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this webpage is a work in progress... we hope to have all lyrics for Gordon Bok songs and songs on the Timberhead Music albums up soon...
Please note: we have seen these lyrics reproduced on other lyric websites erroneously giving Gordon credit for songs he recorded but did not compose. We correctly credit other artists here and hope that you will take careful note of the true authors of these works.

"My lyrics often diverge from the original; I have reprinted the original lyrics whenever possible."     ~   Gordon

           Print out lyrics and liner notes for full albums or for individual songs for your personal use, such as to go along with your digital downloads of songs and albums. Please remember, this is all copyrighted material. Please contact us for written permission to record, reproduce, or publish these songs.
note: lyrics and liner notes for individual songs are usually one or two pages long; lyrics and liner notes for the full albums may be as many as twenty pages long.

                            Timberhead Albums                                                                          Individual Songs A to Z

	Gordon Bok and Bob Zentz - Together Again for the First Time   2017 DISC 1: Picker and a Grinner Judge Proctor's Windmill All Around My Hat/Red-Haired Mary/Irish Washerwoman I Want My Son to be a Country Boy Wrinkle in Time Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's River of Time Mister Brown Ivor the Driver I Held a Lady Hills of Dover Modest and Bright Eileen O'Farrell Old Zeb In My Time Garden Song My Favorite Song Meeting of the Waters/No Awa to Bide Awa The Scotsman Bob DISC 2: Mirrors and Changes (Some Trust in)Chariots The Road and the Miles to Dundee Song For Gale All the Good People Loch Rannoch/Loch Duich/Scarborough Settler's Lament Harbour Le Cou Turning Toward the Morning Long Gone Jones Joshua Gone Barbados Guadeloupe Dance Sweet Song From Yesterday Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life Daddy Don't You Tell No Lies Then and Now   2016 Johnny Todd A Blues for Sergei I'm a Rambler, I'm a Gambler Herring Croon Grieve's Handy The Old Bard Song Coshieville Tehuacan (Lamento y Danza) I'se the B'y Fifteen Ships on Georges Bank The Ballad of Billy's Man Kuulan Polska # 1 The Sands of Dee Acalento Rosin the Beau Bay of Fundy Bolivius Along the Famine Road Weevily Wheat/Wheat in the Ear A Blues for Sergei Because You Asked   2012 Loni Isle au Haut Lullabye Broken Down Squatter My Images Come Willem Changing Times Easy and Slow Go East Jock Stewart Old Fat Boat A Song For Angela Turning Toward the Morning Luz de la Luna If I Was a Dog Walter's Garden Jenny in the Roadstead Other Eyes   2010 Bold Reynolds The Bird Rock The Seals Captive Water The Beaches of Lukannon Sarabande's Story Gulls in the Morning The Maiden Hind Spell to Bring Lost Creatures Home The Net Herring Croon - The Last Verse Ocean Station Bravo The Brandy Tree The Shepherd's Call Sherry's Song In Concert   2006 Queer Bungo Rye Last Shift at the Crowns Patrick Spencer Plastic Container of Plonk Where the Cane Fires Burn Canso Straight The Angelus Inheritance Hark Now Let The Lower Lights Be Burning Wrecker's Prayer Collage: Pretty Oystershell Road Culebra Do Something Hie Awa Apples in the Basket   2005 Apples in the Basket The Recruited Collier Los Tres Panuelitos The Maiden in Bird's Plumage A Shearer's Lament/Waiting For the Rain Joropos The Black Furrow The Old Figurehead Carver Heading For Home Mussels in the Corner Bay St. Mary/In the Cove Tie Her Up Stone on Stone The Hills of Isle au Haut Herrings In the Bay   2003 Herring Croon Little River Astoria Bar The Boats of Peter's River O Vento El Pescador Jack Hinks Oh, No More Hush Song Candlelight Fisherman Help Me To Raise 'Em Round Our Skiff Cannery Shed Trochus Boats Where is the Light/Memory for Seal Island One More Morning Dear To Our Island   2001 Sail, O Believer Sandwood Down to Kyle Driveway Reel & Thanxty Al Stanley Bachelor's Song Connemara Cradle Song Now I'm Easy Moran's Return Sufferin' Hatu Khara Ols'n Poor Angus Jock O'Hazeldean Los Viejitos Long Life to the Moon Small Island Oh I am Calling A Phiuthrag's A Phiuthar Bless Ye Fair Maids Against The Moon In The Kind Land   1999 Faraway Tom Bright Fine Gold The Last Battle The Stable Lad Vidala la Comparsita River Drive The Kind Land Ledge-End of the Fiddler Chall Eilibh Jim Clancy Jones The Bressay Lullaby Mourning Dove Going On Lament for Owen Christy/Under the Wind Gatherings   1998 Llegada Swell Me Net Full Matachines Fiddler Dance the Light Strathspey/Kirsteen Weldon The Parting Glass El Parrandero The Gift Morag/Carmina Gadelica Como Llora una Estrella Stormy Weather To Cyrano Bailando Sabaki Southern Cross Gordon's Farewell Neighbors   1996 Gordon Bok and Cindy Kallet Rantin' Laddie Geordie Homeward Bound Danze Della Valle Borbera/Danze di Baolino Right Said Fred October Song Janko (Yanka) Blood on the Sails Farewell to Nova Scotia King Jim/Thankxty Al Stanley Frolic (for Guitar and