John Denver - Healing Time On Earth

Lovely song. I've never heard it before. I wonder why it was only performed once? He was 54 when he died (born in 1943). Such a loss. I always had a slight feeling that I was uncool to like him and to not like hard rock. But it didn't stop me. I just didn't get that. Never did. Did anyone else feel like that?
 

Healing Time on Earth Lyrics

Let the mountains talk, let the river run
There is wisdom here, there is much to learn
There's much to know, much to understand
In this healing time all across the land

You have heard my songs, oh so many years
You have laughed with me, washed away my tears
You have shared my joy, you have felt my pain
In this healing time, walk with me again

Through these darker days on this narrow line
Help me find my way, help me see the signs
I am not afraid, I am not alone
You have taught me well, you have brought me home

Let the mountain speak, let the rivers run
As the world awakes to the rising sun
In each brand new day, in our own rebirth
In this healing time on our mother earth

Let the mountains talk, let the rivers run
There is wisdom here, there's so much to learn
In each brand new day, in our own rebirth
In this healing time for our mother earth

In each brand new day, in our own rebirth
In this healing time, here on mother earth
 
oooh No...not for a minute do I think Calypso or Leaving on a Jet plane are underrated...in fact I thought they were his masterpieces..

My very favourite JD song is Calypso ( his salute to Jacques Cousteau ...followed by the enchantingly beautiful ''The flower that shattered the Stone''..



Lara .. I never liked Heavy rock music, so I felt quite at home enjoying John Denver and country and folk music in general..I was quite the little flower child in my teens



 
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Thank you Meanderer, never heard that and I am a big John Denver fan, very touching. :sentimental:
 
Lara said:
Lovely song. I've never heard it before. I wonder why it was only performed once? He was 54 when he died (born in 1943). Such a loss. I always had a slight feeling that I was uncool to like him and to not like hard rock. But it didn't stop me. I just didn't get that. Never did. Did anyone else feel like that?
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No, I like most genres. Country and folk are some of the oldest music this country has produced. Long before rock, pop, etc.
 

Why Is John Denver’s Music in So Many Movies This Year?

“Music does bring people together,” John Denver once said. “It allows us to experience the same emotions.” A crop of this summer’s films proves his point — and does so via his voice. Free Fire, Alien: Covenant, Okja, and Logan Lucky all prominently feature Denver’s music (“Annie’s Song” in Free Fire and Okja, and “Take Me Home, Country Roads” in Alien: Covenant and Logan Lucky), and it seems that the trend is extending into the fall, with the upcoming Kingsman sequel featuring a take on “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” as well".

"On a surface level, these aren’t films that ought to be connected; they span time and space and share precious little by way of plot or tone. But the fact that they all feature John Denver’s voice suggests some deeper commonality, and a closer look indicates that his music is, quite literally, the heart of the matter".

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Lara said:
Lovely song. I've never heard it before. I wonder why it was only performed once? He was 54 when he died (born in 1943). Such a loss. I always had a slight feeling that I was uncool to like him and to not like hard rock. But it didn't stop me. I just didn't get that. Never did. Did anyone else feel like that?
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All I know is that I lived in Aspen during the worst of his drunk driving. It wasn't safe to be anywhere near the streets when he closed his favorite bars, got in his car knee-walking drunk and drove away. He was too rich and powerful for the police to stop him, but he was a nightmare, a public menace.

I will never hear his songs without remembering him driving down the street, too drunk to walk, crashing into things on his way. I didn't mourn his death and I wasn't the only one.
 
Smiling Jane said:
All I know is that I lived in Aspen during the worst of his drunk driving. It wasn't safe to be anywhere near the streets when he closed his favorite bars, got in his car knee-walking drunk and drove away. He was too rich and powerful for the police to stop him, but he was a nightmare, a public menace.

I will never hear his songs without remembering him driving down the street, too drunk to walk, crashing into things on his way. I didn't mourn his death and I wasn't the only one.
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He was an imperfect man, who died a horrible death, twenty years ago. I understand you are not a fan. Thanks for your insight, Jane.
 
His drinking is what caused him to lose his pilot's license. He really should not have been flying that day.
 
The cause of the accident was pilot error. He was flying an experimental (in the sense that the previous owner had built it from a kit) plane that he had owned for a few weeks. Each wing held 16 gallons of fuel. The switch to change tanks was behind the pilot's seat and required him to engage auto pilot, unbuckle, crawl behind seat and switch manually using vice grips.

Both test pilots who checked it out had trouble when they switched tanks by reaching around the seat, causing their foot to hit the controls that sent the plane into a steep dive. They were both high enough to recover. When he did it he was flying too low, and hit the water. He chose not to top off both tanks with fuel, before his flight. If he had done so, he would not have crashed. It was never determined that alcohol was involved. Please don't infer that.
 
I never heard that lovely song. Some people thought he was too nerdy to like, but I loved most of his songs. (as well as hard rock and at least some of every genre.)

I never knew he was an alcoholic either, poor man but no- he should never have driven that state. Wish someone could have stopped him.
 
Smiling Jane said:
Was he drunk-flying when he killed himself? The toxicology reports were never made public, as far as I knew.
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No, he had no alcohol or drugs in his system at the time of the accident, but he also didn't have his pilot's license. He had lost his medical certification to fly due to the number of DUI reports on file. I was in Houston many years ago when a pilot crashed into the side of a barn outside the city, of course. The pilot had been drinking and was also without a pilot's license. Playing the "what if" game, what if he would have been in the airport's takeoff or landing corridor and would have struck a passenger jet? It would have been all over the news, yet because it was a single engine plane and only the pilot was killed, we never heard about it.

As another poster already wrote, each wing had its own fuel tank. For the pilot to switch tanks, he had to unbuckle his harness, turn half way around and flip the lever to switch the tanks. The mechanic even tried putting a pair of vice grips onto the lever, so that John did not have to be a contortionist to flip the lever. However, even this did not work for him. It had to be a frightening event knowing that you are about to hit the water in a nose down attitude. The plane that he was flying was also meant to be a glider, so why wasn't he able to glide the plane down? That's the mystery. Some pilots that know his plane, which was a Long E-Z, think that he must have been incapacitated, or severely distracted, most likely by having to turn around to switch gas tanks.

Years, back, we used to hear about pilots that flew passenger planes flying under the influence and even flying inebriated. Depending on a person's size and how much he has consumed in alcohol, it could take several hours before the effects of alcohol leave the body's system. I made a habit never to drink or take any medication that contained certain chemicals, like Benadryl or an antihistamine, the night before I flew. That stuff really does impairs one's vision and thinking. John had none of that stuff in his system. He was a good guy from what I understand. I know that he was an environmentalist and wrote and sang a lot of songs about the earth.
 
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