My Words Reach Someone Else's Ear...Heart Strings, Too

3 June 2015
A Birthday Anniversary
Jan Peerce
American operatic tenor
(3 June 1904 - 15 December 1984)

Tab 1 Feature:
Jan Peerce & Jane Powell, duet
(1959)
- I Talk to the Trees
(Lerner & Loewe) 3'15"

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Tab 2 Feature:
3 June 2015
A Birthday Anniversary
Jan Peerce
American operatic tenor
(3 June 1904 - 15 December 1984)

Tab 2 Feature:
Jan Peerce, tenor
(1963)
- Climb Every Mountain
(Rodgers & Hammerstein) 2'56"


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Lyrics to Peerce & Powell's version
of "I Talk to the Trees"

I Talk to the Trees
Broadway Musical: Paint Your Wagon (1951)
Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
Music: Frederick Loewe

Jan Peerce & Jan Powell, duet version (1959)

/Peerce/:
I talk to the trees
But they don't listen to me
I talk to the stars
But they never hear me

The breeze hasn't time
To stop and hear what I say
I talk to them all in vain

But suddenly my words
Reach someone else's ear
Touch someone else's heart strings, too


/Powell/:
You tell me your dreams
And while I am listening to you
We suddenly see them come true


/Peerce/:
I can see us on an April night
Sipping brandy underneath the stars


/Powell/:
Reading poem in the candlelight
Through the strumming ole guitar


/Peerce/:
I will tell you all the books I read
And the way I met the king of France
Then I sent the servants talked to them
And I asked you for a dance


[Interlude]


/Powell/:
And suddenly a voice
Reach someone else's ear
Touch someone else's heart strings, too


/Peerce & Powell/
I tell you my dreams
  I tell you my dreams
And while you're listening to me
  listening to you
I suddenly see them come out