who knows where the time goes
across the purple sky
all the birds are leaving
but how can they know
it was time for them to go?
by the winter fire
i will still be dreaming
i did not count the time
for who knows where the time goes?
who knows where the time goes?
sad, deserted shore
your fickle friends are leaving
oh, but then you know
it was time for them to go
but i will still be here
i have no thought of leaving
i did not count the time
for who knows where the time goes?
who knows where the time goes?
and i am not alone while my love is near me
i know it will be so until it's time to go
oh the storms in winter
and then the birds in spring again
i did not count the time
for who knows where the time goes?
and who knows where the time goes?
who knows where the time goes?
Farewell to Tarwathie
Words and Music by Judy Collins
Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP)/ Rocky Mountain National Park Music, Inc. (ASCAP)
Farewell to Tarwathie
Adieu Mormond Hill
And the dear land of Crimmond
I bid you farewell
I'm bound off for Greenland
And ready to sail
In hopes to find riches
In hunting the whale
Farewell to my comrades
For a while we must part
And likewise the dear lass
Who first won my heart
The cold coast of Greenland
My love will not chill
And the longer my absence
More loving she'll feel
Our ship is well rigged
And she's ready to sail
The crew they are anxious
To follow the whale
Where the icebergs do float
And the stormy winds blow
Where the land and the ocean
Is covered with snow
The cold coast of Greenland
Is barren and bare
No see time nor harvest
Is ever known there
And the birds here sing sweetly
In mountain and dale
But there's no bird in Greenland
To sing to the whale
There is no habitation
For a man to live there
And the king of that country
Is the fierce Greenland bear
And there'll be no temptation
To tarry long there
With our ship under full
We will homeward repair
Farewell to Tarwathie
Adieu Mormond Hill
And the dear land of Crimmond
I bid you farewell
I'm bound off for Greenland
And ready to sail
In hopes to find riches
In hunting the whale