Summer Song: by Roldo (Voice & Piano)
1,425 views · Published 3 November 2012 · 1:36 · Indexed 25 October 2026
Channel: music & chat · 2012 · Music
Summer is gone, but we can still remember.... Another song by Winnipeg Poet and Musician Roldo, performed by myself. You can listen to his original version here (it's rather different than mine): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDOyfi22yA&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LLvpUsVcFEYusBYFjofN8zig I love how it starts out where many a folk song could, but goes where not many folk songs ever would. I feel the last lines could have been written by him alone. I hope you like my performance. Summer Song With a rock & a roll for the soothe a-my soul, And a little hit of weed for my brain, I passed through here a long time ago, And now I'm back again. Well the trees grow high and the leaves grow green And the rocks grow still and grey Summer danced to the song of the sun Until it danced away. Well, lighten your load and wander your road Whenever and where you will, Here I'll wait 'till the tale is told, And here I'm waitin' still. A dream and a dance on a summer-sunned hill To a music old and true, One cloud rode the breath of the sky And all the world was new. Well the line of the mind reaches subtle and fine Beyond the cage of days, The body swims in the ocean of time Beyond where sight can gaze. I look out and the moon looks in And the sun looks up and down, Could be some day I'll take it all in, But for now it's all around. *** The melody is my own in this video..... I learned the song by ear, and when I played it for him I on the panflute, I was chagrined when he didn't recognize it. (When I sang it, he commented that it was interesting how I was putting the "Lead Belly" voice into it.) When you listen to his version you will hear the resemblance (and I do plan to post a version closer to the original in the future), but his melody is a little more complex than mine.
