Remembering John Denver

John Denver loved dolphins. They nurse their young. They love to touch. They are very talkative. To John dolphins were not just intelligent mammals, but a bit magical-our evolutionary cousin of the sea.

From John Denver's Ancient Rhymes
A Dolphin Lullaby

Adapted and Illustrated by
Christopher Canyon

Two days before the moon was round
You felt the urge of sun s light beams
The muffled world of dolphin sounds
Slipped out and back, into your dreams

For nine full months that passed before
You learned of all of life's ancient rhymes
Then mother sensed a far-ther shore
And brought you forth in-to these times

So taste the air of your new world
And gently guide us to your mind
It knows the winds and sails unfurled
And holds to heart the dol-phin kind


Welcome precious earthmade child
We met you first in your fa-ther's songs
And mother's smile and waters wild

It's in this place you now be-long

I know you know of all these things
And feel the faith of a dolphin's sigh
For you were born on silver wings
To taste the high blown crys-tal sky

So sing one day to all of us
The songs you learned in dol-phin lair
Giving home to life as all we must
And teach us how their grace to share

John Denver
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Illustratin by Christopher Canyon

Music makes pictures and often tells stories,
All of it magic and all of it true.

And all of the pictures and all of the stories,
And all of the magic, the music is you.

John Denver


From John Denver's Ancient Rhymes
A Dolphin Lullaby

Adapted and Illustrated by
Christopher Canyon

Thank you for sharing this Inda. I always liked John Denver.

Love,
Sue

Thank you for remembering John Denver.
He was a good person and an excellent musician.

Love
Vicky

album: Flower That Sshattered The Stone
song: Ancient Rhymes
artist: John Denver & Bob Samples
transcribed: Ken Reynolds

Enjoy the following...

Ancient Rhymes
John Denver & Bob Samples (klr)

[G] - [D] -[C] - [Am] - [C] - [G] - [D] - [Dsus] - [D]
[G] Two days be [F] fore the [C] moon was [D] round
[G] You felt the [Em] urge of [C] sun's light [D] beams
The [G] muffled [F] world of [C] dolphin [D] sound
Slipped [C] down and [G] back [D] into [D7] your [G] dreams
[G 8th fret] - [G 7th fret] - [G 5th fret]

For [G] nine full [F] months that [C] passed be [D] fore
You [G] learned of [Em] all life's [C] ancient [D] rhymes
Then [G] mother [F] sensed a [C] farther [D] shore
And [C] brought you [G] forth [D] into [D7] these [G] times
[G 8th fret] - [G 7th fret] - [G 5th fret]

So [Am] taste the air of [D] your new world
And [C] gently [C/b] guide us [Am] to your [G] mind
It [Am] knows the winds and [D] sails un [G] furled
And [C] holds to [G] heart [D] the [D7] dolphin [G] kind
[G 8th fret] - [G 7th fret] - [G 5th fret]
[G] - [D] - [C] - [Am] -[C] - [G] - [D]

[G] Welcome [F] precious [C] earthmade [D] child
We [G] met you [Em] first in your [C] father's [D] songs
And [G] mother's [F] smile and [C] waters [D] wild
It's [C] in this [G] place [D] you [D7] now be [G] long

I [G] know you [F] know of [C] all these [D] things
And [G] feel the [Em] faith of a [C] dolphin's [D] sigh
For [G] you were [F] born on [C] silver [D] wings
To [C] taste the [G] high blown [D] [D7] crystal [G] sky
[G 8th fret] - [G 7th fret] - [G 5th fret]

So [Am] sing one day to [D] all of us
The [C] songs you [C/b] learned in [Am] dolphin [G] lair
Giving [Am] hope to life as [D] all we [G] must
And [C] teach us [G] how [D] their [D7] grace to [G] share
[G 8th fret] - [G 7th fret] - [G 5th fret]
instrumental 1 verse


Ken Reynolds
http://www.music.us/guitar-tabs/d/denver-john

Thanks Inda for a wonderful rememberance!

Love and light being, Teo Do (Re, Mi..)

Thank you Sue, Vicky and Teo for your fabulous input.

In the book "Ancient Rhymes", John Denver honors the birth of a dolphin and captures in song the promise of new life - both dolphin and human.

I love the videos that John Denver made up in Alaska with his friend with the plane and the remote living situation. PBS plays it from time to time. The music is well recorded and the imagery works wonderfully with the message of his lyrics. I've not been to Alaska

I am Ayurvedically a "hot" person.

