Bruce Cockburn - One Day I Walk (Live)

[Verse 1]
Oh I have been a beggar
And shall be one again
And few the ones with help to lend
Within the world of men

[Chorus]
One day I walk in flowers
One day I walk on stones
Today I walk in hours
One day I shall be home

[Verse 2]
I've sat on the street corners
And watched the bootheels shine
And cried out glad and cried out sad
With every voice but mine

[Chorus]
One day I walk in flowers
One day I walk on stones
Today I walk in hours
One day I shall be home
One day I shall be home
[Outro]
Thank you. We're gonna play a song now and I'm going to work our way into it playing a very old piece. Up until, uh, tonight I've introduced it as being a piece from the fourteenth century. I was corrected last night though by somebody who knew whose piece it was. Uh, it's from the fifteenth century, so. It comes from Burgundy. Uh, it was composed by a man named Gilles Binchois. 

It was quite, he was quite a popular composer at the time, in that place. And you can imagine this tune being number five with a crossbow bolt or something on the Burgundian hit parade. 

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