go where i send thee - camp seymour

YMCA CAMP SEYMOUR

SONGBOOK

Table of Contents The Kid.........................................................1

If I Had a Hammer.........................................2

Take My Heart...............................................3

Puff, the Magic Dragon...................................4

This Land is Your Land....................................5

It’s All Good..................................................6

Roll On Columbia...........................................7

Peace Like a River..........................................8

Starfish and Coffee.........................................9

Rise and Shine.............................................10

Relax Your Mind...........................................11

Lean On Me.................................................12

On the Loose...............................................13

We Come From the Mountains.......................14

Linger.........................................................15

Blowin’ in the Wind.......................................16

Amazing Grace............................................17

One Tin Soldier............................................18

Stand By Me................................................19

Shooting Star..............................................20

Make New Friends........................................21

Today.........................................................22

The Blanket Song.........................................23

One Voice...................................................24

Plant a Seed................................................25

I Know Where Love Comes From....................26

We Can Make it Happen................................27

Country Road..............................................28

Pass it On...................................................29

Together in Harmony....................................30

Waltzing With Bears.....................................31

Paradise......................................................32

Where Have All the Flowers Gone...................33

Good Riddance.............................................34

Cat’s in the Cradle........................................35

Lord of the Dance.........................................36

I’ll Meet You Right Here.................................37

1. THE KID

I'm the kid who ran away with the circus

Now I'm watering elephants,

But I sometimes lie awake in the sawdust

Dreaming I'm in a suit of light,

Late at night in the empty big top

I'm all alone on the high wire,

Look he’s working without a net this time

He's a real death defier

I'm the kid who always looked out the window

Failing tests in geography,

But I have seen things far beyond just the

schoolyard

Distant shores of exotic lands,

There are the spires of the Turkish empire

Six months since we made landfall,

Riding low with the spices of India

Through Gibralter, we're rich men all

I'm the kid who thought we'd someday be lovers

Always held out that time would tell,

Time was talking

Guess I just wasn't listening

No surprise, if you know me well;

As we're walking down toward the train station

I hear a whispering rainfall,

Across the boulevard, you slip your hand in mine

In the distance the train's last call…

I'm the kid who has this habit of dreaming

That sometimes gets me in trouble too,

But the truth is, I could no more stop dreaming…

Than I could make them all come true

2. IF I HAD A HAMMER

If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning

I’d hammer in the evening all over this land

I’d hammer out danger, I’d hammer out a

warning,

I’d hammer out the love between my brothers

and my sisters

All over this la-a-a-and, Ooooooooo

If I had a bell, I’d ring it in the morning

I’d ring it in the evening all over this land,

I’d ring out danger, I’d ring out warning,

I’d ring out the love between my brothers and

my sisters


If I had a song, I’d sing it in the morning,

I’d sing it in the evening all over this land,

I’d sing out danger, I’d sing out warning,

I’d sing out the love between my brothers & my

sisters


Well I got a hammer and I got a bell

And I got a song to sing all over this land,

It’s the hammer of justice; it’s the bell of

freedom

It’s the song about love between my brothers &

my sisters


3. TAKE MY HEART

(Michael McGinnis)

Take my heart, and let it fly,

Over the ocean deep and the mountains high,

Give it wings, and set it free

‘Till it comes to rest by Galilee

Chorus:

And let me walk beside still waters,

And lay me down in fields of green,

Set my feet in the paths of righteousness

Let me follow where the master leads



Give it wings, and let it soar,

‘Till it comes to rest on Jordon’s shore

Chorus



Give it wings, and set it free,

‘Till it comes to rest, at last, inside of me

Chorus

4. PUFF, THE MAGIC DRAGON

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called

Hona-Lee

Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff

And brought him strings and sealing wax and

other fancy stuff

Chorus:



Hona-Lee



Hona-Lee

Together they would travel on a boat with a

billowed sail

Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff’s gigantic

tail

Noble kings and princes would bow whene’er they

came

Pirate ships would low’r their flag when Puff

roared out his name

Chorus

A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys

Painted wings and giant rings make way for other

toys

One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came

no more

And Puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his

fearless roar

His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like

rain

Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane

Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be

brave

So Puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his

cave

Chorus

5. THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND

(Woody Guthrie)

