Goodbye to you my trusted friend...........

[LynneSin]

Goodbye to you my trusted friend........... <hankie needed>

Seasons In The Sun

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Goodbye to you my trusted friend
We've known each other since we were nine or ten
Together we climbed hills and trees
Learned of love and A B C's
Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees.

Goodbye my friend it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere
Think of me and I'll be there

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons
Out of time......

Goodbye Papa please pray for me
I was the black sheep of the family
You tried to teach me right from wrong
Too much wine and too much song
Wonder how I got along.

Goodbye Papa its hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Little children everywhere
When you see them I'll be there.

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons
Have all gone.

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons
Have all gone.

Goodbye Michelle my little one
You gave me love and helped me find the sun
And every time that I was down
You would always come around
And get my feet back on the ground.

Goodbye Michelle it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
With the flowers everywhere
I wish that we could both be there

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach
Were just starfish on the beach

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach
Were just starfish on the beach

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons
Have all gone

All our lives we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons
Out of time......

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun

[flamingyouth]

1. I clicked on this thread

And knew I shouldn't have.

Now I'll have nightmares about AMC Pacers and Garanimals.:scared:

[Beer Snob-50]

2. A Bushism....

"Lynnesin is innovative and resourceful, and so are we," Bush said. "She never stops thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and this post of her's proves it."

[MikeG]

3. ...now watch this drive.

[Westegg]

4. Will the Terry Jacks-bashing NEVER end? This brilliant song...

was a HIT, therefore it was POPULAR, therefore it was GREAT. Q.E.D.

I mean, here we are more than 30 years later still quoting from it. Like The Great Gatsby, like Bach's Mass in B-Minor, it is a timeless work of pure vision. "The hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time." If I live to be 800, I will never fully understand the depth of that lyric.

[LynneSin]

6. Amen Brother

I so loved that song when I was a little girl!!

[papau]

7. It was a sad song - and with age and more deaths - it is a very sad song

There are things best thought about at night.

[LynneSin]

8. I always wondered - was this a suicide note in lyrics?

:shrug:

[papau]

9. It is too real - causes much too much emotion ... n/t

n/t

[LynneSin]

10. I would cry when I hear it

then again it could be a song about someone who is drafted and is afraid they are going to Vietnam to die.

I mean, it was a hit in 1972 during the war

[Westegg]

12. Certainly, a number of people killed themselves after hearing it...

But in answer to your question: I dunno. We report, you decide.

[redqueen]

5. You meant barf-bag, right? n/t

[jus_the_facts]

11. Was a favorite o'mine as a wee lass o' 5.......

.....would sing along with it when it came on the radio....AND also another favorite was Billy Don't Be A Hero...both o'these are loathed by many...but they bring back memories for me...of a time where I was influenced by the music o'the times yet wasn't aware o'what was actually goin' on in the world around me...sigh....

[LynneSin]

13. same thing for me - seriously I was only like 6-7 years old

and I loved this stuff but I had no idea that much of this stuff was anti-war (which is really what I think this song is about)

[jus_the_facts]

16. I think so too....and it blows m'mind now....

....when I think back on what was goin' down when these songs were popular and these two were ones I always wanted to hear and sing along with....the depth of the lyrics hit me really hard knowin' what I know now....ya know? :shrug:

[Crunchy Frog]

14. When I was little,

the boys used to add a verse that went:

We had joy we had fun
We went streaking in the sun.

But the sun burned our balls
So we put on overalls.

:D

[jus_the_facts]

15. LMAO.....

....that's hilarious!! :D

:hi:

[DivinBreuvage]

17. STOLEN from the French original by JACQUES BREL

(who was actually Belgian.) The song was called Le Moribond. You all need to go out and buy some Jacques Brel today!!! Here's the first stanza:

Adieu l'Émile je t'aimais bien
Adieu l'Émile je t'aimais bien tu sais
On a chanté les mêmes vins
On a chanté les mêmes filles
On a chanté les mêmes chagrins
Adieu l'Émile je vais mourir
C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais
Mais je pars aux fleurs la paix dans l'âme
Car vu que tu es bon comme du pain blanc
Je sais que tu prendras soin de ma femme
Je veux qu'on rie
Je veux qu'on danse
Je veux qu'on s'amuse comme des fous
Je veux qu'on rie
Je veux qu'on danse
Quand c'est qu'on me mettra dans le trou

[rasputin1952]

18. WOW, a resident music major....

Thanks!!!!
I would never have dreamed of that...what year was it written? I'm almost betting 1916-17...God that would be so appropriate!

:)

[DivinBreuvage]

19. No, I just love Jacques Brel!

Even if you don't understand a word of French he's worth listening to. Like Janis Joplin or Bob Dylan he doesn't have a traditionally beautiful singing voice but enthralls you with his earnestness and passion, and like Ray Charles or Johnny Cash you can hear the emotion of the song flowing through his voice. I have so many favorites I'm not even going to try to put them down here. Probably one of his most famous is about sailors in "Amsterdam", which ends with him roaring "They piss like I weep over cheating women."

Le Moribond appears on a 1961 album, so I guess it was written right about that time. His version is a little bouncier than Terry Jacks' (he has a line "It's killing me to kick the bucket today"). In fact he wrote a few songs about dying, some of them lighthearted like this one and some of them pretty sad. In the last few years of his life he knew he was dying of cancer, but the songs could have been written before then, I'm not sure.

[LynneSin]

20. LOOKIE LOOKIE WHAT I FOUND

http://www.kuittho.edu.my/audio/mp3/mp3eng/Terry%20Jacks%20-%20Season%20In%20The%20Sun.mp3