John Denver Album

So tremble if you must
For the dust is still breathing
And the trees are just the leaves
On a big breathing globe
And there's life in the rocks
And the seashells are listening
To the sound of the sea
As it slips on it's way

This song was first released on the Whose Garden Was This? Album. It is the only album it has been released on.

Sail away, sail away home
Sail away, till you are gone
You have so far to go
There's so much that you don't know

Dream away, see what you find yea
Dream away, it's all in your mind
Things that you like to see
Things that you like to be

Don't you know, it seems so wrong yea
Don't you know, it's gone on too long
I can't take the guns any more
I can't take the screams any more

I can't take the pain
It's got to stop, it's got to change
It can't go on, it can't go on

Don't you know, it's gone on too long, yes
Don't you know, it seems so wrong
I can't take the guns any more
I can't take the screams any more

I can't take the pain
It's got to stop, it's got to change
It can't go on, it can't go on

We'll find a way
I know you can
We'll find a way
I give you my hand

We're on our way back home
We've been a long time gone

Sail away, sail away home
Sail away, sail away home yea
Sail away, sail away home
Sail away, sail away home yea
Sail away

Words and music by John Denver

This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the Whose Garden Was
This? album, and has also been released on the Changes album.


Virgil Caine is the name, I served on the Danville Train
So much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
In the summer of sixty-five we were hungry just barely alive
By May the tenth Richmond had fell it's a time I remember so well

The night they drove old Dixie down and the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down and the people were singin'
They went la na na na na na la na na na na na na na

Back home in Tennessee my wife called out for me
Say Virgil come quick and see there goes Robert E Lee
I don't mind choppin' wood and I don't care if da money ain't good
You take what you need and save the rest but they should never have taken the
very best

The night they drove old Dixie down and the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down and the people were singin'
They went la na na na na na la na na na na na na na

Like my father before me he was a workin' man
Like my brother above me he took a rebel's stand
He was just eighteen proud and brave when a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood beneath my feet you can't raise a Caine back up when he's
in defeat

The night they drove old Dixie down and the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down and the people were singin'
They went la na na na na na la na na na na na na na

The night they drove old Dixie down and the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down and the people were singin'
They went la na na na na na la na na na na na na na..................

Words and music by R Robertson

[No lyrics]

This song was first released on the Whose Garden Was This? Album. It is the only album it has been released on.

I wish I could have been there on the highway
When the people came from miles around to see
The children of the flowers come together

I wish I could have been there in the sunshine
With the sound of lovely laughter in the air
And the music makers first began to play
To hear them play

And I wish I could have been there in the rain
When the clouds were full of castles in the sky
And I wish I could have heard the people sing
As the rhytmn and the words came floating by

I wish I could have been there in the starlight
When the country side was trying once again
And the music and the makers the poets and the singers
And the children of the flowers have all gone

Words and music by John Denver

This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the Whose Garden Was This? album, and has also been released on the Changes album.

Whose garden was this
It must have been lovely
Did it have flowers
I've seen pictures of flowers
And I'd love to have smelled one

Whose river was this
You say it ran freely
Blue was it's colour
And I've seen blue in some pictures
And I'd love to have been there

Tell me again, I need to know
The forest had trees, the meadows were green
The oceans were blue
And birds really flew
Can you swear that it's true

Whose grey sky was this
Or was it a blue one
You say they were breezes
I've heard records of breezes
And I'd love to have felt one

Tell me again, I need to know
The forest had trees, the meadows were green
The oceans were blue
And birds really flew
Can you swear that it's true

Whose garden was this
It must have been lovely
Did it have flowers
I've seen pictures of flowers
And I'd love to have smelled one

Tell me again, I need to know
Tell me again, I need to know
Tell me again, I need to know

Words and Music by Tom Paxton

This song was first released on the Whose Garden Was This? Album. It is the only album it has been released on.


Time, there was a time
You could talk to me without speaking
You would look at me and I'd know
All there was to know

Days, I think of you
And remember the lies we told
In the night, the love we knew
The things we shared when our hearts were beating together

Days, that were so few
Full of love and you
Gone, the days are gone now
Days, that seem so wrong now

Life, won't be the same
Without you to hold again in my arms
To ease the pain and remember
When our love was a reason for living

Days, that were so few
Full of love and you
The game is over

Words and music by John Denver, Bourtayne and Bouchety

Ah, look at all the lonely people!
Ah, look at all the lonely people!

Eleanor Rigby
Picks up the rice in the church
Where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream

Waits at the window
Wearing a face that she keeps
In a jar by the door
Who is it for?

All the lonely people!
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people!
Where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie
Writing the words of a sermon
That no one will hear
No one comes near

Look at him working
Darning his socks in the night
When there's nobody there
What does he care?

All the lonely people!
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people!
Where do they all belong?

Ah, look at all the lonely people!
Ah, look at all the lonely people!

Eleanor Rigby
Died in the church and was buried
Along with her name
Nobody came

Father McKenzie
Wiping the dirt from his hands
As he walks from the grave
No one was saved

All the lonely people!
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people!
Where do they all belong?

Ah, look at all the lonely people!
Ah, look at all the lonely people!

The old folks don't talk much
They talk so slowly when they do
They are rich they are poor
Their illusions are gone
They share one heart for two

Their homes all smell of time
Of old photographs
and an old fashioned song
Though you may live in town
You live so far away
when you've lived too long

Have they laughed too much
Do their dry voices crack
talking of things gone by
have they cried too much
A tear or two still always seems
To cloud the eye

They tremble as they watch the old silver clock
When day is through
tick tock oh so slow
It says yes it says no
It says I wait for you

The old folks dream no more
Their books have gone to sleep
the piano's out of tune
the little cat is dead
and no more do they sing on a sunday afternoon

The old folks move no more
Their world become to small
their bodies feel like lead
they might look out a window
or else sit it a chair
or else they stay in bed

and if they still go out
arm in arm, arm in arm
in the morning chill
its to have a good cry
to say their last goodbye
to one who's older still
and then they go home
to the old silver clock
when day is through
tick tock so so slow
it says yes it says no
it says I wait for you

the old folks never die
they just put down their heads
and go to sleep one day
they will hold each others hands
like children in the dark
but one will get lost anyway
and the other will remain
just sitting in a room
which makes no sound
it doesn't matter now
the song has died away
and echo's all around

you'll see them as they walk
through the sun filled parks
where children run and play
it hurst to much to smile
it hurts so much
but life goes on for still another day
as they try to escape the old silver clock
when day is through
tick tock oh so slow
it says yes it says no
it says I wait for you

the old old silver clock
thats hanging on the wall
that waits for us all

This song was first released on the Whose Garden Was This? album. It is the only album it has been released on. The song also appears on the album Christmas - Like A Lullaby, but in it's original format.

Dashing through the snow
In a one horse open sleigh
O'er the fields where we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bobtails ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight

Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

Jingle, Jingle ...

Words and music adapted by John Denver