Lovin And Leaving

Words and Music by Judy Collins
Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP)/ The Wildflowers Company (ASCAP) 
Administered by Universal Music Corp. )

When you were a cowboy on the plain
You stole my heart away
I'm writing you to say that
You were my original hero
My fabulous prince and my lover
You had the right answer to the riddle
But the years went by
And finally I left you for another
Saying this is love

I'm sorry for the pain I caused you
I was a crazy girl in those days
But I have been burned
And darling I've learned
That lovin' and leavin' don't pay

You were just the first of many men
I thought you would set me free
I took what I could
Made you a promise that you wouldn't bind me
Then I would see a new smile
See the future bright and shining
I turned and tossed
In a sea so deep no one could find me
Saying this must be love

I'm sorry for the pain I caused you
I was a crazy girl in those days
And I have been burned
And darling I've learned
That lovin' and leavin' don't pay

Finally a man came along
I gave him all I had
I would have gone to the end of the earth for him
If he'd asked me
He only turned on his heel and
Walked back the way he came
All all of my tears and the pieces of my heart
Couldn't turn him around

Maybe I've paid the price for breaking all those hearts
Maybe my dice will come up this time
With a lover that's really mine
so can you say you forgive the girl you used to love
I've played the stakes high
And I've paid for my crimes
In the name of love

I'm sorry for the pain I caused you
I was a crazy girl in those days
But I have been burned
And darling I've learned
That lovin' and leavin' don't pay

Mama Mama

Words and Music by Judy Collins
Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP)/ The Wildflowers Company (ASCAP)
(Administered by Universal Music Corp.)

Mama, Mama, you know how it feels,
Love never knows a season.
Mama, tell me you understand,
The heart always has a reason.

Doin' ninety-five in the middle of the night on an open road,
Time for a good ol' girl like me to be bedded down.
Gotta get home before the kids find out I've been away,
I figure I'm gonna reach town just before dawn.

I can see the sun is gonna be comin' up real soon,
Hope the children don't wake up and wonder where I am!
Gotta get the older ones to school and play with the baby,
She's the apple of her mother's eye, and doesn't she know it!

Don't know how it happened one more time, 
The money's running' out and the other kids are cryin!
Somebody tell me I'm not crazy,
Doin' what I can to raise my babies.

Mama, Mama, you know how it feels, 
Love never knows a season.
Mama, tell me you understand,
The heart always has a reason.

Wonder if you know just how it feels to be alone,
Tryin' to raise a bunch of kids on nothin' but love and guts.
When the day is over I'm about as wrecked as a body can be,
I got my troubles, but again I need me some kind of lovin',

Don't know how it happened one more time,
The money's runnin' out and the other kids are cryin'.
Somebody tell me I'm not crazy,
Doin' what I can to raise my babies.

Mama, Mama, you know how it feels,
Love never knows a season.
Mama, tell me you understand,
The heart always has a reason.

The doctor down in Lincoln said I'd be all right,
He said he didn't want to help me but he'd do it just this once.
Made me feel so bad I couldn't stop the tears from fallin',
Made me wish he had to pay this kind of price for his lovin'.

Don't know how it happened one more time,
The money's runnin' out and the other kids are cryin'.
Five kids are gonna drive me crazy,
Lord, I can't have another baby.

Mama, Mama, you know how it feels,
Love never knows a season.
Mama, tell me you understand,
The heart always has a reason.

Melody

Words and Music by Judy Collins
Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP)/ The Wildflowers Company (ASCAP)
(Administered by Universal Music Corp. )

I saw a photograph of you and me
Standing together by the sea
Light on the water so beautiful in the dawn
I am looking into your eyes
Before the secrets, before the lies,
Your lips are smiling as though you meant to go on.

I don't remember the words
That you said to me
I don't remember the words
But the melody
Haunts me

I found a rose that you gave to me
Pressed in a book of your poetry
Deathless prose like the love I thought that we shared
You left my life with no backward look
I crushed the rose and I burned the book
I cursed the day that I ever thought you could care

I don't remember the words
That you said to me
I don't remember the words
But the melody
Haunts me

Melody, Melody, Melody
Melody, Melody, Melody

There's not a day I don't think of you
There's not a think that I know to do
To keep your memory from invading my heart
And though your flowers and books are gone
The melody of you lingers on
You are a part of my song so what can I do

I don't remember the words
That you said to me
I don't remember the words
But the melody
Haunts me

Melody, Melody, Melody
Melody, Melody, Melody

MOROCCO

Words and Music by Judy Collins
The Wildflowers Company (ASCAP) 

I dreamed that I saw you once down in Morocco
Your clothes were so old they were new
You spoke to the Bedouins in their own language
Of silver and crimson and blue
They said that your singing had altered their vision
And yet nothing really had changed
The dust from the desert rose up from your eyelids
You said you had conquered the chains

The white wind around us, as we stood there talking
Was blowing the stars from the sky
I said make all the beauty you did long ago
And the dervishes whirled while you cried
You said ‘Hold me against you, the weather is calling
My mind is the color of stone’
And I wrapped the green silk around your thin body
And knew you would never come home

The wind and the sun and the sky in your eyes
Was driving you mad I could see
And in any language I knew they were saying
The future was cutting us free
 
We walked in the desert, your hands were like velvet
You told me the reason you’d stayed
All of the women whose hearts had been broken
Stood naked and cool in the shade
The men in the village were called to their worship
Their colors had started to fade
The shelter of heaven had lifted forever
Their eyes turned the color of jade

The wind and the sun and the sky in your eyes
Was driving you mad I could see
And in any language I knew they were saying
The future was cutting us free

I left to fly back to the place I was sleeping
Where all of my dreams had been lost
I wrote your name down on the back of a postcard
And finally I counted the cost
The demons and devils, the saints and the angels
Had gathered to show me the view
And all of the tears that had come when I met you
Were shining and bright as the dew

The wind and the sun and the sky in your eyes
Was driving you mad I could see
And in any language I knew they were saying
The future was cutting us free.  Free, free, free, free.

