John Dawson Read
John Dawson Read - A Friend Of Mine Is Going Blind lyrics
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A friend of mine is going blind But through the dimness He sees so much better than me And how he cherishes each new thing that he sees They are locked in his head he will save them for when He's in darkness again He can't read books And he can't paint pretty pictures But he understands so much clearer than I For he knows that all he's missing with his eyes Is more vivid in the mind of the man who's going blind And that's why he doesn't mind. Won't you sing Tommy Davidson of Things that you have seen Sing of winter's bite and summer nights And places you have been Of dew drops and forget-me-nots and Silver silky sheen Lain across the morning meadow on the hillside And this friend of mine, he plays guitar And he sings so much better than I He can sing you any pictures in your mind He will sketch them out in rhyme draw the details in the lines And he'll color it in time And oh how he loves his guitar And it loves him And they play much sweeter than I As if to say that come the day that he can't see He will have at his command so much beauty in his hands That the loss won't come so hard Won't you sing Tommy Davidson of Things that you have done Sing of silver seagulls sailing into evening's golden sun Sing of city streets and villages and people on the run Tell the people how you know it Tommy Davidson