This land is your land

This land is my land

From California to the New York Island

From the Redwood forest to the gulf stream

waters

This land was made for you and me

As I went walking that ribbon of highway

I saw above me that endless skyway

I saw below me that golden valley


Chorus

I roamed and rambled and followed my footsteps

To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts

And all around me a voice was sounding


Chorus

The sun came shining as I was strolling

And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds

rolling

As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting


Chorus

6. IT’S ALL GOOD

(Michael McGinnis)

It’s all good

Some’s a little better

Life works good

If you loosen your grip and you let her

She’s a wild horse race

Everybody is a winner

So come on in and get washed up for dinner

Got cakes on the griddle, taters in the sack

Music on the guitar, the shirt on your back

Don’t let your brain give your heart attack

‘Cause it’s all good

7. ROLL ON COLUMBIA

(Woody Guthrie)

Roll on Columbia Roll on (2X)

Your power is turning our darkness to dawn

Roll on Columbia Roll on…

Green Douglas firs where the water cut through

Down her wild mountains and canyons she flew

Candian Northwest, to the Ocean so blue


Other Great Rivers give power to you

Yakima, Snak and the Klickitat too

Sandy WIllamentte and Hood River too


Tom Jefferson’s vision would not let him rest

An empire he saw in the Pacific Northwest

Sent Lewis and Clark and they did the rest

Roll on Columbia Roll on

At Bonneville now there are ships in the locks

The waters have risen and cleared all the rocks

Shiploads of plenty will steam past her docks

Roll on Columbia Roll on

8. PEACE LIKE A RIVER

1. I’ve got peace like a river, I’ve got peace like

a river, I’ve got peace like a river in my soul

(Repeat)

2. I’ve got joy like a fountain (x2)

3. I’ve got love like an ocean (x2)

4. I’ve got peace like a river, I’ve got joy like a

fountain, love like an ocean in my soul

9. STARFISH AND COFFEE

Chorus: Starfish and coffee, maple syrup and

jam

Butterscotch clouds, tangerines,

And a side order of ham (clap! clap!)

And if you set your mind free baby maybe you’d

understand

Starfish and coffee

Maple syrup and jam

7:45 all in line to meet the teacher Miss Kathleen

First came Kevin, then came Lucy, third in line

was me

All of us were ordinary compared to Cynthia Rose

She always stood at the back of the line, a smile

beneath her nose

Her favorite number was twenty and every single

day

If you asked her what she had for breakfast this

is what she’d say

Chorus

Cynthia wore a pretty dress with different colored

socks

Sometimes I wondered if the mates were in her

lunchbox

Lucy and I opened it when Cynthia wasn’t around

Lucy cried, I almost died--You know what we

found!

Chorus

Cynthia wore a happy face just like the one she’d

draw

On every wall, in every school

(But that’s alright it’s for a worthy cause!) Keep

singing

10. RISE AND SHINE

Rise and shine and give God the glory glory (x3)

Children of the Lord

The Lord said Noah there’s gonna be a floody

floody (X2)

Get those children out of the muddy muddy


So Noah he built him, he built him an arky arky

(x2)

Made it out of hickory barky barky


The animals they came on, came on by twosy

twosies (X2)

Elephants and kangaroosy roosies


It rained and poured for forty daysy daysies (x2)

Nearly drove those animals crazy, crazy


The sun came out and dried off the landy, landy

(x2)

Everything was fine and dandy dandy


The animals they came off, they came off by

threesy threesies (x2) learned about the birds

and beesy beesies

That is the end of, the end of the story, story

(x2)

Everything is hunky dory, dory


11. RELAX YOUR MIND

Relax your mind

Oh, relax your mind

Makes me feel so fine, sometimes (Sometimes!)

Sometimes, you've got to relax your mind

Relax your mind

When the light (the light)

Turns green (turns green)

You put your foot on the gasoline

Sometimes,

You've got to relax your mind

Relax your mind

When the light (the light)

Turns yellow (turns yellow)

And you're feeling kind of mellow

Sometime, you’ve got to relax your mind

Relax your mind

Alternative colors and slogans:

Red-You put your foot on the brake instead

Blue-And you don't know what to do

Pink-And you don't know what to think

Periwinkle-And you've really go to tinkle

12. LEAN ON ME

Sometimes in our lives

We all have pain, we all have sorrow

But, if we are wise, we know that there’s

Always tomorrow

Chorus:

Lean on me, when you’re not strong

I’ll be your friend, I’ll help you carry on

For, it won’t be long ‘til I’m gonna need

Somebody to lean on

Please, swallow your pride

If I have things you need to borrow

For, no one can fill those of your needs that you

Won’t let show

Chorus

Bridge: You just call on me brother

When you need a hand

We all need somebody to lean on

I just might have a problem

That you’d understand

We all need somebody to lean on

Chorus

If there is a load

You have to bear that you can’t carry

I’m right up the road, I’ll share your load if you

just call me

Chorus

13. ON THE LOOSE

Have you ever watched a sunrise

Turn the sky completely red?

