You Could Be Born Again Lyrics
YOU COULD BE BORN AGAIN
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)
I’m beginning to get a new kind of feeling,
beginning to sing a new kind of song
I’m beginning to see that life’s worth the living,
beginning to find the right ‘stead of just the wrong.
There was a moon last night, a pretty bird in flight
and a quiet breeze gliding through the trees.
I still can feel the ache in my heart
showing my life to be in need of a brand new start.
Begin to sing again, I’ll show you how
you could be born, born again now.
I’m beginning to see that life’s worth the living,
beginning to find the right ‘stead of just the wrong.
It’s pretty easy to love when love is given back
you think it’s something special if you’re white or black
but I find all love to be easy once more
like a child who does not care who, how, why, what for
Begin to sing again, I’ll show you how
you could be born, born again now.
A LEAF HAS VEINS
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)
Da Da Da...
A leaf has veins
Da, da, da
Don’t talk, just look
Ba Ba Ba...
Went for a walk that has no destination
It’s much better like this for
Ellen, Bruce, Sandy and Chris
Da Da Da...
Went for a walk that has no destination
It’s much better like this for
Ellen Bruce, Sandy and Chris
Da Da Da...
A bunch of words
a good excuse to write some music
QUARTET NO 6 IN D MINOR
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)
A perfect day for us to use
since humans group themselves in two’s
The sun burns down there’s no confusin’
the kind you are and what I’m losin’
We’re dancin’, laughin’, feelin’ fine
a wild and wailin’ state of mind
We’re dancin’ laughin’ you’ll be mine
in silvery, golden pantomime
We’re dancin’, laughin’, feelin’ fine
a wild and wailin’ state of mind
We’re dancin’, laughin’, you’ll be mine
in silvery, golden pantomime
Suddenly I see a stream of virgin light
that’s white and softly bright
Flow then a greenish blueish night of love naive
and fool’s delight
I can’t forget the one who was so close to me
that I was she and she was me and I was she
and I loved her and she loved me and
I loved her and she loved me long and innocently.
Monstrous clouds come close with lightning
Coziness of thunder threatening
Let’s go inside before it rains
and dampens fun and frolic’s pain.
I FOUND LOVE
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)
I found love, didn’t even know I needed it
But I found love, never even crossed my mind
I found love, had a garden never weeded it
But I found love, took an apple just in time
I found love in the fall and it did not hurt at all
I found sunlight and flowers, soft summer showers
I can feel my heart touch my Adams apple
I can feel the feather in my head
There is a lightness, politeness, fingers tingle, tootsies tap
‘till dawn comes and finds me never in my bed
I found love, didn’t even know I needed it
But I found love, never even crossed my mind
I found love in the spring and I did not lose a thing
I found love in the fall and it did not hurt at all
I found sunlight and flowers, soft summer showers.
I can feel my heart touch my Adams apple
I can feel the feather in my head
There is a lightness, politeness, fingers tingle, tootsies tap
‘till dawn comes and finds me never in my bed
Had a garden never weeded it
But I found love
Took an apple just in time
I found love in this world and my heart strings just unfurled
I found love in the spring and I did not lose a thing
I found love in the fall and it did not hurt at all
I found love in this world and my heart strings just unfurled
I found love in the spring and I did not lose a thing.
DANIEL DOLPHIN
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)
Daniel was a dolphin with wide innocent eyes
We met him seven years ago in an island paradise
He used to meet us at the shore, and swim with us and laugh
And show us games and coral reefs and carry us like a raft
Daniel Dolphin was a real friend,
he knew more than he said
Smart as Daniel was
he used his heart before his head
No one would believe he was
as bright as what we said
One day our grampapa was watching us play
It hurt him that we ran along and with him did not stay
and so he followed us along the sunny, sandy shore
He got so far behind us that he couldn’t walk anymore
Daniel Dolphin was a real friend,
he knew more than he said
Smart as Daniel was
he used his heart before his head
No one would believe he was
as bright as what we said
No one knew he loved us.
There were the young ones playing, there was the old one praying
Daniel took our grandpapa away through the waves
they couldn’t find him anywhere in the coral reefs or caves
But three days later Daniel came, but they killed him angrily
But not before he brought to shore a tiny old brand new baby
Daniel Dolphin was a real friend,
he knew more than he said
Smart as Daniel was
he used his heart before his head
No one would believe he was
as bright as what we said
No one knew he loved us.
No one knew he loved us.
IVY ON A WINDY DAY
(Sandy Dedrick Zynczak and Chris Dedrick/J.A. Zynczak, Inc./ASCAP/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)
Ivy is growing outside the church, the steeple and the cross
Cobwebs are growing inside the church the people and the cross
Ivy is green and young and growing
Churches are white and old and cobwebbing
But without the church there’d be no ivy
and the ivy is needed inside the church
Windy day, windy day
dream the best of your life away
Dream of an autumn day, dream on the first of May
Blow away, windy day
Ivy is green and young
and its leaves are vain
Windy day, windy day
Let my dreams scatter where they may
Ooh, ooh, blow away, windy day
Churches are white and old
Let my thoughts all stray
until a soft October day
Windy day, windy day.
AN ELEGY
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)
For Dwight Arthur Dedrick, killed in Vietnam January 31, 1968
When he went away for the last time
it wasn’t so easy, words were hard to find
and the cows in the barn knew it was milking time
Must of been real hard to leave everything behind,
over there a moonless night shivering a secret fright
It wasn’t so easy.
And how many missions more, where to and what for?
Ask the government, tell it to the cows in the barn
Then there was the moon, what did the moon see?
Saw the blade of grass in one boy’s eye
and pain that’ll make you glad you’re dying
Hands that dribbled the basketball
Voice that sang out of tune
Love that ended too soon
A nose that bled for better reasons.
When he went away for the last time
it wasn’t so easy, words were hard to find
and the cows in the barn knew it was milking time
It was milking time but he was so far away,
so far away that even prayers could not reach
So he died there.
When he came back for the last time
it wasn’t so easy, words were hard to find
and we buried him before it was milking time
The preacher said it was all right, the Lord is my Shepherd
but I shall want to know why.