SONGS:
-- One Day I Walk --
June 1970. Burritt's Rapids, Ontario, Canada.

Found on:

High Winds White Sky (1971)
Circles In The Stream (1977) [live album]

Waiting For A Miracle, Singles 1970-1987 (1987) [compilation album]
Lyrics:

Oh I have been a beggar
And shall be one again
And few the ones with help to lend
Within the world of men
One day I walk in flowers
one day I walk on stones
Today I walk in hours
One day I shall be home

I have sat on the street corner
And watched the bootheels shine
And cried out glad and cried out sad
With every voice but mine
One day I walk in flowers
one day I walk on stones
Today I walk in hours
One day I shall be home
One day I shall be home




Known comments by Bruce Cockburn about this song, by date:

  • 1986 - "I don't remember much about the writing of this one. Kim Semenick, whose father made my dulcimer, told me not too long ago that she sang it to an old derelict gentleman she happened to be sharing an abandoned house with while hitchhiking. She said it cheered him up, and how come I don't write more stuff with this kind of universality?" - from "All The Diamonds" songbook, edited by Arthur McGregor, OFC Publications 1986. Submitted by Rob Caldwell.


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