Pete Seeger, Roger McGuinn - Pete’s Song lyrics

(Pete, speaking:) You working?
(Roger, speaking:) Here we go
There are three things most beautiful
In all the world we know nay, there are four
So wonderful for mortals' eyes to behold

A bird on the wing a snake on a rock
And a man and maid in love
One more thing, yes, one more thing
And a ship under sail plowing the waves
We'll never know all the how's and why's
But we know that we're here
And if we believe God gave us gifts
He'd want us to use them now
Today, this year

To build a world where all can share
The big and small, the low and high
We'll never know if we'll succeed
But I believe we must try

(Roger:) Okay (Pete:) Any time you want
(R:) You ready? (P:) Yep

(P:) Oh, okay, yeah um
I'm sorry i hit the wrong chord
There so, um maybe I should
Just lay out but no
I'll play along with you i'll
Get it right okay (R:) yeah, play along yeah

(R:) Okay (P:) Any time you want
(R:) You ready?

Well, in the evenin' in the evenin', mm
Baby, when the sun go down in the evenin'
Baby, when the sun go down
Ay ay-ain't it lonesome! Ain't it lonesome
Ain't it lonesome when you're not around –
When the sun go down? When the fun
The fun is all over
And the liquor's all gone dry
Oh, baby you get to thinking
A man is born to die ii-in the evenin'!
In the evenin' in the evenin'
When the sun go down when the sun go down

Well, the sun rises in the east
Sets down in the west sun rises in the east
Sets down in the west
Ay ay ay-ain't it hard to tell
Ain't it hard to tell hard to tell
Which one will love you the best –
When the sun go down?

Goodbye my friends and relations
I've got to sing that verse again
I'll get back to it now let me try it
Well, goodbye my old sweetheart and pals
III'm, I'm goin' away
I'll be back to see you all again
Some old rainy day iin, in the evenin'
In the evenin' in the evenin'
When the sun go down when the sun go down

(P:) I can fix up that part
(R:) I realize, I'm used
To slightly different chords
Along with that last line –
And they're not logical chords

(R:) I sang at an interesting
School in New York yesterday
(U1:) Are you ready Roger? Are you ready?
(P:) Mm, almost (U1:) Okay
(R:) It's, uh, because of the crisis
In the New York schools, uh
(Unknown 2:) Mm (U1:) There are the chords
And I'll say bye bye
(R:) They were becoming nothing
But jails, uh, with
(U1:) And keep yourselves well (U2:) yeah
(U1:) And happy as you can, and call, okay?
(R:) And, uh
A k-kid couldn't learn anything there
(U2:) yeah (R:) So
There they tried various possible solutions
(U1:) I'll have to get under here
And poke this

(R:) Some school
Is now called The Renaissance School has five
Hundred kids i think? Maybe not that
Many four hundred – from kindergarten to
Twelfth grade and they mix them
Up at various times, purposely uh
And the older kids have given this sense that
They can help teach the younger ones but
The main thing is – the
Is they have a sign saying:
"The Renaissance School –
Training leaders for the renaissance
Of New York' (U2:) Ah
(R:) No
It's – we're not training you to get
– uh – skills, so you can get rich
And move out of New York (U1:) Right
(U2:) yeah
(R:) We're training you to stay here, and
And lead New York
(Door swings in background, U2:) yeah
(R:) And, what is leadership anyway? You
Know, how do you? Well
You get an idea and you
Pass it onto others? Uh
Do you try and do it all yourself? Go on
(Sound of something falling over)
(R:) And it was a tiring
Morning i spent four hours
Going to about six different classes
(Pete laughs, R:) Uh, maybe it was more
Than that little kids here
Big kids there sometimes mixed up
Sometimes I was talking more
Than singing sometimes I was singing
More than talking but at
The end of four hours i was, I was
I was pretty hoarse (P:) Sure, long day

(Unknown 3:) This is what –
R-Roger posts these songs, folk
Songs on the internet every
Month and this is, i – I sent you some of
The other ones but this is 'Dink's
Song' he did last month, on the
Internet he posted it see, he tells
The story of the song
And then puts the words and
Then sings the song