Lyr Req: Who Will Answer? (from Ed Ames)

Subject: Lyr Req: Who Will Answer?
From: Slag
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 04:53 PM

Ed Ames song from the 60's. Does anyone remember it. Does anyone know if Mr. Ames still lives?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Answer?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 05:35 PM

Artist: Ed Ames

Song: Who Will Answer Lyrics

From the canyons of the mind,
We wander on and stumble blindly
Through the often-tangled maze
Of starless nights and sunless days,
While asking for some kind of clue
Or road to lead us to the truth,
But who will answer?

Side by side two people stand,
Together vowing, hand-in-hand
That love's imbedded in their hearts,
But soon an empty feeling starts
To overwhelm their hollow lives,
And when they seek the hows and whys,
Who will answer?

On a strange and distant hill,
A young man's lying very still.
His arms will never hold his child,
Because a bullet running wild
Has struck him down. And now we cry,
"Dear God, Oh, why, oh, why?"
But who will answer?

High upon a lonely ledge,
a figure teeters near the edge,
And jeering crowds collect below
To egg him on with, "Go, man, go!"
But who will ask what led him
To his private day of doom,
And who will answer?

(Chorus)

If the soul is darkened
By a fear it cannot name,
If the mind is baffled
When the rules don't fit the game,
Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will answer?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelujah!

In the rooms of dark and shades,
The scent of sandalwood pervades.
The colored thoughts in muddled heads
Reclining in the rumpled beds
Of unmade dreams that can't come true,
And when we ask what we should do,
Who... Who will answer?

'Neath the spreading mushroom tree,
The world revolves in apathy
As overhead, a row of specks
Roars on, drowned out by discotheques,
And if a secret button's pressed
Because one man has been outguessed,
Who will answer?

Is our hope in walnut shells
Worn 'round the neck with temple bells,
Or deep within some cloistered walls
Where hooded figures pray in halls?
Or crumbled books on dusty shelves,
Or in our stars, or in ourselves,
Who will answer?

(Repeat Chorus Below)

If the soul is darkened
By a fear it cannot name,
If the mind is baffled
When the rules don't fit the game,
Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will answer?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelujah!


from

http://www.lyrics007.com/Ed%20Ames%20Lyrics/Who%20Will%20Answer%20Lyrics.html

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Answer?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 05:39 PM

Lots of stuff about him on Mr Google. He's still kickin' and doin'.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Answer?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 05:40 PM

Did Ed write the song? Date?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Answer?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 05:49 PM

Written by Davis / Aute


That's all I can find for now.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Answer?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 05:53 PM

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:Zzxtt6nwh5wJ:listserv.dom.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe%3FA2%3Dind0007%26L%3Dstumpers-l%26P%3D45262+who

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Answer?
From: Slag
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 06:27 PM

Peace will answer! Thanks Peace!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Answer?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 06:32 PM

LOL. You are more than welcome, Slag. Heck, I can remember the Ames Brothers from first time 'round. I liked them very much, but I have never heard this song. It looks to be a beaut.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Answer?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 07:08 PM

I remember having this on an old Ed Ames album. I found a record in WorldCat:
University of Alabama is supposed to hold. Perhaps you could ILL it?

                               Database:
                                        WorldCat
                                  Title:
                                        Who will answer? :
                                        (Aleluya no. 1) /
                               Author(s):
                                        Aute, Luis Eduardo. ; Davis, Sheila,; 1927- ; Ames, Ed. ; prf
                            Publication:
                                        New York :; Sunbury Music, Inc. :; Cimino Pub. Inc., sole sellin    agents,
                                  Year:
                                        1967
                            Description:
                                        1 score (4 p.) ; 31 cm.
                              Language:
                                        English
                            Standard No:
                                        Publisher: Who will answer-3; Sunbury Music, Inc.
                                        SUBJECT(S)
                              Descriptor:
                                        Popular music.
                                        Songs with piano.
                               Note(s):
                                        For voice and piano./ Caption title./ "Recorded by Ed Ames on
                                        RCA Victor Records"--cover, with photo./ First line of text: Fron
                                        the canyons of the mind we wander on.
                           Class Descrpt:
                                        LC: M1630.2.A973
                         Responsibility:
                                        lyric by Sheila Davis ; music by L.E. Aute.
                         Document Type:
                                        Score

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Answer?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 07:09 PM

That is quoted from the link.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Will Answer?
From: Slag
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 07:43 PM

I haven't checked out the links yet. I always kinda like to check out my memory first, if you know what I mean. I think he also did one that was very similar in sound (musically) called "Child of Clay" with the chorus going something like "Once he was a child, a child of clay, shaped and molded into what, what he is today, Ah but who is to blame for this child of clay."   

There is some pretty good poetry in that first one but as I remember the "Child of Clay" it was pretty preachy or contrived to fit its time.