Americký písničkář pocházející z Nového Mexika (nar. 1943), vl. jm. Henry John Deutschendorf. Hudebně čerpá především z folku a country. Výrazný autor balad. Po odchodu do L.A. se v roce 1965 přidává ke skupině The Chad Mitchell Trio. Po...

Píseň: Alaska And Me

Interpret:
John Denver
Album:
Higher Ground
When I was a child and I lived in the city 
 I dreamed of Alaska so far away 
 And I dreamed I was flying over mountains and glasciers 
 Somehow I knew that I'd live there one day 


 Well it took me some growin' and a fair bit of schoolin' 
 And a little bit of trouble to get on the move 
 And I felt like loser but I turned out the winner 
 When I came to Alaska the land that I love 


 Here's to Alaska here's to the people 
 Here's to the wild and heres to the free 
 Here's to my life in a chosen country 
 Here's to Alaska and me 


 I was born in a cabin on little Mulchatna 
 Raised in hard times but I had a good life 
 From the first time I flew with my father a singin' 
 I knew that I'd wind up a bush pilots wife 


 We sleep near the sound of a slow running river 
 And wake up most mornings to a drizzling rain 
 And we face every day like the first or the last one 
 With nothing to lose and heaven to gain 


 Here's to Alaska here's to the people 
 Here's to the wild and heres to the free 
 Here's to my life in a chosen country 
 Here's to Alaska and me 


 Oh for a fire on a cold winters night 
 And once more to gaze at the great Northernlights 
 For all of the beauty my children will see 
 Heres to Alaska and me 


 Here's to Alaska here's to the people 
 Here's to the wild and heres to the free 
 Here's to my life in a chosen country 
 Here's to Alaska and me