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Norm Hacking's Lyrics:
"Richer for the Time"


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© Norm Hacking, words & music (SOCAN)

(for Steve Goodman)
(on Norm's Skysongs CD and
on a CD included in the Steve Goodman biography; links below)


Steve Goodman book cover; includes a CD with this songI hear a smile in a song and I turn around -
That's the way that it's always been.
A sweet warm voice will
Come along and steal your heart.
You'll gladly sail with that song on the wind.

chorus:
Feeling richer for the time we all sing together,
Stayin' up late 'til the bitter end.
And whatever is lost in the winter frost
Lives on in our hearts like the song of a friend.

I paid for both shows one night at the Riverboat
So I could watch Steve Goodman play.
I moved up close
When the crowd changed for the second show.
I learned the chords to "The Dutchman" that way.

And there ain't no way
I'm gonna say too much about you -
We only spoke just a time or two.
But I'll be spendin' my days
Writing songs on this old guitar -
Much of that is because of you.

chorus

They're singin' in Chicago,
They're singin' in Toronto,
They're singin' up a storm in Timbuktu.
There's a ghostly chorus
On the "City of New Orleans."
I think I hear them singin' for you.

chorus

I hear a smile in a song and I turn around -
That's the way that it's always been.
A sweet warm voice will
Come along and steal your heart.
You'll gladly sail with that song on the wind.


Track #10 on Norm's Skysongs CD
(From Norm's 1988 LP Stubborn Ghost)

Track #2 on the CD of 18 songs written about Steve Goodman
included in the biography of Steve Goodman by Clay Eals
Steve Goodman: Facing the Music
released in May 2007 by ECW Press, Toronto
Norm was one of 1,067 interviewed for the book.
Listen to a sample clip of each song on the book website.
Cover photo (shown above) is by Gina Jett.

The Riverboat : prominent folk coffeehouse in Toronto's Yorkville area 1964-1978.

See the index of Norm Hacking's lyrics and prose

Lyrics added to website April 15, 2007
Updated May 11, 2007

 

   
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