Lyr Req: I learned this song from a cricket

Subject: I learned this song from a cricket
From: Allan C.
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 11:49 AM

At my favorite shopping venue, the Salvation Army store, I found a homemade tape simply labeled in pencil, "Hickory Wind". On it is a song I am enjoying quite a lot. My fear is that the tape will self-destruct and so I am hoping I can track down the lyrics and/or the artist. I am unable to discover the title of the song. Other than the line in the Subject (above), the lyrics include:

"But I bet you didn't see me. I was hiding in a sycamore tree."

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I learned this song from a cricket
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 12:02 PM

this may be a lead hickory wind

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I learned this song from a cricket
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 12:17 PM

looks like this may be getting closer Crossing Devil's Bridge

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I learned this song from a cricket
From: Allan C.
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 12:39 PM

Yep, Mario, that must be the group and the song: Sycamore Song is probably the one I am seeking.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I learned this song from a cricket
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 12:47 PM

I dead-ended there though; couldn't find Lyrics to Sycamore song anywhere I was allowed to go.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I learned this song from a cricket
From: Allan C.
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 12:59 PM

Yeah, me too. I just sent a note to Dick Greenhaus to see if maybe he could locate a copy of the album. Thanks, Mario.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I learned this song from a cricket
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Jul 02 - 03:26 PM

A web site for the band Hickory Wind can be found here. About a third of the way down the page, you can find a 3Mb downloadable .wav file of "Sycamore Song," from their album, "Crossing Devil's Bridge." You can also purchase that album and another one, "Lafayette's Retreat."

Subject: Lyr Add: SYCAMORE SONG (Sam Morgan)
From: Stewie
Date: 14 Sep 02 - 11:17 PM

SYCAMORE SONG
(Sam Morgan)

Coming home from travelling
In the middle of the night
I got a funny feeling
That something wasn't right
Cause the trees were creeping
To a full, full moon
And a voice in my head
Kept singing this tune

Chorus:
Well you won't remember me
Cause I was hiding in a sycamore tree
And I learned this song from a cricket
Who was singing in the weeds
Who was singing in the weeds

Stopped my car
And I got outside
I started walking
Like I was hypnotised
I walked for miles
Through the forest and the fields
But the song I heard
Kept calling me

Chorus

I woke up
In a crystal fog
I found myself
Like a bear in a hollow log
When I looked up
I could plainly see
That the source of the force
Was the sycamore tree

Chorus

Words and music by Sam Morgan. Copyright 1978 Secret Ark Music ASCAP.

Source: lyrics on sleeve of Hickory Wind 'Crossing the Devil's Bridge' Flying Fish LP 074

Note to song on album sleeve: 'Inspired by the true story of the Pringle brothers who, after deserting from Fort Pitt during the French and Indian wars, made their way down the Tygart River to what is now known as Upshur County, West Virginia where they lived for two years in a hollow sycamore tree, a descendant of which still stands'.

--Stewie.