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Thread #100680 Message #2022480
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
11-Apr-07 - 03:24 PM
Thread Name: 2007 Obit: Bob Dyer of Boonville, Missouri + songs
Subject: RE: Obit: Bob Dyer of Boonville, Missouri
I'm sorry to hear that. Bob Dyer was a wonderful man. He wrote one of the most beautiful of modern songs
ON A DAY LIKE TODAY (Copyright: Bob Dyer, Songwright Pub. Inc.)
On a day like today, in the heat of this late summer weather, There's a haze in the trees and the sound of the bees in the clover; There's a hawk in the sky, there's a shine on the wide river's water, And I feel deep inside something wanting to stay here forever.
But the seasons keep changing, And the days just keep running away, And forever's a gift you're forever giving away.
On a day like today, in the last golden days of October, There's a chill in the air and a light haze of frost on the clover; There's a fire in the trees, there's a sound in the breeze like a whisper, And I feel deep inside something wanting to stay here forever.
On a day like today, in the heart of a long, bitter winter, With the light from the moon making stars on the snow in the clover, I sit down by the fire in the heat of its slow, dying embers, And I feel deep inside something wanting to stay here forever.
It's a morning in spring, and the dew on the jewel weed still glistens, And I almost can hear new life being born as I listen; I walk down by the spring and I drink from its clear flowing water, And I feel deep inside something wanting to stay here forever.