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Thread #51670   Message #789282
Posted By: Mark Cohen
22-Sep-02 - 09:51 PM
Thread Name: songs about singing--peak experience
Subject: Lyr Add: COULDN'T HIDE OUR HEARTS (Janis Carper)
Oh, my, the Camp Coho tape! I thought I was the only person in the world who still has that tape. Well, except for Janis and Heidi and Kat and T.R. and Jill! If you want bucketfuls of moments like that, drag yourself to the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop next summer. (If you've already been, of course, then you already know.) For me, it's always been Luther Schutz' song "On Your Way Home", which I first heard around a PSGW campfire in 1986, sung by Janet Peterson and Marie Eaton and the rest of Motherlode, with Richard Sholtz' autoharp floating above the voices. I know just what you mean, Mary Ann. I think that many of those songs are very situation-dependent, but when the situation is right, they're golden. And then, once you've felt the magic, the song brings it back to you almost every time.

Aloha,
Mark

P.S., here's a birthday present for you:

COULDN'T HIDE OUR HEARTS
Janis Carper, (c)1990 Cascadia Music, BMI

There you are with eyes of blue
Looking for a friend
As I smiled and sang with you
I could not pretend
To hide my heart
Couldn't hide my heart

Standing on the hardened ground
Beneath the quarter moon
Passing the guitar around
Play another tune

CHORUS
We had lost all track of time
And nothing mattered but the rhyme
Of words and music ringing true
We couldn't hide our hearts

How I miss that Texas sky
And that firelight glow
Shooting stars and fireflies
And singing soft and low
Don't hide your heart
Don't hide your heart

Smoke from campfires filled the air
Cedar and mesquite
As my memory takes me there
The taste is bittersweet

CHORUS

There you are with eyes of blue
Shining like the stars
Singing songs we never new
We couldn't hide our hearts
We couldn't hide our hearts