Favorite Song

Here's the lyrics to my very favorite song...."The Reach" by Dan Fogelberg....

It's Maine, and it's Autumn
The birches have just begun turning.
It's life, and it's dying
The lobstermen's boats come returning
With the catch of the day in their holds
and the young boy is cold and complaining.
The fog meets the beaches and out on the reach it is raining.


It's father and son
It's the way it's been done since the old days.
It's hauling by hand ten miles out
from the land where their chow waits.
All the days get so lonely and long
and seas grow so stormy and strong,
but the reach will sing welcome
as homeward they hurry along.

And the morning will blow away
As the waves crash and fall;
And the Reach like a siren sings
as she beckons and calls.
As the coastline recedes from view
And the seas swell and roll
I will take from the Reach
all that she has to teach
To the depths of my soul.

The wind brings a chill;
There's a frost on the sill in the morning.
It creeps through the door;
At the edge of the shore ice is forming.
Soon the northers will bluster and blow
And the woods will be whitened with snowfall;
And the Reach will lie frozen for the lost and unchosen to row.

And the morning will blow away
As the waves crash and fall;
And the Reach like a siren sings
as she beckons and calls.
As the coastline recedes from view
And the seas swell and roll
I will take from the Reach
all that she has to teach
To the depths of my soul.