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This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the John Denver Album, and has also been released on the Country Classics Album.
Blue river blues I'd rather be outside Here I am inside Watching it rain Blue river blues I'd rather be somewhere Here I am nowhere Watching it rain One, two, three, four! Some people like that downhill stuff They like it fast and breezy Some people walk on the other side They like it slow and easy Some people run on a mountain trail Some like it wild and rough Some like to fly and some like to sail And some like the downhill stuff There's work in what we practice Work in the things we say Sometimes we work just to try to make a living Or we're workin' just to make it pay Sometimes we're tryin' to work our will But that won't work anyway I only know that I'm workin' still Just to get another chance to play Some people like that downhill stuff They like it fast and breezy Some people walk on the other side They like it slow and easy Some people run on a mountain trail Some like it wild and rough Some like to fly and some like to sail And some like the downhill stuff Keep movin' in a forward direction Like a river rollin' down to the sea If you wanna make a different selection Honey, let yourself go with gravity Everybody's lookin' for heaven Everybody's lookin' for home Everybody's lookin' for higher and higher But nobody wants to be lookin' alone Everybody's tryin' to get down to it Everybody's tryin' to sing Whatever it is we're all gonna do it But whatever we do we gotta do our own thing Some people like that downhill stuff They like it fast and breezy Some people walk on the other side They like it slow and easy Some people run on a mountain trail Some like it wild and rough Some like to fly and some like to sail Some like the downhill stuff I like the downhill stuff Let me slide down that downhill stuff Oh, honey give me some downhill stuff Words and music by John Denver |
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Pulled out of Linden, Texas
Two days and nights ago I've been livin' on pills and burgies Till the whites of my eyes don't show Southbound headlights are makin' me blind I'm too damn tired to blink My toes are numb and my brains gone dumb And I can just barely think Sweet Melinda, my wife The lonesome moan of this eighteen wheeler Cuts through me like a knife 'Cept for you, sweet Melinda, my wife I been ridin' on empty Most all of my life Two more hours of daylight It's startin' to rain again A sign up ahead says “Welcome to Paradise Population Ten?? Well me and this truck and that old white line Stumblin' on and on Like three old drinkin' buddies Comin' home at dawn |
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| 4:26 |
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This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the John Denver Album. It has also been released on the Country Classics, Reflections and The Country Roads Collection Albums.
You know sometimes I can't get to sleep at night I can't quiet my heart or my mind I toss and turn, I ache and burn I get caught in the passing of time It's like too many miles, too many heartaches Too much that needs to be done Yes and too many sidewalks, too many people Too many hours done What's on your mind What's on my mind Is really quite the same I've been working so hard And I'm ready to play I know just the right game What's on your mind Is what's on my mind That's the way it's gonna be I'm gonna find me a place I can hide I want you right next to me On I've never seen a more beautiful day It's my favorite time of year The colors are changing, she's rearranging And I'm so glad to be here I've been up and around, I've been lost, I've been found I've seen love face to face in my dreams And the things that I know and the things that I show Are not always just what they seem What's on your mind Is what's on my mind It's just that way It's like catching a ride On a beautiful river Let it carry us all away What's on your mind And what's on my mind Is really nothing new I want to get you alone I want to make you my own Baby, I want to make love with you What's on your mind And what's on my mind Is really quite the same I've been working so hard And I'm ready to play Baby, I know just the right game What's on your mind And what's on my mind Is really nothing new I want to get you alone I want to make you my own Baby, I want to make love with you Words and music by John Denver |
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This song was first released on the John Denver Album. It is the only album it has been released on.
Life is so good Life is so good these days Life is so good these days Life is so good Life is so good Life is so good these days Life is so good these days Life is so good Words and music by John Denver |
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| 4:09 |
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This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the Farewell Andromeda album, and has also been released on the John Denver album.
