the telephone

"the telephone" by robert frost, set to a tune by bill kilpatrick:

'When I was just as far as I could walk
From here today,
There was an hour
All still
When leaning with my head against a flower
I heard you talk.
Don't say I didn't, for I heard you say--
You spoke from that flower on the window sill-
Do you remember what it was you said?'

'First tell me what it was you thought you heard.'

'Having found the flower and driven a bee away,
I leaned my head
And holding by the stalk,
I listened and I thought I caught the word--
What was it? Did you call me by my name?
Or did you say--
Someone said "Come" -- I heard it as I bowed.'

'I may have thought as much, but not aloud.'

"Well, so I came.'

Category:

Music

Tags:

• acoustic
• original
• vocal
• guitalele
• frost
• poetry
• troubador
• kilpatrick
• love
• relations
• marital
• argument

[billkilpatrick]

thank you roman; thank you lew; thank you lars; ... perhaps it's because i'm very far from "home" (don't know how it happened) but frost's poetry means an awful lot to me. thank you very much - tante bene cose to you all.

[cariboubill]

Bill, Robert Frost is my favorite poet.  You made it sound like a beautiful old folk song. So, that is a guitalele? Interesting. ...Bill

[wishbone103]

Damn! That was good! I like it. Wish I could sing.

[tubwows]

Love this song Bill. You have a great voice.

[654321654321]

hi Bill, this is a beautiful poem and your arrangement is great.

greetings, R.

[LarsJQrgen]

Very good.

[lewdite]

I love this "genre" of music/poetry... keep them coming!

[lute88]

Grazie, Guglielmo!!! E' un bel regalo per il mio compleanno fra 3 giorni.