ANOTHER LITTLE MIRACLE

My son Ken is living in Maui, and he and his Lilly are expecting the birth of their first child very soon. When Ken was born, in Marina Del Ray I wrote a song about what being a parent had done for my spirit. Here it is, with chords... (the original poem by Dylan Thomas is worth a look.)


THE SOURCE OF THE SPRING


C F C
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
G C
So said Dylan the Welshman long ago
C F C
Now I see it before me hour by hour
G F G C
It’s replanted a seed that once failed to grow

C F^ C
For the first time in years here’s the flow
G C
And I’m able to speak of what all your hearts know
F^ C
It’s taken some years in the cold
G F G C
To re-build the bridge between body and soul



Chorus:
Am G
It’s been away so long
Am D G
When I feel it I’m strong



C F C
Remember the days we were young
G C
We’d change the world so we sung
F C
We had the power and the time
G F G C
It was so black and white our ideas were so fine
F^ C
But as we grew older it seemed
G C
That experience dimmed the light of our dreams



F^ C
And soon it was no longer clear
G F G C
The truth was concealed in the maze of our fears




Chorus:
Am G
It’s been away so long
Am D G
When we feel it we’re strong




C F C
The path that we tread isn’t known
G C
We discover it stone by stone
F C
And now and again on the way
G F G C
Out shines a light and we know our day
F^ C
There’s a light deep inside and it grows
G C
It shines in our hearts and it knows
F^ C
That the green fuse of life that makes babies grow
G F G C
Is the source of the spring from which all these words flow.
G F G C
Is the source of the spring from which all these words flow.