SONGS:
-- Musical Friends --
copyright 1969, released 1970

Found on:

Bruce Cockburn (1970)
Waiting For A Miracle, Singles 1970-1987 (1987) [compilation album]

Rumours of Glory - box set Disc 1 (2014) [compilation album]
Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (2021) [compilation album]
Lyrics:

Musical friends are keeping me happy
They know what I need
Now I can sleep on anyone's floor without
Feeling cold
Inside or outside me

The closer we get the easier life be -
Comes for each of us
We can sing songs and play at each other
Over wine
In bottles or in pipes

And we can pass
On endings till the end
We can laugh
Me and my musical friends

Nobody's quite sure just where they're going
They'll find out soon enough
When they get there some sunny morning or
Windy night
If they can just keep moving

And we can pass
On endings till the end
We can laugh
Me and my musical friends

Musical friends are keeping me happy
They know what to do
Musical friends have many things to
Offer you
And you can be one too

(Who ever heard of drinking wine from a pipe anyway?)


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

  • 2021: "A celebration of time spent at the home of Mose and Anne Scarlett, a frequent stop when in Toronto in that era." ~ from the liner notes of Greatest Hits (1970-2020)


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