Absent Friends
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Absent Friends
Words by Bill Sutton, Music by Brenda Sinclair Sutton
Copyright 2000 by Bill Sutton and Brenda Sinclair Sutton
Once more we've come together, just the way we have for years
To sing our songs together and to share our joy and tears.
And once more when our voices raise the undertone has changed
Once again the chorus of our lives is harshly rearranged
The notes we sing are beautiful but something still seems wrong-
For another note is missing from the song.
So we hug each other closely and tell tales into the night.
We sing the songs we used to sing, we try to make it right.
We sing the songs of sorrow and we sing the songs of pain,
Then we sing the songs of laughter and we start to smile again.
We raise a hymn to Absent Friends who were not with us long
When another note is missing from the song.
We sing away the evening and we sing until the dawn.
The harmony is different but the melody goes on.
For it's only our own loneliness that drives us into fear.
We know that they still sing with us, though we have no ears to hear.
They sing to us of friendship and the joy that we still share,
That every time the circle grows, their voices will be there.
And their love will find its echoes when a new voice comes along
And another note is added to the song.
Yes, the chorus swells with gladness as the circle rolls along
And a hundred notes are added to the song.
A hundred notes are added to the song.
Bill
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> Inspired by recent events and the cycle in all its parts.
This lyric is really beautiful, Bill and Brenda. It means a lot to read
it today.
Allison
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Dave Weingart
>Inspired by recent events and the cycle in all its parts.
Wow.
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Rob Wynne
>Inspired by recent events and the cycle in all its parts.
>Please Archive
>Absent Friends
>Words by Bill Sutton, Music by Brenda Sinclair Sutton
>Copyright 2000 by Bill Sutton and Brenda Sinclair Sutton
Damn you for making me cry at work. I hope we'll be hearing this on
the 19th...
Rob
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Wesley Struebing
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>Absent Friends
Bill, I'm impressed...
Thank you.
Cosmo
Thanks for sharing. I can't wait to hear it.
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>Inspired by recent events and the cycle in all its parts.
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>Please Archive
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>Absent Friends
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>Words by Bill Sutton, Music by Brenda Sinclair Sutton
>Copyright 2000 by Bill Sutton and Brenda Sinclair Sutton
That is really beautiful. Please teach it to some of the Brits next time
you see them, so they can bring it back with them.
Chris
Mike Whitaker
>bi...@bsutton.com wrote in <i8Fj5.244$4t.1...@eagle.america.net>:
>That is really beautiful. Please teach it to some of the Brits next time
>you see them, so they can bring it back with them.
Bill, record it and mail me an MP3, and I'll do the necessary.
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Martin Julian DeMello
> Absent Friends
> Words by Bill Sutton, Music by Brenda Sinclair Sutton
> Copyright 2000 by Bill Sutton and Brenda Sinclair Sutton
Ooh - that was beautiful. I hope I get to hear it some day.
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Michael Liebmann
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> Words by Bill Sutton, Music by Brenda Sinclair Sutton
> Copyright 2000 by Bill Sutton and Brenda Sinclair Sutton
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Judith & Dave Hayman
Touched doesn't even begin to describe it.
Thank you. At the service yesterday, Lloyd was with us. At the
filk afterward, as we struggled to not talk, then struggled to
talk, Lloyd was with us. As long as we remember him,.he will be
with us, as will all the others who no longer walk this earth.
For you and Brenda, who suffered a loss far more grievous than
this, this must have been hard to write, yet it is so very apt.
We were reminded yesterday that part of our job is to _go on_,
living life, believing in life and enjoying it to the fullest.
Yesterday we cried together and laughed together. And then we
made plans about going on.
For the filkers of the Toronto area, Lloyd was not a perfect
person: he was a heck of a musician, a member of our community,
a friend and a part of our _family_. But he wasn't perfect no
more than any of us are. Far better to say that we cared for him
_with_ all the rough bits, for all of who he was, than to say we
admired him but didn't know him.
There is a proposal regarding a grove in Israel and Karen is in
favour. Please note that the family may wish to have some role
in this, and a memorial fund has already been set up, though we
don't know the purpose, yet. Just now we are caring for the
living -- Karen -- and not the lost.
With deepest humility at the warmth and generosity of all the
tributes. They will all be passed to Karen and to Lloyd's
family.
Thank you,
Judith
Lori Coulson
: bi...@bsutton.com wrote:
: >Inspired by recent events and the cycle in all its parts.
: >Please Archive
: >Absent Friends
: >Words by Bill Sutton, Music by Brenda Sinclair Sutton
: >Copyright 2000 by Bill Sutton and Brenda Sinclair Sutton
: Damn you for making me cry at work. I hope we'll be hearing this on
: the 19th...
Blurry Monitor Syndrome here, too....Thank Ghod, the rest of the office is
at lunch.
Lori Coulson
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> Inspired by recent events and the cycle in all its parts.
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> Please Archive
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> Absent Friends
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> Words by Bill Sutton, Music by Brenda Sinclair Sutton
> Copyright 2000 by Bill Sutton and Brenda Sinclair Sutton
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Heather Borean
bi...@bsutton.com wrote:
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> Inspired by recent events and the cycle in all its parts.
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I really wish I could have written this. I would love to learn it, if
you get it MP3'd (is that a term?) I would really like to hear it.
Thanks for such a moving song
Heather
Lynn Gold
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My reaction too.
--Lynn
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Barry Gold
>Inspired by recent events and the cycle in all its parts.
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Yes! I'm looking forward to hearing that at Chicon and/or OVFF.
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Matt G. Leger
> In article <i8Fj5.244$4t.1...@eagle.america.net>, <bi...@bsutton.com> wrote:
>> Inspired by recent events and the cycle in all its parts.
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>> Absent Friends
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> Yes! I'm looking forward to hearing that at Chicon and/or OVFF.
So am I. (And people tell me *I'm* good at writing memorials...) William old
son, if you show up at the Chicon filkroom, you ain't gettin' out again
alive and in possession of all your limbs and digits without singing that
for us, and that's a promise. And I want the Kleenex concession when you
do... <grin>
--Matt
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lloyd landa
this is very difficult. This lyric is strikingly beautiful, and Lloyd would
have probably been moved to tears by it. I just wish he were here.
Karen Linsley
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> Inspired by recent events and the cycle in all its parts.
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Joel Polowin
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> I'm sorry it has taken me a while to respond to this, but as you can
> imagine, this is very difficult.
I hope you'll pardon a bit of very dark humour... but it was *very*
weird seeing this first bit of text appearing under Lloyd's name.
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> I'm sorry it has taken me a while to respond to this, but as you can
imagine,
would
> have probably been moved to tears by it. I just wish he were here.
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> Karen Linsley
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(those of us who knew him).