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Thread #26880   Message #768767
Posted By: Jim Dixon
20-Aug-02 - 05:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Fall Is Here (Charlie Maguire)
Subject: Lyr Add: FALL IS HERE (Charlie Maguire)
Charlie Maguire now has his own website! There are sound samples of many of his songs there.
Following lyrics copied from http://www.charliemaguire.com/FallIs.html

FALL IS HERE
(Charlie Maguire © Mello-Jamin Music)

"I meant this song to be more than about a season of the year. It's about living on your own place, being your own boss, being proud of your work, and being aware of all the things that make up your world." --CM

When my cows no longer care to go
Out to their pasture far or near,
But stand close in the last warm sun,
Around the place, I'll know fall is here.

And when the corn goes into dent,
Across the fields like old men appear,
And we pick it and store it all away,
Around the place, I'll know that fall is here.

When the limbs of the apple and the pear
Lean down with their fruit so near,
And my children go a-gathering,
Around the place, I'll know that fall is here.

And when the hunters come from town,
Seeking the pheasant and the deer,
With their dogs in front to point the game,
Around the place, I'll know that fall is here.

When the hay and straw are in the barn,
Stacked to the roof, tier on tier,
Smelling like a summer come and gone,
Around the place, I'll know that fall is here.

Around the place, I'll know that fall is here,
When the evenings come early and the mornings are clear.
Over all of the fields that I worked this year,
Around the place, I'll know that fall is here.

[Sung by Charlie Maguire on "Harbour Lights: The Second Voyage."]