Have you slept beneath the moon and stars

A pine bough over your head?

Do you sit and talk with friends

Though a word is never said?

Then you’re just like me and you’ve been

on the loose

Chorus: On the loose to climb a mountain

On the loose where I am free, on the loose to live

my life

The way I think my life should be

For I only have a moment and the whole world

yet to see

I’ll be looking for tomorrow on the loose

There’s a road that I am taking

Just to see where it might go

Many places yet to visit, many places yet to go

So in following my footsteps I will live and I will

grow

On a road that’s waiting out there

On the loose

Chorus

So in search of love and laughter

I’ll be traveling ‘cross this land

Never sure of where I’m going ‘cause I haven’t

any plan

So in time when you are ready

Come and join me take my hand

And together we’ll live life out

On the loose

Chorus

14. THE MOUNTAIN SONG

We come from the mountains, we come from the

mountains

Go back to the mountains and turn the world

around.

We…come…from the mountains

Go back to the mountains and turn the world

around.

***Repeat with (we come from) the water, fire,

sky and then combo of all for last verse

15. LINGER

Chorus:

Mmm, I want to linger--Mmm, a little longer

Mmm, a little longer--Here with you

Mmm, it’s such a perfect night

Mmm, it doesn’t seem quite right

Mmm, that it should be my last with you

Mmm, and come September

Mmm, I will remember

Mmm, our camping days and friendships true

Mmm, and as the years go by

Mmm, I’ll think of you and sigh

Mmm, this is good-night and not goodbye

16. BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND

(Bob Dylan)

How many roads must a man walk down

Before they call him a man?

How many times must a white dove sail

Before she sleeps in the sand?

How many times must the cannonballs fly

Before they are forever banned?

Chorus:

The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind

The answer is blowin’ in the wind

How many years must a mountain exist

Before it is washed to the sea?

How many years can some people exist

Before they’re allowed to be free?

How many times can a man turn his head

And pretend he just doesn’t see?

Chorus

How many times can a man look up

Before he can see the sky?

How many ears must one man have

Before he can hear people cry?

How many deaths will it take ‘til he knows

That too many people have died?

Chorus

17. AMAZING GRACE

Amazing grace how sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me

I once was lost, but now am found

Was blind but now I see

‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear

And grace my fears relieved

How precious did that grace appear

The hour I first believed

Through many dangers toils and snares

I have already come

It’s grace that brought me safe thus far

And grace will lead me home

When we’ve been there ten thousand years

Bright shining as the sun

We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise

Than when we first begun

Amazing grace has set me free,

To touch, to taste, to feel;

The wonders of accepting love,

Have made me whole and real

18. ONE TIN SOLDIER

Listen children to a story that was written long

ago

‘Bout a kingdom on a mountain and the valley

folk below

On the mountain was a treasure buried deep

beneath a stone

And the valley people swore they’d have it for

their very own

Chorus: Go ahead and hate your neighbor

Go ahead and cheat a friend, do it in the name of

heaven

You can justify it in the end, there won’t be any

trumpets blowin’

Come the judgement day, on the bloody mornin’

after

One tin soldier rides away

So the people of the valley sent a message up

the hill

Asking for the buried treasure tons of gold for

which they’d kill

Came an answer from the kingdom

“With our brother’s we will share

All the secrets of our mountain

All the riches buried there.”

Now the valley cried with anger

“Mount your horses, draw your swords!”

And they killed the mountain people

So they won their just reward

Now they stood beside the treasure

On the mountain, dark and red

Turned the stone and looked beneath it

“Peace on earth” was all it said

19. STAND BY ME

When the night has come

And the land is dark

And the moon is the only

Light we see

No I won’t be afraid

No I won’t shed a tear

Just as long as you stand, stand by me

Oh darlin’, darlin’, stand by me

Oh stand by me

Oh stand now, stand by me, stand by me

If the sky that we look upon

Should tumble and fall

And the mountains

Should crumble to the sea

I won’t cry, I won’t cry

No I won’t shed a tear

Just as long as you stand, stand by me

Whenever you’re in trouble won’t you stand by

me

Oh stand by me

Oh stand now, stand by me, stand by me

20. SHOOTING STAR

Please won’t you catch a shooting star for me

And take it with you on your way

Though it seems that we just met

You’re the one I won’t forget

Hope some kind wind blows you back my way

Chorus:

