07 Evergreen
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07 Evergreen (3.35)
I wrote this somehwere in the Himalayan foothils of Uttarakhand, surrounded by tall deodars with a 400km vista of the high Himalaya to the north. A simply picked folk song that developed a fancy mandolin break when I recorded it. It's dedicated to my first grand-daughter Thida - who is incidentally to be heard playing the canonball bunny rattle from verse 2 on....
G C G D7 G
May your life be evergreen, perfect in the sun
G C G D7 G
Enigmatic and serene one and only one
Bm D C
Take your love from off the shelf scatter it below
Bm D Em A Em A
Open up your inner self, watch the river flow, watch the river flow
Seasons come and seasons go time is moving fast
What’s to think and what’s to know what’s to come at last
Hold the future in your mind, watch it change and grow
Rail at fate or stay resigned to happiness or woe, happiness or woe
Bm F#m
Comes the moment come the man
Bm A D
We all get by just doing what we can
Slow the pace and walk awhile, talk to all you meet
Ramble over country stiles, savour city streets
Spread contentment as you pass, spread it far and wide
Lead us on a merry dance once you so decide, once you so decide