You could shoot off a cannon Down the middle of bond And attract no attention in downtown st. john’s This getting nowhere is getting to me Wondering where can you go To be all you can be No regular joe wants to pull up and go And wind up homesick Where there’s no one you […]
Time and time again i am asked the same questions: "john where did you study?" "are you professionally trained?" "is it difficult to stay in voice?" I come by my voice by virtue of my birth. i can honestly say, with great pride, that i have inherited my dear father’s voice. "the last rose of […]
There is a voice in the silence A voice ever calling A voice like the song of a far distant sea A music the soul Of the wild breakers roaring If floats like a dream O’er the waters to me I hear it with tears And a heart wildly beating While far and alone In […]
Oh mary this london’s a wonderful sight With the people here working by day and by night They don’t sow potatoes nor barley nor wheat But there’s gangs of them that’s what i’ve been told So i just ook a hand at this digging for gold But all that i found there i might as […]
Steal away let’s steal away No reason left to stay For me and you Let’s start a-new And darling steal away Steal away and chase some dreams And hope they never find us The dreary days The empty nights We’ll leave them all behind us (chorus) We’ll leave behind the city streets The gloom and […]
Oh rowan tree, oh rowan tree Thou’lt aya be dear to thee Entwined thou art wi’ many ties O’hame and infancy Thy leaves were aye the first of spring Thy flowers the summer’s pride There was nae sic a bonnie tree In a’ the country side Oh rowan tree How fair was thou in summer […]
I have heard the mavis singing His love song to the moon I have seen the dewdrop clinging To the rose just nearly born But a sweeter song has cheer’d me At the evening’s gentle close And i’ve seen an eye still brighter Than the dewdrop on the rose ’twas thy voice, my gentle mary, […]
I wandered today to the hills maggie To watch the scene below The creek and the creaking old mill maggie Where we used to long long ago The green growth is gone from the hills maggie Where first the daisise spring The creaking old mill is still maggie Since you and i were young Oh […]
Here, making each day of the year Changing my life with a wave of her hand Nobody can deny that there’s something there There running my hands through her hair Both of us thinking how good it can be Someone is speaking but she doesn’t know he’s there I want here everywhere And if she’s […]
Voyage - Love Is A Voyage
I am a sailor and you’re my first mate We signed on together, we coupled our fate We hauled up our anchor determined not to fail For the heart’s treasure together we set sail Withnomaps to guide us we steered our own course We rode out the storms when the winds were gale force We […]
