ILSE
Listen to what's in the heart of a child
A song so big and one so small
Soon you will hear where beauty lies
You'll hear and you'll recall
The sadness the doubt
All the loss, the grief
Will belong to some play from the past
As the child leads the way to a dream
A belief
A time of hope through the land
A summer's day
A mother sings
A song of purple summer
Through the heart of everything
ALL
And heaven waits
So close it seems
To show her child the wonders
Of a world beyond her dreams
The earth will wave with corn
The day so wild, so warm
And mares will neigh
With stallions that they mate
Foals they've born
And all shall know the wonder of purple summer.....
And yet I wait
The swallow brings
A song too hard to follow
That no one else can sing
The fences sway
The porches swing
The clouds begin to thunder
Crickets wander murmuring
The earth will wave with corn
The day so wild, so warm
And mares will neigh
With stallions that they mate
Foals they've born
And all shall know the wonder
I will sing the song of purple summer
And all shall know the wonder
I will sing the song of purple summer
All shall know the wonder of purple summer.....