
Date of issue: 31.12.1995
Record label: Concord Jazz
Song language: English
Robert Frost |
Robert Frost did write in settings beautiful and rustic |
He wrote of rolling hills and green terrain |
But poor me I must do my writing in the chaos of the city |
Sometimes even on a subway train |
How am I to ever learn about the woodlands |
And the falling leaves of autumn, and such things sublime |
When I must spend all my time just trucking 'round this dirty city |
Doing what I can to earn a dime, dime, dime |
How did Robert Frost make payments on that little country place of his |
Where did he get the dough? |
Could he go down to the country store and sell a poem, saying |
«Here's a nice one I wrote about the snow» |
Surely now he must have had a sponsor of some sort, |
Perhaps a lady friend just rolled in bread |
A lady friend to say «Now, Bob, why don’t you take a long, long walk |
and write whatever pops into your head, head, head» |
She’d say, «Bobby don’t you worry about the mortgage, no no, |
Bobby don’t you worry about those bills. |
Bobby why don’t you go write a poem about the neighbors, |
About the fences, about the rolling hills.» |
«Bobby don’t you worry about the dishes, |
and don’t you even think about those pans. |
Bobby you know it’s not good that an artist like yourself |
should be walking around this world with dishpan hands.» |
So you see now Bob was free to follow through his fancies |
Wander through the hills behind the muse |
Boy if I had Bobby’s life I’d follow through my fancies, |
Oh, to be in Bobby’s shoes |
If I had Bobby’s life I could be a hero |
Go out and find my fortune and my fame |
The only trouble is, I hear from people who have found it |
That everything in life stays just the same, same, same |
Just the same |
Stays the same |
Just the same |
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