Kate wrote:
> thanks for that song...i didn't even hear the words i was so carried away
by
> vince gill's soaring voice...if god has a voice it is vince gill...plus he
> is the nicest most down to earth guy so I have heard & you can just tell
> from his demeanor...
If we think some of Joni's songs are hard to sing, check out Van Dyke Park's
(typically) densely poetic lyrics to Surf's Up. It's amazing how Gill
(especially with the impossibly high falsetto notes in some of the music),
Crosby and Jimmy Webb pulled this one off so awesomely. It was a
masterpiece performance. Kakki
Surf's Up" Time: 2:37 Brother Publishing Co. BMI Recorded: 11/8/66 and
12/15/66 Additional recording: 1971 A side with "Don't Go Near The Water"
Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks
A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome man and baton
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn Columnated ruins domino
Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping?
Hung velvet overtaken me
Dim chandelier awaken me
To a song dissolved in the dawn
The music hall a costly bow
The music all is lost for now
To a muted trumpeter swan
Columnated ruins domino
Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping, Brother John?
Dove nested towers the hour was Strike the street quicksilver moon
Carriage across the fog Two-Step to lamp lights cellar tune
The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne
The glass was raised, the fired rose
The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting
While at port adieu or die
A choke of grief heart hardened I
Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry
Surf's Up
Aboard a tidal wave
Come about hard and join
The young and often spring you gave
I heard the word
Wonderful thing
A children's song
Child, child, child, child, child A child is the father of the man Child,
child, child, child, child A child is the father of the man A children's
song Have you listened as they played Their song is love And the children
know the way That's why the child is the father to the man Child, child,
child, child, child Child, child, child, child, child Na na na na na na na
na Child, child, child, child, child That's why the child is the father to
the man Child, child, child, child, child
