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ADD: songs by Kate Wolf

15 Nov 04 - 10:49 AM (#1327342)
Subject: Lyr Req: ANY AND ALL KATE WOLF LYRICS
From: GUEST,REMCS

LOOKING FOR LYRICS TO AS MANY OF HER SONGS AS I CAN GET; ANY YOU CAN GIVE ME OR ANY SIGHT THAT MIGHT HAVE THEM. THANKS A BUNCH, IN ADVANCE.



https://www.katewolf.com/lyrics


15 Nov 04 - 11:24 AM (#1327377)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ANY AND ALL KATE WOLF LYRICS
From: karen k

Get her songbook.


15 Nov 04 - 01:03 PM (#1327478)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE SUN IS BURNING (Ian Campbell)
From: Ebbie

Here's one I can't sing.

The Sun Is Burning
Written by Ian Campbell
Recorded by Kate Wolf

The sun is burning in the sky,
Strands of clouds go slowly drifting by
In the park the dreamy bees are droning in the flowers among the trees
And the sun burns in the sky

Now the sun is in the west.
Tiny babes lay down to take their rest
And the couples in the park are holding hands and waiting for the dark
And the sun is in the west

Now the sun is sinking low,
Children at play know it's time to go
High above a spot appears, a little blossom blooms and then draws near
And the sun is sinking low

Now the sun is come to earth,
Shrouded in a mushroom cloud of death
Death comes in a blinding flash of hellish heat and leaves a sea of ash
And the sun has come to earth

Now the sun has disappeared
All that's left is darkness, pain and fear
Twisted, sightless wrecks of men go crawling on their knees and cry in pain
And the sun has disappeared

Kate Wolf recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Ei_PQf2Lw


15 Nov 04 - 01:08 PM (#1327485)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ANY AND ALL KATE WOLF LYRICS
From: Little Robyn

That one was on the Simon and Garfunkle LP that I gave away 30 years ago! Did Kate sing it too?
Robyn


15 Nov 04 - 01:50 PM (#1327535)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ANY AND ALL KATE WOLF LYRICS
From: Ebbie

It's on her Retrospective 1975-1985 double album. It's accredited to Ian Campbell.


15 Nov 04 - 07:26 PM (#1327875)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Any and All Kate Wolf Lyrics
From: Margret RoadKnight

Songbooks available from her website


15 Nov 04 - 08:51 PM (#1328001)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Any and All Kate Wolf Lyrics
From: Mudlark

And the songbook is good...lyrics, chords...and a bargain.


15 Nov 04 - 10:51 PM (#1328105)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Any and All Kate Wolf Lyrics
From: open mike

see Kate's sight maintained by her family:
www.katewolf.com
and here is the site from Cloud Moss's
Cumulus Productions which presents
Kate Wolf Memorial Festival
as well as some other events and projects:
http://www.cumuluspresents.com/


15 Nov 04 - 10:56 PM (#1328106)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Any and All Kate Wolf Lyrics
From: Bill Hahn//\\

The date has been finalized for my presentation of a Kate Wolf commemoration----January 23,2005. That is 4 days prior to her birthdate.    A lot of Kate's music and interspersed chronology, thoughts, and comments by her children.   Hope you will join me that day on WFDU--TRADITIONS. That is a Sunday and we air at 3 PM ET. Streaming on the web---will give you the address via link later---meanwhile check Google.

Bill Hahn
Traditions
WFDU 89.1 FM
Teaneck NJ


29 Apr 20 - 09:54 PM (#4049453)
Subject: ADD: Carolina Pines (Kate Wolf)
From: Joe Offer

CAROLINA PINES
(Kate Wolf)

Just an old house with the roof fallin' in
Standin' on the edge of the field
Watching the crops grow like its always done before
Nobody lives here anymore

The sun's going down on the Carolina pines
I'm a long way from home
I miss that love of mine broken windows empty doors
Nobody lives here anymore
Old memories come whistli
ng like the wind
Through the walls and the cracked window panes
And the grass is growing high around the kitchen door
Nobody lives here anymore

Once there were children and a few hired hands
A hard working woman and a bone tired man
Now that old sun steals across a dusty floor
Nobody lives here anymore


Needs some work


22 May 20 - 11:37 PM (#4054470)
Subject: ADD: We Still Survive (Kate Wolf)
From: Joe Offer

WE STILL SURVIVE
(Kate Wolf)

We lost one to the bottle
We lost one to the plague
The one who left for Mexico
We never saw again
We lost one after Vietnam
Whose mind just didn't mend
We lost one to the grace of God
And one more to the wind
After all this time
We still survive
In our hearts together
Alone in our lives
One became a dreamer
One became a clown
One of us took everything
That wasn't fastened down
One became a fountain
One burned like a flame
One of us broke every rule
And never was betrayed
Some of us left memories
Some of [us] left pain
Some of us cried and then
Learned to laugh again
Some of us kept going
One of us stood still
Some of us left legacies
Others left a will


23 Jul 20 - 12:30 AM (#4065534)
Subject: ADD: These Times We're Living In (Kate Wolf)
From: Joe Offer

THESE TIMES WE'RE LIVING IN
(Kate Wolf)

Down by the river the water’s runnin’ low
As I wander underneath the trees
In the park outside of town
The leaves turned brown and yellow now
Are falling on the ground
Remembering the way you felt
Beside me here when love was new
That feeling’s just grown stronger
Since I fell in love with you

