Lyr Req: Columbine (Townes Van Zandt)

Subject: Lyrics please
From: folkwaller
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 03:14 PM

Lyrics please for Columbine sung by Derek Brimstone

Subject: RE: Lyrics please
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 03:34 PM

Download, £6, here:
CLICK!

Subject: RE: Lyrics please
From: open mike
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:41 PM

this thread title would be so much more helpful
if it included the name of the specific lyrics wanted

and more info such as date, location, etc.
good luck

Subject: RE: Lyrics please
From: Peace
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:52 PM

Do you have any words from the song? Brimstone's performance is available, but the title "Columbine" brings up lotsa songs. No way to tell which is the one you're looking for.

Subject: RE: Lyrics please
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 06:11 PM

As I said, I found a download of it. No lyrics available on the web it seems.

Hey, you know who! Git yer butt to you know where!

Subject: RE: Lyrics please - 'Columbine' by Derek Brimstone
From: folkwaller
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 04:00 AM

Sorry for the lack of info. I now understand that the song is on Brimmo's album ' Shuffleboat River Farewell '

Subject: RE: Lyrics please - 'Columbine' by Derek Brimstone
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 01:09 PM

According to Derek Brimstone's web site, COLUMBINE is also on a CD called "All Those Songs." It doesn't say who wrote the song.

Several people have written songs called COLUMBINE. Does anyone know who wrote the one that Derek Brimstone recorded? If we knew, we might be able to get the lyrics from another source.

Subject: RE: Lyrics please - 'Columbine' by Derek Brimstone
From: Kenneth Ingham
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 01:04 PM

I think Derek looks at this site sometimes. So maybe he can tell us!

Subject: RE: Lyrics please - 'Columbine' by Derek Brimstone
From: GUEST,Derek Brimstone
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 08:04 PM

E.mail me and I'll send you the lyric. I can't remember where I got it from. I think it might have been from Michael Chapman, a long time ago. E.mail is [e-mail]. Sorry about the3 delay, but I haven't looked at the mudcat site for ages. I will do so more often in the future.

Subject: RE: Lyrics please - 'Columbine' by Derek Brimstone
From: folkwaller
Date: 05 Aug 06 - 02:21 PM

Thanks Derek.

Subject: RE: Lyrics please - 'Columbine' by Derek Brimstone
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 02:54 PM

Whoever gets the lyrics, please post them here.

Subject: RE: Lyrics please - 'Columbine' by Derek Brimstone
From: folkwaller
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 05:33 AM

Got them. Will post soon.

Subject: RE: Lyrics please - 'Columbine' by Derek Brimstone
From: folkwaller
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 02:52 PM

Columbine. The lyrics. Thanks to 'Brimmo'.

Tossing hair of raven
Eyes of flashing blue
All the living that your saving
Won't buy your dreams for you.

Cut yourself a Columbine
Tear it from the stem
Breath apon the petals fine
And throw' em to the wind.

Watch the petals dancing
See them whirl and spin
For all your pride and prancin'
Well how much will it bring.

Watch the petals start to fly
Then come tumbling down
Hear the wind begin to cry
As they tumble to the ground

Oh lady like the flower fair
Some day you'l have to call
And you will see me standing there
To catch as you fall

Repeat first verse.


Dereks words on 'Shuffleboat' are slightly different but these are the words he sent me. They apparantly came from an LP by Mike Chapman.

Subject: RE: Lyrics please - 'Columbine' by Derek Brimstone
From: woodsie
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 03:08 PM

It was Townes Van Zandt here

Subject: RE: Lyrics please - 'Columbine' by Derek Brimstone
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 02:48 AM

Noy trying to be wise after the event, but if you type Columbine Lyrics into Google, these lyrics come up on the first page, about five hits down, with attribution to Townes van Zandt.