I was thinkin’ maybe somewhere later down the

road

After all our stories have been told

I’d sit and think of you

A dear friend I once knew

Shot through my life like a shooting star

Sometimes I know, that a part of you will show

Deep in my eyes or in my smile

They’ll always be some part of you deep deep

inside my heart

And I’ll know when just to let it show

Chorus

You are so dear, oh you’re my bright and shining

star

You brighten each and every day

You are so near, and yet soon you’ll be so far

So why not hold my hand today

Chorus

21. MAKE NEW FRIENDS

(Round)

Make new friends but keep the old

One is silver and the other gold

A circle's round, it has no end

That's how long I want to be your friend.

22. TODAY

Chorus:

Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine

I’ll taste your strawberries, I’ll drink your sweet

wine

A million tomorrows will all pass away

Ere I forget all the joys that are mine

Today…

I’ll be a dandy and I’ll be a rover

You’ll know who I am by the song that I sing

I’ll feast at your table, I’ll sleep in your clover

Who cares what tomorrow shall bring

I can’t be contented with yesterday’s glories

I can’t live on promises winter to spring

Today is my moment and now is my story

I’ll laugh and I’ll cry and I’ll sing

23. THE BLANKET SONG

Should your blankets be torn

May your breezes blow warm

May your treasures be what you find

May the burdens you bare

Like your bounties be shared

May you leave something good behind

Should the sky and the land

Rise to your command

May your senses cut like the knife

Live in peace with the Earth

As in death as in birth

May you prosper and lead a good life

Na na na na na na

Na na na na na na

Na na na na na na na na na

24. ONE VOICE

This is the sound of one voice

One spirit, one voice

The sound of one who makes a choice

This is the sound of 1 voice, this is the sound of 1

voice

This is the sound of voices two

The sound of me signing with you

Helping each other to make it through

This is the sound of voices 2, this is the sound of

voices 2

This is the sound of voices three

Singing together in harmony

Surrendering to the mystery

This is the sound of voices 3, this is the sound of

voices 3

This is the sound of all of us

Singing with love and the will to trust

Leave the rest behind, it will turn to dust

This is the sound of all of us, this is the sound of

all of us

This is the sound of one voice

One people, one voice

A song for every one of us

This is the sound of 1 voice, this is the sound of 1

voice

25. PLANT A SEED

Take a seed and plant it in the earth.

And with lots of sun and rain you give it birth

And with loving care,

it grows and grows

And you’ve got a great big tree before you know

And from your tree, come lots of seeds,

They are scattered far and wide by the birds and

bees,

And with loving care, they grow and grow

And you’ve got a forest of trees before you know

Chorus:

Now anyone, can plant a seed,

But loving care is what they need

So let’s pretend, that we’re all seeds

And I will care for you, you care for me

I will care for you, you care for me

This little song is a kind of seed,

You can sing it anytime you need,

When you are alone, or in a crowd,

You can sing it to yourself or sing it out loud

Chorus

And if you’re blue, and you can’t get free,

Go out in the forest and hug a tree

And remember this, from a seeds-eye view

There’s really not much difference between you

two

Chorus

26. I KNOW WHERE LOVE COMES FROM

(Michael McGinnis)

Chorus: I know a secret I will share with you,

I know where love comes from.

I’m not one to spoil a secret but what harm could

it do,

I know where love comes from.

Love won’t come when you call it the way your

old dog does.

A king’s ransom cannot buy it and that’s simply

because

There’s no way that you can sell it, although

some people try.

Love is surely much too pure for anyone to buy.

Chorus

Love won’t always look exactly the way you think

it might.

It comes in different sizes, it won’t always dress

just right.

But if you look beneath the surface,

And you read between the lines,

You’ll find that when you’re done, there’s only

one

True love that really shines

Chorus

I’ll give you a clue that helped me get off the

shelf

If I was doin’ the lookin’, I’d start by lookin’ at

myself

You’ll laugh ‘cause it’s so simple, you hardly have

to try

It’s right before your nose but you can’t see it

with your eye

You have to look down deep inside yourself,

And that’s kinda hard for some

But when you find the part they call your heart.

You’ve found where love comes from

And there’s one more secret I’d like to share with

you.

