Ready to Fly (Elaine, Lambert & Karl)

  I am standing on the edge of the water 

And I am watching the wild birds fill the sky 

And I am longing to be lifted up among them 

I am not dying – I’m getting ready to fly 

                        

I am an old man, and these old hands tell my story 

Fifty years on the Boston piers took their toll 

And faded faces smile from the places I cannot return to 

And my days are gone, and they take me home 

                                                

Refrain 

                       

I was a young wife, with my whole life still before me 

It was the last year of last Great War 

My darling Edward never returned from Normandy 

But soon I will see Edward once more 

                       

Refrain 

                       

My memory is fading like an ember 

While I remember a promise I once made 

I said, Dear Father, I’ll be faithful forever 

And as He draws me, He can hear me pray… 

To hear E.L.K. (now Big Wide Grin) perform Ready to Fly, 

click on the video below:

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