Eric Andersen - Come to My Bedside (Lyrics) [HD]

Eric Andersen sings 'Come to My Bedside' from his 1965 debut Vanguard album 'Today Is the Highway'. The lyrics are in the video and below with comments about the album and Eric Andersen.

Note: Individual images of young women were made into composites of two or more for the purposes of the video.

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Come to My Bedside (Singer: Eric Andersen)

Come to my bedside, my darlin'
Come over here and close the door
Lay your body soft and close beside me
And drop your petticoat upon the floor

I waited for you oh such a long time
I tried to grow and be a better man
And you knew your love has made one poor heart wealthy
Though my clothes may lay tattered in your hand
Your breast has told my ear life's golden secrets
Your back has shown my fingers endless rows
Your lips have whispered wisdom that is timeless
About life and death and things I never knowed

So come to my bedside, my darlin'
Come over here and close the door
Lay your body soft and close beside me
And drop your petticoat upon the floor

Your eyes are bluer than the mountain water
Your hair is flowing dark and flowing long
Your skin has more gold than a morning sunrise
It is softer than the breeze of a summer's dawn
I miss you more with every passing sunset
I plant a plant on every new day born
Words cannot describe one thing I'm sure of
That it's in my loving arms where you belong

So come to my bedside, my darlin'
Come over here and close the door
Lay your body soft and close beside me
And drop your petticoat upon the floor

Songwriter: Eric Andersen
[Lyrics from genius.com]

Wikipedia states:

Today Is the Highway is the debut album of folk singer Eric Andersen, released in 1965 on Vanguard Records. Andersen's first wife Deborah Green Andersen, accompanied him on second guitar for two tracks, "Today Is the Highway" and "Bumblebee".

Eric Andersen (born February 14, 1943) is an American folk music singer-songwriter, who has written songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead and many others. Early in his career, in the 1960s, he was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene. After two decades and sixteen albums of solo performance he became a member of the group Danko/Fjeld/Andersen.

In the early 1960s, Andersen was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene in New York City. His best-known songs from the 1960s folk era are "Violets of Dawn", "Come to My Bedside", and "Thirsty Boots" (the latter recorded by Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, and John Denver amongst others).

In 1964, Andersen made his debut at Gerdes Folk City in a live audition for Vanguard Records. In 1965 he released his first Vanguard album Today Is the Highway. In 1966 he made his Newport Folk Festival debut. The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein was in the process of becoming his manager when he died. Joni Mitchell cites Andersen as the source of her open tunings.

In his lengthy career, Andersen has issued more than 30 albums to which many artists have contributed, including Joan Baez, Dan Fogelberg, Al Kooper, Willie Nile, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed, Leon Russell, Richard Thompson, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Eric Bazilian, Arlen Roth, Tony Garnier, Howie Epstein, and many others. His songs have been recorded by artists all over the world, including the Blues Project, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul & Mary, the Mitchell Trio, John Denver, The Dillards, Ricky Nelson, Fairport Convention, Grateful Dead, Ratdog (Bob Weir), Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Gillian Welch, Eilen Jewell Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Françoise Hardy, Rick Danko, Linda Thompson, The Kingston Trio and Pete Seeger.

Richard Harrington, music critic for The Washington Post, wrote, "No other songwriter born in the generation between World War II and Korea has better explored the insistence of love, whether it be sensible or hopeless, beseeched or betrayed."