If you pass around the love you’ve found,

True love comes back to you

27. WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN

Sometimes life is simple, sometimes life is tough,

Sometimes there is plenty, sometimes there’s

never enough

Sometimes the road is narrow,

And we can’t tell night from day,

Alone there is no answer, but together we can

find the way

Chorus: We can make it happen, we can make it

happen,

We can make it happen, if we try,

We can make it happen, You, and God, and I

Life is filled with choices, but sometimes we can’t

decide

We get stuck in indecision, and our lives begin to

slide,

Well we’re in this thing together, or we’re not in

it at all,

So take your neighbor by the hand, and let’s all

heed the call

Chorus

Every single one of us has something we can

share,

So give your fears to God and let new freedom fill

the air

Chorus

28. COUNTRY ROADS

(John Denver)

Almost Heaven…West Virginia

Blue Ridge Mountains…Shenandoah River

Life is old there…older than the trees

Younger than the mountains…growin’ like a

breeze

Chorus: Country Roads, take me home

To the place I belong

West Virginia, mountain Mama

Take me home, country roads

All my memories gather round her

Miners’ Lady, stranger to blue water

Dark and dusty, painted on the sky

Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye

Chorus

I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me

The radio reminds me of my home far away

And drivin’ down the road I get a feeling that I

should have been home yesterday…yesterday

Chorus

29. PASS IT ON

It only takes a spark to get a fire going

And soon all those around can warm up in its

glowing

That’s how it is with our love,

once you’ve experienced it

You spread the love to everyone,

you want to pass it on

What wondrous time is spring, when all the trees

are budding

The birds begin to sing, the flowers start their

blooming

That’s how it is with our love,

once you’ve experienced it

You want to sing, “It’s fresh like spring,” you

want to pass it on

I wish for you my friend, this happiness that I’ve

found

You can depend on me, it matters not where

you’re bound

I’ll shout if from the mountaintop,

I want the world to know

The lord of love has come to me, I want to pass

it on

30. TOGETHER IN HARMONY

Chorus: Together in harmony,

Together in harmony,

Let us come together in harmony.



We will sing together in harmony

Life these days in America,

Can be five lanes going each way

Everybody driving just as fast as they can

Tryin’ to drive their cares away.

Pay no attention to the car next to ya

Just some fool tryin’ to do damage to ya

Just step on the gas, cut’um off at the pass

Ya got to be somebody today

Chorus

Kids walkin’ round with their earbuds in

Just pumpin’ their heads full of bass

Only thought in mind is to look real cool,

And escape from the human race.

But we’re not made to be livin’ in fear

We’re designed to be happy and free.

We’ve been called to love one another

Even if we don’t agree

Chorus

And all the wooden angels, they are standing in

the forest,

They are singing out the chorus to the glory of

the lord,

They are echoing the song, that is aching to be

strong

In all the hearts of the people in the world.

Chorus

31. WALTZING WITH BEARS

(Bill Stains)

I went to his room in the middle of the night

I crept to his bed and turned on the light

But to my surprise he was nowhere in sight

My Uncle Walter goes waltzing at night

Chorus:

He goes wa wa wa wa wa waltzing, waltzing with

bears

Raggy bears, baggy bears, shaggy bears too

There is nothing on earth Uncle Walter won’t do

So he can go waltzing, wa wa wa wa wa waltzing

Wa wa wa waltzing, waltzing with bears

We bought Uncle Walter a new coat to wear

But lately I’ve noticed several new tears

And when he came home it was covered with hair

I’m sure Uncle Water goes waltzing with bears

Chorus

We told Uncle Walter that he should be good

And do all the things that we told him he should

But I know he’d rather be off in the woods

I’m afraid we’ll lose Uncle Walter for good

Chorus

We begged and we pleaded “Oh please won’t you

stay?”

And managed to keep him home for a day

But the bears they all barged in and took him

away

Now he’s dancing with pandas

And he won’t understand us

And the bears all demand at least one dance a

day

Chorus

32. PARADISE

(John Prine)

When I was a child my family would travel

Down to Western Kentucky where my parents

were born

And there’s a backwoods old town that’s often

remembered

So many times that my memories are worn

Chorus: And Daddy won’t you take me back to

Muhlenberg county

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?

