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Thread #153997   Message #3610740
Posted By: GUEST,Tony
18-Mar-14 - 09:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please
Traveling Day
Poem by Jack Aldridge, set to music by Kate Wolf
(last song on Looking Back At You)

It's a travelin' day, you know.
Somehow they just don't start off slow.
I must be up again and on my way.

The leavin' don't come easy.
Long good-byes just don't please me,
when I know that I'll be back some day.

But I'd like to give you
one last fond farewell before I go
to thank you for all we shared,
and I'd like to have you know

this time has been a pleasure,
a jewel I'll always treasure
across the hours and miles of my way.