Tag: John Denver

Celebrate Each Day with a Song – John Denver

Childhood Heroes

Perhaps it’s a cliché, but music does tame the heart and stir the soul. One of the people who most influenced me during my teens as I was forming the values that still guide my daily life was John Denver.

The celebrated and gifted musician, actor, singer and songwriter won fame and recognition for the purity of his voice. His songs taped the heart speaking of the complexity of emotional connections to others in the simplest way. Lovely acoustic melodies played on a six or twelve-string guitar strayed inside of me and stayed there.

Yes, his songs are beautiful. But, it’s the legacy of conservation for wildlife that lingers on. It was John who taught me to be responsible for what I did and to not harm other creatures out of ignorance.

So many years later, I can hear this song and still be moved to tears. The power of great music!

Many thanks to cherished memories.

Bellissima

 

 

 

The Garden Song

Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow.

All it takes is a rake and a hoe and a piece of fertile ground.

Inch by inch, row by row, Someone bless the seeds I sow.

Someone warm them from below, ’til the rain comes tumbling down.

 

Pulling weeds and picking stones, man is made of dreams and bones.

Feel the need to grow my own ’cause the time is close at hand.

Grain for grain, sun and rain, find my way in nature’s chain,

to my body and my brain to the music from the land.

 

Plant your rows straight and long, thicker than with prayer and song.

Mother Earth will make you strong if you give her love and care.

Old crow watching hungrily, from his perch in yonder tree.

In my garden I’m as free as that feathered thief up there.

 

Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow.

All it takes is a rake and a hoe and a piece of fertile ground.

Inch by inch, row by row, Someone bless the seeds I sow.

Someone warm them from below, ’til the rain comes tumbling down.

Written by Pete Seeger

 

The first time I heard this song, it was performed by John Denver on the Muppet Show. Here is a link to an old friend of the Earth.