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18 Oct 00 - 09:34 AM (#321720) Subject: Forever Young?! From: GUEST (Had to post this with new title- my old title was vague and uninviting.) SOMEONE HERE MUST KNOW I posted a lryc./chrd request about a month ago and didn't recieve any succesful response. Actually, what I'd like to know is WHO sung this song, and then I could find the rest of the info. myself. Amongst all of you afficionados, however you spell that, there must be someone who knows this song- so I'm posting again. (The song sounds like it could have been recorded anywhere from 1980 to 97, the time I heard it. The male singer has a deep voice and sort of half speaks/half sings it the way Leonard Cohen might.) Here are the lyrics that I remember, the chorus: "Do they know I was a Pastor? I was a saint in the church. I fought for my children and I did good work. I fought for my lover and my self-respect... And the nectar of life never left my tongue... ...........Forever young" Anyone?
-Joe Offer, 11 July 2013 |
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18 Oct 00 - 09:54 AM (#321735) Subject: RE: Forever Young?! From: annamill There is a song called 'Forever Young' by Rod Stewart, but I don't know if these lines are part of the song. It may be another song. I love the one by Stewart. In the video, he sings it to his son. Love, annamill |
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18 Oct 00 - 11:56 AM (#321829) Subject: RE: Forever Young?! From: LR Mole There's a Dylan one, too, on "Planet Waves", but I don't think those words would fit the melody without shoehorning. |
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18 Oct 00 - 12:04 PM (#321836) Subject: RE: Forever Young?! From: Little Hawk It's not the Dylan song (from 1974), nor is it the Rod Stewart one. I think it's Leonard Cohen, but will have to do a search before I can be sure. |
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18 Oct 00 - 12:46 PM (#321871) Subject: Lyr Add: FOREVER YOUNG (Bob Dylan) From: Steve Latimer Thought I'd post Bob's anyway. I don't think I've ever heard a better wish to someone.
FOREVER YOUNG
May you grow up to be righteous,
May your hands always be busy, |
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18 Oct 00 - 01:56 PM (#321940) Subject: RE: Forever Young?! From: Clinton Hammond2 It's not a Leonard Cohen song, but that's all the info I can give you on it...
Happy hunting eh! {~` |
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18 Oct 00 - 02:01 PM (#321947) Subject: RE: Forever Young?! From: Grab Check the Leonard Cohen site - everything he's written or performed, including unrecorded stuff. Grab. |
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18 Oct 00 - 02:57 PM (#322003) Subject: RE: Forever Young?! From: Clinton Hammond2 well, it's certainly not everything he's writen by any stretch.. but it has a few things that leonardcohen.com doesn't... But the above lyrics still aren't one of his.... {~` |
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18 Oct 00 - 05:21 PM (#322136) Subject: RE: Forever Young?! From: Benjamin Didn't Rod Stewart cover the Bob Dylan song? |
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18 Oct 00 - 10:21 PM (#322360) Subject: RE: Forever Young From: Clinton Hammond2 Nope Benj... the two are completly different songs... The Rod Stewart song is the one currently being used by 'Pampers' in thier commercials... Ya know ya've made it when eh... {~` |
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25 Sep 02 - 12:09 AM (#790741) Subject: Lyr Add: FOREVER YOUNG (Rod Stewart) From: Jim Dixon For comparison, here's the Rod Stewart song, which I happen to like better than Dylan's. Lyrics copied from http://www.rod-stewart.de/text/forever_young.htm (This page has a midi file.) (There are chords at http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/3225/Rock/Rod_Stewart/Forever_Young.txt ) FOREVER YOUNG (Jim Cregan, Kevin Savigar, Rod Stewart) May the good Lord be with you down every road you roam, And may sunshine and happiness surround you when you're far from home, And may you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, And do unto others as you'd have done to you. Be courageous and be brave And in my heart you'll always stay Forever young (forever young), Forever young (forever young). May good fortune be with you. May your guiding light be strong. Build a stairway to heaven with a prince or a vagabond. And may you never love in vain, And in my heart you will remain Forever young (forever young), Forever young (forever young). And when you finally fly away, I'll be hoping that I served you well. For all the wisdom of a lifetime, no one can ever tell. But whatever road you choose, I'm right behind you, win or lose, Forever young (forever young), Forever young (forever young). [Recorded by Rod Stewart on "Out of Order", 1988, and, in a different arrangement, on "If We Fall in Love Tonight", 1996.] |
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25 Sep 02 - 12:34 AM (#790752) Subject: RE: Forever Young?! From: Jim Dixon Oops! I was mistaken about the above web site containing a midi. However, there is a midi file here: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/4everyoungrs.htm |
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25 Sep 02 - 03:54 AM (#790803) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Forever Young?! From: rock chick It's a Bob Dylan song, one that he wrote for his children, its a beautiful song and one that i play and sing - not sure whether it sound beautiful though when i play and sing it!! |
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02 Nov 02 - 03:14 PM (#817009) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Forever Young?! From: Genie MIDI of the Rod Stewart et al. song here |
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22 Feb 03 - 03:27 AM (#895715) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Forever Young?! From: Cluin Tim O'Brien did a great version of the Dylan one on his (Dylan tribute) album, "Red On Blonde"--all Dylan songs done in a bluegrassy style. Recommended listening. There was another song called "Forever young released back in `84 by a German synth-pop band called Alphaville, but that wouldn't be the song you're looking for. Definitely not a deep male voice on leads for that one. It's being used for a car commercial jingle now. |
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15 Dec 11 - 12:30 PM (#3274239) Subject: Lyr Add: FOREVER YOUNG (Alphaville) From: Jim Dixon Well, here's another one that is NOT the one requested. At least this song hasn't been posted at Mudcat before. FOREVER YOUNG Written by Marian Gold / Bernhard Lloyd / Frank Mertens (members of Alphaville) As recorded by Alphaville on "Forver Young" (1984) Let's dance in style; let's dance for a while. Heaven can wait; we're only watching the skies, Hoping for the best but expecting the worst. Are you gonna drop the bomb or not? Let us die young or let us live forever. We don't have the power but we never say never. Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip. The music's for the sad men. Can you imagine when this race is won, Turn our golden faces into the sun, Praising our leaders? We're getting in tune. The music's played by the mad men. CHORUS: Forever young, I want to be forever young. Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever? Forever young, I want to be forever young. Do you really want to live forever, forever young? Some are like water; some are like the heat. Some are a melody and some are the beat. Sooner or later they all will be gone. Why don't they stay young? It's so hard to get old without a cause. I don't want to perish like a fading horse. Youth's like diamonds in the sun, And diamonds are forever. So many adventures couldn't happen today. So many songs we forgot to play, So many dreams swinging out of the blue We let them come true. CHORUS: Forever young, I want to be forever young. Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever? Forever young, I want to be forever young. Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever? Forever young, I want to be forever young. Do you really want to live forever? [Also recorded by Axel Rudi Pell, Blogbusters, Emmerson Nogueira, Interactive, Stefano Prada, Temperance, The London Session Orchestra, Youth Group, and others.] |
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29 Jul 13 - 04:11 PM (#3543259) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Forever Young - various songs From: GUEST,Adam Lang BTW, just to achieve a bit of closure on this thread too, I posted the lyrics to this song (and the origin) on this thread right here. The song is called 'Nectar of Life' and is by Bob Franke, on his 1989 album 'Brief Histories' and in his (sadly long out-of-print) songbook, The Bob Franke Songbook (1992). |