Send us your songs!Word and Music by Sam Flesher.
1963
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Here is a song I wrote in 1963 for Garin Etgar which was making aliyah to gesher haziv and has gotten alot of air time in the movement over the years. I was particularly pleased when I saw Matt from Cleavland on the last Workshop had learned the song and was still singing it 30 plus years after its inception. Actually there is a funny story about the song. I made aliyah in 1967 and in 1971 I came to Arhab (the U.S.) for a visit. I took my new Israeli wife to Washington Squane in the Greenwich Village and there near arch was a guy sitting with his guitar smoking a joint and singing my song Splendor Bridge. So I waited politely till he was done and then through some cash in his guitar case and asked him where he got the song. To my astonishment and to that of my new wife he said "I collected it in the hills of West Va" Little did he know that he was singing about a kibbutz in the Western Galilee.
Don't you ask me
What I'm thinking
If I make you happy
I will keep on singing
For I sing when I can't talk
And I dance when I can't walk
And I'm going back to Splendor Bridge
Gonna try to call it home.
And I been wanderin 20 centuries or more
But I know where I'm going to
And what I'm going for
I am walking down that track
Evening sun is at my back
I am going back to Splendor Bridge
Gonna try to call it home.
I once had two loves
Somewhere in my heart.
Now I have but one love
We're ten thousand miles apart.
And she keeps beckoning to me.
From far across the sea.
I am going back to Splendor Bridge
Gonna try to call it home
How many times will the sun set
In the sea by Splendor Bridge
Before we can share it
From a window on the ridge
And I'll count each lonely day
Until I'm traveling on my way
I am going back to Splendor Bridge
Gonna try to call it home.
So don't you ask me
What I'm thinking
If I make you happy
I will keep on singing
For I sing when I can't talk
And I dance when I can't walk
And I'm going back to Splendor Bridge
Gonna try to call it home.
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