MY IMAGES COME
© 1983 Don Cooper, New Mutant Music
Gordon, Will, Matt, Kat, Jim, David, Anne –vocals
I got this song from my old friend, Bob Stuart. Only this year did I have the chance to hear Don’s singing of it – that’s well worth a listen.
My images come
From the people who do the work
From the people who sing the songs
From the people who get along
A bottle of rum
For the demon what always lurk
For the demon what do me wrong
For the fury what is my wife
For the struggle what is my song
Chorus:
It get me down but only
A little look around and I find
That I am not so lonely
We in the same boat brother!
My images come
From the pleasures I had before
From the pleasures I'm still to know
From the pleasures my dreams provide
From the pleasures what I bestow
A bottle of rum
For the trouble what's at my door
For the trouble where' ere I go
For the misfortunes what I abide
And for the courage I'm trying to show
My images come
From the woman what's on my knee
From the woman what's in my head
From the woman out in the sun
From the woman what shares my bed
A bottle of rum
For a broken love's misery
For a love what has grown so dead
Expectations my life's undone
For illusions what I've been fed
My images come
From the world in which I live
From the world I love so well
From the world of change and light
From the world of which I tell
A bottle of rum
For the feelings I cannot give
For the feelings what fears impel
For the screams of a fraughtful night
And for the time what is spent in hell
My Images Come is recorded on the album Because You Asked, and also on the Folk-Legacy albums All Shall Be Well Again and The First Fifteen Years Vol II, sung by the trio Bok, Muir, and Trickett.