Can you hear it?
--lyrics and music copyright (C) 1986 by Ernest Clark
!lj 1st draft 5/2/86
!lj revision of verse 2 6/22/87


        F9               C/G
Can you hear it?  Like a voice on the wind?
      F9           C/G     G7      Am   Am/G
Or an echo  to the breezes and the birds?
      F              G                   C/G G     Am  Am/G
While forestland and mountain sing their own happy tunes
     F                         Gsus4 G
In a harmony that very few can hear?


Or like a trumpet, and the song of marching men,
Come in answer when the land cried out in pain?
And though all returned from battle by age lie in their graves,
The wind repeats their song to those who hear.


Or the laughter, and the cries  of the kids,
Or the creaking   of the old man in the swing
As he smiles to watch the sunset with his wife of fifty years,
While the brook laughs as it did the day they wed?

      F                   G             C/G        F        C/G
  And if you've lost your anchors, your wherefores and your whys,
         F                   G                 C/G       G        C/G
  And if dream and nightmare fade alike to the same dull shade of gray,
       F               G        C/G      G       Am  Am/G
  Just try to hear the music of life and all its love,
          F                               Gsus4 G Gsus4 G/D
  And the tune perhaps may come to you at last......

        F9        C/G  F9 C/G F9 C/G
Can you hear it?