Well I’m sorry my son but you’re too late in

askin’

Mr. Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away

Well sometime we’d travel right down the Green

River

To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill

Where the air smelled like snaked and we’d shoot

with our pistols

But empty pop bottles was all that we’d kill

Chorus

Then the coal company came with the world’s

largest shovel

And they tortured the timber and stripped all the

land

Well, they dug for their coal till the land was

forsaken

Then they wrote it all down as the progress of

man

Chorus

When I die let my ashes float down the Green

River

Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam

I’ll be half way to heaven with Paradise waiting

Just five miles away from wherever I am

Chorus

33. WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?

Where have all the flowers gone?

Long time passing


Long time ago


Young girls have picked them, every one

When will they ever learn?

When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone?…

They’ve gone to the young men, every one

Where have all the young men gone?…

They’ve gone to soldiers, every one

Where have all the soldiers gone?…

They’ve gone to graveyards, every one

Where have all the graveyards gone?…

They’ve gone to flowers, every one


34. GOOD RIDDANCE (TIME OF YOUR LIFE)

(Greenday)

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road

Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to

go

So, make the best of this test and don't ask why

It's not a question but a lesson learned in time

It's something unpredictable but, in the end, is

right

I hope you had the time of your life

So, take the photographs and still-frames in your

mind

Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time

Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial

For what it's worth, it was worth all the while


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35. CAT’S IN THE CRADLE

(Harry Chapin)

A child arrived just the other day,

Came to the world in the usual way,

But there were planes to catch and bills to pay,

He learned to walk while I was away

He was talking before I knew it and as he grew

he said:

"I'm going to be like you Dad, you know I'm

going to be like you."

And the cat's in the cradle, and the silver spoon,

Little Boy Blue, and the Man in the Moon,

"When you coming home?"

"Son, I don't know when,

We'll get together then, son - you know we'll

have a good time then."

My son turned 10 just the other day,

Said, "Thanks for the ball now c'mon let's play

Will you teach me to throw?" I said, "Not today,

I've got a lot to do," he said, "That's ok."

And he walked away and he smiled and he said,

"You know I'm going to be like you, Dad, you

know I'm going to be like you"

He came from college just the other day, So

much like a man I just had to say,

"Son, I'm proud of you, won't you sit for a

while?"

He shook his head and said with a smile,

"What I'm feeling like, Dad, is to borrow the car

keys,

See you later can I have them please"

I've long since retired and my son's moved away

I called him up just the other day "I'd like to see

you, if you don't mind,"

He said, "I'd love to Dad, if I could find the time

You see my new job's a hassle and the kids have

the flu

But it's sure nice talking to you, Dad, it's been

real nice talking to you"

And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me

He'd grown up just like me, my boy was just like

me

And the cat's in the cradle, and the silver spoon,

Little Boy Blue, and the Man in the Moon,

"When you coming home?" "Dad, I don't know

when,

But we'll get together then, dad, you know we'll

have a good time then"

36. THE LORD OF THE DANCE

I danced in the morning when the world was

begun

I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun

I came down from Heaven and I danced on Earth

At Bethlehem I had my birth

Chorus:

Dance, dance wherever you may be

I am the Lord of the Dance, said He!

And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be

And I’ll lead you all in the Dance, said He!

I danced for the scribe and the Pharisees

The would not dance, they wouldn’t follow me

So I danced for the fishermen James and John

They came with me and the Dance went on

(Chorus)

I danced on the Sabbath and cured the lame

The holy people, they said it was a shame!

They whipped and stripped and then hung me

high

Left me there on a cross to die!

(Chorus)

I danced on a Friday when the sky turned black

It’s hard to dance with the Devil on your back

They buried my body and they thought I’d gone

But I am the Dance and I still go on!

(Chorus)

They cut me down but I leap up high

I am the Life that will never never die!

I live in you if you live in me

I am the Lord of the Dance, said He!

(Chorus) x3

37. I’LL MEET YOU RIGHT HERE

(Aaron “Doc” Keating)

Gentle the day falls to night

As our song is sung

And old friends draw near

The fire once bright now burns low

And with each spark slowly disappears

CHORUS:

For each moment passes, and embers turn ashes

Though a week can feel like a year

Tell the friends who have found you

And all those around you

Next summer I’ll meet you right here

Bright the stars glimmering light

Takes place of the sun

Now new friends draw near

Our time has been flowing by

And with each day slowly disappeared

Chorus

Quietly now moonbeams bright

Shine down on the cove

And good friends draw near

Joined by the heart for though

We may part our love never disappears

Chorus

Seasons may change but the memories

Remain through the weeks

That make up a year

To your spirit remain true and blessings upon you

Next summer I’ll meet you right here

Chorus

I’ll meet you right here…

go where i send thee - camp seymour

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