I Know A Place
(source: "Our Chalet Songbook", Our Chalet Committee, 1981; also in "Jubilee Songbook", Girl Guides of Canada, 1971.)

Thanks very much to Cary Adler, who sent me this song!

I know a place, where no one ever goes,

There's peace and quiet, beauty and repose.

It's hidden in a valley, beside a mountain stream,

And lying there beside the stream I find that I can dream.

Only a place of beauty to the eye,

Snow capped mountains towering in the sky,

Now, I know, that God has made this world for me.

One can imagine herself but in a dream,

Climbing up a mountain, or down a long ravine.

The magic of this peace and quiet evermore shall stay,

To make this place a haven, each and every day.

Oh how I wish I'd never have to leave

All of my life, such beauty to receive,

Now, I know, that God has made this world for me.