CHORUS
Now we’ve only got these times we’re living in
We’ve only got these times we’re living in

Winter wood piled on the porch
Walnuts scattered on the ground
And wood smoke risin’ to the sky
An old man comes home from work
And he hugs his wife in a sweat-stained shirt
Walks through that door to
Where it’s warm inside
And I’m walking as the wind
Rustles in the fallen leaves
My footsteps picking out a tune
My heart sings silently

Now we’ve only got these times we’re living in
We’ve only got these times we’re living in

See the roses dried and faded
The tall trees carved and painted
With long forgotten lovers’ names
Old cars standing empty
And dogs barking at me
As I walk through the quiet streets the same
If I could I’d tell you now
There are no roads that do not bend
And the days like flowers bloom and fade
And they do not come again

We’ve only got these times we’re living in
We’ve only got these times we’re living in


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRU9YOvqXb8

Live performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNacOVmerhU


23 Jul 20 - 01:55 PM (#4065584)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs by Kate Wolf
From: Georgiansilver

Many of her song lyrics are in this link. Just click on any of the titles in the


13 Aug 20 - 12:11 AM (#4068182)
Subject: ADD: Here in California (Kate Wolf)
From: Joe Offer

HERE IN CALIFORNIA
(Kate Wolf)

When I was young, my mama told me
She said, "Child, take your time
Don't fall in love too quickly
Before you know your mind"

She held me 'round the shoulders
In a voice so soft and kind
She said, "Love can make you happy
And love can rob you blind"

CHORUS
Here in California
The fruit hangs heavy on the vine
There's no gold, I thought I'd warn ya
And the hills turn brown in the summertime

Now I may learn to love you
But I can't say when
This morning we were strangers
And tonight we're only friends
But I'll take my time to know you
I'll take my time to see
There's nothing that I won't show you
If you take your time with me

Here in California
The fruit hangs heavy on the vine
There's no gold, I thought I'd warn ya
And the hills turn brown in the summertime

It's an old familiar story
An old familiar rhyme
To everything there is a season
To every purpose there's a time
A time to love and come together
A time when love longs for a name
A time for questions we can't answer
But we ask them just the same

Here in California
The fruit hangs heavy on the vine
And there's no gold, I thought I'd warn ya
And the hills turn brown in the summertime
There's no gold, I thought I'd warn ya
And the hills turn brown in the summertime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH9QnQdoKtY


28 Sep 20 - 06:26 PM (#4073536)
Subject: ADD: Eyes of a Painter (Kate Wolf)
From: Joe Offer

EYES OF A PAINTER
(Kate Wolf)

Gray-haired and flint-eyed, his sunburned face lined
Grandpa was a man of few words
He had a way of not wanting to say
Any more than he thought would be heard
The long years of living, day-to-day giving
Had carved out a map on his face
With little to lose, he’d learned how to choose
And his choices were easy to trace

CHORUS
He had the eyes of a painter
Heart of a maker of songs
His words fell like rain on the dry desert plain
Precious and so quickly gone

From a long line of teachers, white Baptist preachers
He was born with an Indian will
His quiet dark eyes, reading the light
As he rode in the low Osage hills
His school was the prairie, the sage, the wild berry
The quail, the wide open sky
The cottonwood thicket by the slow rolling river
The redbud and the hot cattle drive

He had the eyes of a painter
Heart of a maker of songs
His words fell like rain on the dry desert plain
Precious and so quickly gone

There were days filled with thinking, nights with the drinking
For a lost love that raged like a storm
Oh, but how his eyes smiled, when he talked to a child
The rough hands so gentle and warm
His strong arms were brown, where the long sleeves rolled down
on his faded blue cotton shirt
When times got hard, he’d go out in the yard
And he'd cuss away some of his hurt

He had the eyes of a painter
Heart of a maker of songs
His words fell like rain on the dry desert plain
Precious and so quickly gone

Now the garden’s grown dusty, hand axe lies rusty
The door’s banging hard in the wind
Grandpa’s store is closed down, like most of the town
And it won’t be open again
And a big white car sits out in the yard
Of the house he built solid and true
Ah, but I see his eyes, burning tonight
Like the stars in the sky he once knew

He had the eyes of a painter
Heart of a maker of songs
His words fell like rain on the dry desert plain
Precious and so quickly gone
His words fell like rain on the dry desert plain
Precious and so quickly gone

Source: LyricFind (corrected)
Songwriters: Kate Wolf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnkVmmuPijA


29 Sep 20 - 03:41 PM (#4073630)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs by Kate Wolf
From: GUEST,Don Meixner

I am not a big fan Kate Wolf. I liked her as a performer and I liked her voice and especially her back up musicians. I just found most of her songs too cosmic for my tastes. That said, when she wrote a song I liked I really liked it. Trumpet Vine, Carolina Pines, Eyes of a Painter, Great Divide are four. And I can't argue with her skill at phrasing and pacing. Read through the lyrics to Eyes of a Painter and this should be obvious. It is a sad thing she left us so long ago. I wouldn't have minded another Trumpet Vine to listen to.

Don Meixner


04 Oct 21 - 07:03 PM (#4121855)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs by Kate Wolf
From: Joe Offer

I think this is a complete collection of Kate Wolf lyrics: