True Stories And Other Dreams

Judy Collins - True Stories And Other Dreams - Album (1973) 1.  Cook With Honey 2.  So Begins The Task 3.  Fishermen Song 4.  The Dealer (Down And Losin’) 5.  Secret Gardens 6.  Holly Ann 7.  The Hostage 8.  Song For Martin 9.  Che ================================================================== Track 1 - Cook With Honey CAPO: 2nd Fret [Intro]        [Verse 1] Muffin warm and basket brown   Smiling faces gathered round our dinner table Close together hand in hand [Chorus] I always cook with honey To sweeten up the night We always cook with honey Tell me how’s your appetite For some sweet love___   [Verse 2] Finding favour with your neighbour Well it can be so fine It’s easier than pie to be kind   We’ve been searching for so long   Now our house has turned into a home   [Chorus] ’Cause I always cook with honey To sweeten up the night We always cook with honey Tell me how’s your appetite For some sweet love___   [Chorus] ’Cause I always cook with honey To sweeten up the night We always cook with honey Tell me how’s your appetite For some sweet love___   [Verse 3] Well our door is always open And there’s surely room for more   Cooking where there’s good love Is never any chore [Verse 4] So come and get to know us There’ll be a place set just for you   Sweet wine before dinner That is surely bound to soothe [Chorus] I always cook with honey To sweeten up the night We always cook with honey Tell me how’s your appetite For some sweet love___   [Chorus] I always cook with honey To sweeten up the night We always cook with honey Tell me how’s your appetite For some sweet love___   ================================================================== Track 2 - So Begins The Task CAPO: 4th Fret [Verse 1] Now begins the task I have dreaded the coming of for so long I wait for the sun to remind my body it needs resting [Chorus] I must learn to live without you now As I cannot learn to give only part  -  somehow [Verse 2] Camping on the edge of your city I wait Hoping someday you’ll see beyond yourself Shadows on the ceiling hard but not real Like the bars that cage me within myself [Chorus] I must learn to live without you now As I cannot learn to give only part  -  somehow [Instrumental]                (2x) [Chorus] I must learn to live without you now As I cannot learn to give only part  -  somehow [Verse 2] All of these cages must and shall be set aside They can only keep us from the knowing Actors and stages now bow before the truth And the love between remains a-growing [Chorus] I must learn to live without you now As I cannot learn to give only part  -  somehow [Outro]              ================================================================== Track 3 - Fishermen Song [Intro]         (3x)      [Verse 1] The fisherman are pitching pennies In the sand beside the sea The sunrise hits their oilskin boots And their painted boats and me They seem to know the ocean Like a man knows a woman She makes him wait around for half the morning For the tide to turn [Chorus] Pull in the ropes Seine haul fisherman Never catches more than he knows he can sell in a day Pull in the nets Seine haul fisherman Day’s for work and night’s the time to go dancing             [Verse 2] They’re drinking beer and laughing And squinting at the sun Waiting for the gulls to tell them When the fish will come Their faces brown and weathered From all the nets they’ve run They’ve learned to wait they always know That the tide will turn     [Chorus] Pull in the ropes Seine haul fisherman Never catches more than he knows he can sell in a day Pull in the nets Seine haul fisherman Day’s for work and night’s the time to go dancing             [Instrumental]                                           [Chorus] Pull in the ropes Seine haul fisherman Never catches more than he knows he can sell in a day Pull in the nets Seine haul fisherman Day’s for work and night’s the time to go dancing             [Verse 3] Way out on the ocean The big ships hunt for whales The Japanese have caught so many That now they hunt for snails My fisherman’s not greedy He seems content to live With the sun and the sand and a net full of fish When the tide turns      [Chorus] Pull in the ropes Seine haul fisherman Never catches more than he knows he can sell in a day Pull in the nets Seine haul fisherman Day’s for work and night’s the time to go dancing [Chorus] Pull in the ropes Seine haul fisherman Never catches more than he knows he can sell in a day Pull in the nets Seine haul fisherman Day’s for work and night’s the time to go dancing                    ================================================================== Track 4 - The Dealer (Down And Losin’) CAPO: 3rd Fret [Intro]   /        /       [Verse 1] Jack of Diamonds Queen of Spades   Fingers tremble and the memory fades And it’s a foolish man who tries to bluff the dealer   [Verse 2] The Joker has laughed Lady Luck smiled   The Aces were high and the Deuces were wild When you’re down and losin’ everyone’s a cheater   [Chorus] Got a little more than you bargained for   A little more than you had in mind They called your bluff and