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Thread #3110 Message #14899
Posted By: Joe Offer
17-Oct-97 - 02:59 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hurry Sundown + It's a Long Road to ...
Subject: ADD: It's a Long Road to Freedom, (Winter)
Hi, Miranda, the second one is "It's a Long Road to Freedom, by Sister Miriam Therese Winter of the the Medical Mission Sisters. It's in the "Rise Up Singing" songbook, but let's see how much I can type before I have to go get it off the shelf:
It's a Long Road to Freedom (Sister Miriam Therese Winter)
It's a long road to freedom, a-winding steep and high, But when you walk in love, with the wind on your wing, And cover the earth with the songs you sing, the miles fly by.
I walked one morning by the sea, And all the waves reached out to me I took their tears And let them be. [chorus]
I walked one morning at the dawn When bits of night still lingered on I sought my star, But it was gone [chorus]
I walked one morning with a friend And thought the day would never end. the years have flown, So why pretend. [chorus]
I walked one morning with my King (My heart one morning took to wing) And all my winters turned to spring Yet every moment held its sting [chorus]
Gee, I feel like I'm back at a Folk Mass in the 60's - all those clean-scrubbed, smiling kids and their guitars, and to think I was one of them. Heck, I still do a Folk Mass with teenage kids once a month. And I did remember most of the words. -Joe Offer-