John Denver at Wembley Arena

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr John Denver!

APPLAUSE

Good evening!

MUSIC: "Welcome To My Morning"

# Welcome to my morning

# Welcome to my day

# I'm the one responsible

# I made it just this way

# To make myself some pictures

# See what they might bring

# I think I made it perfectly

# I wouldn't change a thing

# La-la-la

# La-la-la-la-la

# La-la-la

# La-la-la-la-la

# Welcome to my happiness

# You know it makes me smile

# And it pleases me to have you here

# For just a little while

# While we open up the spaces

# Try to break some chains

# And if the truth is told

# They will never come again

# La-la-la

# La-la-la-la-la

# La-la-la

# La-la-la-la-la

# La-la-la

# La-la-la-la-la

-# Ooh-ooooh

-La-la-la-la-la

# Welcome to my evening

# The closing of the day

# I could try a million times

# Never find a better way

# To tell you that I love you

# And all the songs I play

# Are to thank you for allowing me

# Inside this lovely day

# Welcome to my morning

# Welcome to my day

# Yes, I'm the one responsible

# I made it just this way

# To make myself some pictures

# And see what they might bring

# I think I made it perfectly

# I wouldn't change a thing

# La-la-la

# La-la-la-la-la

# La-la-la

# La-la-la-la-la

# La-la-la

-# La-la-la-la-la

-La-la-la la

# La-la-la

# La-la-la-la-la

# La-la-la

-# La-la-la-la-la

-La-la-la-la-la la

-# La-la-la-la-la

-Ooh-ooooh

-# La-la-la-la-la

-Ooh-ooooh

# La-la-la

# La-la-la-la-la

# La-la-la

# La-la-la-la-la

# La-la-la

# La-la-la-la-la

# La-la-la-la-la

-# La-la-la-la-la

-Ooh-ooooh

-# La-la-la-la-la

-Ooh-ooooh

-# La-la-la-la-la

-Ooh-ooooh

# La-la-la. #

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Druthers"

# If I had my druthers I'd go fishin'

# Find myself a lake and a lazy day

# If I had my druthers I'd quit wishin'

# Get off the old caboose, get on my way

# Give me whole lots of laughter

# Great big barrels of fun

# Night time full of romance

# Day time full of sun

# If I had my druthers I'd go flyin', ooh

# Lookin' for the things I'd like to see

# If I had my druthers I'd be tryin', tryin'

# The only way to be what I can be

# Give me somebody to love me

# Make me feel like the only one

# Something that's worth doing, Lord

# I feel good when it's well done

# Yeah, yeah

# If I had my druthers I'd go sailin', yes, I would

# Catch me campin' out on the open sea

# If I had my druthers I'd be singin'

# Just how good this good life feels to me, feels so good

# You just need someone to talk to

# Something you can share

# You don't need no reason for livin', Lord

# It's already there, yes, it is,

# Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah

# Yeah, yeah

# It makes me giggle

# And I can't sit down

# I just can't sit down

# I don't wanna sit down

# Don't you make me sit down

# I just won't sit down... #

APPLAUSE

I like that song, I'll tell ya.

It makes me feel like springtime, you know?

It's practically the only thing going on that makes me feel like spring.

It's cold here, folks. LAUGHTER

You know, I plan tours around springtime

so that I can go to different parts of the world.

There was one year a couple of years ago, I celebrated spring three times.

Come over here and it's just...

We were in Ireland the other night. It's cold over there.

Up in Glasgow a couple of nights...

I mean, you know, I'm looking for flowers and sunny days and that.

Oh, well. Que sera...

HE LAUGHS

Do you all know what springtime is?

I have my own particular definition of springtime that I'd like to

share with you all this evening.

Springtime is when a young man's fancy turns to what

a young woman has been thinking about all winter long.

LAUGHTER

Doesn't that sound right, huh?

My father taught me that.

He's a dirty old man.

LAUGHTER

I'm gonna grow up just like him too.

LAUGHTER

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.

This is called Ripplin' Waters.

