I will sing of you now,
old friend of a child's time
When the memories grow stronger,
as the hard times are dead
And I see you so clear,
your old cloth cap and blue eyes
And your words and your laughter
still ring in my head
I know at times when I thought
That life could not change you
For you were of iron, unhard as a stone
Then I lifted the veil and I saw you were
fooling
For gentle, hurt -easy,
like a child you were lost
For time and the river,
they roll on together
Who knows where we're going
to or where we come from
Oh
John, there was no
one to touch you
Lord knows I miss you
Now that you've gone
And I saw through your eyes that the snow,
it lay whiter
That the deeps, they were deeper,
that the summers ran drier
And the rivers were oceans,
deep rolling splendor
The trees, were giants that
talked with the sky
Then one morning
they found you like
Like a child's if sleeping
But open hand stretching
Wide eye to the sky
And the void that you left
Was too deep for the filling
And the love that you gave us,
oh, it never will die
For time and the river,
they roll on together
And those where we've gone
to are where we come from
Oh
John, there was no one to touch you
Lord knows I miss you
Now that you've gone
you