An original song written and performed by Tom Shindler, with images of wilderness, Mount Rainier in particular. The video includes an introduction to where the song came from. Lyrics, chords and a lead sheet are available on TomsSongsLive.com, along with links to all the rest of Tom’s original song videos
1. Have you ever stopped to watch a fir tree growin’ to the sky?
Did you listen to the gentle evening breeze softly sigh?
Have you seen the pretty colors of the flowers on the hill?
Did you hear the silent music when the forest was still?
Did you listen to the laughter of the playful mountain stream
Sing a strange and distant lullaby and leave you in a dream?
Did you taste the magic waters that come splashing down the hill?
Did you drink and feel you’d never have your fill?
2. Have you seen a mountain sunset turn the snow and sky to gold
Then fade into a billion stars when night fell clear and cold?
Did you wake up to the morning sun upon some mountain top
And wonder at the colors if your sleeping dreams had stopped.
Did you walk upon a hilltop just as high as you could be
And gaze across the planet for as far as you could see?
And there among the mountain tops, surrounded by the sky
Did you feel your only wish could be to fly?
3. Have you ever heard the silent canyon echo with a sound
That seemed far too majestic for your human ears to hear?
Did you hear the peaceful valley sing a song from far away?
Feel the Mountain try to hold you as you turned to go your way?
Did you feel the boundless power of a mountain born in fire?
Did it fill you with a nameless, irresistible desire?
Did you feel your heart begin to sing in gentle harmony
To the magic of the mountain’s melody?