Lyr Req: Songs about sincerity and truthfulness

Subject: Lyr Req: Come From The Heart
From: topical tom
Date: 13 Nov 18 - 12:15 PM

Some years ago at the Ottawa Folk Festival, I heard Garnet Rodgers sing a song with the lines "It must come from the heart if you want it to work." Could someone give me the lyrics to that song?

Also, what other songs have you heard that also prevoke sincerity and truthfulness in their lyrics? This is an example: If You Don't Love Me, Why Not Confess performed by the Stumbleweeds on YouTube.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come From The Heart
From: Mr Happy
Date: 13 Nov 18 - 03:58 PM

Come from the Heart

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come From The Heart
From: topical tom
Date: 14 Nov 18 - 04:19 PM

Thanks a lot, Mr. Happy. Does anyone any other songs about sincerity and truthfulness? Here's one more: Are You Tired of Me, Darling? by the Stanley Brothers on YouTube.

[Link fixed by a Mudelf.]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come From The Heart
From: topical tom
Date: 14 Nov 18 - 04:50 PM

Sorry. I was unable to make a proper blue clicky for the song "Are You Tired Of Me, Darling. (You Tube). Would someone do this for me?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come From The Heart
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 14 Nov 18 - 05:39 PM

Nanci Griffith sings

Are you tired of me?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come From The Heart
From: topical tom
Date: 14 Nov 18 - 10:06 PM

Thanks so much GUEST henryp

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come From The Heart
From: topical tom
Date: 14 Nov 18 - 10:14 PM

Does anyone have any more songs promoting sincerity and truthfulness?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come From The Heart
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 15 Nov 18 - 07:16 AM

Not a song, but a sonnet by Edmund Spenser It was first published in 1595, so it has endured for more than 400 years.

Amoretti LXXV:

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
"Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay,
A mortal thing so to immortalize;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wiped out likewise."
"Not so," (quod I) "let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name:
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come From The Heart
From: topical tom
Date: 15 Nov 18 - 10:31 AM

Excellent!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come From The Heart
From: topical tom
Date: 15 Nov 18 - 03:37 PM

Here is another song extolling the virtue of truthfulness. This is dedicated especially to a certain American politician: It's a Sin to Tell a Lie sung by Patti Page on YouTube.