My favorite computer "game" is Austin Meyers X-Plane which has Glasairs and numerous other small aircraft that you can simulate in flight and that work realistically. My understanding is that John Denver had the misfortune of being at a low altitude when he had trouble priming the fuel feed from his second tank. The first tank hit empty doubtless leaving his fuel intake gasping stalling the engine.

He was probably enjoying the scenery too much to notice that he was running low, and you'd need adequate altitude to get out of the stall. It's one of those deals where it's too late to get it to kick in - but you'd have enough time to think about how you could have avoided it - and then poof! He would have not been conscious past the second of impact and than off to the Elysian Fields.

It's a shame but we'll all get there. I lost Kitty yesterday in the wee a.m. hours after two months of suffering through prolonging her life with radical measures like a drip that gave us time to say good bye and a few days of rallying, but it was hard. Her death was not fast like John Denver's. She went out with a howl of protest at the end, as you figure John Denver must have before he hit the water.

Kitty fell into a sleep before she checked out.

One way or another we will all meet our maker.

As Maxim Gorky wrote "death is like a mother to us all."

The sweet memory of the ones we love, especially the ones who become part of our souls will remain living among the living.

I planted a little tree where I put Kitty's beautiful little furry remains. It's a little pine tree from Debby Burke's place in Point Reyes. Her grandfather
Grafton Burke of New Hampshire was the first doctor in Alaska. When her father Grafton Burk Jr. I believe, was a seven year old his grandfather asked him if he would be willing to give up a slice of flesh to save the life of a young Indian child in their village.

The child had been attacked and badly bitten by dogs and would have died without a skin graft to her scalp.

It does seem to be a Jungian sort of compulsion of the name thing (like having the name of the mile high city) for Dr. Grafton Burke.

Burke Jr. against the protestations of his mother who didn't think that a christian child should give up flesh for an Indian - insisted that his grandfather try to save the other child, and submitted to the knife. Presumably with ether or chloroform.

I'll have to ask Chris Burke, Debby's brother (who Teo met at David's D.'s place on Cragmont not so long ago) what part of my generation of Burke's father got sliced to patch the child's missing portion of scalp.

The child lived. Hooray!

Kitty's little pine tree is not from alaska. I'm not even positive it's a pine and not a cedar, but there seems to be an Alaskan connection to this part of the orogenic belts that extend below where the High of the Sierras and Cascades joins with the long expanse of the Rockies.

Those "whaddya do about the evil in the world?" - Burkes. Chris refused a $350,000 bribe from Exxon and shut down the Alaska pipeline for six months which won him a citation from Jimmy Carter for whistle blowing.

John Denver's beautiful films of the Alaskan Rockies accompanied by his memorable musical commentary make me see why Burke would have refused the bribe. (Oil dribbling on the permafrost - shhhhhh)!

John Denver fought for the Wilderness and cooperating with not resisting the Gaia principle. It's a shame we lose our best spirits. It can't undo who they were.

I'm in my own little mourning period. You don't just step out and find another kitty. There won't be another Kitty (spefically aka Pussy Willow).

Like John Denver she was also one of a kind (and cuddly too).

You like to think this world in all its beauty and our presence here as passing fancy (I'm told the latter is a contraction of the word "fantasy") has a transcendental meaning.

John Denver once had me make a small investment in land in Tyler West Virginia. I never saw the property and the friends who sold it never gave me a cent in remuneration.

Death may be a mother to us all but the mountain Momma thing does get to me. I have been to West Virginia, near spencer where my friend Ed Mandl used to live. There's no finer place for the night sky with no city lights this side of Hawaii (or I'd guess Alaska). Take me home, country roads.

It's pretty beautiful around Big Sur and Monterey Bay and there are about three airports for emergency landings.

There's a song about Amelia Earhardt.

Happy Landings John Denver. Take good care of Kitty.

Signed.

The great-grand-nephew of an Egyptologist from the British Museum who likes cats and the Book of the dead.

De Mortuis nil nisi bonum.

Thank you Nick for your very informative reply.
I have seen a film about John Denver travelling through his beloved Colorado, and flying to Alaska to meet his friends.

I am very sad about Kitty, but now Kitty is singing and purring with John Denver and dancing and jumping with the angels.