I saw a Berkley woman Sittin' in her rockin' chair A dulcimer in her lap A feather in her hair Her breasts swayed freely With the rhythm of the rockin' chair She was a-sittin' and a-singin' and a-swayin' Her cheeks were red I declare Twas hard to believe What my eyes showed me then The colour in her cheeks Was just her natural skin She wore no makeup To make her look that way She was a natural mama with the red cheeks What more can I say Well I finally realised There was hunger in my stare In my mind I was swayin' With the woman in the rockin' chair But the lady I was livin' with Was standin' right by my side She saw my stare and she saw my hunger And Lord it made her cry So with anger on her face Yes and the hurt in her eyes She scratched me and she clawed me She screamed and she cried “Oh you don't give me near All the lovin' that you should Yet you're ready to go and lay with her You're just no damn good?? Well I guess she's probably right Oh I guess I'm probably wrong I guess she's not too far away She hasn't been gone very long And I guess we could get together And try it one more time But I know that wanderlust would come again She'd only wind up a-cryin' Well now you've heard my story Plain as the light of day It's hard to feel guilty for lovin' the ladies That's all I gotta say 'Cept a woman is the sweetest fruit That God ever put on the vine I'd no more love just one kinda woman Than drink only one kinda wine Words and Music by Bryan Bowers |
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| 3:02 |
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This song was first released on the John Denver album. It is the only album it has been released on.
Way down in Louisiana close to New Orleans Way back up in the woods among the evergreens There stood a log cabin mad of earth and wood Where lived a country boy name of Johnny B. Goode He never ever learned to read or write so well But he could play a guitar just like a-ringin' a bell Go, go, go Johnny go Go, go Johnny go Go, go Johnny go Go, go Johnny go Go Johnny B. Goode He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track The engineers would see him sittin' in the shade Strummin' to the rhythm that the drivers made People passing by would they would stop and say Oh my but that little country boy can play Go, go, go Johnny go Go, go Johnny go Go, go, go Johnny go Go, go, go Johnny go Go, go Johnny B. Goode Well his mama told him some day you will be a man You will be the leader of a big old band Many people comin' from miles around Just to hear you play your music till the sun go down Maybe some day your name will be in lights Sayin' Johnny B. Goode tonight Go, go, go, go, go Johnny go Go, go Johnny go Go, go, go Johnny go Go, go Johnny go Go, go Johnny B. Goode Words and music by Chuck Berry |
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| 3:07 |
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You're So Beautiful
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the John Denver Album, and has also been released on the Reflections and The Country Roads Collection Albums. Born on a quiet morning Just a dream in someone's eyes A dream that's like a promise meant to be Giving rise to speculation On a place called paradise If I've ever been there It's when you were with me You're so beautiful I can't believe my eyes Each time I see you again You're so beautiful That I'm in paradise Each time I see you again I remember some hidden valley Where the skies are never still And alpine meadows burn in the evening light I remember the path to glory And the way around the hill I remember true love's eyes Shining in the night You're so beautiful I can't believe my eyes Each time I see you again You're so beautiful That I'm in paradise Each time I see you again And if paradise is everything you see Then the place you must be coming from Is ecstasy You're so beautiful That I can't believe my eyes Each time I see you again You're so beautiful That I'm in paradise Each time I see you again Just want to see you again I want to be with you again I just need to love you again Just wanna touch you again I just need to love you again I want to be with you again touch you again love you again with you again Words and music by John Denver |
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| 3:27 |
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This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the John Denver album, and has also been released on The Country Roads Collection album.
