A relaxing weekend

The past few weeks at work have been real hectic. Working late, sleeping late left its toll on me. I hadn’t had any time for myself at all. Even the trip to Jaipur though enjoyable was rushed, though it took off a load of stress from me.

I have never awaited a Friday as much as I did last week coz it heralded the advent of the weekend. I did balk at the thought that I may end up working over the weekend but fortunately all went well and Saturday arrived with all the time to my disposal that I could dream of. I awoke at leisure, had a late breakfast – and put on the music something I hadn’t done in a long time.

I chanced upon “Songs of Sweet Memories” – a CD my brother had ordered through Readers Digest. And I relaxed as the music played in the background belting out some of my favorite songs – ‘Annie’s Song’, ‘Blue Bayou’, ‘Love me Tender’, ‘Are you lonesome tonight?’, ‘I’ll have to say I love you in a song’, ‘Can’t help falling in Love’, ‘If I were a carpenter’, ‘Have I told you lately that I love you’, ‘Something Stupid’, ‘Dream a little dream of me’, ‘I can’t stop loving you’, ‘Raindrops keep falling on my head’, ‘Take me home country roads’ and more.

I couldn’t resist penning down the lyrics of 2 of my favorite songs.

John Denver – ‘Annie's Song’ Lyrics
You fill up my senses like a night in the forest.
Like a mountain in spring-time
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses, come fill me again.

Come let me love you, let me give my life to you
Let me drown in your laughter; let me die in your arm.
Let me lay down beside you, let me always be with you.
Come let me love you, come love me again.

Ronstadt Linda - Blue Bayou
I feel so bad I got a worried mind
I'm so lonesome all the time
Since I left my baby behind
On Blue Bayou

Saving nickels saving dimes
Working till the sun don't shine
Looking forward to happier times
On Blue Bayou

I'm going back someday,
Come what may - to Blue Bayou
where the folks are fine,
And the world is mine - on Blue Bayou
Where those fishing boats - with their sails afloat
If I could only see - that familiar sunrise
Through sleepy eyes - how happy I'd be

Gonna see my baby again
Gonna be with some of my friends
Maybe I'll feel better again
On Blue Bayou

Saving nickels saving dimes
Working till the sun don't shine
Looking forward to happier times
On Blue Bayou

I'm going back someday
Come what may - to Blue Bayou
Where the folks are fine
And the world is mine – on Blue Bayou
Where those fishing boats - with their sails afloat
If I could only see - that familiar sunrise
Through sleepy eyes - how happy I'd be

Oh that boy of mine - by my side
The silver moon - and the evening tide
Oh some sweet day - gonna take away
This hurting inside
Well I'll never be blue - my dreams come true
On Blue Bayou