"Calypso" by John Denver

I meant to send this out a bit closer to New Year's when many people's thoughts are still on what has passed and what is yet to come. However, this is the first time I've been near my computer for any length of time in over a month; and Chinese New Year's is still to come on the 28th, so I'm doing it now.

Below is one of my favorite songs, and a final farewell to two fantastic dreamers we lost in 1997. To quote another John Denver tune: "While the singer is silent, there still is the truth of his song." May their truths and their dreams inspire our world for years to come.

Quarong
<quarong at eskimo.com>

CALYPSO [Words and music by John Denver,
(c) 1975 by Cherry Lane Music Co.]

[Dedicated to the work of Jacques Costeau and the crew of the oceanographic exploration ship "Calypso".]

To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean, To ride on the crest of the wild raging storm. To work in the service of life and the living, In search of the answers to questions unknown. To be part of the movement and part of the growing Part of the beginning to understand ----.

Aye -- Calypso, the places you've been to. The things that you've shown us, the stories you tell! Aye -- Calypso, I sing to your spirit
The men who have served you so long and so well.
(yodeling)

Like the dolphin who guides you, you bring us beside you, To light up the darkness and show us the way. For though we are strangers in your silent world, To live on the land we must learn from the sea. To be true as the tide and free as a wind-swell, Joyful and loving in letting it be ----.

Aye -- Calypso, the places you've been to. The things that you've shown us, the stories you tell! Aye -- Calypso, I sing to your spirit
The men who have served you so long and so well.
(yodeling)

Aye -- Calypso, the places you've been to. The things that you've shown us, the stories you tell! Aye -- Calypso, I sing to your spirit
The men who have served you so long and so well!
(yodeling)

END Received on 01/19/98