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Thread #114342 Message #2438867
Posted By: Joe Offer
12-Sep-08 - 08:06 PM
Thread Name: Chord Req: Sampler Song (Bill Staines)
Subject: ADD: Sampler Song (Bill Staines)
I know you requested chords, but it's also nice to have lyrics:
The Sampler Song (Bill Staines)
Just a little to the left of the big front window In the house where I was born and raised Up on the wall, all framed in golden And sewn with love, hung a simple phrase. And when the world grew dark and troubled And the cold hard times seemed there to stay Those little words spelled out their treasure And shone a light on a weary day.
"I cannot play, I cannot sing But I can try like anything." Those little words spelled out their treasure And shone a light on the weary day.
Against the wall, the old piano Brought me to tears from time to time When Mama played her gentle music It spoke to me in endless rhyme.
I could not play, I could not sing But I could try like anything When Mama played her gentle music It spoke to me in endless rhyme.
Now and then the years bring back the hours When a kindly word was a worthy friend And that little phrase sewn 'round with flowers Brings a gift of love and some light again.
"I cannot play, I cannot sing But I can try like anything." Those little words sewn 'round with flowers Bring a gift of love and some light again.
Those little words sewn 'round with flowers Bring a gift of love and some light again.
lyrics found at www.acousticmusic.com and corrected with recording - "sewn" and "shone," for example. I've never paid attention to this song before. What a lovely song! -Joe-