A Little Road and A Stone To Roll

©John Stewart

        Every few years, Bob Zentz and I organize a little tour together, partly just to see what happens and have an adventure, partly because we enjoy each other's perspective on the world. On the last tour we sang this song almost every night...both of us sorely needed the message, I think. Bob says that at one time John Stewart was a member of The Kingston Trio. It's nice how things do come around. Bob, by the way, has been called "the man who singlehandedly put the ‘folk’ back into Norfolk (Virginia)." He doesn’t agree with that, but there are a lot who do. I play twelve-string here. Ross Fanuef and Lois Lyman came down from New Hampshire and got roped into singing along, and Bruce Boege, who runs the recording studio LIMIN’ MUSIC in Bayside, Maine, kindly provided the sleepy steel-six guitar.

A little road and a stone to roll,
A little road and a stone to roll,
A little road and a stone to roll,
Everybody needs a stone to roll.

Everybody needs some old, loose shoes,
Everybody needs a little good news,
Everybody with a growing soul,
Everybody needs a stone to roll.

Everybody needs a fire inside,
Everybody needs a dream to ride,
Everybody needs a sheet to fold,
Everybody needs a stone to roll.

Everybody needs a little more room,
Everybody needs a Glenn Jenks* tune,
Everybody needs a hand to hold,
Everybody needs a stone to roll.

*Your favorite tunemaker here. I don’t know what the original was.

And here’s one that’s being sung around now, that Ross and Loie and I put together:)

Everybody needs a secret place,
Everybody needs a rain-washed face,
Everybody needs a raft to pole,
Everybody needs a stone to roll.

A Little Road and A Stone To Roll is recorded on the CD Return To The Land