Charlie The Weatherman (Album Version)-Randy Stonehill

[ti:Charlie The Weatherman] [ar:Randy Stonehill] [al:Stories] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Charlie The Weatherman (Album Version) - Randy Stonehill [00:00.39]It was Charlie who taught me [00:03.09]To ride on a bike [00:06.06]Charlie who taught me [00:07.87]'Bout flyin' a kite [00:10.60]It was Charlie who taught me [00:12.83]The beauty of dreams [00:17.46]He'd say "Life's so much [00:19.28]More than it seems" [00:23.01] [00:30.28]He looked like a scarecrow [00:32.36]So ragged and thin [00:34.83]When he knocked [00:35.79]At the farmhouse door [00:39.73]I could tell that my mother [00:41.95]Was nervous at first [00:44.49]With my father away [00:46.35]In the war [00:51.92]He said he was hungry [00:54.03]From waking so far [00:56.40]But a handout never would do [01:01.33]"Now my name is Charlie [01:03.43]And for something to eat [01:07.45]I could predict the [01:09.97]Weather for you" [01:12.72] [01:14.63]He talked of the talent [01:16.85]With which he was blessed [01:19.14]"It's an odd sort of gift [01:21.23]He explained [01:24.02]"But the Lord makes the weather [01:26.26]And I just observe [01:29.05]And only a fool could complain" [01:34.31] [01:36.17]As night time was falling [01:38.18]We asked him to stay [01:40.74]And he camped by the sycamore trees [01:45.50]My mother asked "What [01:47.49]Will you do if it rains " [01:53.39]Charlie smiled and said [01:55.52]"Just leave the weather to me" [02:00.09] [02:01.41]In the wandering breeze [02:04.01]I can hear again [02:06.90]The song that Charlie [02:09.09]The weatherman sang [02:11.62]Sweet breath of God blow [02:14.32]The clouds away [02:19.03]'Til I walk in the light [02:21.28]Of that endless spring day [02:26.25] [02:37.88]Now Charlie stayed with us [02:40.25]As days turned to weeks [02:42.82]It seemed that somehow [02:44.38]He belonged [02:47.66]And I'd always tease him [02:49.55]When he watched the sky [02:52.18]But his forecasts never [02:54.45]Were wrong [02:58.18] [02:59.47]And Charlie would tell me [03:01.48]A story each night [03:04.02]From the tattered [03:05.22]Old bible he read [03:09.39]"Winter or summer [03:11.55]Spring time or fall [03:16.63] [03:17.37]It's the weather inside us [03:19.79]That matters" he said [03:22.83] [03:24.79]In the wandering breeze [03:27.48]I can hear again [03:30.31]The song that Charlie [03:32.87]The weatherman sang [03:35.07]Sweet breath of God [03:37.36]Blow the clouds away [03:42.49]'Til I walk in the light of [03:44.88]That endless spring day [03:48.48] [04:16.48]One morning at breakfast [04:18.99]He seemed a bit sad [04:21.26]With a far away look in his eyes [04:26.35]"Storms rollin' in" [04:28.36]That was all that he said [04:31.08]But there wasn't a cloud in the sky [04:36.78] [04:38.61]The last time I saw him [04:40.61]He waved his old hat [04:43.13]As he stood at the top of the hill [04:48.03]He left me his bible [04:50.32]And in it he wrote [04:56.02]"Keep your eyes on the sky [04:59.18]And I always will [05:03.17] [05:04.39]And it rained and rained [05:07.17]Like the tears I cried [05:09.74]On the day that Charlie [05:12.37]The weatherman died [05:14.72]And the wind has carried [05:17.28]His heart away [05:21.87]Past the silver-lined clouds [05:24.33]To that endless spring day [05:30.03]Charlie The Weatherman - Randy Stonehill