Words: J.B. Goodenough Music: Gordon Bok
Judy Goodenough, whose three volumes of poetry were a tribute to a tough and wily mind, has given us many songs over the years. She sent these verses as additional thoughts to my song "hearth and Fire" (by my request). They seemed so unique and self-standing that I made this tune for them and made a chorus of the second verse. (GB)
Dark the sky, dark the land, dark the running sea
oh lay your hand upon my hand
and share the night with me
Chorus
To friends we had and foes we had and those that held us dear
We raise the glass to lad and lass at turning of the year
One more road, one more hill, one more stony shore
One more river to cross until
we're going home once more
Chorus
Fish for silver, dig for gold, so run the years away
And when we're weary, when we're old
we come back home to stay
Chorus
So friend or foe, we wish you ease
however far you roam
Who sail the seven salty seas
or walk the hills of home
Chorus
Turning of the Year is recorded on the album Harbors of Home and is in the songbook One to Sing, One to Haul