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RITA
"I'll
Accept The Rose Tonight": given with love I will sing of
fear inside and people like Anna who took me under her wing
showing me compassion by reaching out to a stranger. I will sew
it all up by riding that magic carpet again, the joys we shared
when we were all young now look and see - this is what the dream
has done!
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1.
Crazy
Love
2. Anna I.O.U.
3. I'll Accept The Rose
4. You've Known Love
5. Moonlight and Clover
6. When Love Surrounded You And I
7. Black Rock
8. Part Of The Mystery
9. Why Do I Think Of You Today
10. The Other One
11. In The Spirit
12. We'll Reach The Sky Tonight
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Crazy
Love
You
stopped looking for the rainbow
When the sky turned grey
And I stopped trying to persuade you
It would change some day
And through it all
Our rise, our fall
We slowly watched good love die
It's no
secret you're whispering to someone new
Do the same words you once used
Come back to you
And through it all
Our rise, our fall
We slowly watched good love die
Now
there is something I want to know
And I've got to believe it's so
When you give your heart and it's given back
Oh tell me it's not always like that
Chorus:
Love, oh love
Oh crazy love
Love, oh love
Oh crazy love
We kept
hiding all the feelings
That we once held high
Kept repeating all the same things
That we knew were lies
And through it all
Our rise, our fall
We slowly watched good love die
We went
sailing with emotions
And the storm came by
We kept turning all the pages
'til the story died
Our rise, our fall
We slowly watched good love die
Now
there is something I want to know
And I've got to believe it's so
When you give your heart and it's given back
Oh tell me it's not always like that
Chorus
(Repeat Chorus)
Words
and Music by Rita MacNeil
© 1989 Big Pond Publishing and Production Limited
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Anna
I.O.U.
In 1965
My Polish friends and I
Worked together on the fifth floor
Of the tallest building I've ever known
And how we lived for Fridays
We were young, our hearts were wild
Now looking back at photographs
Anna I owe you
In 1969
The third floor comes to mind
I rented out two rooms from you
The windows opened to a view
And after work you'd find me
Sitting in your living room
The family round a circle then
And how you gently drew me in
Now looking back at photographs
Anna I owe you
Chorus:
And Anna I owe you one
For taking me under your wing
I was a stranger to you
And you were like family
Your country was lost to you then
And I so needed a friend
Whatever the reasons we met
You're someone I'll never forget
The few
years that I stayed
I learned to love your ways
Your Polish heart so full of love
The wisdom that you gave us all
And how your children loved you
Those were the years of few regrets
You seemed so ageless in our time
Your future never crossed our minds
Now looking back at photographs
Anna I owe you
Chorus
Words
and Music by Rita MacNeil
© 1989 Big Pond Publishing and Production Limited
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I'll
Accept The Rose
I'm so
afraid of losing you
I don't know how I'm holding you
I can't believe you love me
After all this time
For
you're the kind you look up to
I know you say that of me too
And of all the loves that walked with you
I'm glad I'm walking now
Chorus:
So I'll accept the rose tonight
The one you give with so much love
You've taken all the fear inside
And right before my very eyes
You turned it into love
I know
the way you look at me
There's never any doubt it seems
You stop my heart from beating
By the way you speak
And in
this world where love grows cold
And broken dreams are left to hold
I pray I may never know
A day without your love
Chorus
(Repeat Chorus)
Words
and Music by Rita MacNeil
© 1989 Big Pond Publishing and Production Limited
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You've
Know Love
I look
at you and you smile
And I see something there in your eyes
And it takes you away for awhile
Do you remember
We lost
what we once knew
And I know that you feel it too
And every now and then I get blue
When I remember
You
learn to keep the best of the old
You've known the tears you've known the joy
And somewhere deep in your heart
You've known love
I watch
you walk away
And there is nothing I can say
And it will always be this way
So we remember
Like
that old familiar song
When lovers part the world goes on
We've given love now somehow lost
And we remember
You
learn to keep the best of the old
You've known the tears you've known the joy
And somewhere deep in your heart
You've known love
Words
and Music by Rita MacNeil
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Moonlight
And Clover
Down to
the hall the setting was moonlight and clover
She was dressed up and feeling just like the belle of the ball
The music would play, she'd turn her eyes toward the ceiling
And pretend not to notice she's left all alone once again
Chorus:
Somebody please, don't let the band play the slow songs
Her heart is so broken, you know where she's longing to be
In somebody's arms with her head resting safe on a shoulder
Where the night and the music are all that she thought it would
be
Out
through the door she knows there's nobody waiting
And on her way homeward the music still rings in her ears
And in every song she's lost in the arms of a stranger
Come moonlight and clover she'll make her way back here again
Chorus
(Repeat Chorus)
Words
and Music by Rita MacNeil
© 1989 Big Pond Publishing and Production Limited
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When
Love Surrounded You And I
You’re
still an inspiration
After all these years
And if the sun don’t come out today
I know you’ll still be there
And in the evening when darkness comes
I remember way back when
I used to crawl inside of your heart
And let you take me away
Chorus:
To a place of higher ground
I walked with my head held proud
No mountain-top was too high
When love surrounded you and I
I still
can be persuaded
After all these years
And even knowing that love can burn
You know I still believe
And when I close my eyes and dream
I remember way back when
I used to crawl inside of your heart