Love, Inda
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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Kahlil Gibran

Dear Yogionefromobie, I also am grateful for your reply.

I have 2 old cats myself and know what Kittie's loss means to you.
Kitty is now out of pain and is grateful to you for having let her go. Just remember, Kitty will always be there.

Love,
Sue

Sending my condolences dear yogionefromobie.
Kitty feels good now and her spirit will never really leave.

Thank you for the informative reply.

Love
vicky

Thank you for this beautiful thread.

Remembering John Denver.

Sincerely,
Gisele

Thanks for your thoughts on Kitty and remembering John Denver.

The Indians say it well for all our friends on this side and the other: Walk in beauty.

Here is a link of a little memorial I made from my clip of Kitty that used have live sound. Some of you have already seen that. It's in a new form. Now it has a bit of Phil Rosheger's Habanera of Light and Shadow as the soundtrack.

Now we've lost Scotty too. . .

http://homepage.mac.com/yogi1111/ProtectedSite/iMovieTheater17.html

The keyword to enter the site is sesame.

She was a very wonderful friend.

Thank you for the nice memorial video for Kitty.
She was very beautiful. Just remember she will always be there.

Sincerely,
Sue

Thank you very much Yogionefromobie for sharing this video of Kitty with us. Kitty is now sitting on a beautiful railing in the sky and feeling very happy.

This is nice: "Walk in Beauty"
Kitty now walks only in beauty.

Love
Vicky

quote:

Originally posted by yogionefromobie:
The Indians say it well for all our friends on this side and the other: Walk in beauty.

Amen. Now lovely Kitty is another loving guardian on the other side.

Kitty was very affectionate. It's great that in the video you are giving her some catnip! That's just like you, Saint Nick, helping us cool cats out! he he.. I see that the Bay Bridge panorama was not only for this cool cat - me - but also cool kitty cat. (Nick made my videos you can see on the MUSIC page/link).

Thanks for sharing this memorial for dear Kitty!

Love and light being, Teo Do (Re, Mi, Fa...)

Thank you for sharing this beautiful video of Kitty with us. This is very beautiful and touching.
Kitty is now forever surrounded by beauty.

Love,
Inda



This Old Cat


I'm getting on in years,
My coat is turning gray.
My eyes have lost their luster,
My hearing's just okay.
I spend my day dreaming
Of conquests in my past,
Lying near a sunny window
Waiting for its warm repast.

I remember our first visit,
I was coming to you free,
Hoping you would take me in
And keep me company.
I wasn't young or handsome,
Two years I'd roamed the street.
There were scars upon my face,
I hobbled on my feet.

I could sense your disappointment
As I left my prison cage.
Oh, I hoped you would accept me
And look beyond my age.
You took me out of pity,
I accepted without shame.
Then you grew to love me,
And I admit the same.

I have shared with you your laughter,
You have wet my fur with tears.
We've come to know each other
Throughout these many years.
Just one more hug this morning
Before you drive away,
And know I'll think about you
Throughout your busy day.

The time we've left together
Is a treasured time at that.
My heart is yours forever.
I Promise - This old cat.

Author: K.C. Bigamon

Web: KC's Beloved Cats & Poems

quote:

rhuFrom Jon Denver's Ancient Rhymes, A Dolphin Lullaby Adapted and illustrated by Christopher CanyonJohn Denver loved dolphins. He actively supported the The Cousteau Society's campaign to protect the marine habitat. He supported the Human Dolphin Foundation. He co-founded the Hunger Project, which is commited to ending world hunger forever. He created Plant-it 2000, now renamed Plant-it 2020, an organization that has already planted one million trees. He bought nearly 1000 acres of spectacular Colorado land and gave it to the Windstar Foundation to carry on environmental education. And he kept singing until his death in 1997 when a small experimental plane he was soloing crashed into the Pacific Ocean.


From John Denver's Ancient Rhymed,
A Dolphin Lullaby

I wish that there were more John Denvers in the world today.

Love,
Vicky

I missed this original post.

I saw a TV show about John Denver not long ago, and he really was a very nice human being. He loved nature and all the animals. I wish that there were more John Denvers in the world, especially in the entertainment business. There are not too many shows now that I enjoy watching.

Love,
yoko

John Denver's last song

This is really nice.
I really liked John Denver, he was such a compassionate human being.

Thank you Inda.

love,
Sue

I like his last song.
Thank you for posting it.

Love,
Sue