Lyr Req: Best of Friends (Mimi Fariña)

Subject: Joan Baez lyrics
From:
Date: 15 Apr 00 - 01:50 AM

I am looking for lyrics to Joan Baez song on her Greatest Hits album called "Best of Friends".... Please let me know if anyone can help me find the lyrics.... I've checked everywhere and can't find the lyrics... I can't find the CD either but that's a different story....

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e-mail me if you can help please!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Baez lyrics
From: wildlone
Date: 15 Apr 00 - 07:51 AM

http://baez.woz.org/jblyrics.html
yer be the only Joan Baez lyric site I can find.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Baez lyrics
From:
Date: 15 Apr 00 - 10:23 PM

I've been to that site and every other Joan Baez site on the web... I was refered to this one by someone else...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Baez lyrics
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 12:02 AM

I have a Joanie songbook, what specific songs are you looking for? I don't know what is on the album you refer to.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Baez lyrics
From: Amos
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 12:50 AM

Many of her songs are traditional numbers which you could get help with here, but do it by song names rather than album names. I don't kknow what's on the album.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Baez lyrics
From: BlueJay
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 01:50 AM

Slight misunderstanding here. GUEST, MICKEY is looking for the lyrics to the song titled "Best of Friends", which is on her Best of Joan Baez album. I've tried searching the lyric sites that I know, with no success. One such site states they only list the songs written by her, so it's very possible someone else wrote the song. It isn't in the DT that I can find. MICKEY- if I were you, and no clever Mudcatter can come up with the lyrics, I would go to www.amazon.com where the album is listed as in stock and ships in 24 hours. Wish I had it, I'd transcribe it for you. Good Luck, BlueJay

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Baez lyrics
From: wildlone
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 08:54 AM

The only song Best Of Friends I can find is this one.

When you're the best of friends
Having so much fun together
You're not even aware, you're such a funny pair
You're the best of friends

Life's a happy game
You could clown around forever
Neither one of you sees, your natural boundaries
Life's one happy game

If only the world wouldn't get in the way
If only people would just let you play
They say you're both being fools
You're breaking all the rules
They can't understand your magic wonderland
Hu-hu-hu

When you're the best of friends
Sharing all that you discover
When that moment has passed, will that friendship last?
Who can say if there's a way?
Oh I hope . . . I hope it never ends
'Cause you're the best of friends

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Baez lyrics
From: GUEST,Mickey
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 09:51 PM

Sorcha

I am looking for a song titled "Best of Friends" sung by Joan Baez written by her sister Mimi Farina...

Subject: ADD: Best of Friends (Mimi Farina)^^
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 10:39 PM

THE BEST OF FRIENDS
(Mimi Fariña)

We may not always be the best of lovers
But if you leave it to me, I think I can see
We'll always be
The best of friends.

And one day, when I am old and on the porch,
With knittings around my knees,
You'll hear me say, "Excuse me, please,
But aren't you the one, and wasn't it fun
Way back when?"

Or maybe in a year, you'll reappear
And if that should come true,
I'd throw my arms around you,
And watch you smile, just for a while,
Once again.
[instrumental break]


We may not always be the best of lovers
But if you leave it to me, I think I can see
We'll always be
The best of friends.
La, la, la, la…
The best of friends.
La, la, la, la…(fade)

JRO^^

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Baez lyrics
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 10:42 PM

Great job, Joe. I looked and I didn't have it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Baez lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 10:45 PM

Is "knittings" right?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Baez lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 11:08 PM

This is what Fariña says on her own 1986 "Solo" album:

I was lonely performing in snowy Boulder, Colorado, attempting a new career move without my singing partner, Tom Jans. On a sleepless night I sat bolt upright in bed at 3:00 AM in the Boulderado Hotel and wrote this song that I now dedicate to Tom's memory, regretfully.

I couldn't find a date when Fariña wrote the song, but Baez recorded it in 1973.
I think I read somewhere that Mimi Fariña was suffering from some kind of cancer. Can anybody confirm that? There was a Bread and Roses concert in San Francisco last month, but I skipped it because the tickets were very pricey. sounds like it was a good concert, but somehow it doesn't seem right to listen to folk music at the San Francisco Opera House (Fariña is the founder of Bread and Roses, which provides free concerts for prisoners and others).
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Mimi Farina - Bread and Roses Organization
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 11:21 PM

Yeah, I was right about the cancer - Click here. For more information on the Bread and Roses concert, click here and click here and here (ticket prices $50 to $1,000).
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Baez lyrics
From: GUEST,Mickey
Date: 17 Apr 00 - 09:06 AM

Thanx guys I have been searching for the lyrics for over a month... thank you alot