world, go forth with your fears Remember a price must be paid Be always too soon, be never too fast At the time when all bets must be laid Beware of the darkness, be kind to your children Remember the...

The last time I saw her face, her eyes were bathed in starlight and her hair hung long The last time she spoke to me, her lips were like the scented flowers inside a rain-drenched forest But that was so long ago that I...

There's a little room on my list for tonight Will ya be the one to fill it in Toss around what is up, what is down In between, would ya like to dream Step on in, ya don't have to play to win But then you might...

Down the hall their voices ring, their feet are on the run Phantoms on the winter sky, together they do come Faded lips and eyes of blue they're carried in the wind Their laughter filled the countryside but they'll not...

The minstrel of the dawn is here To make you laugh and bend your ear Up the steps you'll hear him climb All full of thoughts, all full of rhymes Listen to the pictures flow Across the room into your mind they go Listen...

Down around the No Hotel look for me they know me well. Travelers come and travelers go down around the Hotel No. If you choose the No Hotel be prepared to run pell mell Be another burnt out shell you checked in the No...

The songs of the wars are as old as the hills They cling like the rust on the cold steel that kills They tell of the boys who went down to the tracks In a patriotic manner with the cold steel on their backs The...

When it's midnight on the meadow And the cats are in the shed And the river tells a story At the window by my bed If you listen very closely Be as quiet as you can In the yard you'll hear him It is the pony man We're...