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HORSE OF STONE: Global Jazz Songs

by The Cormack and Ross Band

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Only when you love the stone can you call the horse your own Chorus: A horse of stone in a hill horse of stone, stone in a hill It’s hard to show someone to love or shove him there scare him or let him try it’s hard to show, it’s hard to know if you’re shy like me On a hill I found a horse in stone caught in his ripest age but I saw him stir and climb right out of his mountain cage His eyes said to look to find our way home again but when I rounded the rock I stopped and he was stone again (Chorus) Gone like a dream, many sleeps later I was there I took him for granite but he was a jade, but he was a jade he was alive too I led him down with all of his brothers walking behind him and the last one shed his coat because he was really a man When I could love him he gave way to feeling and he could move (Chorus)
2.
Marigold rise like the sun bright and cold up to noon Marigold rise like the moon pale and old with no one Marigold, promise me you’ll never tell to her what I told She’ll make you a good woman, good woman she’ll make you a good man, good old man But while your dreaming is only seeming then she’ll take you and she’ll wake you and she’ll make you a good man but only if she’ll make you a good woman, good woman She must be for you but only if she’ll make you a good woman Colors in her eyes are not hard to understand, understand the stars in her skies are from a yet untroubled land, troubled land but she said time flies like an arrow if you can, if you can Her time is come for you But while your dreaming is only seeming that she’ll take you and she’ll wake you and she’ll make you a good man Midnight on the sundial, slower than a mile You can dream it, but while your dreaming is only seeming then she’ll take you and she’ll wake you and she’ll make you a good man You think that her time is come you think that her ways have won and her time is come you think that her deed is done and her race is run and her time is Midnight on the sundial . . . Her time is come for you But only if she’ll make you a good woman, good woman but only if she’ll make you a good man, good old man
3.
If one dog barks at nothing o my life they all shout up the moon in me she called my home the bottom of the sea Who will you take in your boat (repeat) you come along, you come along unless you stay Chorus: We will pass through the nets of heaven if we forget our lovers pray Who will you take in your boat you come along, you come along unless you stay (Chorus) If one dog barks at nothing. . .
4.
Where did you sleep last night? Was it a pleasure to be there, and did the moon admire your hair or did she care? Where did you sleep last night? Lighter than air she sang my dreams were slowly deeper than midnight Was it a pleasure to be there, and did the moon admire your hair or did she care? Where did you sleep last night?
5.
Child of the sky he whose eyes are wild have you heard him sing behind your dream? have you called him lord of sun and steam? He was so big that you couldn't even see him he was so small that everyone felt him there we held each other in the palms of our hands His cries make the sun rise like a bird in the morning When he laughs with you, words shine like a dance of fireflies Everything's whirling and you forget the time nothing is right unless you do it in rhyme
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FOOTPRINTS 06:58
I rolled up her little ball of footprints God knows the true dog in the snow the sound of her sweet smile unbroken but taken to mountains she flew The long night may cease to be your ceiling the fun may be used to shine the strings of mockblue morning may lose their singbird meaning for your love unfolds into mine Sweetly taken, I know her true the dogsmile may have broken mountains but will she fly the feet of God? Sweetly taken, I rolled the night her morning may have broken mountains but will she shine her bird for God? Sweetly broken, unfold the blue her footprints may have taken morning but will she sing her smile to God? Mockingbird, smile in the night fly the snow of morning sing what you used to lose green as the mountain What you lose may be used to shine the long night may never be your ceiling before your love unfolds mine Mockingbird, shine in the night string the fun to meaning sing what you used to lose greener than the morning I rolled up her little ball of footprints God knows the true dog in the snow the sound of her sweet smile unbroken but taken to mountains she flew
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If you could see me now you would know how I could grow so thin everyone you meet looks right in If you could feel me now you would know how I could drift from you everything you leave knows before you’re through It’s not me, it’s those I love it’s not me, I am too much for them to take care of Makes me want to leave my tears behind me now love’s cold, bright stream pains me now land wherever you can find me now I can see your face at night I can see so clear I think that you are here too Near enough that you could see me now you would know how I could grow so thin everyone you meet looks right in If you could feel me now
8.
Chorus: I got shade swallowing sickness shade swallowing sickness I’m afraid to lose it, I’m afraid to get it again drank a shadow and I can’t reach where it itches Drank a shadow, thought it was a snake and then I jumped right out and slid behind myself It’s easy when the sun is high to shine on what you have done but for the grief inside you you better hide ’cause your heart gives no relief (Chorus) Drank a shadow, thought it was a bird then I jumped right out and flew behind myself If I could trap the night, I would drink it ’til I was full but the soul I let you steal has left such a hole to be filled
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Heaven is in your ears, and you hear when you want to but you only close your eyes to stop the cries, the cries of the world a bell will tell your tongue to sing what you saw Tell your tongue to sing, the ring will tell your tongue to sing, the ring will tell your tongue to sing, the ring will tell singing in the ringing of a bell Close your eyes to stop the cries, you close your eyes to stop the cries, you close your eyes to stop the cries you heard cries are only eyes, only the world Heaven when you hear is in your heaven when you hear is in your heaven when you hear is in your ears heaven is whenever you can hear I will ring a bell so you will hear cries of heaven tell your tongue to sing what is in your ear and in your eye The sound of your life will enter you like sunlight the wounds of your loving will listen their toll will teach you to sound like sunlight Telling will touch, the telling will touch, the telling will touch the telling will touch the life listen to your life Toll will teach you, the toll will teach you, the toll will teach you to sound sunlight into your wound Loving enter, the loving enter, the loving enter the loving enter the light love the wound in your life Light enter in the wound wound will teach the toll of life telling the love of sound I can only open your eyes, you must do all the seeing I can only open your ears, you must do the hearing A bell will tell your tongue to sing what you saw but you only close your eyes to stop the cries, the cries of the world heaven is in your ears and you hear when you want to
11.
Chorus: The tear thief dreams he cries the less you sleep, the less you dream steal with your eyes awake, stay with your feeling unable to weep the grief that you keep turns to fear We are your tears you’re feeling kind but we still see how you rob us blind you are the one who can find what makes you blue For our house is your house too we all hear what you say in your sleep . . . ‘Who will keep me when they know that I love them?’ We are your tears you’re feeling dry but we still see how you need to cry when you confess you can try to let us through (verses and Chorus) He dreams he cries he’s the tear thief
12.
SNOWFLAKE 03:15
Daddy brought us a snowflake, mama brought us some rain they felt so good when they fell on me that I will never be the same again Daddy chased the sunrise and mama went after the moon they’ll get together in the sweet by-and-by and then they’ll sing us a beautiful tune and they’ll dance all over the sky I will meet you in the sunrise when the moon is shining through the stars in your hair

