Album: Country Roads-Very Best Of John

Higher Ground

This song appears on three albums, and was first released on Different Directions album, and has also been released on The John Denver Collection - Take Me Home Country Roads album.

We were live on arrival
Safe home at last
No cannon fire dockside
No flags half-mast

We were sold out for siver
And a string of black pearls
On the loneliest island
At the edge of the world

Like destiny¡¯s children
Souls lost at sea
No room on the lifeboat
You can hold on to me

Now the voyage is over
We¡¯re back on dry land
In our eyes are the stories
The rope and the brand

Like destiny¡¯s children
Souls lost at sea
No room on the lifeboat
You can hold on to me

Words by Nick Smith, Music by Joe Camilleri