Great Music Monday-45 Years

I know it is late, but it is still Monday when I am posting this.

Saturday, I was at a rendezvous and attended the wedding of two people I am honored to call my friends.

So, in honor of them, this weeks Great Music is a piece composed by the incredibly talented and taken too soon (age 33), Stan Rogers. The influence of Rogers is still felt today, especially on folk music singers. The stuff I like to do includes several Rogers' compositions.

The song is "45 Years."

Lyrics:

Where the earth shows its bones of wind-broken stone
And the sea and the sky are one
I'm caught out of time, my blood sings with wine
And I'm running naked in the sun
There's God in the trees, I'm weak in the knees
And the sky is a painful blue
I'd like to look around, but Honey, all I see is you.

The summer city lights will soften the night
Til you'd think that the air is clear
And I'm sitting with friends, where forty-five cents
Will buy another glass of beer
He's got something to say, but I'm so far away
That I don't know who I'm talking to
Cause you just walked in the door, and Honey, all I see is you

(CHORUS)
And I just want to hold you closer than I've ever held anyone before
You say you've been twice a wife and you're through with life
Ah, but Honey, what the hell's it for?
After twenty-three years you'd think I could find
A way to let you know somehow
That I want to see your smiling face forty-five years from now.

So alone in the lights on stage every night
I've been reaching out to find a friend
Who knows all the words, sings so she's heard
And knows how all the stories end
Maybe after the show she'll ask me to go
Home with her for a drink or two
Now her smile lights her eyes, but Honey, all I see is you

(Chorus twice)

The video for this song is by The Bard of Cornwall, a young performer from Canada who does several Stan Rogers pieces, along with lots of Celtic stuff. And while most of the videos are shot in the kitchen, they are still good.


So, for Mr. and Mrs. Dragonfly, this is to you. May you have 23 years and another 45 years, and more beyond that.




And as always, leave your thoughts in the comments, along with suggestions for other Great Music.