Lyr Req: The Tune I Hear So Well (Robin Williamson

Subject: Robin Williamson song
From: michaelr
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 11:14 PM

I am looking for the lyrics to a Robin Williamson song called "The Tune I Hear So Well". Can't seem to find it in the DT - anyone able to help?

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Robin Williamson song
From: The Shambles
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 02:24 AM

No I am afraid. It is new to me and I have looked for it on this site but it might be a later song than those?

Link fixed. One of your brackets was pointing the wrong way. --JoeClone, 7-Feb-02.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Robin Williamson song
From: The Shambles
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 02:27 AM

http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~bakkevol/isb/index.html

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Robin Williamson song
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 02:39 AM

Shambles, thanks for that link! I looked through the lyrics of The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion and found myself instantly transported back to freshman year at college, 1970. What a trip!

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: Lyr Add: THE TUNE I HEAR SO WELL (Robin Williamson
From: Margaret V
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 10:06 AM

Hi, Michael, the song is on "Journey's Edge" (Flying Fish, 1977). Lovely song, isn't it? I often find myself singing fragments while driving in the car. Margaret
THE TUNE I HEAR SO WELL

With a stranger's frown I came to town riding in a car
With a bloody rose in my lapel & whiskey in a jar
And all I left behind me to remind me who I am
Was plain boiled potatoes & the blood of the lamb

(Chorus)
But with all the words that I have heard
I don't see how I'll tell
I don't see how I'll ever play
The tune I hear so well

The nursemaid has her coup de grace, the nun her cup of gall
Young girls have their silks & satins, old maids have their shawls
The judge's book, the boxer's bell, the butcher his sweet smile
The rhyme must have a reason, the time must have a while

(Chorus)

The lady has her vision & the lazy have their sleep
The dream that I dreamed on the world was long & dark & deep
And when I woke I broke my fast, drinking at the still
By the bright stars of morning on the road behind the hill

Copyright 1976 Robin Williamson. All rights reserved.
Recorded on Flying Fish album "Journey's Edge" (1977)

MLV

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Robin Williamson song
From: michaelr
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 09:30 PM

Shambles - thanks for the link; unfortunately it IS a later song.

Margaret - thank you so much for posting the lyrics. I knew the mudcat would come through!

Cheers,
Michael