Kate Wolf - Green Eyes

As I was just finishing up with my Music Interlude for this morning, a song started playing on YouTUbe and it sounded really good to me... So much so, that I am sharing it with you now!... The artist is Kate Wolf and her song is titled "Green Eyes".... Here is a short bio and you will see that she passed on way too soon..

Background
Kate Wolf (born Kathryn Louise Allen, January 27, 1942 – December 10, 1986) was an American folk singer and songwriter. Though her career was relatively short, she had a significant impact on the folk music scene, and many musicians continue to cover her songs. Her best-known compositions include "Here in California," "Love Still Remains," "Across the Great Divide," "Unfinished Life," and "Give Yourself to Love."

Born in San Francisco, she started her music career in the band Wildwood Flower before recording ten records as a solo artist. Her songs have since been recorded by artists such as Nanci Griffith and Emmylou Harris (whose recording of "Love Still Remains" was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1999). An important mentor, friend and touring companion was Utah Phillips.

She died in 1986, at age 44, after a long battle with leukemia. Her remains are buried at a small church cemetery in Goodyears Bar, California. In 1987, the World Folk Music Association established the Kate Wolf Award to honor her memory.

NOTE: Wolf (along with fellow musician Don Coffin to whom she was married at the time) also appears on the 1973 album We Walked by the Water by folksinger Lionel Kilberg. This album was re-released in 1995 under the title Breezes and credited to Wolf alone on the front cover. Her family were not thrilled about this and have explicitly gone on record as stating that Wolf did not consider this album representative of her work.

Both Kilberg's We Walked by the Water and Wolf's own album Lines on the Paper are dedicated to the late Gil Turner, who Wolf and Coffin first met via Lionel Kilberg. Wolf subsequently recorded her own version of Turner's much-covered folk anthem "Carry It On."

A number of these albums were done in collaboration with Bill Griffin.

LYRICS:
"Green Eyes" By Kate Wolf

Every night we light the candle
That stands beside our bed,
But sometimes the flame's too much to handle,
That's what you said.
That's what you said,
And you should know,
Because you built a fire in me and you made it burn,
You followed me watching every move,
Matching every turn.

Your green eyes they don't miss a thing,
They hold me like the sun going down,
Warm me like a fire in the night, without a sound.

You were waiting till I heard,
Just as patient as that love light in your eyes,
And never threw away a word, or ever talked in a disguise -
I ought to know.

You were a beacon to a sailor lost at sea,
I saw it in your eyes when you looked at me, so openly.

The first time I ever saw your laughter break loose inside and tumble out to me,
My heart knew it had found what it was after, and it came so easily we should know.
After all the years of the hard and lonely times,
Now our days go by like best friends' story lines,
Yours and mine.

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Kate Wolf