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The Miner's Town 2:290:00/2:29
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The New World 2:300:00/2:30
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Down The Coast 1:590:00/1:59
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Danza Flora 2:310:00/2:31
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Blissful 2:390:00/2:39
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SONGS / LYRICS
All lyrics by Paul Marsteller, except as noted
1. ROVING LILY - MAIN THEME
(instrumental)
2. THE NEW WORLD
It's a new age
to a new world I'm bound
As we made land
I looked away and prayed
the ship would turn back again
Back to my home
where it's not so strange
But I have to change
Here the sun rises
where it used to set
So I must be the one
that turns around,
and forgets all that I've known
And try to feel less alone
and make this my home
It's a new age
and a new world I'm in
3. BEGIN
With my hand in yours
we begin our dance
We feel so sure
as we take this chance
With you right here
from now on
All my fears
are gone
So side by side
we'll ride the tides,
Just like we sailed
the ocean wide
We'll dance, we'll dance
on this our day
We'll dance, we'll dance
and forever hold each other just this way
Just like this,
just like this we'll stay
With my hand in yours,
Always and ever
4. COULD LIFE BE SWEETER?
(instrumental)
5. BLISSFUL
This beautiful land,
Virginia
In fields so green
we begin our dream
My love she blushes
He speaks in hushes
Tender with all touches
These beautiful days
we have shared
Like blossoms of Spring
Floating in the air
White doves sing their songs
in the early morning
So we can't hear
the cannons way out there
6. DO YOU HAVE TO GO?
(instrumental)
7. THE CONSCRIPT (Marsteller & Hattem)
The dawn breaks
as my heart aches for home
The red sky rings battle cries,
a clarion call
to do what I must,
whatever the cost
Oh, this harm I'm in
never ends,
as I rise for the day
and step out in line
to shoot at my brothers,
To keep up the fight, to keep the fight
8. WHEN WILL HE RETURN? (Gabriel Rhodes )
(instrumental)
9. THE DESERTER
From my lookout I search the night
but the gathering clouds snuff out the light
So I don't seea glow from my own country
Our tattered flag flails above
its colors now look like blood
But what I most fear
No angels are here
So I raise my head up
and look skyward
Clouds open to show me
the glow of the stars
Now I can retreat to the light
from the shadows below
Now I can see
my way home
10. ONE DAY I'LL SEE HIM
He must be out there somewhere
beyond the clouds, at sea
With that long, last look he gave
He'd bid farewell to me
Some say that he could always see
way beyond what others see
Right now he's sure to be
looking back at me
Gone to the sea
that's where he must be
Where he'd be free
But, too far away from me
He must be out there somewhere
out where he had to go
One day I'll see him,
one day I'll know
11. GO WEST
(instrumental)
12. IN CALIFORNIA
From far away to here
for nearly a year
Crossed mountains, deserts and seas
That's how we came to be
in California
From far away to here
through blood, sweat and fear
We are pioneers
to this last frontier
We build where we live
Some warned us
but we made it here,
We made it here
to California
A long way here
a hard way here
But we're here,
in California
From far away we've come to here
we've come to California
California
13. THE MINER'S TOWN
I can still smell my Dublin roses
though it's years since I sailed away to here
They don't grow at all in this miner's town
where dust is the only soil around
We danced in the moonlight back there,
and sang as loud as we dared
But here it's the gold,
dancing in these hills,
that gives men's hearts a thrill
So I stand out in the dark night air
and look towards my green isle back there
Take a deep breath,
I whisper a prayer,
And pray for the day that I can return
and wash all this dust from my hair
Now I dance in the moonlight,
the moonlight so fair
And pretend that I'm back there
and haven't a care in this world
Then I dance in the moonlight,
the moonlight so fair
And pretend that I'm back there,
and haven't a care
in this too big world
14. LONG, LONG AGO (Thomas H. Bayly -1833)
Tell me the tales that to me were so dear,
Long, long ago, long, long ago,
Sing me the songs I delighted to hear,
Long, long ago, long ago,
Now you are here all my grief is removed,
Let me forget that so long you have roamed
Let me believe that you love as you loved,
Long, long ago, long ago.
