bruce cockburn
Born in Ottawa 1945, Bruce Douglas Cockburn has been called "Canada's best preserved secret" - and so he maybe was for many years. But after 60 years in business and a pile of quality productions, he's not a secret no more. With his combination of folk, jazz, blues and whatever, he's just hardly accessible for people with less skill in music than himself - he requires concentration listening to, and most of the time his songs are impossible to play for mortal people. This one, from album "Dancing in the Dragons Jaws"(1979), is an exception.
underneath the mask of the sulphur sky
a bunch of us were busy waiting
watching the people looking ill at ease
watching the fraying rope get closer to breaking
women and men moved back and forth
in between effect and cause
and just beyond the range of normal sight
this glittering joker was dancing in the dragons jaws
the only sign you gave of who you were
when you first came walking down the road
was the way the dust motes danced around
your feet in a cloud of gold
but everything you see is not the way it seems
tears can sing and joy shed tears
you can take the wisdom of this world
and give it to the ones who think it all ends here
let me be a little of your breath
moving over the face of the deep
I want to be a particle of your light
flowing over the hills of morning
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A D6 ...A underneath the mask of the sulphur sky A Asus4 A a bunch of us were busy waiting A D6 ...A watching the people looking ill at ease A Asus4 A watching the fraying rope get closer to breaking D B7sus4 A let me be a little of your breath D B7sus4 A moving over the face of the deep D B7sus4 F#m I want to be a particle of your light E Esus4 A flowing over the hills of morning
