Spending The Morning With Bruce

Lovin' a little Bruce this morning. Right now I am listening to World of Wonders!

Click here to listen to a Bruce Cockburn solo performance. Recorded Apr. 21, 2009 at Showplace Performance Centre in Peterborough, Ontario by Canada Live/CBC2.

Cry of a Tiny Babe

There are others who know about this miracle birth
The humblest of people catch a glimpse of their worth
For it isn't to the palace that the Christ child comes
But to shepherds and street people, hookers and bums
And the message is clear if you've got ears to hear
That forgiveness is given for your guilt and your fear
It's a Christmas gift you don't have to buy
There's a future shining in a baby's eyes
Like a stone on the surface of a still river
Driving the ripples on forever
Redemption rips through the surface of time
In the cry of a tiny babe

Bruce Cockburn - 1990

My Beat

Bruce Cockburn
Anything Anytime Anywhere, Singles 1979-2002 (2002)

Ancient and always
The wheel's ever whirling
Today I'm riding
Tomorrow I walk
Step through forever
into this very moment
The heart is pumping
and the heart rocks
It's my beat
In my new town

Franklin Theme

Wow, this sounds like Bruce Cockburn singing and playing guitar. I figure, since Franklin is a Candian produced show (notice the flag and content logos on the clip) ... chances are good.

What do you think? Is this Bruce?



Lyrics
Here comes Franklin
Coming over to play
Growing a little
Every day

Here he comes with all his friends
They've got stories got time to spend
With you

En français, l'autre langue officielle. Aucun bruce chantant dans ceci l'un

Bruce

My all time favourite singer songwriter is Bruce Cockburn.

This month a documentary called Life and Times of Bruce Cockburn is airing on Bravo in Canada. Alas, Bravo in the US does not seem to have picked it up.

Alanis Morissette introduces Bruce Cockburn
benefit concert at Toronto's Air Canada Centre



JUSTICE
by Bruce Cockburn

What's been done in the name of Jesus
What's been done in the name of Buddha
What's been done in the name of Islam
What's been done in the name of man
What's been done in the name of liberation
And in the name of civilization
And in the name of race
And in the name of peace!
everybody
loves to see
justice done
on somebody else

Can you tell me how much bleeding
It takes to fill a word with meaning
And how much, how much death
It takes to give a slogan breath
And how much, how much, how much flame
Gives light to a name
For the hollow darkness
In which nations dress?
everybody
loves to see
justice done
on somebody else

Everybody's seen the things they've seen
We all have to live with what we've been
When they say charity begins at home
They're not just talking about a toilet and a telephone
Got to search the silence of the soul's wild places
For a voice that can cross the spaces
These definitions that we love create --
These names for heaven, hero, tribe and state
everybody
loves to see
justice done
on somebody else