Lyr/Chords Req: Earth (Les Barker)

Subject: Lyr Req: Earth by Les Barker the english poet/com
From: GUEST,henhound
Date: 21 May 09 - 12:29 AM

Am trying to get lyrics of a song Earth sung by Norma Waterson

Subject: Lyr Add: EARTH (Les Barker)
From: Reinhard
Date: 21 May 09 - 03:19 AM

EARTH
(Les Barker)

I was here before your father;
And I'll be here when you are gone,
See you give way to another;
And I'll be here when he moves on.
Drops of water in my ocean,
Tides of life to ebb and flow;
I was here before your father;
And I'll be here the day you go.

I can not be won by losses,
Nor can I be bought by blood,
Borne away on seas of crosses,
Men who lie where once they stood.
I am not your prize for dying;
I am not your gift by birth.
Time moves on, in time denying
All your lives upon my earth.

Tides of life, your tides of battle,
Briefly touch my soil with red;
I am not the victor's chattel,
Nor am I owned by the dead.
I am Earth; I am eternal,
You are but one moment's pause,
Just a line lost in my journal;
You are mine; I am not yours.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Earth by Les Barker the english poet/com
From: GUEST
Date: 21 May 09 - 06:16 AM

thankyou so much Reinhard you have made my quest so much easier i have been listening to Norma Watersons version and cannot decipher some of the words she is singing thanks again

Subject: Chord Req: Earth by Les Barker the english poet/com
From: GUEST,Helen
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 07:19 AM

I am trying to track down chords for the song Earth sung by Norma Waterson and i think Martin Carthy plays guitar on it but cannot work out his tuning thanks

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Earth by Les Barker the english poet/co
From: GUEST,Guest Kevin
Date: 06 Jun 09 - 12:57 AM

it might be in dadgad or one of those tunings not too sure maybe someone else out there could help