And let you take me away
Chorus
I still
recall the moonlight
Hanging sweet and low
And shadows out of the darkest night
Can sometimes leave me cold
You’re still one of my brightest lights
I remember way back when
I used to crawl inside of your heart
And let me take you away
Chorus
(Repeat Chorus)
Words
and Music by Rita MacNeil
© 1989 Big Pond Publishing and Production Limited
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Black
Rock
When I
saw the black rock
The first thing that I thought
I'd fill up with sadness and cry
But I sang
And the
blue sky hung over
The fast moving water
And I stood on the rocks
And the memories began
Chorus:
Can you imagine to overcome sadness
A trip to the black rock is all that it takes
And the waves will wash o'er me
And the black rock will hold me
And keep me from drifting away
Down on
the black rocks
I take all of my thoughts
And I hang them to lie
On the wind and the waves
Now the
rock has been worn down
By time and by water
And I have been worn down
By time and myself
Chorus
When I
saw the black rock
The first thing that I thought
I'd fill up with sadness and cry
But I sang
And the
moon shone above me
And the darkness fell on me
And I slept on the rocks
'Til the morning time came
Chorus
Words
and Music by Rita MacNeil
© 1979 Big Pond Publishing and Production Limited
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Part
Of The Mystery
I don't
know what I'm gonna do
When all of my travelling is finally through
And I'm back on the rocks
With my thoughts and memories of you
The medicine woman she gave me the warning
Wear only the colours that heal the soul over
Stay out of the colours where evil will penetrate through
Chorus:
Now did you ever feel like a wick in a candle
Part of the question and part of the answer
Part of the mystery far greater than me or you
I don't
know what I'm gonna do
When I'm flying so high and away from the view
And the storm clouds paint me a different
image of you
My thoughts and my feelings are caught in the middle
I'm holding together like some kind of riddle
Now I need answers to questions I'm turning to you
Chorus
I don't
know what I'm gonna do
When all of my travelling is finally through
And I'm home on the rocks with my thoughts
And memories of you
The medicine woman she gave me the warning
Wear only the colours that heal the soul over
Stay out of the colours where evil will penetrate
Through
Chorus
(Repeat)
Words
and Music by Rita MacNeil
© 1985 Big Pond Publishing and Production Limited
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Why
Do I Think Of You Today
This is
not yesterday
And you are many miles away
And what we had is long since gone
Why do I think of you today
We no
longer share the same
Spaces or good time friends
Our separate ways are here to stay
Why do I think of you today
And why
after all these years
Does your memory burn so bright
You would think that after all these tears
There'd be a little left to catch the light
Then
the restless years began
When you were no longer there
I glance across an empty room
Why do I think of you today
And so
the story ends somehow
Two paths that cross and wind away
On a journey that we can't explain
Why do I think of you today
And why
after all these years
Does your memory burn so bright
You would think that after all these tears
There'd be little left to catch the light
Now that you're gone
Words
and Music by Rita MacNeil
© 1988 Big Pond Publishing and Production Limited
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The
Other One
As you
drove along with your headlights shining
Like fire coming from your eyes
And the miles on the road were taking their toll
As you drove on through the night
Chorus:
You were acting like you've never been out of love
Talking like you knew all the lines
And while you were away you were doing fine
With the other one, the other one
As you
moved along with your dark eyes burning
You had no reason to doubt
That the one on the phone and the one there at home
Never knew the secret you kept
Chorus
The
other one you seldom mention
Receives your gifts and good intentions
The other one, the other one
As you
turned the key, were you thinking of me
As you walked across the floor
Have you ever looked back to the moment that passed
When I walked out of the door
Chorus
The
other one you seldom mention
Receives your gifts and good intentions
The other one, the other one
Words
and Music by Rita MacNeil
© 1985 Big Pond Publishing and Production Limited
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In
The Spirit
You
built a nation on war-torn hearts
You ask forgiveness, you ask a lot
And those that know you, they know your heart
And those that don't know, they soon find out
Chorus:
And underneath the years of soil
The wounds have settled into dust
And in the spirit we see the proof
And in the light we see the truth
You
harboured many who came to call
And those already inside the walls
Were made to bow, were made to fall
Were told to move, were made to die
Chorus
The
roads were made, the mountains torn
The houses built and the children born
And the first to come and the first to care
Were the ones who lost were the ones who paid
Chorus
The
soft green fields beneath the sun
They hide the echo of a thousand guns
They wore no armour and they bore no grudge
Had fear of many, yet ran from none
Chorus
Words
and Music by Rita MacNeil
© 1985 Big Pond Publishing and Production Limited
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We'll
Reach The Sky Tonight
The
joys we shared when we were young
The magic carpets that we rode
The friends we made, the hills we climbed
All this and more has shaped our lives
Chorus:
I know we'll reach the sky tonight
Look and see how far we've come
Standing in our brightest light
This is what the dream has done
The
peace that comes from knowing love
The certain way I see you smile
The happiness we've come to know
Whenever we outride the storm
Chorus
And
when the night brings on the stars
We'll be there, we'll remember
We've reached across, we've touched a spark
The story's just beginning
Chorus
Standing
in our brightest light
This is what the dream has done
Words
and Music by Rita MacNeil
© 1989 Big Pond Publishing and Production Limited
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