twenty-one Beats nineteen every time   [Verse 3] Life’s a lot like that my friend   Luck runs out the winning streak ends   When the deck is stacked you can’t bluff the dealer       [Verse 4] Just when things were going fine   Someone jumped you from behind And when you’re down and losin’ everyone’s a cheater   [Chorus] You can’t win and you can’t break even   You can’t get out of the game   You shouldn’t stay but you ain’t leavin’ ’Cause your luck could change again [Chorus] You can’t win and you can’t break even   You can’t get out of the game   You shouldn’t stay but you ain’t leavin’ ’Cause your luck could change again   [Verse 5] Jack of Diamonds Queen of Spades   Fingers tremble and the memory fades And it’s a foolish man who tries to bluff the dealer   And it’s a foolish man who tries to bluff the dealer   ================================================================== Track 5 - Secret Gardens CAPO: 3rd Fret [Intro]                      [Verse 1] My grandmother’s house is still there But it isn’t the same A plain wooden cottage A patch of brown lawn And a fence that hangs standing And sighing in the Seattle rain   [Verse 2] I drive by with strangers And wish they could see what I see A tangle of summer birds Flying in sunlight A forest of lilies An orchard of apricot trees   [Chorus] Secret Gardens of the heart Where the flowers bloom forever I see you shining through the night In the ice and snow of winter [Verse 3] Great grandfather’s farm is still there But it isn’t the same The barn is torn down And the fences are gone The Idaho wind blows The topsoil away every Spring   [Verse 4] I still see the ghosts Of the people I knew long ago Inside the old kitchen They bend and sigh My life passed them up And the world passed them by   [Chorus] Secret Gardens of the heart Where the old stay young forever I see you shining through the night In the ice and snow of winter [Verse 5] But most of all it is me that has changed And yet I’m still the same That’s me at the weddings That’s me at the graves Dressed like the people Who once looked so grown-up and brave   [Verse 6] I look in the mirror through the eyes Of the child that was me I see willows bending The season is Spring And the silver blue sailing birds Fly with the sun on their wings   [Chorus] Secret Gardens of the heart Where dreams live on forever I see you shining through the night In the ice and snow of winter ================================================================== Track 6 - Holly Ann CAPO: 1st Fret [Intro]                    [Verse 1] She is a weaver Through her hands the bright thread travels Blue green water willows weeping silver stars [Verse 2] She sings and sighs as the shuttle flies Through the yarn like a Kerry dancer Pink and purple velvet red for a lover’s bed    [Chorus] Living north of San Francisco    With a man who built his house alone    Living peaceful in the country The lights of the Golden Gate will lead her home        [Verse 3] She is a spinner In her hands the wooden wheel turns the wool around Then around again [Verse 4] A gypsy from Bolinas Sits and plays the mandolin Faces smile in the firelight of a foggy night    [Chorus] Living north of San Francisco    Sometimes it’s nice to be alone    She says it’s peaceful where she is living The lights of the Golden Gate will lead her home    [Bridge] You can see the bridges of the city    Hanging in the air by steel and stone   She says it’s peaceful where she’s living The lights of the Golden Gate will lead her home        [Verse 5] She is a weaver Through her hands the bright thread travels Blue green water willows weeping silver stars [Verse 6] She is my sister The baby born when I was older Her hands are light her hair is bright as the summer sun    [Chorus] Living north of San Francisco    Sometimes it’s nice to be alone    She says it’s peaceful in the country The lights of the Golden Gate will lead her home The lights of the Golden Gate will lead her home        ================================================================== Track 7 - The Hostage [Verse 1] I’m a guard in the grey iron prison at least I was ’till now It was never a picnic social never a day They never come in laughing and you know they never taught them how It was damn hard work and you wouldn’t believe the pay [Verse 2] It was early in the morning lord I wasn’t but half awake When the cons went nuts and took us by surprise I never was one for shaking but I found it hard to stand With a six-inch blade held right before my eyes [Verse 3] We could hear a siren blowing somebody yelled in pain Then it got so quiet you could hear a bird walk by They all had masks on their faces and they spoke with a voice of Cain "If they come in shooting then you know you’re bound to die" [Verse 4] I turned to a buddy named Willie I said "Willie it’ll be all right If they meant to kill us we’d be half way down to Hell See they high-jacked a plane in the desert And the government screamed and cried But to save some lives they opened up a prison cell" [Verse 5] So the days kept coming and going tension was getting high But I wasn’t too worried I figured I knew