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MUSICAL NUMBERS
Including Works-in-Progress (WIP)
· Chanticleer: What Shall I Live For? HENRY
· Lonely Road (WIP) HENRY
· Helen’s Song (WIP) HELEN
· Huckleberry Day ALL
· I Got My Reasons HENRY
· Parcel of Vain Strivings (Lyrics by HD Thoreau) HENRY
· What Sun Shines For Thee Now? (Lyrics by HD Thoreau) HENRY
· Direction of Your Dreams EMERSON & FULLER
· Who Do We Think We Are? SARAH GRIMKE
· Concord Hymn (by RW Emerson) ALL
I GOT MY REASONS *
E7
They ask me why I’d ever want to live in the woods.
They tell me I’m a loafer and they fill me with shoulds
CHORUS: A7
I got my reasons, (several in fact)
E7
I got my reasons
Bm
I’m gonna build me a cabin
Am
With some logs I cut down.
Bm
And the commute isn’t bad
Am E7
It’s just a mile from town, I got my reasons.
It’s the nature of my nature, wanna be outside.
I’m from the nation of creation, gotta follow my guide!
CHORUS: I got my reasons,
I got my reasons
I got a place by the pond
A friend has loaned me an axe.
I got some things to write down.
I got the wind at my back, I got my reasons.
BRIDGE: A7 F#7 E7
Maybe if I find someplace, maybe I could find some time
C7 D7 D#7 E7
Time to set my own damn pace, time to find my rhythm & rhyme
I measure my wealth
By what I live without.
When I’m alone I can ponder
What this life is about.
CHORUS: I got my reasons,
I got my reasons
I got a place by the pond
A friend has loaned me an axe.
I got some things to write down.
I got the wind at my back, I got my reasons.
* This song kind of wrote itself. Henry is responding to queries from towns’folk who keep asking why/ how he can live
in the woods.
WHAT SUN SHINES FOR THEE?
WHAT SUN SHINES FOR THEE?
from a poem by Thoreau)
Brother where dost thou dwell?
Brother where dost thou dwell?
What sun shines for thee now?
What sun shines for thee now?
Dost thou indeed farewell?
Dost thou indeed farewell?
As we wished here below.
As we wished here below.
Henry leaves the house and goes to the river.
Henry leaves the house and goes to the river.
What season dids't thou find?
What season dids't thou find?
Twas winter here.
Twas winter here.
Are not the fates more kind
Are not the fates more kind
Than they appear?
Than they appear?
Is thy brow clear again
Is thy brow clear again
As in thy youthful years?
As in thy youthful years?
And was that ugly pain the summit of thy fears?
And was that ugly pain the summit of thy fears?
Yet thou wast cheery still
Yet thou wast cheery still
They could not quench thy fire,
They could not quench thy fire,
Thou dids't abide their will,
Thou dids't abide their will,
And then retire.
And then retire.
Where chiefly shall I look
Where chiefly shall I look
To feel thy presence near?
To feel thy presence near?
Along the neighboring brook
Along the neighboring brook
May I thy voice still hear?
May I thy voice still hear?
Dost thou still haunt the brink
Dost thou still haunt the brink
Of yonder river's tide?
Of yonder river's tide?
And may I ever think
And may I ever think
That thou art at my side?
That thou art at my side?
WHAT BIRD WILT THOU EMPLOY
WHAT BIRD WILT THOU EMPLOY
TO BRING ME WORD OF THEE?
TO BRING ME WORD OF THEE?
TO SERVE THEIR FORMER LORD
TO SERVE THEIR FORMER LORD
TWOULD GIVE THEM LIBERTY
TWOULD GIVE THEM LIBERTY
CHORUS Where is the finch - the thrush,
CHORUS Where is the finch - the thrush,
I used to hear?
I used to hear?
Ah! They could well abide
Ah! They could well abide
the dying year.
the dying year.
Now they no more return,
Now they no more return,
I hear them not;
I hear them not;
They have remained to mourn,
They have remained to mourn,
Or else forgot.
Or else forgot.
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