Susan Savia: Listen to Music

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The lovely stream from Sunnybrook Road and the Wood Thrush. I would pass this on my way to the studio and was completely enchanted. I simply ADORE this song, and have created a number of arrangements for it, but this one is my favorite, coming to me just before recording. The guitar was captured brilliantly in the studio by Rob. There are places where I swear I hear the brook chattering, sometimes I hear violins in the guitar, many subtle colors from my Jimmy Buffett Pollywog Martin Guitar. I love the visual story this song creates (and the line "a lusty trout"), but I also appreciate the metaphor contained within. "Everything is Water" ~ Thales

With many a curve my banks I fret, by many a field and fallow
and many a fairy foreland set with willow, weed, and mallow
I slip, I slide, I gleam, I glance among my skimming swallows
I make the netted sunbeams dance against my sandy shallows
I chatter, chatter as I flow to join the brimming river
For men may come and men may go
But I go on forever, ever
I go on forever

I wind about, and in and out With here a blossom sailing
and here and there a lusty trout and here and there a grayling
and here and there a snowy flake Upon me as I travel
With many a silvery waterbrake above the golden gravel
and draw them all along and flow to join the brimming river
For men may come and men may go
But I go on forever, ever
I go on forever

I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers
I move the sweet forget-me-nots that grow for happy lovers
I murmur under moon and stars in brambly wildnernesses
I linger by my shingly bars, I loiter round my cresses
And out again I curve and flow to join the brimming river
For men may come and men may go
But I go on forever, ever,
I go on forever