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about this album:

Global jazz songs, recorded in 1974-76, produced by Stephen Barncard and sponsored by David Crosby and Graham Nash.

HORSE OF STONE was entirely remixed and mastered by Stephen Barncard in May of 2015. In addition to a restored section of Marigold Woman, there are bonus cuts: Child of the Sky and The (Your Name Here) Waltz.

Note: we have a limited number of printed inserts from the original HORSE OF STONE CD, which we'd be happy to mail to your snail address in supplement to your purchase.

While thus engaged we realized that there is ample material for a second full album! All Tom & Jody tunes from 1974-5, mostly never heard! So please stay tuned for more, with the working title "TENDER AS WATER."

PRODUCER NOTES:

It brings me great joy to return to mix and master this project and visit Tom and Jody's land of enchantment. These songs were the backdrop of my life for quite a while, intermingled with the Crosby and Nash sessions in the mid-70s. I love this music.

Tom and Jody's performances never got old in the hundreds of playbacks required in the production of this album, both then and now - nay, they just sound better and more poignant today than ever. Music from 'Far Flung Roots' indeed.

Stephen Quinn Barncard May 2015

credits

released May 27, 2015

Tom Ross, guitar, vocals and electric bass; Jody Cormack, guitar and vocals; Charlie Keagle, reeds and keyboard; Pat O'Hearn, double bass; Kim Calkins, drums

Special guest on 'Where Did You Sleep': Ashish Khan, sarod

Recorded at:
Elliot Mazer's His Master's Wheels, 60 Brady, San Francisco CA. 1974
( assistant: Jim Furman )
Graham Nash's Studio in the Haight: Rudy Records. 1974
Barncard's Wooden Sound, 785 Beverly Glen, Bel Aire CA. 1975-76
Village Recorders, West Los Angeles 1975

Mixed at:
Capitol Records, 1977
(thanks Jerry Jensen)
A&M Studios, Hollywood CA. 1992
(assistant : Krish Sharma)
The International House of Cubes, Sebastopol CA. 2015

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