the score I knew they were talking to someone I knew they were willing to try So I figured my freedom was a matter of a day or two more [Verse 6] But Jesus early this morning the whirlybird dropped the gas It made me puke and it brought me to my knees The bullets came like hailstones I heard the first ones pass Then they cut down Willie and they got Jim Kelly and me [Verse 7] They come in yelling curses like they were crossing the River Rhine Shot down every goddamned thing they saw And while I lay there wounded I took another one in my spine Poor Jim Kelly took another one in his jaw [Verse 8] They say we had our throats cut by a band of desperate men Say they saved as many of us as they could Well the governor he should know it but I think I’ll say it again That the governor cut my throat and he cut it good [Verse 9] Let them take the governor hold him for a couple of days See who goes in shooting to set him free Hell they’d open every jail in the country they’d send them on their way They’d never do to him what the governor done to me ================================================================== Track 8 - Song For Martin [Intro}              [Verse 1] In Red Rock Arizona he lived for many years alone   A gangly kid from Colorado who could sing the sweetest songs I first heard Woody’s songs from him in a cabin in the snow   Seems like it was yesterday but it was years and years ago [Verse 2] He moved to Arizona in Nineteen Sixty-One   Got a job at the Indian school he was livin’ in the sun My life was movin’ fast by now I was always on the run   My country life was far behind and the circus had begun    [Chorus] Marty I know it got lonely out there Coyotes cryin’ at midnight in the cold desert air The heart that sorrow broke in you can never be repaired Mart I know I let you down somewhere   [Verse 3] I knew that me and Marty we should have been good friends   I always knew the paths we walked were meant to cross again We talked on the telephone once or twice a year    His voice was so familiar his memory was clear [Verse 4] I’ll never know what brought him to where he finally stood    A shotgun pointed at his head in a cabin in the woods But somehow I could hear it it struck my heart as well For the unknown man who needs a hand for the friend I’ll never know   [Chorus] Marty I know it got lonely out there Coyotes cryin’ at midnight in the cold desert air The heart that sorrow broke in you can never be repaired Mart I know I let you down somewhere              ================================================================== Track 9 - [Verse 1] One morning in Bolivia The leader of the partisans And two of his companions Were forced to flee the mountains for their lives [Verse 2] Through green and dusty villages They sped along the little roads The peasants smiled and shouted as they hurried by Jesus called out to everyone "Don’t think that we are leaving They only tried to frighten us with guns we shall return"    [Chorus 1] Continue with your work   Continue with your talk   You have it in your hands   To own your lives to own your lands [Verse 3] The people smiled and shouted and they ran along a little while Then stood and watched their hands were restless and empty The body of Jesus was in the jeep That they blew up before it reached the plane The priest was proud to bless him For what there was of him remaining in the afternoon [Chorus 1] Continue with your work   Continue with your talk   You have it in your hands   To own your lives to own your lands [Chorus 2] There is no one who can show you   The road you should be on   They only tell you they can show you   And then tomorrow they are gone [Verse 4] The smell of oil and incense fill the room in this adobe hut Where on the table lies the body of a man His face is pale and young his beard is dark and curled Pennies hold his eyelids from the evening light    [Verse 5] People from the village those who knew him those who killed him Stand inside the door their hands are restless and empty They watch the priest make silent crosses in the air And pray to god inside their hearts for their own souls   [Chorus 1] Continue with your work   Continue with your talk   You have it in your hands   To own your lives to own your lands [Chorus 2] There is no one who can show you   The road you should be on   They only tell you they can show you   And then tomorrow they are gone [Chorus 1] Continue with your work   Continue with your talk   You have it in your hands   To own your lives to own your lands [Chorus 2] There is no one who can show you   The road you should be on   They only tell you they can show you   And then tomorrow they are gone [Chorus 1] Continue with your work   Continue with your talk   You have it in your hands   To own your lives to own your lands [Chorus 2] There is no one who can show you   The road you should be on   They only tell you they can show you   And then tomorrow they are gone [Chorus 1] Continue with your work   Continue with your talk   You have it in your hands   To own your lives to own your lands ==================================================================