have you seen the horses running racing through the fields like fire copper chestnut gold and amber all the colours of desire in the blue-gold August weather s...

well its snowin again and what can I say its been another one of them nowhere days and oh Id like to blame it all on the weather theres an old black cat out in ...

seven white pebbles some rose-speckled shells they were sleeping in my pockets when we last exchanged farewells oh the things we keep, the things we throw away ...

theres a cat on the steps and I sure could use a lesson from her she got sly yellow eyes she got three-coloured crazy-quilt fur she slinks and creeps, she leaps...

Oh I met him at an ice rink in Flin Flon twas a mild night, just 20 below as we skated incircles he reached for my hand but what it felt like im not sure I know...

its a warm December evening the moonlit oceans calm and I can see Matthews laundry hanging underneath the coconut palm the whistling frogs are whistling the sk...

well you can play that old-time music you can sing those country songs and all the children of the cities they have learned to play along from a downtown window...

he sits in front of the radar screen watching the signal, watching the planes go pulsing across, leaving their tracks of light theres a buddy on the line now fr...

planes on the runway jet fighters overhead planes flying through your dreams when you're lying asleep in your bed and the job means being ready for a war no one...

Elsie was a beauty and she was a wild one the only time she pleased the family was when she married a banker's son he enlisted in the Great War there wasn't ti...

they say Eve gave Adam the apple Adam didnt want it at all but though Adam was fussy that old Eve was a hussy she talked him right into the fall they say Eve g...

he had twelve days leave when I met him in Montreal we courted a week then got married he wore his uniform I wore my grey silk suit and a hat with a veil my mot...

last year nearly all my friends got married this year those remaining followed suit well, Ive learned to feign rapture over what the photos capture while secret...

I thought I would see you at least one more time if only just to kiss you goodbye oh but last night in all the confusion you vanished like some kind of illusion...

well he came in to the bar just as our set was ending and he didnt get very far before he tried to catch my eye well Id seen that look before so when the set w...

he wont go to bed for you, but he does for me shes never been a sleepy head for you, but she always was for me they get mad and scream at you, then beam in my d...

something about you I realize Japanese, Japanese not your hair or your cheekbones or your blue eyes none of these, Japanese but some kind of stillness at the co...

quand Corinne tait jeune she dreamed of love et toutes les belles affaires that a girl thinks of but suddenly at sixteen la voil marie and one year later la mre...

javais une jolie fleur qui poussait devant ma porte mais un jour tu es venu noir et sauvage maintenant ma fleur est morte refrain : chant la vent, chant le cie...

quand jtais jeune marie di de la don mon mari ma dit viens ici tcoucher pis neuf mois plus tard voil un ptit cest une fille? ben oui pas un garon? ben non di de...

when I was a young bride my husband said come to bed with me and nine months later theres a little baby is it a girl? well yes not a boy? well no so we have to ...

adrift on a vast deep sea shores there are a-plenty, though I do not land for I am caught in the gulf between two worlds never knowing which I must choose with...

hier jai regard dans leur coffre jouets ah si javais su tout ce qui mattendait une poupe endormie, touffe de caresses un ourson de velours tout bourr de trist...

yesterday, I raised up the lid of their toy chest ah, had I but known what awaited me there a childs sleeping doll, long smothered with kisses a plush teddy be...

I am a student at Our Lady of Misery Catholic all-girls school once a year only the sister let us have a dance so I prayed real hard for a date to St Jude of th...

something is happening to me I think that its kinda strange gave the beggar man a quarter you know he offered to give me some change he could tell I was in a ba...

Helene et moi dans la chaloupe, au lac tous les etes a flot sous un soleil eblouissant nos journees se deroulent sans fin en longues procession commes les vague...

lights in the windows snow in the street kids on the ice rink the cop on the beat coming back home to find nothing has changed and yet everythings different now...

lise cherche dans le ciel ce quelle ne trouve pas sur terre elle sen ira peut-tre un jour vers dautres frontires lise cherche dans son cur elle est prte enfin ...

Elise looks skyward searching for the things she cannot find perhaps one day shell just move on and start anew Elise searches her heart she is prepared to give...

moving together, drifting apart like dancers at an old-fashioned ball sometimes we meet, sometimes we miss and never connect at all you turn to me just as I tu...

this is a song for you though perhaps some others will hear this is a song for you when you cant be near now I dont want to play the poet or the clever clown j...

Im a woman, I lead a womans life Ive had three kids, Ive been a dutiful wife along the way I suffered every female complaint enough to try the patience of a fem...

where did the breeze blow from makes you dance around whered the devil come from makes me wanna paint the town a ship can go down in the ocean but as far as I c...

oh mothers teach your sons how to cook and how to clean in the arts of housework educate them or else your sons poor wives will curse you all their lives as the...

one more time two people are saying goodbye and one more time everyones wondering why they were such a perfect couple, how can this be so? there are reasons, bu...

friends I have a problem that Id like to address and it may be peculiarly mine in these days of unemployment I am forced to confess yours trulys working overtim...

over Queen Charlotte Sound the lichen-covered rocks below are grey and rust-brown foam on the water like filigree sun scatters sequins of gold on the sea and Te...

Well we all know our poor planet is quite close to disappearing under tons and tons of poisonous manmade shit and ecologists are daily trying hard to find solut...

Quest-ce qui nous fait jaser autant se regarder si tendrement chacun devient bien indiscret et revle un grand secret Cest la lune (2) quest-ce qui nous fait vi...

well its sweeping cross the nation but its not a dance its sweeping cross the nation and you dont stand a chance with radiation [radiation] oh yeah radiation [r...

chorus: science is wonderful science is grand but theres one thing about science that i dont understand they can build a bomb to destroy the world they can put ...

my man plays in a barroom band hes got one pair of lightning hands well he sits in the middle and he plays jazz fiddle right beside the big trombone oh its dark...

he was in the front row wearing jeans and an old leather jacket and I have to say that right away he caught my eye and after the show he said I loved all your s...

well it rained so hard in my dreams last night that when I woke I thought the streets would be wet and you loved me so sweetly in my dreams last night I dont kn...

tre libre et partir comme un oiseau volage sans connatre jamais ni son nom ni son age tre libre et partir, ignorer le retour et raconter au vent son cur et son ...

those clingy black shorts they wear the tanned and bony knees they bare the helmets, leather gloves and pumps the fanny packs upon their rumps Oh I like I like ...

as I sit and watch I long to be out where the grey sky meets the sea where the grey sky meets the sea for I know theres a place where dreams come true where smi...

chorus: oy veh oy vey oy vey oy veh oy veh why did I have to fall for another Jewish guy today my hearts like a bagel got a hole in the middle been shafted agai...

if bewildered, disappointed, or hurting in love dont let time or distance stand in your way above the hardware store at Euclid and Bloor Sister Levada is waitin...

they move as quick as flowing water their manners are rough and their spellings worse they laugh too loud, but it doesnt matter theyre an unasked blessing and a...