Here Lies Love (original song, inspired by the life n times of Robert Louis Stevenson)

Robert Louis Stevenson, one of my favorite writers, captured my heart in his written account of his cross country travels from the east coast to the west. His heart mission? To join, and hopefully wed, his love, Fanny. A much better account than any I could relate will be found online, should anyone want to follow up, or be inspired to dig a little, by my song. He passed thru this very town in which I live, and his telling of this hard overland journey was something which just touched me. The account can be read in
"Across the Plains," which can be found (and read) on this lovely website:
readprint dot com

The pics , I borrowed from the net, in order to tell the story, and used here to "illustrate" the song, not for profit, not for gain, no copyright infringement intended.
I actually wrote the line, "I will wait, by the door" before I found the painting seen, of a pacing Mr Stevenson, and his sweetheart, on a couch , where else? but by the door...:-)
Unknown to me where in San Francisco they wed, but a guess is City Hall. They honeymooned in the Napa Valley, Calistoga and St Helena. I am inspired myself to read "the Silverado Squatters" which is a sharing of their honeymoon, now on my todosomeday list, LOL.
here are lyrics to (a very simple song):
Enjoy:-) XOS, Laurie

Here Lies Love

sail the water
to the shore
ride the iron horse
o-ver the land
over the land

come to me
my oh my love
o-ver mountains
to the sea
to the sea

North wind blows
'crosst the deep
tries to steal
my flame from me

I will wait
by the door
here lies love
forever more, forever more

(break)

Come to me
Thee I'll wed
away from those
who say nay,
who say nay.

( as inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's travels)
written by
Laurie Lee C
June 1st 2010

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[DBRielly]

Oh my, the dreamy side of LaurieLee. I'd come to the sea.

[cinderellalifestyle]

@DBRielly I would hope you'd bring the banjo, ;-)....... Love, the pull stronger than that of the 20 mule team !LOL!

sweet day to you, Mr Rielly , thankyou kindly for sweet visitations!

XOs, LaurieLee

[smartbluecat]

Awesome!

:o)

Gary

[cinderellalifestyle]

@smartbluecat thankyou gary!! hoping your weekend is a nice one.....I appreciate your visiting, and listening:-), kind words

XOs, Laurie

[keonepax]

Wow, very nice song!

[cinderellalifestyle]

@keonepax thankyou kindly----it sort of came out of thin air.....so I let it:-)

it was long ago that I read the account that inspired,... but my super computer (brain) must have stored the nuggets away for this day.....thanks for visits:-) XOs, Laurie

[karlmahlmann]

Very cool. I enjoyed. I guess that's a ukulele. Really liked the dissonance you created with that soft-sounding instrument. -sounds really nice.

[reliablebow]

Beautiful Song LaurieLee....wind always tryin' to steal the flame.....You help keep it flaming:)

[sproutcentral]

Very haunting melody and production Laurie...sparse and effective. Loved all the old pics and paintings too.

Dave xx

[cinderellalifestyle]

@Hippie1944 thankyou Hippie, glad you liked.....be sure and check playlists,,,steel guitar and odd electric offerings compete with the Uke and Cigar box guitars, here....:-) happy to make your acquaintance :-)

XOs,.Laurie

[cinderellalifestyle]

@Ullarobinlilly Hello my dear,.....!! I'm so sorry to be late....very very sweet of you...i have thought often of you in Berlin--I know you are busy, it is the season, again! can you believe summer to summer, so fast, not I......we have too much fun, I suppose!

all my best from California, to you, and Friends Berlin;-)

XOs, Laurie

[cinderellalifestyle]

@acresofclams1  thankyou so much Meg!:-) I see JimmiAccardi has cut loose with some rare rocking good sounds....I'll be by to have some of that, asap......order some you know whats. i'm out and I've got a few assigned to places, in the world!...sweet day to you..........XOs, laurie

[cinderellalifestyle]

@ThePrudencedear such a lovely note and so late my reply!! ...heartfelt thanks, you lift me up. :-).I have no excuses...life, the wheels turn, it's a footrace, can we keep up?: Never! LOL......!I hope to share a lil of me Mom's world, over the next couple months..I will let you know when....it's time, I think.....

Love to you, ten fold......XOs, Laurie