Biography:
Richard Shindell (born 3 August 1960, Lakehurst, New Jersey) is an American folk singer. While dividing his time between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and New York's Hudson Valley, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, and juxtapose ideas and images.
Shindell's songwriting often involves storytelling from a first-person point of view: for example, from an INS officer and illegal immigrant in "Fishing", to a World War II soldier in "Sparrows Point"
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Other songs:
- A Juggler Out In Traffic
- A Summer Wind A Cotton Dress
- A Tune For Nowhere
- Acadian Driftwood
- Are You Happy Now
- Arrowhead
- Beyond The Iron Gate
- Blue Divide
- By Now
- Castaway
- Darkness Darkness
- Deportee
- Easy Street
- Fishing
- Gethsemani Goodbye
- Gray Green
- I Saw My Youth Today
- Ill Be Here In The Morning
- Last Fare Of The Day
- Lawrence Ks
- May
- Money For Floods
- Northbound 35
- On A Sea Of Fleur
- Parasol Ants
- Reunion Hill
- Sing Me Back Home
- Smiling
- So Says The Whippoorwill
- Sparrows Point
- Spring
- State Of The Union
- Storms Are On The Ocean
- Summer Wind A Cotton Dress
- The Ballad Of Mary Magdalen
- The Courier
- The Kenworth Of My Dreams
- The Last Fare Of The Day
- The Next Best Western
- The Things That I Have Seen
- The Weather
- Transit
- Tv Light
- Waiting For The Storm
- Wisteria
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Richard Shindell - On A Sea Of Fleur-De-Lis
CAPO: 3rd Fret
INTRO: C F C G F C G
C F
I adore thee mother Mary
C G
But would you change me back to a witch
And let me live in the arms of a sorry old elm
F C G
Give the gypsy moths a realm of their own
C F
For a postman's fee, would I work for thee
C G
And from that tree would I swoop down and leave
A billion blue eggs of eternity
F C G
And in no time you'd have your own sea
Am F
But don't just stare
C
I mean it, really
G Am F
Hear my prayer
C
I give it freely
G Am F C G
Are you there Fleur-de-Lis?
C F
I adore thee mother Mary
C G
But would you change me back to a witch
And let me live in the arms of a willow
F C G
And fly around not wearing a stitch
C F
For so long has this room been so hollow
C G
We wait at the gate for an echo
In the flesh of your newly cleaned frescoes
F C G
Where Jesus holds John to his breast
Am F
Wrapped around
C
And rocking slowly
G Am F
No one bound
C
To be so holy
G Am F C G
In your gown of fleur-de-lis
C F
And I adore thee mother Mary
C G
But would you change me back to a witch
As a witch would I love you more than any man
F C G
So give a wink, give a nod, but give a damn
C F
Be a sport, Mary, and don't tell dad
C G
He need never know how he's been had
And never you mind about those seven seals
F C G
'Cause daddy was a one shot deal
Am F
But one, two, three
C
It could be that easy
G Am F
There we'd be
C
I with my baby
G Am F C G
On a sea of fleur-de-lis
Am F
Do-re-mi
C
It could be that easy
G Am F
There we'd be
C
I with my baby
G Am F C G
On a sea of fleur-de-lis
CAPO: 3rd Fret
INTRO: C F C G F C G
C F
I adore thee mother Mary
C G
But would you change me back to a witch
And let me live in the arms of a sorry old elm
F C G
Give the gypsy moths a realm of their own
C F
For a postman's fee, would I work for thee
C G
And from that tree would I swoop down and leave
A billion blue eggs of eternity
F C G
And in no time you'd have your own sea
Am F
But don't just stare
C
I mean it, really
G Am F
Hear my prayer
C
I give it freely
G Am F C G
Are you there Fleur-de-Lis?
C F
I adore thee mother Mary
C G
But would you change me back to a witch
And let me live in the arms of a willow
F C G
And fly around not wearing a stitch
C F
For so long has this room been so hollow
C G
We wait at the gate for an echo
In the flesh of your newly cleaned frescoes
F C G
Where Jesus holds John to his breast
Am F
Wrapped around
C
And rocking slowly
G Am F
No one bound
C
To be so holy
G Am F C G
In your gown of fleur-de-lis
C F
And I adore thee mother Mary
C G
But would you change me back to a witch
As a witch would I love you more than any man
F C G
So give a wink, give a nod, but give a damn
C F
Be a sport, Mary, and don't tell dad
C G
He need never know how he's been had
And never you mind about those seven seals
F C G
'Cause daddy was a one shot deal
Am F
But one, two, three
C
It could be that easy
G Am F
There we'd be
C
I with my baby
G Am F C G
On a sea of fleur-de-lis
Am F
Do-re-mi
C
It could be that easy
G Am F
There we'd be
C
I with my baby
G Am F C G
On a sea of fleur-de-lis
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