There Is a Place
There is a place a lonely place
I love to go when I am sad
There is a place a quiet place
I know it since wee a lad
And through the green rushes there flows
A shining stream, a boy straying found
Far from school room rigors, and the plow's
Churning of the peanut lands so brown
There is a place a lovely place
That hushes a boy to sleep
And balm his tremors with its grace
So his lonely heart never weep
For mother was busy earning a daily bread
And father was only a learned man
And school was such a bother to the head
I needed a space that said "I can."
Now I am grown and far away
And care and toil wears me thin
I need my lonely place to stay
The river where the eddies spin
For in a city's life I hear all day, the wail
And sorrow of loud sirens, another child
Have tried to fly, another dream that's fail
To open, another longing for the lonely wild
There is a place a lonely place
I love to go when I am sad
And there is a face a haunting face
That makes the aching bad
It's gone, it's gone the misty morning rose
The sunlight dripping from leaf tips of dawn
The balmy wind that from the mountain blows
And she too, but not the lonely, lonely fawn.
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