One, two, three, four...

MUSIC: "Ripplin' Waters"

# Got ripplin' waters to wake me

# To the morning, my woman in love

# All pine trees are pointin' to see easily

# To heaven above

# Blue spruce flamin' on the grate in the evening

# Takes the chill away fine

# Cut the telephone line, the story's the same

# There's a worn red chair by the window

# That you got at a sale down the way

# When some old women said that they

# Needed more room for the winter

# People like pullin' at the stuffing

# When they sit down so it passes the time

# Cut the telephone line, the story's the same

# Ooh, like a bubble on a windy day

# Start to flutter when I hear you say

# That you feel too good to go away

# And you make me feel fine

# And you made the world a brighter place

# By the sparkle of your diamond face

# On a grey spot with a little lace

# And you make me feel fine

# Warm as a mountain in sunshine

# On the edge of the snowline

# In a meadow of columbine

# Oh, little Jennifer

# I'd give a penny for

# What you've got on your mind

# Seems like most of the time you're lyin' there dreamin'

# Maybe in your vision you see how

# Our mission is slightly less than divine

# Cut the telephone line, the story's the same

# Now ripplin' waters, they flow through the ceiling

# And the walls there, they're keepin' me warm

# And the closest I've been with my family for days

# Is my music

# But to silently stare at the morning sky

# Is like hearing her calling my name

# Cut the telephone line, the story might change

# Ooh, like a bubble on a windy day

# Start to flutter when I hear you say

# That you feel too good to go away

# And you make me feel fine

# Warm as the mountain sunshine

# On the edge of a snowline

# In a meadow of columbine... #

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Matthew"

# Had an uncle named Matthew

# Was his father's only boy

# Born just south of Colby, Kansas

# He was his mother's pride and joy

# Yes, and joy was just the thing he was raised on

# Love was just a way to live and die

# Gold was just a windy Kansas wheat field

# Blue was just a Kansas summer sky

# All the stories that he told me

# Back when I was just a lad

# All the memories that he gave me

# All the good times that he had

# Growing up a Kansas farm boy

# Life was mostly having fun

# Riding on his daddy's shoulders

# Behind a mule, beneath the sun

# Yes, and joy was just the thing he was raised on

# Love was just a way to live and die

# Gold was just a windy Kansas wheat field

# Blue was just a Kansas summer sky

# Well, I guess there were some hard times

# And I'm told some years were lean

# They had a storm in '47

# A twister came and stripped them clean

# He lost the farm and he lost his family

# He lost the wheat and lost his home

# But he found the family Bible

# A faith as solid as a stone

# Yes, and joy was just the thing that he was raised on

# Love was just a way to live and die

# Gold was just a windy Kansas wheat field

# Blue was just a Kansas summer sky

# So he came to live at our house

# And he came to work the land

# He came to ease my daddy's burdens

# And he came to be my friend

# So I wrote this down for Matthew

# It's for him the song is sung

# Riding on his daddy's shoulders

# Behind a mule, beneath the sun

# Yes, and joy was just the thing that he was raised on

# Love was just a way to live and die

# Gold was just a windy Kansas wheat field

# Blue was just a Kansas summer sky

# Yes, and joy was just the thing that he was raised on

# Love was just a way to live and die

# Gold was just a windy Kansas wheat field

# Blue was just a Kansas summer sky. #

APPLAUSE

I appreciate that.

The kid, I don't know if you've noticed, has gone electric.

I held off as long as I could, folks. But I can't stand it any more.

I want to play loud and I want to play fast.

And I want to play rock 'n' roll. Go for it, James!

MUSIC: "Johnny B Goode"

Oooh!

