What this song means to me: I worked in England/Wales for few months in 1975. In a bookstore there a title The Bears and I caught my nature lover's attention. It's cover mentioned that John Denver sang Sweet Surrender for the movie. Already a big John Denver fan, I was familiar with the beautiful song, and was thrilled to learn there were a book and movie related to it, and that John wrote the song specifically for the movie. The book is an engaging true tale of a young man's raising three abandoned bear cubs in the Canadian wilderness. Some years later I finally saw the Disney movie, completing the song-book-movie set. The movie got a typical Disney treatment, but Chief Dan George is always a plus for me. I live in Cincinnati, but own a 30 acre woods in Indiana where I tent camp for a couple weeks each autumn. As I turn off the main highway onto the country road that leads to my woods, I begin singing Sweet Surrender, and all the stresses of work and the city just drain away. John Denver is my all-time favorite singer-songwriter. But I regret that he and Nanci Griffith never got together for some duets. Nanci is my favorite female singer-songwriter, a lovely lady with a wonderfully unique voice that I think would have blended so well with John's; it gives me chills just to think of them singing together. Like John, Nanci died too soon (2021), so maybe they've found each other... somewhere...
Love this song! I miss him being on the earth and his music and poetry and his message of peace and efforts to end world hunger.
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What this song means to me:
I worked in England/Wales for few months in 1975. In a bookstore there a title The Bears and I caught my nature lover's attention. It's cover mentioned that John Denver sang Sweet Surrender for the movie. Already a big John Denver fan, I was familiar with the beautiful song, and was thrilled to learn there were a book and movie related to it, and that John wrote the song specifically for the movie. The book is an engaging true tale of a young man's raising three abandoned bear cubs in the Canadian wilderness. Some years later I finally saw the Disney movie, completing the song-book-movie set. The movie got a typical Disney treatment, but Chief Dan George is always a plus for me.
I live in Cincinnati, but own a 30 acre woods in Indiana where I tent camp for a couple weeks each autumn. As I turn off the main highway onto the country road that leads to my woods, I begin singing Sweet Surrender, and all the stresses of work and the city just drain away.
John Denver is my all-time favorite singer-songwriter. But I regret that he and Nanci Griffith never got together for some duets. Nanci is my favorite female singer-songwriter, a lovely lady with a wonderfully unique voice that I think would have blended so well with John's; it gives me chills just to think of them singing together. Like John, Nanci died too soon (2021), so maybe they've found each other... somewhere...
sings this very well - good song
Why did they not put this on the box set. They skipped many songs