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Good Friend

Year: 1985
round choral
Included in Inca Hoots by Jan Harmon ..
Digital download from: iTunes, Amazon
Included in Rings and Circles by Jan Harmon ..
Digital download from: iTunes, Amazon
Cassette from: harmonpublishing.com
Included in Rounds Around by Jan Harmon ..
Book from: www.lulu.com
Also found on Fire Within by Libana, 1990, from Ladyslipper Inc., Durham, NC.
Also found on Home to the River of Love by Chants for Peace Project, 2005, from Jeanne Mackey, Cleveland, OH.
Sheet Music (PDF)

Listen: Good Friend, live at the Portland Folk Club (with the Quasimodal Chorus), on May 7, 1988. From Inca Hoots (full song)

About this song:

This song was written for Jan's good friend, Nancy Mattila. Sadly, Nancy, "Nan", passed away in 2023 .. but this song, will last forever.

Words:

Good Friend

for Nancy

By Jan Harmon
words and music © 1985

Sing as a round.

Oh the wind, it is a song that harbours through the winter, Oh the sail, it is a door that bids the song to enter, And let us sail the sea, good friend, And let us sing together, The singer lasts a season long, While the song, it lasts forever.