Lyr Req: The Honor of Your Company (Tom Paxton)

Subject: Here to Say the Pleasure Was All Mine
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 10:19 PM

In the How do you feel about Christmas thread, Markf referred to a song that has the chorus, "I'm here to say the pleasure was all mine." I KNOW I've heard that song, but I'll be darned if I can find it. I think maybe Paxton wrote it. Can anybody provide the lyrics?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Lyr Add: THE HONOR OF YOUR COMPANY (Tom Paxton)
From: kendall
Date: 17 Dec 99 - 02:26 PM

I can

THE HONOR OF YOUR COMPANY
(Tom Paxton)

When I find myself with a song to write
I remember candles in the night
Voices raised in a ragged harmony
Singing this land was made for you and me
Some of those voices are silent now and gone
I'm glad to see how you've been keeping on
I remember the songs that pulled us through
When I hear those songs I think of you.

Chorus
So, thank you for the honor of your company,
The music was a sweet as the good red wine
Thanks for the company, thanks for the harmony
I'm here to say the honor was all mine.

Back when times were tough and the news was bad
Faith and a couple of songs was all we had
Songs we rearranged and made our own
Songs it sometimes seemed we'd always known
We've been together now for a long long time
And, if ever I was the poet you were the rhyme
It was always the music that kept us strong
And, if ever I was the singer, you were the song
chorus

Decade after decade year by year
Season after season we're still here
And, it doesn't take a crystal ball to know
We're gonna go out singing when we go
A 5 string banjo and a steel string guitar
Just a couple of the reasons why we've come this far
Singing like we always have and will
Knowing the circle is unbroken still.
chorus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Here to Say the Pleasure Was All Min
From: kendall
Date: 17 Dec 99 - 02:27 PM

title The honor of your company by Tom Paxton

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Here to Say the Pleasure Was All Min
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Dec 99 - 03:58 PM

And thank you for the honor of your company, Kendall. Once you came up with the right title, I found the song on Paxton's Live For the Record CD. Great song, isn't it?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Here to Say the Pleasure Was All Min
From: kendall
Date: 17 Dec 99 - 05:54 PM

I'm doing a performance at a big hotel with a dozen other groups, and, I'm going to do that song for all those with whom I have made music over the years. It's a great song indeed, as most of his songs are.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Here to Say the Pleasure Was All Min
From: raredance
Date: 18 Dec 99 - 12:50 AM

This song also came up about a month ago. Search the forum for "honor"