Small Elephant) High Barbary Peace on Earth Sergei's Yupanqui Tune One for Winter/Colrain Padstowe Chantey Schooners   1992 Wiscasset Schooners Harp Song of the Dane Women Jericho Spirit Song of George's Bank The Liza Jane Boat of Silver Schooner Ellenmore Crossing the Water All My Sailors The Death Ship Schooner Fred Dunbar & Capt. Dave's Delight Another Bay Sailor's Carol Sailor's Consolation Karl Edstrom and the Hesper Song for the Bowdoin Dear Old Vessels Harbors of Home   1998 Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, & Ed Trickett Great Valley's Harvest From the Lambing to the Wool Napoleaon Crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel/Flight of the Haggis We Built This Old Ship Pigs Can See the Wind The Outside Track Gaelic Farmer/Lady's Triumph Farthest Field Velveteen Love Song Old Man's Song Harbors of Home Rowan Davies Dancing at Whitsun Wiscasset Schooners Turning of the Year Language of the Heart   1994 Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, & Ed Trickett Blue Mountain Stephen Foster Madrecita Language of the Heart Marco Polo Ballinderry The Can Do Brannvislat Huck Finn Merlin's Waltz Laird O Drum Tak a Dram That Quiet Place Cuckoo/Spotted Pony Good Wish	A Phiuthrag's A Phiuthar A Shearer's Lament/Waiting For the Rain A Song For Angela Acalento Against The Moon All My Sailors Along the Famine Road Angelus, The Apples in the Basket Another Bay Astoria Bar Bachelor's Song Ballad of Billy's Man, The Ballinderry Bay of Fundy Bay St. Mary/In the Cove Beaches of Lukannon, The Bird Rock, The Black Furrow, The Bless Ye Fair Maids Blood on the Sails Blue Mountain Boat of Silver The Boats of Peter's River, The Bold Reynolds Brandy Tree, The Brean Lament Bressay Lullaby, The Bright Fine Gold Broken Down Squatter Candlelight Fisherman Can Do, The Cannery Shed (Stella) Canso Straight Cape Ann Captive Water Carmina Gadelica Chall Eilibh Changing Times Clear Away in the Morning Collage: Pretty Coshieville Connemara Cradle Song Crossing the Water Dancing at Whitsun Dark Old Waters Dear Old Vessels Death Ship, The Dillan Bay Djiril's Hymn Do Something Donkey Engine Duna Easy and Slow Faraway Tom Farewell to Nova Scotia Farthest Field Fiddler Dance the Light Strathspey/Kirsteen Fifteen Ships on Georges Bank Frankie on the Sheepscot From the Lambing to the Wool Geordie Gift, The Go East Going On Good Wish Great Valley's Harvest Harbors of Home Hark Now Harp Song of the Dane Women Harvest Home Hatu Khara Ols'n Heading For Home Hearth and Fire Help Me To Raise 'Em Herring Croon Herring Croon - The Last Verse Hie Awa High Barbary Hills of Isle au Haut, The Homeward Bound Ho Ro, The Wind and Snow     aka Jericho Huck Finn Hush Song If I Was a Dog I'm a Rambler, I'm a Gambler Inheritance Isle au Haut Lullabye Jack Hinks Janko (Yanka) Jenny in the Roadstead Jeremy Brown and Jeannie Teal Jericho Jim Clancy Jock O'Hazeldean Jock Stewart Jones Johnny Todd Karl Edstrom and the Hesper Kind Land, The La Brigantine Laird O Drum Language of the Heart Last Battle, The Last Shift at the Crowns Ledge-End of the Fiddler, The Let The Lower Lights Be Burning Little River Liverpool Handy/I'ze the B'y Liza Jane, The Long Life to the Moon Loni Los Tres Panuelitos Luz de la Luna Maiden in Bird's Plumage, The Maiden Hind, The Marco Polo McKeon's Coming Merlin's Waltz Mister, I Don't Mind Morag/Carmina Gadelica Mourning Dove Mr. Eneos Mrs. MacDonald's Lament Mussels in the Corner My Images Come Net, The Now I'm Easy O Vento Ocean Station Bravo October Song Oh I am Calling Oh, No More Old Fat Boat Old Figurehead Carver, The Old Man's Song One for Winter/Colrain One More Morning Outside Track, The Oystershell Road Padstowe Chantey Parting Glass, The Patrick Spencer Peace on Earth Pearly (Little Red) Peter Kagan and the Wind Phiuthrag's A Phiuthar, A Pigs Can See the Wind Planxty Fanny Power Plastic Container of Plonk Play of the Lady Odivere Poor Angus Queer Bungo Bye Rantin' Laddie Recruited Collier, The Right Said Fred River Drive Rosin the Beau Round Our Skiff Saben the Woodfitter Sail, O Believer Sailor's Carol Sailor's Consolation Sands of Dee, The Sandwood Down to Kyle Sarabande's Story Schooner Ellenmore, The Schooner Fred Dunbar Sea Wife, The Seal Djiril's Hymn Seals, The Shepherd's Call, The Sherry's Song Small Island Song for the Bowdoin Southern Cross Spell to Bring Lost Creatures Home Spirit Song of George's Bank Stable Lad, The Stephen Foster     aka That Stephen Foster Song Stone on Stone Stormy Weather Sufferin' Swell Me Net Full Tak a Dram That Quiet Place The Angelus The Net The Old Bard Song The Seals Threeboot Philbrook's Lament Tie Her Up To Cyrano Trochus Boats Tune for November, A Turning of the Year Turning Toward the Morning Under the Wind Velveteen Love Song Walter's Garden Water Over Stone, A Ways of Man, The We Built This Old Ship Weevily Wheat/Wheat In the Ear Weldon Where the Cane Fires Burn Willem Windcalling Blessing/Chant Wiscasset Schooners Woodworker's Litany Wrecker's Prayer Janko (Yanka)

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