The Fallow Way Lyrics

The song The Fallow Way is performed by Judy Collins in the album named Forever: An Anthology in the year 1997 .



I'll learn to love the fallow way
When winter draws the valley down
And stills the rivers in the storm
And freezes all the little brooks

Time when our steps slow to the song
Of falling flakes and crackling flames
When silver stars are high and still
Deep in the velvet of the sky

The crystal times, the silence times
I'll learn to love their quiet breath
While deep beneath the glistening snow
The black earth dreams of violets
I'll learn to love the fallow time

I'll learn to love the fallow way
When all my colors fade to white
And flying birds fold back their wings
Upon my anxious wanderings

The sun has slanted all her rays
Across the vast and harvest plain
My memories mingle in the dawn
I dream of joyful vagabonds

The crystal times, the silence times
I'll learn to love their quietness
While deep beneath the glistening snow
The black earth dreams in of violets
I'll learn to love the fallow times

No drummer comes across the plain
To tell of triumph or of pain
No word of far off battle's cry
To draw me out or draw me nigh

I'll learn to love the fallow way
And gather in the patient fruits
And after autumns blaze and burn
I'll know the feel of still, deep roots

But nothing seem to do or need
That crack the ice in frozen ponds
And slumbering in winter's folds
Have dreams of green and blue and gold

I'll learn to love the fallow way
And listen for the blossoming
Of my own heart once more in spring

As sure as time, as sure as snow
As sure as moonlight and the stars
The fallow time will fall away
The sun will bring an April day
And I will yield to summer's way



Judy Collins - Forever: An Anthology

Oct 1997

  1. Someday Soon (LP Version)
  2. Who Knows Where The Times Goes (LP Version)
  3. Chelsea Morning (1997)
  4. Suzanne (LP Version)
  5. Born To The Breed (LP Version)
  6. A Maid Of Constant Sorrow (LP Version)
  7. Since You Asked (LP Version)
  8. Bread And Roses (LP Version)
  9. In The Hills Of Shiloh (LP Version)
  10. City Of New Orleans (LP Version)
  11. The Fallow Way
  12. Grandaddy (LP Version)
  13. My Father (LP Version)
  14. La Chanson Des Vieux Amants (The Song Of Old Lovers) (LP Version)
  15. In My LIfe (LP Version)
  16. Marat/Sade (LP Version)
  17. Send In The Clowns [LP Version
  18. Both Sides Now (LP Version)
  19. Desperado (LP Version)
  20. Masters Of War (LP Version)
  21. Fishermen Song (LP Version)
  22. So Early, Early In The Spring (LP Version)
  23. First Boy I Loved (LP Version)
  24. Albatross (LP Version)
  25. Hard Lovin' Loser (LP Version)
  26. In The Heat Of The Summer (LP Version)
  27. Pirate Jenny (LP Version)
  28. Turn, Turn, Turn! / To Everything There Is A Season (LP Version)
  29. Salt Of The Earth (LP Version)
  30. Farewell To Tarwathie (LP Version)
  31. Spanish Is The Loving Tongue
  32. Nothing Lasts Forever (LP Version)
  33. Walls (We Are Not Forgotten) ( LP Version)
  34. Bird On The Wire (LP Version)
  35. Amazing Grace (LP Version)

The Fallow Way