Name: The Eagle's Wing
Duration: P00H03M25S
Description: I wrote this song back in the late 1970's. The lyrics are a poem by H.D. Thoreau called "My love must be as free". I first recorded it in 2002 and included it on my "Sweet Spot" CD released in 2003. I added some more tracks to it in and re-released it on "Best of Cress" CD in 2006. In 2017, I added a new acoustic guitar track and vocals tracks making it a duet.

The Eagle's Wing

by Michael Cressey

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I wrote this song back in the late 1970's. The lyrics are a poem by H.D. Thoreau called "My love must be as free". I first recorded it in 2002 and included it on my "Sweet Spot" CD released in 2003. I added some more tracks to it in and re-released it on "Best of Cress" CD in 2006. In 2017, I added a new acoustic guitar track and vocals tracks making it a duet.

lyrics

My love must be as free
As is the eagle’s wing
Hovering over land & sea
And everything
I can not dim my eye
In some saloon
I can not leave my sky
And nightly moon

Be not the fowler’s net
Which stays my flight
And craftily is set
To allure the sight
Be then the favoring gale
Which bears me on
And still does fill my sail
When you are gone

I cannot leave my sky
For your caprice
True love would soar as high
As heaven is
The eagle would not brook
Her mate thus won
Who trained his eye to look
Beneath the sun

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released August 16, 2017
Evelyn Cormier - vocal. Mike Cressey - vocal. Acoustic guitar, harmonica, bass, slide guitar and piano.

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