Do you remember the paths where we met?
Long, long ago, long, long ago.
Ah, yes, you told me you'd never forget,
Long, long ago, long ago.
15. DOWN THE COAST
I bought my ticket,
goodbye, San Francisco!
Where singing made me a star
Oh, the men stared
and the women glared,
I left that saloon back there
To go, down the coast,
towards Mexico
I rode that train
to my new job in San Diego,
teaching Indians about God
Those Mission walls
were way too tall
So I made my plans to go
to Mexico,
Mexico
16. MISSION INDIANS
(instrumental)
17. RED SKIES (Marsteller & Hattem)
When Spanish ships first came
the native world changed
Eagles vanished from sight,
the silver bays turned dark and quiet
Under stars and sun
Their people ever on this shore
Fathers, then their sons
But from this day, nevermore
Red skies be their guide
Take them from this shore to find
A new home, a new home
18. THE BULLFIGHTER
In Mexico, a bullfighter
swept me off my feet,
A tragedy -
he loved that life more than me
On Fiesta days,
as the Pasadoble is played
I sit alone in the plaza
for him I'm afraid
The deadliest time
is the bull's arrival at five,
when the sinking sun
dazzles his eyes
My matador stares
when the clarions blare
Then it's just God, and the bull,
facing him there
I watch from the stands
again and again
Will red carnations or his blood
be left in the sand?
19. WHAT NOW? (Gabriel Rhodes)
(instrumental)
20. THE STAGECOACH ROBBER
He robbed our stagecoach,
held a gun on me
And though the night was moonless
we still could see
That we were meant to be
His trail ended in a Baja jail
Oh, I wrote him there
In our letters our truest selves we shared
About his robberies this he swore,
he took what he needed, nothing more
Now he's stolen my heart forevermore
The day he escaped, he wrote me this song:
"Think of me long,
think of forever,
For soon we'll be together,
always and ever"
So now I wonder
will his words he keep?
Or will love end in sorrow?
Oh, how my heart leaps
Is he the true one for me?
21. DANZA FLORA
If that fickle moon
hadn't come back so soon
I might have missed
just how good you look tonight
Like this desert in bloom
and the roses outside our room
shimmering white
under the blue moonlight
And if those flowers could get up and dance
they couldn't thrill me like you can
When I look into your eyes
they're like a prism
where I can see
all the colors I've been missing
And if those flowers could get up and dance
they couldn't thrill me like you can
22. PALACE HOTEL
I wait at the first table in the courtyard cantina
under a canopy of red bougainvillea
I hope he can see me,
hope he will be here
The wrought iron lanterns
sparkle light on the entering faces,
I hope I will see his
But I don't see him
Don't know if he still cares
It's been a year since he left town
He left with a whisper
The last time the gardenias bloomed
was the last time I was in his room
His letters were warm when they came,
but tonight I feel something's changed
I wrote him I'd be here
But I don't see him,
I don't see him
23. THE RIDER
Hurry,
Hurry to me,
The torn letter said,
Hurry to me
Stagecoach,
it leaves at 3,
85 pesos
and cracked leather seats
Red sun
Red sun burns slow
Six days
through Mexico
"Always,
always and ever"
That's how it ended
I folded the letter
And there in the moonlight,
a rider tracking our stage
My husband!
Come to take me away!
24. ALWAYS & EVER
After all this time
you're finally here
When I look in your eyes
all that time disappears
All these feelings
from all these years
Like colors captured in crystal
in a chandelier
With my hand in yours
we begin again,
Like we said
on our wedding day,
Just like this
we'll stay
Always and ever,
Always and ever,
Always and ever,
Always and ever
25. LA VALENCIA
(instrumental)
26. THE END MUSIC (Gabriel Rhodes)
(instrumental)
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