Funny day, looking for laughter and finding it there
Sunny day, braiding wild flowers and leaves in my hair
Picked up a pencil and wrote "I love you" in my finest hand
Wanted to send it, but I don't know where I stand
Telephone, even the sound of your voice is still new
All alone in California and talking to you
And feeling too foolish and strange to say the words that I had planned
I guess it's too early, 'cause I don't know where I stand
Crickets call, courting their ladies in star-dappled green
Thickets tall, until the morning comes up like a dream
All muted and misty, so drowsy now I'll take what sleep I can
I know that I miss you, but I don't know where I stand
I know that I miss you, but I don't know where I stand
© September 1, 1967; Gandalf Pub Co
“As you’ve probably noticed, folk music in America right now is fairly close to pop music. You can hardly separate the two. Most of the people who are in the large rock-and-roll groups – the Mamas and the Papas – are all ex-folk singers and they’ve given their folk styling to contemporary music over there. Most of the folk singers like myself – I suppose it’s a little bit unusual after listening to what’s happening here with all the traditional music, which I love very dearly and which isn’t happening in America – I hope I’m not frightening you.
“This is a song that I wrote in North Carolina the same day that I discovered Dr. Junk the Dentist Man; and I discovered this new tuning which is an F9 tuning, for those of you who like tunings. It’s my very own, I think, and if you want to know how to do it I’ll tell you. You take the first string down four half-tones; you take the second string down two half-tones; you leave the G string alone; you take the fourth string down two half-tones; the fifth string down four; and the bass up one. So it’s down four, two, don’t touch it, two, four, up one. And it’s a magical tuning because even discords sound great in it. This is a song about North Carolina – North Carolina crickets. There’s a trumpet solo in it, too...“
Clouds
Released May 1969
The Studio Albums 1968-1979
Released November 2012
Archives - Volume One: The Early Years (1963-1967)
Released October 30, 2020
The Reprise Albums (1968-1971)
Released June 25, 2021
Archives - Volume Two: The Reprise Years (1968-1971)
Released October 29, 2021
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giovanni on :
Essa canção sempre relata o que eu sinto por dentro, porque eu realmente sei do que eu sinto falta, mas eu não sei onde estou. É como se eu estivesse perdido nessa vida, talvez sem esperança, talvez já morto.
giovanni on :
Essa canção sempre relata o que eu sinto por dentro, porque eu realmente sei do que eu sinto falta, mas eu não sei onde estou. É como se eu estivesse perdido nessa vida, talvez sem esperança, talvez já morto.