Lazy Floating Feather by Tom Wisner

From the album Chesapeake Born
by Tom Wisner and Mark
Sung by Teresa Whitaker
Available from Smithsonian Folkways
www.folkways.si.edu

The song and recording is the sole copyright of the creators. It is my sincere hope that by sharing this one song, a bit of the soul of Tom Wisner, known as "The Bard of the Chesapeake" can be felt. I hope that you find it as beautiful and touching as I did and you go buy the album.

Tom's music has moved me for many years, since first hearing him on Outdoors Maryland. I am not a "Chesapeake Born" boy, and my roots are firmly in Texas...however...the byways and glories of the Chesapeake Bay region have captured me, heart and soul. Truly "America in miniature", the biology and rich natural community, so utterly mixed with the dense urbanism of the East, reminds those residents of the region, that have the ears to hear, and the eyes to see, that they do not just live on the land...they are the land. In a rich exchange of breath, life, and soul. We are made of water, and the Chesapeake flows in my veins.

In Memory of Tom Wisner, who taught us all that we already loved the Bay.

Please protect our waters. Do so for yourself and the many generations to come.

LAZY FLOATING FEATHER

"My life has been a mystery
wonderin' what was real
a stranger to myself
I often wonder what I feel

And the Geese come down from Hudson
to Chesapeake and return
Lazy floatin' feather,
watch it turn
Lazy floating Feather, watch it turn

Gentle waters, magic patterns
push the sand up to the shore
forming mounds o smooth white earth
to absorb nor'easters roar

Life revives through cycles
compositions and decay
each life must fit a pattern
come what may, come what may
each life must fit a pattern
come what may

And the Geese come down from Hudson
to Chesapeake and return
Lazy floatin' feather,
watch it turn
Lazy floating Feather, watch it turn

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• Teresa Whitaker
• Music
• conservation
• ecology
• environment
• Geese

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Beautiful.