KILLY KRANKY IS MY SONG
sing and dance it all day long
over the hills and over the mountains
there’s a place on this earth that is dearer to me
only you would know where that would be
As I went out walking one morning in May
where THE FAIR WINDS ARE BLOWING,
are blowing today
there I met a lady so sweet and so fair
then you took my hand, we laughed and talked together
we shared the warmth of the day together
how I love you in these mountains
how I love you in the spring
my Love had never a chance to grow old
it was just beginning to unfold
The truth to tell you, I’ll tell
if you mind and listen a spell
I never could do without you ––
I still love your slow music
My love will follow, follow — you
I needed you to keep me sweet company
your voice was so sweet to me
to know your love and still feel you in my arms
to converse with me and sing me a song
on the banks of that little green river so warm
As you were sleeping last night
I’ve been a-wanderin’ all the night
I quietly slipped away into the light.
I am walking with the clouds today
Visit that place which is dearer to me
There you can hear the soft wind –– sighing
For I am one with the cloud and wind
There you can hear the sound of my heart crying.
The Fair Winds are calling, they are calling you to me
I have just arrived and am new at this
but it is you –– I already miss
heavenly I was granted one last wish
and am dreaming of my one – my absent love
sure love is fine and love is sure
loving you in heaven will be my cure
where we can see the stars all singin’ together
for the sweetest song I know is here
in this garden so fair, this garden so free
where we can sing and dance it all day long
I know how you hate the BLACK WATERS
that run down through the land
and the scenes of destruction on every land
I wish for you I could gather flowers
I hope you can see that rainbow shine
when they break out the golden sunshine
THE FAIR WINDS are calling, calling for you
for I am yearning, yearning for you
until you can say FAREWELL TO THE MOUNTAINS
here you belong I know to be certain
I’m going a-walking to feel the joys of spring
to see the waters a-gliding, hear the nightingale sing
to the place that is dearer to me
heaven’ll help me just wait there for me
* Jean Ritchie was born in Viper, Kentucky just southeast of Hazard. This is in eastern Kentucky where the Appalachian Mountains are and where coal mining is primary.
1 – Killy Kranky Is My Song
2 – Wild Horses
3 – The High Hills And Mountains
4 – See The Waters A Glidin’
5 – The Fair Winds Are Blowing
6 – The Flowers Of Joy
7 – Sweet Reason
8 – Hiram Hubbard
9 – Over The River To Feed My Sheep
10 – Let Go Of Me Summer
11 – Thousand Miles Blues
12 – Cold Mountains
13 – One More Mile
14 – Cloud Rambler (poem)
15 – Sorrow In The Wind
16 – One I Love
17 – The Red Rose And The White
18 – With Kitty I’ll Go
19 – Farewell To The Mountains
20 – Now Is The Cool Of The Day
21 – Black Waters
22 – The Flowers Of Joy
23 – See That Rainbow Shine
24 – Words Of Love
– May 18, 2006
