CD cover: Eva Cassidy - Songbird
Songbird
1. Fields Of Gold 6. Time Is A Healer
2. Wade In The Water 7. I Know You By Heart
3. Autumn Leaves 8. People Get Ready
4. Wayfaring Stranger 9. Oh Had I A Golden Thread
5. Songbird 10. Over The Rainbow

Oh Had I A Golden Thread

(Pete Seeger)





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Oh had I a golden thread
And a needle so fine
I would weave a magic spell
Of rainbow design
Of rainbow design

In it I would weave the courage
Of women giving birth
And in it I would weave the innocence
Of the children of all the earth
Children of all the earth

Won’t you show my brothers and sisters
My rainbow design
’Cause I I would bind up this sorry world
With hand and my heart and mind
Oh hand and heart and mind

Oh had I a golden thread
And a needle so fine
I I would weave a magic spell
Of rainbow design
Of rainbow design
Oh oh oh



found on LABA (cd/cas), S (cd/cas/lp). Compilations: A Mother's Heart.
On original 1996 CBD release of LABA (cd/cas), OHIAGT was entitled simply 'Golden Thread'.
Eva omits stanzas 3 and 5 of Peete Seeger's original text, but repeats st. 1 as the 4th and last stanza. She has 'spell' (l. 3) and 'courage' (l. 6) for Seeger's 'strand' and 'bravery'. Other textual differences are quite trivial.
Pete Seeger Appreciation Page.
Laura's OHIAGT page.
PL - Song by song.
original: Pete Seeger (1959 or later).
covers: Joan Baez, Leon & Eric Bibb (2002), Judy Collins (1970), James Durst (1997), MacArthur Family (1996), Holly Near (1978), Peter Paul & Mary (2004), Joel Rafael, Three City Four, Sammy Walker (1994), Dar Williams and Toshi Reagon (2001) (Covers Project).


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