Lyr Req: Suenos/Sueno (Bill Staines)

Subject: Lyr Req: Sueños (Bill Staines)
From: Genie
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 05:35 PM

At the Seattle Song Circle last Sunday (try saying that if your two front teeth are missing!) a guy (Doug, who sounds like Marty Robbins) sang a beautiful Spanish lyric song which he told me was called "Sueños" and was by Bill Staines.
I can't find it on any of Bill's albums that are listed at iTunes or in the DT of forum here.
Does anyone know which album it's on? Can someone post the lyrics?

(In case my diacritical marks don't translate to Windows for you unenlighted Mudcatters who don't use Mac, it's "Suenos" with a tilde on the "n.") §;-D

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sueños (Bill Staines)
From: Peace
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 05:48 PM

Suenos means dreams.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sueños (Bill Staines)
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 05:51 PM

3. #MR1005 Sandstone Cathedrals
Contains: Ol' Pen, The Faith Man, Coyote, Sueno, Down the Road, plus 6 more. (Mineral River Records 1983) Available on cassette, CD & LP.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sueños (Bill Staines)
From: Peace
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 05:55 PM

The title of the thread should be changed to the singular.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sueños (Bill Staines)
From: bbc
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 06:03 PM

Check Joe Offer's post from June 15th on this:

Sueno thread from the past

Great song!

bbc

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sueños (Bill Staines)
From: Genie
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 06:08 PM

Peace, I know it means "dreams," but the song is in Spanish. :) I'm looking for the lyrics and which album it's on. (I looked at Bill's website, http://www.acousticmusic.com/staines/bsdisco.htm but did not find it.)

Thanks for the info, Guest! Pretty sure that's not one of Bill's albums that's available on iTunes, but it's good to know it's not one of his that's no longer available, either.

Peace, is the title "Sueño" not "Sueños?" If so, yes, maybe Joe or a clone will fix the title. :)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sueños (Bill Staines)
From: Peace
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 06:13 PM

The song is entitled "Sueno".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sueños (Bill Staines)
From: bbc
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 07:00 PM

Genie,

Did you read my post? The lyrics are in there.

bbc

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sueños (Bill Staines)
From: Genie
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 07:07 PM

Oops, I just noticed you had a link to another thread. Thanks, bbc!

Genie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sueños (Bill Staines)
From: Genie
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 07:09 PM

I think you posted your link post while I was typing one myself. That's why I didn't see it.

Maybe we should leave the title as is, in case someone else makes the same mistake I did and searches for "Sueños."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sueños (Bill Staines)
From: Peace
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 10:45 PM

Glad you got the lyrics, Genie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sueños (Bill Staines)
From: Genie
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 11:03 PM

Me too, Peace.   Thanks,

Now I need to get the song. The album it's on is not available at iTunes, so I'll have to order it elsewhere. (I think the Mudcat Store is down now, but I have that one and a couple others I could order via Mudcat I think.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sueños (Bill Staines)
From: Genie
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 11:05 PM

And, oh, I was wrong. I forgot that the verse is in English, with the chorus in Spanish. Though as I recall, Doug sang the verse in Spanish too.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Suenos (Bill Staines)
From: GUEST,taquinho noronha Brazil
Date: 29 May 07 - 01:21 PM

It sounds queer that we can't find the lyrics for the song Suenõs by Bill Staines anywhere. I'd like to get it too.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Suenos (Bill Staines)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 May 07 - 04:56 AM

Thread #48547   Message #730622
Posted By: Joe Offer
15-Jun-02 - 04:45 PM
Thread Name: Help Staines Song with Chorus en Espanol

Subject: Lyr Add: SUEÑO (Bill Staines)

I dunno. This question poses a perennial moral quandry for music sites. I don't feel guilty about posting lyrics because I would suppose that anybody who would want to know the lyrics of this song has paid to hear Bill Staines sing it, either in person or on CD. Some of Bill's CD's have printed lyrics, and some don't. I have a recording of this song on the First Million Miles CD, which does not have lyrics. I copied the lyrics from the Music to Me songbook.
-Joe Offer-

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SUEÑO
(Bill Staines)

1. By my dying fire tonight, I see your face within the light
It smiles and fades like fleeting shadows on the ground.
And the river running near brings back the song I used to hear
When we were one and danced the streets of Spanish town.

CHORUS
Rio Grande, agua cantando
En la noche, oigo tu cancion
Mi guitarra canta contigo,
Una cancion de mi corazon

2. And so I hold you once again, it's just a dream I know but then,
Better a dream than never holding you to me.
Now in the fire's dying glow I feel your warmth and I remember
Oh so well, the way our loving used to be.

CHORUS

3. The ocotillo's flaming flower it grew as red as my heart's blood, the hour
You left me for the ways of San Antone.
and now beside the water's flow, my fire dies, the memories go
And once again the dream is gone and I'm alone.

CHORUS (Repeated)

Translation:
Rio Grande, singing water,
In the night, I hear your song.
My guitar sings with you,
A song of my heart.


©1981, Mineral River Music (BMI)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Suenos/Sueno (Bill Staines)
From: GUEST,Rob
Date: 05 Jul 15 - 01:56 PM

It's on a CD called "the first million miles"

Subject: Lyrics: Sueno (Bill Staines)
From: Genie
Date: 17 Oct 15 - 05:04 AM

Just heard Bill play and sing it tonight a a Portland FollkMusic Society concert. Beautiful song.

Genie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Suenos/Sueno (Bill Staines)
From: Amos
Date: 17 Oct 15 - 12:57 PM

He is singing it here.

A pretty song.