Mountain Girl

Words and Music by Judy Collins
Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP)/ The Wildflowers Company (ASCAP)
(Administered by Universal Music Corp.)

Out on the street it was raining today
Homeless man stood in the cold
Gave him five dollars and went on my way
Big city blues in my soul
Maybe like me that man chose to live here
Where there are days your heart dies
Maybe he dreamed of a place far away
Under the wide open skies.

Went on my way feeling strange all that day
Wondering what had gone wrong
Deep in my heart I could hear that voice call
Haunting me all that day long

Mountain girl in the city
You've been gone far too long
Find your way back to the mountains
Where you know you belong
Where your dreams can't go wrong.

I've seen the world and it's sights in my day
Cities that blaze like the sun
I've had my share of their riches and fame
Done things I never should have done
Been broken hearted and broken some hearts
Tried running hard from my pain
And all along that voice calls in my soul
Come back to the mountains again.

Mountain girl in the city
You've been gone far too long
Find your way back to the mountains
Where you know you belong
Where your dreams can't go wrong.

Bought a ticket back again
Heading home once more
Feel that aching pain recede
Like the waves on the shore

I feel the heart of the mountains again
Beating inside my breast
Bringing me back to the place I belong
Bringing me home to the west
No pain or sorrow can keep me away
I'll even walk that last, long mile
Here in the mountains
Where every sunrise starts
I'll heal my heart for awhile

Mountain girl in the city
You've been gone far too long
Find your way back to the mountains
Where you know you belong
Where your dreams can't go wrong.

Mountain girl,
mountain girl,
mountain girl,
mountain girl in the city

My Father

Words and Music by Judy Collins
Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP)/ The Wildflowers Company (ASCAP)
(Administered by Universal Music Corp.)

My father always promised us
That we would live in France
We'd go boating on the Seine
And I would learn to dance

We lived in Ohio then
He worked in the mines
On his dreams like boats
We knew we would sail in time

All my sisters soon were gone
To Denver and Cheyenne
Marrying their grownup dreams
The lilacs and the man

I stayed behind the youngest still
Only danced alone
The colors of my father's dreams
Faded without a sound

And I live in Paris now
My children dance and dream
Hearing the ways of a miner's life
In words they've never seen

I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the Seine
And watch the Paris sun
As it sets in my father's eyes again

My father always promised us
That we would live in France
We'd go boating on the Seine
And I would learn to dance

I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the Seine
And watch the Paris sun
As it sets in my father's eyes again

Nightingale

Words and Music by Judy Collins
Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP)/ The Wildflowers Company (ASCAP)
(Administered by Universal Music Corp.)

Jacob’s heart bent with fear,
Like a bow with death for its arrow;
In Vain he search for the final truth
To set his soul free of doubt.

Over the mountains he walked,
With his head bent searching for reasons;
Then he called out to God
For help and climbed to the top of a hill.

Wind swept the sunlight through the wheat fields,
In the orchard the nightingale sang,
While the plums that she broke with her brown beak,
Tomorrow would turn in to songs.

Then she flew up through the rain
With the sun silver bright on her feathers,
Jacob put back his frowns and sighed and walked
Back down the hill.

God doesn’t answer me and
He never will

Nothin Lasts Forever

Words and Music By Judy Collins and Jesse Valenzuela
Copyright - Bonneville Salt Falts (ASCAP)
Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP)/ The Wildflowers Company (ASCAP)
(Administered by Universal Music Corp.)

Nothing lasts forever, Nothing lasts forever, Nothing lasts forever

Nothing lasts forever, Nothing lasts forever, Nothing lasts forever

Nothing lasts forever you should know that by now
Good times, Heartache
You'll get through this trouble though you may not know how
Your heart won't break
If you have a vision of your destiny
Tears can't stop you
Hidden in your heart is everything you can be
You'll be fineNothin' lasts forever, Nothin lasts forever, Nothin lasts forever

You know where you're goin' even when you are lost
Big world spinning
Just stay in the center where you think you belong
Gently turnin'
Run off with the gypsies to the carnival
Tight rope walker
Mysteries and miracles wherever you go
You'll be fine

Nothing lasts forever, Nothing lasts forever, Nothing lasts forever

Da da da da, da da da da da da da da

Da da da da da da da da da da da da da

Nothing lasts forever, Nothing lasts forever, Nothing lasts forever

Watch the way the rainbow makes it's way to the sun
Yellow Purple
Even in the shadows where light doesn't shine
Magic silver
You could dream that all of this was meant to be
Daylight Dawning
Nothin lasts for ever you should that by now
You'll be fine

Nothing lasts forever, Nothing lasts forever, Nothing lasts for ever

da da da da, da da da da, da da da da

da da da da, da da da da, da da da da

Nothing lasts forever, Nothing lasts forever, Nothing lasts for ever