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Publishing Lisa Kirchner has written and composed songs for her performances on NBC's "Another World", and her partnerships as a lyricist, with pianist, arranger and composer James Weidman, and with theatre and jazz composer, Galt Mac Dermott who wrote the music to the legendary musical, HAIR, have yielded 2 of the songs on her first album, "One More Rhyme" (original title track.) She also has written with guitarist, arranger and composer, Ron Jackson. Lisa Kirchner publishes under the name, Lisa Kirchner Music and her affiliation is presently with BMI. For lead sheets contact Gray Bear Productions 917-338-6057

One More Rhyme
copyright 1999 Lisa Kirchner/James Weidman

It's easy to start and so hard to part
Down this river we know if we go with the flow,
One more time, one more bend
One more rhyme, what then?

It's heaven to gaze through a mystical haze
Into eyes we adore but we've been there before,
One sad verse, one refrain
We've rehearsed, what's to gain?

What's the pleasure in sorrow, the past in tomorrow
The end of a circle?
What bliss in a kiss will answer all this?
Love once was all we danced to the call,
Two hearts of one mind for a ripple in time.
Though now and again we may rewrite the end,
My lover, my friend
We're two streams at one bend.

It's easy to start and much harder to part
The current we know but how strong is the flow,
One more time, one more bend
One more rhyme, what then?


Blue By the River
c 1998 Lisa Kirchner/Galt MacDermot

It's blue by the river
The moon is hanging down.
It's full to overflowing raining silver on the town.
Half a mind I had for Texas, you know or Mexico-
Whatever plain would heal my pain
That's where I would go.
But it's blue by the river
Where thoughts are free as dreams.
The water soothes like wine and so
I'll stay in New Orleans

Steamboats on the water,
Paint the sky above
Silent as your kisses
Smooth, untouched by love.
Revelers mesh in costume
To music all around
They laugh you see but love like me
And stars rain silver down.
But it's blue by the river
Where swirling kings and queens
Toast the ships, your lips and say
"That's one for New Orleans"

One day the tears will fall,
You'll hang upon a word.
You'll sing the sky by numbers
To a tune you've never heard.
Keep in mind the time you spend
In reverie as you lie,
The call to noon will haunt you soon
As love sails madly by.
But it's blue by the river,
The vein of time redeems.
Laugh but oh! one day you'll know
This port at New Orleans