Nancy Kerr 2013
“Written on a stirring spring morning in a city garden, remembering older summers and tunes played in wild places. A fiftieth birthday present for our dear friend Steve Hunt.”
The Melrose Quartet: https://melrosequartet.bandcamp.com/track/fifty-verses
https://melrosequartet.bandcamp.com/track/fifty-verses
Chorus: See how the season is starting something The swift unearthing of a summer long And thrifty voices do greet the dawning With fifty verses of a longer song On yonder alder the red wood growing As he grows older does grow more grand His bark and berries do soothe the sorrows Of every woman and every man The sea remembers on an eve in August Our driftwood fire like a burning man We blew the embers and in the morning Had fishes flying into the pan The stars are burning to light the evening And a clifftop morning will breeze along Just fifty turnings in a longer living Just fifty verses of a longer song