heyday ~~~ reliablebowmusic

I've been on the tube now 7 years..have met so many great talented and loving people....a blessing here is a song about someone who has inspired me for a long time...met her only on her long playing albums that told so much about the world around me.....always in her heyday Heyday I slowed down for this hitcher Sweet Refugee of the roads She told me how her travelogue Had taken her this far Her beauty was the finest I had ever seen With eyes so full of sparkle Offered me her dreams Opening her treasure Of ivory wood and steel With voice as clear as crystal She began to sing…………….. Told stories of the prairie Of fiddles drums and towns Of Greek and California men Still chasing her white gown….down Underneath a sorrow ran Neck and neck with joy No easing of the reins No finish line in sight Notes that played outside the lines Delicate and strong Glowed out shivers from the darkness A new enticing light The cracking of her humanness With a painters eye Brushed landscapes mixed in colors Bled folk and jazz and jive Within her strange new tunings I’d somehow heard before Bells tolled familiar longings Called me home once more I reached my destination And asked if she would stay Yet somehow she seemed older Though the child in her remained Then within the smoke and dreams Of clouds and circle games She vanished into everywhere Never to be tamed Forever in her heyday Forever in her heyday Forever in her heyday Michael McGuane Reliablebowmusic May 23, 2015