# Way down in Louisiana close to New Orleans

# Way back in the woods among the evergreens

# There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood

# Where lived a country boy name of Johnny B Goode

# He never ever learned to read or write so well

# But he could play a guitar just like a ringin' a bell

# Go, go! Go, Johnny, go, go!

# Go, Johnny, go, go!

# Go, Johnny, go, go!

# Go, Johnny, go, go!

# Yeah

# Johnny B Goode

# He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack

# Go sit beneath a tree by the railroad track

# The engineers would see him sittin' in the shade

# Strummin' to the rhythm that the drivers made

# The people passing by they would stop and say

# "My, my, but that little country boy can play"

# Go, go! Go, Johnny, go, go!

# Go, Johnny, go, go!

# Go, Johnny, go, go!

# Go, Johnny, go, go!

# Yeah

# Johnny B Goode

# Well, his momma told him, "Some day you will be a man

# "You will be the leader of a big old band

# "Many people comin' from miles around

# "Just to hear you play your music till the sun goes down

# "Maybe someday your name'll be in lights, sayin'

# "Johnny B Goode tonight"

# Go, go! Go, Johnny, go, go!

# Go, Johnny, go, go!

# Go, Johnny, go, go!

# Go, Johnny, go, go!

# Yeah! Johnny B Goode. #

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Goodbye Again"

# It's 5.00 this morning and the sun is on the rise

# There's frosting on the window pane and sorrow in your eyes

# The stars are fading quietly, night is nearly gone

# And so you turn away from me and tears begin to come

# And it's goodbye again

# I'm sorry to be leaving you

# Goodbye again

# As if you didn't know

# It's goodbye again

# And I wish you could tell me

# Why do we always fight when I have to go?

# It seems a shame to leave you now

# You lay so soft and warm

# I long to lay me down again

# And hold you in my arms

# I long to kiss the tears away

# Give you back your smile

# Other voices beckon me

# And for a little while

# It's goodbye again

# I'm sorry to be leaving you

# Goodbye again

# As if you didn't know

# It's goodbye again

# I wish you could tell me

# Why do we always fight when I have to go?

# I have to go and see some friends of mine

# Some that I don't know

# Some who aren't familiar with my name

# It's something that's inside of me

# Not hard to understand

# It's anyone who listens to me sing

# If your hours are empty now

# Who am I to blame?

# You think if I were always here

# Our love would be the same

# As it is, the time we have

# Is worth the time alone

# Lying by your side

# The greatest peace I've ever known

# But it's goodbye again

# I'm sorry to be leaving you

# Goodbye again

# As if you didn't know

# It's goodbye again

# And I wish you could tell me

# Why do we always fight when I have to go? #

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Take Me Home, Country Roads"

# Almost heaven, West Virginia

# Blue Ridge Mountains

# Shenandoah River

# Life is old there

# Older than the trees

# Younger than the mountains

# Growin' like a breeze

# Country roads

# Take me home

# To the place I belong

# West Virginia, mountain momma

# Take me home, country roads

# All my memories

# They gathered round her

# Miner's lady

# Stranger to blue water

# Dark and dusty, painted on the sky

# Misty taste of moonshine

# Teardrops in my eye

# Country roads

# Take me home

# To the place I belong

# West Virginia, mountain momma

# Take me home, country roads

# I hear her voice

# In the mornin' hour she calls me

# The radio reminds me of my home far away

# And drivin' down the road I get a feelin'

# That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

# Country roads

# Take me home

# To the place I belong

# West Virginia, mountain momma

# Take me home, country roads

Let me hear you sing it!

# Country roads

# Take me home

# To the place I belong

-# West Virginia, West Virginia

-Mountain momma

# Take me home, country roads

# Take me home down country roads

# Take me home down country roads... #

APPLAUSE

One, two, three, four!

