Lyr Req: Dancing in the Meadow (Michael M Murphey)

Subject: Lyr Req: Dancing in the Meadow by Michael Murphy
From: GUEST,BigDaddy
Date: 11 Jan 06 - 10:27 AM

I had these somewhere once upon a time. Tried Google, Digitrad, Forum, etc. No luck. Wonderful song (tune is a variation of "Nonesuch"). Anybody? Song was on either "Wildfire" LP or "Swans Against the Sun" LP. Thanks.

Subject: Thread title CORRECTION
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jan 06 - 10:34 AM

Small thing but it might help. I think his name is Michael Martin MurphEy.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing in the Meadow by Michael Murphy
From: Gene
Date: 11 Jan 06 - 12:08 PM

I have the wildfire lp somewhere...will look

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing in the Meadow by Michael Murp
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Jan 06 - 12:35 PM

It is Murphey. and a sample of the song can be heard at Amazon.com. (Plus you can buy the recording) I found one reference to the song being on Swans Against the Sun. I didn't find any lyrics though, but I only got to the 4th Google page. Very Celtic-ish sound!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing in the Meadow by Michael Murphey
From: GUEST,BigDaddy
Date: 11 Jan 06 - 04:22 PM

Okay it was from "Swans Against The Sun," and sometime after he recorded that he began professionally using his middle name. So, anybody have the lyrics for this? It's really a great song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing in the Meadow by Michael Murphey
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 01:21 PM

Refresh

Subject: Lyr Add: DANCING IN THE MEADOW (Michael M Murphey)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 11:56 PM

Lyrics copied from a Japanese web site:
http://www.geocities.jp/bgtnd_28/songbook/song/dancinginthemeadow.html

DANClNG IN THE MEADOW
Michael Martin Murphey

When the snow-fields thaw and the stream beds crawl to the waterfall and river,
I'll turn my face to the bright green space of the mother, my life-giver.
No man has made a ring of jade like green corn in the husk.
No man could own a turquoise stone as deep blue as the dusk.
So come away from your working day and laugh and let your head go,
And bring along an old-time song for dancing in the meadow.

Leave your bedside for a moonlight ride where the midnight air is warmer.
We'll sing for the quail and the cottontail who still escapes the farmer.
Deep plum thickets and bramble bushes where the quiet creatures hide
Are part of me, a mystery which I accept with pride.
If I must stay and lay all day like a march hare in hedgerow,
When the hunter's gone, it's all night long, for dancing in the meadow.

When the summer's over and come October when the evening air is crisper,
In the mist and smoke by the twisted oak, I'll listen to the branches whisper.
Barn dancers reel, the furrowed field must yield and quickly turn.
Harvest gone, the hoot-owl song is one we now must learn.
"Who, who, who are you?" and "If it's you, who said so?"
"Who could it be?" "It's only me. I'm dancing in the meadow."

When the seasons pass and the hourglass has all too quickly shattered,
You'll lay me low beneath the snow and wonder if I mattered.
Late in the night, your hair gone white will surely stand on end.
You'll hear me sing, my banjo ring, the voice of your old friend.
If you get brave, run to my grave and holler, "Are you dead?" "No!"
No tombstone can cover my bones. I'm dancing in the meadow.

[Sung by Michael Martin Murphey on "Swans against the Sun" and "Wildfire 1972-1984."]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing in the Meadow (Michael M Murphey)
From: Peace
Date: 17 Jan 06 - 08:33 PM

Good one, Jim.

Subject: Lyr Add: DANClNG IN THE MEADOW (Michael M Murphey)
From: Gene
Date: 17 Jan 06 - 08:35 PM

Good thing you found these online Jim...was no way i was gonna
tackle it...my recording sounds like this....


DANClNG IN THE MEADOW
Michael Martin Murphey

When the snow-fields thaw and the stream beds crawl to the waterfall and river,
[I] turn my face to the bright green space of the mother, [and] life-giver.
No man has made a ring of jade like green corn in the husk.
No man could own a turquoise stone as deep blue as the dusk.
So come away from [the work of day] day and laugh and let your head go,
Bring along an old-time song for dancing in the meadow.

Leave your bedside for a moonlight ride where the midnight air is warmer.
[We] sing for the quail and the cottontail who still escapes the farmer.
Deep plum thickets and [the] bramble bush where the quiet creatures hide
Are part of me, a mystery which I accept with pride.
If I must stay and lay all day like a march hare in hedgerow,
When the hunter's gone, it's all night long, [I'm] dancing in the meadow.

When the summer's over and come October [and] the evening air is crisper,
In the mist and smoke by the twisted oak, I'll listen to the branches whisper.
Barn dancers reel, the furrowed field must yield and quickly turn.
Harvest gone, the hoot-owl song is one we now must learn.
[Sing] "Who, who, who are you?" and "If it's you, who said so?"
"Who could it be?" "It's only me. I'm dancing in the meadow."

When the seasons pass and the hourglass has all too quickly shattered,
You'll lay me low beneath the snow and wonder if I mattered.
Late in the night, your hair gone white will surely stand on end.
You'll hear me sing, my banjo ring, the voice of your old friend.
If you get brave, run to my grave and holler, "Are you dead?" "No!"
No tombstone can cover my bones. I'm dancing in the meadow.

[Sung by Michael Martin Murphey on "Swans against the Sun" and "Wildfire

1972-1984."]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing in the Meadow (Michael M Murphey)
From: GUEST,BigDaddy
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 07:38 PM

Thanks, Jim (and Gene). Sorry I was slow getting back to you but I just had a new-fangled pacemaker installed (called an "ICD," for "Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator!"). Anyway, glad to still be here and thanks again!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dancing in the Meadow (Michael M Murphey)
From:
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 08:53 PM

Found this site while actually looking to replace my old vinyl Murf record, Swans Against The Sun. I'm looking to get it again on CD if possible. I absolutely wore out this record. Great music, and "Dancing" is a collage of country/rock/jazz. All in all, I enjoyed this album far better than Blue Sky/Night Thunder. That one had Carolina in the pines, and Wildfire. I see someone had posted the lyrics to "Dancing in the Meadow" I was going to attempt by memory! -Khemmie