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John Henry at John Denver's memorial (see: web.tiscali.it/johndenver/memorial.htm) "I've got a lyric that he really liked that we didn't have time to make a song out of it but its called ascension. Ascension The stars they call. They beckon me to follow They seem to say there's something more to find And like a fool I'm driven by a hunger That leaves me lost with nothing to call mine. And so my past returns, drifting through the darkness, the branches tear across my face and hands, The stars wink down, they say you're bound to find us. I climb alone - a solitary man, But I will rise, I'm almost flying, I come from earth, I love the sea and I will fly I feel me rising I'll climb beyond a climbers need to be and so I watch the eagles soar above me He dips his wing and bids me to go on and I follow him, I watch him like a beacon into the east we face the rising sun the skies a flame there is blood across the mountains the shadows fall and fill the earth below I take a step and rest and take another On stronger winds I soar above the cold."

I was in the audience when I watched Molly sing this in 2012, and had tears as I thought of John Denver's life; now I have tears for Pete Huttlinger who we lost this past Friday, January 15, 2016. RIP Pete!

========== Joe Henry ========= Speech at "A Celebration: The Life of John Denver" October 18, 1997 Aspen, Colorado I'm afraid I'm not a speaker but John was part of my heart and what I became was kind of in a league with him. I think that all of us on a physical plane are hearts and then the non-physical plane are our souls. I think living with the kind of heart that he lived with is a great example and I think that everybody has their days to do that and I think that the soul is endless. And I think the soul is always and everywhere and what happens is a change of form and I can't imagine that he goes away. I think he has just changed his form and I think that's all of us. I've got a lyric that he really liked that we didn't have time to make a song out of it but its called ascension. Ascension The stars they call. They beckon me to follow They seem to say there's something more to find And like a fool I'm driven by a hunger That leaves me lost with nothing to call mine. And so my past returns, drifting through the darkness, the branches tear across my face and hands, The stars wink down, they say you're bound to find us. I climb alone - a solitary man, But I will rise, I'm almost flying, I come from earth, I love the sea and I will fly I feel me rising I'll climb beyond a climbers need to be and so I watch the eagles soar above me He dips his wing and bids me to go on and I follow him, I watch him like a beacon into the east we face the rising sun the skies a flame there is blood accross the mountains the shadows fall and fill the earth below I take a step and rest and take another On stronger winds I soar above the cold."

Could someone post the lyrics of this song?

The poem was written by Joe Henry.