It's Pete

Video above sung by Peggy Seeger with Neill MacColl & Kate St. John. Drawings by Stig Vernon.

We can't link to the video, but you can find it here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzDYcw_1apk

(first verse freely:)

A bunch of rocks sitting on a hill             
Doing what rocks do - sitting still               
On a stone nearby there’s a lanky man       
With a long-neck banjo in his hand             
Now normally, rocks don’t do a thing       
But one by one they begin to sing 
D A G D / G D A - / D - G - / A - D - / A - E - / A - - -              

It’s PETE .........  it’s PETE                              
Strumming his banjo, stamping his feet                
That lanky man comes down your street                        
And whaddaya know.... you're singing
D - - - / G D E A / D A D - / E A D -

Down in the cemetery folks don’t move
They just lie there in their groove                       
Sittin' under a tree there’s a lanky man
With a long-neck banjo in his hand
Now normally dead folks don’t say a thing
Then ghostly voices begin to sing  

There’s a place nearby, not far from here
Where folks can’t talk & folks can’t hear
Here he comes, that lanky man
With a long-neck banjo in his hand
Like an angel choir ...  like birds on the wing
All a' these folks begin to sing 

Raise your voice loud & sweet
Feel that rhythm & tap your feet
Turn, turn, hear the banjo ring
The whole wide world begins to sing
St. Peter will smile when Pete comes along         
And God himself’ll be singing those songs     

music: Peggy Seeger 
lyrics: Peggy Seeger & Irene Pyper-Scott
© 2013 peggy seeger, Leased to Harmony Music Inc.