http://markshepardsongs.com 30 Years of Underground Music & Indie Songs Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:14:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Copyright © Mark Shepard Songs 2010 mark@markshepard.com (Mark Shepard: Singer Songwriter) mark@markshepard.com (Mark Shepard: Singer Songwriter) http://markshepardsongs.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://markshepardsongs.com 144 144 30 Years of Sparkling Original Songs Mark Shepard: Singer Songwriter Mark Shepard: Singer Songwriter mark@markshepard.com no no http://markshepardsongs.com/coming-home-video/ http://markshepardsongs.com/coming-home-video/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:13:21 +0000 Mark http://www.markshepardsongs.com/?p=1340 [Continue Reading]]]> http://markshepardsongs.com/coming-home-video/feed/ 1 http://markshepardsongs.com/moon-on-the-river/ http://markshepardsongs.com/moon-on-the-river/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:13:09 +0000 Mark http://www.markshepardsongs.com/?p=803 [Continue Reading]]]> http://markshepardsongs.com/moon-on-the-river/feed/ 6 0:00:01 Dedicated to the Memory of Jeremiah R. Dineen Play the song. Download and share it with your friends free! If you feel so moved to contribute to the Life In Song Project so that I can continue to preserve and share recordings of the close to 400 s[...] Dedicated to the Memory of Jeremiah R. Dineen Play the song. Download and share it with your friends free! If you feel so moved to contribute to the Life In Song Project so that I can continue to preserve and share recordings of the close to 400 songs I've written over the past 30 years, you can do so with the donate button in the right side bar. Thanks! The Moon On The River | 9/15/1989 | Song # 138 The moon on the river Is sapphire, pearl and silver As it penetrates the windshield of my car As I drive along the highway It tags along beside me And seems to call me upwards to the stars I’ve passed this way before And I will again I’m sure As the same old questions rise to haunt at me… I walk roads that I’ve been told Are rough and rocky kinds of roads But out here on the road, Despite the stories I’ve been told I find it straight and smooth And green with growing grass Charlie, next door… Well he lost his wife before He really had a chance to say goodbye And the neighbors and the friends We did our best to comprehend What it’s like to stay behind when your best friend flies And the children still will play Despite those who pass away And each life that’s left must learn to carry on We walk roads that we've been told Are rough and rocky kinds of roads But out there on the road, Despite the stories we've been told We find it straight and smooth And green with growing grass The moon on the river Is sapphire, pearl and silver As it penetrates the windshield of my car As I drive along the highway It tags along beside me And seems to call me upwards to the stars I walk roads that I’ve been told Are rough and rocky kinds of roads But out here on the road, Despite the stories I’ve been told I find it straight and smooth And green with growing grass Commentary: This is one of those songs that truly chose me to write it. I was driving up the Hudson river near Peekskill, NY and the moon was just hypnotically filling the sky and reflected off of the Hudson. I was reflective as well because my elderly next door neighbor Charlie, had just lost his wife. She just passed away suddenly. They'd been together for something like 50 years. We really are just visitors here. Life can change in moments. And then, life went on as it always does. As it will do after each of us takes the path we all must take... I'm dedicating this song to the memory of my friend Jerry Dineen who passed away recently after a long struggle with cancer. I also grew up with his wife Trish. 30 years have passed in the blink of an eye and every moment is precious. Tuning: DADGAD This is the first release of this song. © 1989-2009 by Mark Shepard http://MarkShepardSongs.come All commercial rights reserved. Permission granted to reprint with copyright info and link intact. Permission granted to download and distribute/share the mp3 file for non commercial purposes. please book mark this, facebook it, twitter it, stumble it, digg it etc. Share this with people who might appreciate hearing from you. thank you.  - Mark Shepard death, Uncategorized mark@markshepard.com no no