Dan Fogelberg ~ The Reach "In 1978 I purchased an old sea captain's house on an island in Maine. I became (and still am) completely enraptured with the sea. Summer in Maine is always special but in autumn when the tourists retreat and an island returns to its quiet, isolated existence is when I find it most endearing. I dearly love this song." (Dan Fogelberg)
" The Reach " written by Singer/Songwriters Dan Fogelberg, from "The Innocent Age" album (1981). R.I.P. Dan, thank you for the beautiful everlasting music! Thank you Amy for the Minstrel photo link, special thank to Bobby for liner notes and to many artists/photographers for their beautiful pictures and portraits of Maine!
(Lyrics)
It's Maine, and it's Autumn,
the birches have just begun turning
It's life and it's dying
The lobstermen's boats come returning
with the catch of the day in their holds
And the young boy is cold and complaining
The fog meets the beaches and out on the Reach it is raining
It's father and son,
it's the way it's been done since the old days
It's hauling by hand ten miles out from the land where their chow waits
And the days are all lonely and long and the seas grow so stormy and strong but...
The Reach will sing welcome as homeward they hurry along
(Chorus)
And the morning will blow away as the waves crash and fall
And the Reach like a siren sings as she beckons and calls
As the coastline recedes from view and the seas swell and roll
I will take from the Reach all that she has to teach to the depths of my soul
The wind brings a chill, there's a frost on the sill in the morning
It creeps through the door
On the edge of the shore ice is forming
Soon the northers will bluster and blow
And the woods will be whitened with snowfall
And the Reach will lie frozen for the lost and unchosen to row
(Chorus)
