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The Calling
11:48
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(Overture)
Journeys sewn
With roads unknown
Wondrous life is born at night
Souls search dark seeking light
Souls search through the dark to find
Light and hope and truth for you
Every joy born anew
No primrose path to utopia
Only tabula rasa
Tam altius magnus attollo
Time is found as sacred ground
Heard are whispers shared
Deep within life begins
All the wonders of every moment
Come alive, Come alive
Wonders of each moment
Come alive, Come alive
A mirror momenti va
A mirandus momenti
Veni vivus va
Restless child I make for you
A destined odyssey of wonder
Blessed jubilation calling
Beckoning a revelation
Will triumphant sacred walk
Humble passage to surrender all
Lassus viatoris
Amplior praemi
Clusi mansionis
Requietus nunc
Sedis so grata
(Main Song)
Love and faith
And songs we make
Don’t always say
What hearts can pray
But once in time
Our souls may find
A moment’s fleeting path
To follow Home
Love as life
Goes on in spite
Of unimagined
Sorrow shouldered
Heroes tall
From mountains fall
To Earth to dust
Uniting us as one
Glory lay
In ash that day
Tonight she flies
In Yankee skies
Tattered oh ever strong
Woven so to will resolve
Quilted land sewn with hands
So steadfast so firm to grasp
Onto life
Copyright © 2001, 2008 Jon Charles Fortman (ASCAP) and Kite Creature Music (ASCAP)
Copyright © 2006 Tom McDermott
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1902
01:42
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Eagle Mountain Rose
05:56
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Found a prairie flower
When Cowboys ruled the world
Still we had to wonder
Do roses bloom in Baltimore?
Then soldiers came to carry you
Donned in gold and blue
Oh how brief it took me to
Believe that
(chorus)
In the garden of my heart
Someone planted love and beauty
Tilled my soul from dawn to dark
With her Winecup seed
All the strength of Austin stone
And the grace to make her own home
Harbor for a wounded warrior
In a Lone Star Fall
(verse 2)
Saw you march on Georgia
Proud as Billy T.
Who’d have thought Savannah
Could fall again so easily?
So meet me on a Thistle Hill
And vow you never will
Be without the blossom smile
That’s sown deep
(repeat chorus)
(break 1)
A ring a wreath a vow for life
Stand with me and be my wife
We will survive the days
And live to sip our Montrachet
(verse 3)
Soon our bouquet grows by one
As a girl or son
Now we know petals will flow
Forever
(repeat chorus)
(break 2)
Cradle me in the Winter's cold
Run through me in the Autumn Gold
Scatter me over Kimbell Green
Sit with me when your eyes won't dream
Copyright © 1999 Jon Charles Fortman (ASCAP) and Kite Creature Music (ASCAP)
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Rounders
04:49
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So I’ll save this game
And by the way
I thought I’d stick around and play
For the rest of my days
‘Cause I’ve seen Heaven
Disguised as a Cathedral
Built on a Hallowed Yard
‘86 held the promise
Only to break our hearts
How’d one moment
Take my life in its balance?
How’d I fall from so tall?
Whoever makes a great might-have-been?
‘51 or ‘55
Either way I knew I was alive
If we ever do forget this place
Gone’ll be humanity and grace
Me and Say Hey
Someone said we gotta get to L.A.
But I’ll never make that train
All the rain comin’ down on Flatbush today
So I’ll sing my Cardinal song
As the Bishop and the Pope pray
And they maybe sing along
Then I’ll hold history
Next to my heart
And then embrace the ones
Who told him goodbye
Vendar mi alma por amor a mi patria?
No, Pero yo para cambie mi tesoro por
un dia en la Gran Carpa.
“It was an honor to change history with you”
Seems I could have lost my way
Never thought I’s gonna see the Ballet
And the poet out in center stage
Just wrote another page for all time
Maybe I’ll get on today
Maybe you could teach me to play
How’d I ever get so far from Home?
Can’t bear to walk away alone
Copyright © 1998 Jon Charles Fortman (ASCAP) and Kite Creature Music (ASCAP)
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Daddy went to heaven
When I knew him ‘bout as well as me
Said goodbye to Mamma for the moment
But I made do camped out in make believe
Freddy not to worry can you meet me out in Hollywood?
Don’t forget DeDe, Grandpa Hunt and Cleo
Lilacs purple daisy field
One more ride up on that Ferris Wheel…so high
Where’s our Disneyland gone this morn’?
Someday maybe we’ll cry more
Lordy would you get a load
of Little Latin Lancelot
Tell’in me with all kind of courage
Maybe we had met somewhere
So we’ll go to Greenwich
You can buy me a dime store ring
‘Cause it’s all I need Cuban Pete
And I hope you miss your Sally Sweet
Put a butterfly in your hair
Shine on Tessie
Paint a gray town carrot-pink
And yellow, Lilly white
Go to sleep on pillows soft
Hands are shakin’
Got a sickle cuttin’ into me
Don’t care much for a party
Where they only serve up Stoli
How could Tango Red
Ever give me this scare?
But I swear I bleed blue as Franklin D.
Bless you God be with me
Let a tear my Desi fill your eye
Sing to me your sweetest “Rock-a-Bye Baby”
Now this all elusive bird shall land
In our blessed Valley grand
Copyright © 2000 Jon Charles Fortman (ASCAP) and Kite Creature Music (ASCAP)
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White Horses
07:47
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(verse 1)
Born in a sun that shone
On a vine that lay near Libournais
Pour...pour the ‘64
Aged as sweet as your every year
(chorus)
White horses at full stride
Southern beach at low tide
We knew Lee as antebellum
But the joy became seldom
A pilgrimage to heritage
A land of lagniappe trois couleur fete
A chance to revel in all we stood for
And loved...
In the wake of our tears
We found a way to amend
All we could hear
Voices of friends we knew dear
In all our years
For want of one moment long
To hold and endear
Your heart your love your song
(verse 2)
Dance on the frozen sand
Make a song with your golden hand
Play in a summer's day
On a diamond throne
And from third I'll wave you Home
Copyright © 1998 Jon Charles Fortman (ASCAP) and Kite Creature Music (ASCAP)
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Sojourn Love Song
06:06
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Verse 1
Hey. I could've swore I'd live today
You made sure it'd never be that way
Christen me golden
You said no. Then again you said maybe
I'd love to know what's with your friend J.D.
And the armor clad
Even Nightingales laughed
At Crimea
Chorus
Roses die
Young ones try
Solitude
For a while
I could smile
And see you
Like Sarah Ballou
Verse 2
Well I found God and you had the Holy Ghost
And that's all we needed...all we needed to pose
In our Camelot
I've seen me standin' beside myself
I've seen you wishin' you were stealth
In the clergy mass
Take my hand alas
We'll make our hearts home
(repeat chorus)
In time and song we find
Solace for free
Verse 3
Say goodbye and there but by the Grace of God
Go I...would've never taken odds
That you'd never know
How I loved you so
Now you're so long gone
Copyright © 1995 Jon Charles Fortman (ASCAP) and Kite Creature Music (ASCAP)
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Lullaby
04:32
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The Antique Harmoniums Fort Worth, Texas
The Antique Harmoniums is the creation of Jon Charles Fortman; our albums are also produced, arranged, orchestrated, and scored by him. They are also recorded in professional studios using top-grade equipment or in our own home recording studio which is also outfitted with pro-grade equipment. Our debut album has been called a "Rock Symphony" by some fans. ... more
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