MINSTREL OF CRANBERRY LANE

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Song Title
MINSTREL OF CRANBERRY LANE
Writers
Callahan
Publisher
MELODY TRAILS, INC. (BMI)
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
WORLD
Themes/Keywords
Children, Homeless, Poor, Sad, Sing
Lyrics
He hasn’t a cent to his name
No roof to keep out the rain
But he strums as he sings
And what happiness he brings
The minstrel of Cranberry Lane

Sometimes he’s hungry and cold
His clothes are a sight to behold
But he’s gentle and mild as he sings to each child
The minstrel of Cranberry Lane

One foggy night the neighbors all met
In the meetinghouse down in the lane.
They said, “This old man for our children is bad,
He even sings in the rain.”

So they issued an edit: The minstrel must go,
But they reckoned without his appeal.
For he sang of the gold at the rainbow’s end
And dreams only children can feel.

And so in the night when the town was asleep,
He sang his sad round-e-lay.
And the children crept out of their beds in the night
And followed the minstrel away.

Now sadder but wiser I fear
Are the folks who lost children so dear
For each child must be free to follow, like me
The minstrel of Cranberry Lane.

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