MUSIC: "Grandma's Feather Bed"

# When I was a little bitty boy

# Just up off-a floor

# We used to go out to Grandma's house

# Every month end or so

# We had chicken pie and country ham

# And homemade butter on the bread

# But the best darn thing about Grandma's house

# Was her great big feather bed

# It was nine feet high and six feet wide

# Soft as a downy chick

# It was made from the feathers of forty 'leven geese

# Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick

# It'd hold eight kids, four hound dogs

# And a piggy we stole from the shed

# We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun

# On Grandma's feather bed

# After the supper we'd sit around the fire

# The old folks'd spit and chew

# Pa would talk about the farm and the war

# And Granny'd sing a ballad or two

# I'd sit and listen and watch the fire

# Till the cobwebs filled my head

# Next thing I knew I'd wake up in the morning

# In the middle of the old feather bed

# It was nine feet high and six feet wide

# Soft as a downy chick

# It was made from the feathers of forty 'leven geese

# Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick

# It'd hold eight kids, four hound dogs

# And a piggy we stole from the shed

# We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun

# On Grandma's feather bed

# Well I love my Ma, an' I love my Pa

# Love Granny and Grandpa too

# Been fishing with my uncle, I wrestled with my cousin

# I even kissed Aunt Lou, oooh

# But if ever had to make a choice

# I guess it ought to be said

# That I'd trade them all plus the gal down the road

# For Grandma's feather bed

# It was nine feet high and six feet wide

# Soft as a downy chick

# It was made from the feathers of forty 'leven geese

# Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick

# It'd hold eight kids, four hound dogs

# And a piggy we stole from the shed

# We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun

# On Grandma's feather bed

# We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun

# On Grandma's feather bed. #

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "You Fill Up My Sense (Annie's Song)"

# You fill up my senses

# Like a night in a forest

# Like the mountains in springtime

# 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 arms

# Let me lay down beside you

# Let me always be with you

# Come let me love you

# Come love me again

HE HARMONISES

# Let me give my life to you

# Come let me love you

# Come love me again

Sing it with me.

# You fill up my senses

# Like a night in a forest

# Like the mountains in springtime

# 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. #

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Calypso"

# To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean

# To ride on the crest of a wild raging storm

# To work in the service of life and the living

# In search of the answers to questions unknown

# To be part of the movement and part of the growing

# Part of beginning to understand

# Aye, Calypso, the places you've been to

# The things that you've shown us

# The stories you tell

# Aye, Calypso, I sing to your spirit

# The men who have served you so long and so well

# Hi-dee-ay-ee-ooo-doo-dle-oh

# Oo-do-do-do-do-do-doo-dle-ay-yee

# Hi-dee-ay-ee-ooo-doo-dle-oh

# Oo-do-do-do-do-do-doo-dle-ay-yee

# Like the dolphin who guides you, you bring us beside you

# To light up the darkness and show us the way

# For though we are strangers in your silent world

# To live on the land we must learn from the sea

# To be true as the tide and free as a wind swell

# Joyful and loving in letting it be

# Aye, Calypso, the places you've been to

# The things that you've shown us

# The stories you tell

# Aye, Calypso, I sing to your spirit

# The men who have served you so long and so well

# Aye, Calypso, the places you've been to

# The things that you've shown us

# The stories you tell

# Aye, Calypso, I sing to your spirit

# The men who have served you so long and so well

# Hi-dee-ay-ee-ooo-doo-dle-oh

# Oo-do-do-do-do-do-doo-dle-ay-yee

# Hi-dee-ay-ee-ooo-doo-dle-oh

# Oo-do-do-do-do-do-doo-de-eee

# Hi-dee-ay-ee-ooo-doo-dle-oh

# Oo-do-do-do-do-do-doo-dle-ay-yee

# Hi-dee-ay-ee-ooo-doo-dle-oh

# Oo-do-do-do-do-do-doo-dle-ay-yee

# He-dee-dee. #

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Sunshine On My Shoulders"

Sing this one with me.

# Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy

# Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry

# Sunshine on the water looks so lovely

# Yes, it does

# Sunshine almost always makes me high

# If I had a day that I could give you

# I'd give to you a day just like today

# If I had a song that I could sing for you

# I'd sing a song to make you feel this way

Everybody!

# Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy

# Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry

# Sunshine on the water looks so lovely

# Sunshine almost always makes me high

# Sunshine, almost all the time

# Makes me high

# Sunshine almost always... #

Good night, everybody. God bless you all, and thank you for being with us.

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