Teresa

Written by John Stewart

‘Teresa’ is from “Teresa and the Lost Songs”, the Crow cassette was published in 1992, the Homecoming Records CD from 1998 sadly did not include ‘Songs of All the Angels' and ‘Wings of St. Michael’, but has three new songs, ‘A Woman Rides the Beast’, ‘Cooler Water, Higher Ground’ and ‘Liddy Buck’.

John wrote about ‘Teresa’: “Teresa was written this August at the Omega Institute in New York State where I was teaching a songwriting course. I was asked to

bring the paintings of Mother Teresa I was doing to display in the dining hall. After being up for a day, the executives asked me to take them down as “…they didn´t want people thinking that´s what Omega is about. I always thought of Mother Teresa as a great human being like Ghandi, not a symbol of the Catholic Church. Anyway, I was not pleased. I wrote the song in about 30 minutes and sang it there in a show I did with Tuck And Patti. The place went crazy and they

called more attention to the Mother than if they had left them up… the power of songs.”

Topical song at this time of year. Neither the left channel guitar nor the right channel guitar sound great alone, too many ‘holes’. So we decided to arrange the song for solo guitar, taking notes and chords from both guitars.

An aside:
Higher/I, her/I, the

Charlie wrote: And I always thought it was, "And I, her artist, make no sound." I replied: I hear Higher, but artist instead of Tim´s artists. Art decided: Ah..the deciding vote.....from that cold snowy state of Connecticut. It's "I, the artist......" I heard the story behind the song a few times. Most recently, John told the story of the sketch he drew, the removal of such from view, and the resulting song, at one of his songwriting sessions at a Fantasy Camp. Based on that, it's "I.." at least to me and it fits.

For cutting and pasting:

Higher artists

I, her artist,

I, the artist,

And after you´ve cut and pasted to your heart´s delight, go and get your guitar or whatever musical instrument you play.

(G) (D) (C) (D) (G) (D) (C) (D)

(G) Teresa (D)fell without a (C)whimper, (D)

(G) Higher (D)artist, (C)make no sound.(D)

(G) In the Omega (D)Hills of the (Em)New Awareness

(D)(D4)(D) (C) (D) (G) (D)(D4)(D) (C) (D)

(G) They were only (D)pictures of the (C)promise, (D)(D4)(D)

(G) A higher (D)soul who never (C)rests, (D)(D4)(D)

(G) Who serves the (D)poorest of the (C)poor, (D)(D4)(D)

(G) She is the (D)best (C) of all the (D)best.

(G) She had no (D)place among the (C)drummers, (D)

(G) Amidst the (D)stream of eager (C)hearts, (D)

(G) I'm just (D)glad it was not the second (C)coming, (D)

(G) Paint on (D)canvas (C)was not (D)art.

(G) Teresa (D)fell without a (C)whimper, (D)

(G) Higher (D)artist, (C)make no sound.(D)

(G) In the Omega (D)Hills of the (Em)New Awareness

(G) (D) (C) (D) (G) (D) (C) (D) (G) (D) (C) (D)

(G) In the scheme of (D)things, it doesn't (C)matter, (D)(D4)(D)

(G) Crying (D)children, (C) there's a (D)sound.(D4)(D)

(G) Hungry (D)people(C) in Cal(D)cutta

(G) Teresa (D)fell without a (C)whimper, (D)(D4)(D)

(G) Higher (D)artist, (C)make no sound.(D)

(G) In the Omega (D)Hills of the (Em)New Awareness

Teresa (D)fell without a (C)whimper, (D)(D4)(D)

(G) Higher (D)artist, (C)make no (D)sound.

(G) In the Omega (D)Hills of the (Em)New Awareness

(D)(D4)(D) (C) (D) (G) (D)(D4)(D) (C) (D) (G)

janhauenstein@gmx.de, Charlie Woodward & Art Faller

December 2005