The wheels go down I'm back in town Three months full of summer And nothing to do It's been a strain at the reins But the picture remains Southwind's blowin' my love to you Southwind's blowin' my love For sixty-one days I got caught in the maze Twenty thousand watching The songs go by The lights go down In an east Texas town Southwind's blowin' my love to you Southwind's blowin' my love I couldn't wait until Till I got back home to you Oh to get my fill Of those California summer nights It's good to be home My how the children have grown Screen door's barking out That old familiar tune Games at the park But honey wait until dark Southwind's blowin' my love to you Southwind's blowin' my love I couldn't wait until Till I got back home to you Oh to get my fill Of those California summer nights The wheels go down I'm back in town Three months full of summer And nothing to do It's been a strain at the reins But the picture remains Southwind's blowin' my love to you Southwind's blowin' my love Words and Music by Herb Pedersen |
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Inch by inch, row by row
Gonna make this garden grow All it takes is a rake and a hoe And a piece of fertile ground Inch by inch, row by row Someone bless these seeds I sow Someone warm them from below Till the rain comes tumblin down Pullin weeds and pickin stones Man is made of dreams and bones Feel the need to grow my own Cause the time is close at hand Rainful rain, sun and rain Find my way in natures chain Tune my body and my brain To the music from the land Plant your rows straight and long Temper them with prayer and song Mother Earth will make you strong If you give her love and care Old crow watchin hungrily From his perch in yonder tree In my garden Im as free As that feathered thief up there |
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So tremble if you must
For the dust is still breathing And the trees are just the leaves On a big breathing globe And there's life in the rocks And the seashells are listening To the sound of the sea As it slips on it's way |
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| 4:36 |
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This song was first released on the Whose Garden Was This? Album. It is the only album it has been released on.
Sail away, sail away home Sail away, till you are gone You have so far to go There's so much that you don't know Dream away, see what you find yea Dream away, it's all in your mind Things that you like to see Things that you like to be Don't you know, it seems so wrong yea Don't you know, it's gone on too long I can't take the guns any more I can't take the screams any more I can't take the pain It's got to stop, it's got to change It can't go on, it can't go on Don't you know, it's gone on too long, yes Don't you know, it seems so wrong I can't take the guns any more I can't take the screams any more I can't take the pain It's got to stop, it's got to change It can't go on, it can't go on We'll find a way I know you can We'll find a way I give you my hand We're on our way back home We've been a long time gone Sail away, sail away home Sail away, sail away home yea Sail away, sail away home Sail away, sail away home yea Sail away Words and music by John Denver |
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| 3:54 |
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This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the Whose Garden Was
This? album, and has also been released on the Changes album. Virgil Caine is the name, I served on the Danville Train So much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again In the summer of sixty-five we were hungry just barely alive By May the tenth Richmond had fell it's a time I remember so well The night they drove old Dixie down and the bells were ringin' The night they drove old Dixie down and the people were singin' They went la na na na na na la na na na na na na na Back home in Tennessee my wife called out for me Say Virgil come quick and see there goes Robert E Lee I don't mind choppin' wood and I don't care if da money ain't good You take what you need and save the rest but they should never have taken the very best The night they drove old Dixie down and the bells were ringin' The night they drove old Dixie down and the people were singin' They went la na na na na na la na na na na na na na Like my father before me he was a workin' man Like my brother above me he took a rebel's stand He was just eighteen proud and brave when a Yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the blood beneath my feet you can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat The night they drove old Dixie down and the bells were ringin' The night they drove old Dixie down and the people were singin' They went la na na na na na la na na na na na na na The night they drove old Dixie down and the bells were ringin' The night they drove old Dixie down and the people were singin' They went la na na na na na la na na na na na na na.................. Words and music by R Robertson |
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| 4:36 |
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| 2:29 |
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This song was first released on the whose garden was this? album. it is the only album it has been released on.
I wish I could have been there on the highway When the people came from miles around to see The children of the flowers come together I wish I could have been there in the sunshine With the sound of lovely laughter in the air And the music makers first began to play To hear them play And I wish I could have been there in the rain When the clouds were full of castles in the sky And I wish I could have heard the people sing As the rhytmn and the words came floating by I wish I could have been there in the starlight When the country side was trying once again And the music and the makers the poets and the singers And the children of the flowers have all gone Words and music by john denver |
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