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 These songs were born from thoughts along el Camino de Santiago. Thoughts of this mortal coil, the unified theory, the heavens above, love found and lost, the fountain of youth, a pirates treasure, a sinners remorse, gypsy girls, evil souls, dreams and hopes... there are many hours on this road and many ways to get to the end. There's a bit of revival and pain and jubilee that is inescapable. It's a road to salvation gounded in today - a shower, a meal, a place to lay your head, aching muscles and the wondering wandering mind - where you've got to keep moving if you want to make it to the next albergue by nightfall. but I really felt like it was the music that transported me onto the path!" Sue Kenney - visit Sue's home page It really holds together beautifully as a work. A lot of memories of the Camino came flooding back to me as I listened." John Mifsud - visit John's blog |
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Heaven Callling (Rowland) Darkness comes to everyone so turn and hit the lights DNA financial fees and soon to buy the death from life and Everybody's rock star world will make the daily news except for those beyond the show who've just become so old and used I hear heaven calling, I see heaven calling, I hear heaven calling me 6 billion strong it won't be long, survival of the fit Business plans in sound and mind with spears they target I'm not it and Vital signs are measured now with just a click or two Cultures fade into the past a memory - global rule I hear heaven calling, I see heaven calling, I hear heaven calling me Hope is everywhere it seems but never close at hand Foreign blasts there's gas and glass and atmosphere that will not stand Nothings really changing now among the good old bums decades pass I'm getting old but still I think to bang the drum and I hear heaven calling, I see heaven calling, I hear heaven calling me top
Girl from Monreal (Rowland) On a cracked old road where the water runs You were there when the day was young Oh girl from Monreal you're the one for me On another climb through another day Travelers trying to make our way Oh girl from Monreal you're the one for me Well the days are long and the sun is shining And you charmed me girl with a real good time Come and take my hand and walk awhile with me Well the nights are long and the winds a howling And you charmed me girl with with these nights of lovin Come and take my hand and walk awhile with me Through city town and village too This life was made for me and you Oh girl from Monreal you're the one for me Well the road is long and you're by my side Oh girl there's nothing wrong and I'm satisfied Come and take my hand and walk awhile with me And I'm a fool I know to think the road will never end I know tomorrow comes so come and take my hand and walk awhile with me Over hill and creek and mountain high This life passes by and by Oh girl from Monreal you're the one for me top
Around the Bend (Rowland) All along the road, heading into a charging wind Ain't no rounders there around the bend Along the lonesome way, where illusion has no friend And the music plays around the bend Oh these nights are long, and the autumn winds feels strong And I'm feeling low and still so many miles to go Tomorrow's change with time, and I long to hold your hand When tomorrow comes around the bend Well these nights are cold, and the mountain pass is snowed And I think of you, with the winter moving through Wayfaring strangers all, traveling to heed the call Where the road never ends around the bend top
The Road to Santiago (Rowland - Obermiller) On the road to Santiago, travelin a buen camino travelin with peregrinos, travelin the way Spend the night in old Logroņo, drinking La Rioja vino just the way they did so long ago, on the road to Santiago Wondering through the fields of cherries, lavendar, sage and potato Chestnuts, oak and eucalyptus, Monte do Gozo A shining star they call Pelayo Marks the tomb of James the Greater A thousand years have seen the pilgrims Walk their faith on Compestela The faithful walk with the non believers The pious and the doubters, they all go side by side On the road to Santiago Where the way is long, the way is wide Scalop shells and yellow arrows Show the way for pilgrim walkers Faith, devotion, thanks, and pennance On the road to Santiago top
Magdeline by the Sea (Rowland) Down along by the harbor, where fisherman reside Always a life to be given, a passion to stand on a side Down along by the harbor, down along by the shore They said that she'd be waiting and I wouldn't have to wait anymore Magdeline, she's always standing so close to me boys Magdeline down by the sea There's nothing quite like the ocean and nothing in between The crashing of the waves in the storms in the seas that we have seen A vessel ready for sail and the coast that it leaves behind Both look like they could use a change, but nothing comes to mind Magdeline, she's always standing so close to me boys Magdeline down by the sea Now the sea, she'll live forever, but ships must always die There's never ever smooth sailing boys, there's always a storm in the sky The sea's a beautiful woman and men will always fight For any reason that a new port brings on a dark and lonely night Magdeline, she's always standing so close to me boys Magdeline down by the sea top
You Scandinavian Girl (Rowland - Fex) top
The Devil in Red (Rowland) top
Gypsy Roses (Rowland) top
Marie (Rowland) Ah Marie, I love you, I love you Marie From the highest mountain in the sky to the depths of the deep blue sea And though my plans be ruined, my life be spent, my heart will never flee Ah Marie, Marie I love you Ah Marie, I love you From the broken down old cafe chair where I first caught sight of you Your reflection from a mirrored wall where the light came shining through Ah Marie, Marie I love you Marie, you walked by I was drinking from a broken flask, dark clouds were in the sky And your eyes they pierced my heart so fierce and your light was flashed from high Ah Marie you walked by Well I've been out wondering, my eyes they could not see My hands were cold and numb And no man alive could escape your sympathy And now I see my hearts been made of stone Marie, je t'aime Si j'en ai connu bien d'autre, cela ne signifie plus rien lasse tombe la pluie, lasse courir le temp, c'est tout aussi bien Ah Marie je t'aime top
With Every Step (Rowland) across the mountain top so high across the open plain where the winds blow wild and fly with the storms and rains an ancient road beneath the feet that travels by stream and lake where no promise that can compete with every step you take across the lands across the seas coming from afar to stand with eucalyptus trees and gaze upon the stars and dream of better worlds to come where hearts won't ever ache the measure of mankind to plumb with every step you take strangers on this road of life some seek and some have found and here within the toil and strife some freed while others are bound and in the moments when life will pause and with the bread you break you send the ripples that are caused with every step we take top
The Pilgrim's Way (Rowland) Instrumental top
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