JE ME SOUVIENS QUEBEC
Je me souviens Quebec, I will remember
From the early days, the days of youth
when I first loved life, and friends
and truth
For your gentle heartbeat, welcome, warm
beckoned stranger there
To fall in love, or perhaps to dream
of a girl (or was she just a vision seen)
who made the heart and time stand still
and the earth to move against its will
When sharing glance and summer air
as shoulders touched in market square
A girl with beauty, sweet and fair
and a yellow ribbon in her auburn hair
Je me souviens Quebec, I will remember
In latter days, in my time's descent
recalling lives and loves now spent
A magic city, magic still
A shining city on a hill
That touched the heart, and touched the soul
and carried me away without my consent
Je me souviens Quebec, I will remember
The gentle place you keep inside
where tender longings still abide;
As I yearn for friends and days gone by
and for visions seen that bless the eye
and return before the memories die
Je me souviens Quebec, I will remember
©Jack Dallas 1994
http://adventures-in-time.blogspot.com/2007/12/je-me-souviens-quebec.html
Je me souviens Quebec, I will remember
From the early days, the days of youth
when I first loved life, and friends
and truth
For your gentle heartbeat, welcome, warm
beckoned stranger there
To fall in love, or perhaps to dream
of a girl (or was she just a vision seen)
who made the heart and time stand still
and the earth to move against its will
When sharing glance and summer air
as shoulders touched in market square
A girl with beauty, sweet and fair
and a yellow ribbon in her auburn hair
Je me souviens Quebec, I will remember
In latter days, in my time's descent
recalling lives and loves now spent
A magic city, magic still
A shining city on a hill
That touched the heart, and touched the soul
and carried me away without my consent
Je me souviens Quebec, I will remember
The gentle place you keep inside
where tender longings still abide;
As I yearn for friends and days gone by
and for visions seen that bless the eye
and return before the memories die
Je me souviens Quebec, I will remember
©Jack Dallas 1994
http://adventures-in-time.blogspot.com/2007/12/je-me-souviens-quebec.html