Living free in harmony and majesty...

"Living free in harmony and majesty, take me home, take me home..." was a snippet from Maybe, the opening theme song of a popular television show The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. It aired in 1977 and 1978, and the show launched just as the environmental movement was picking up steam. I was in junior high at the time, and I wasn't just a fan of the show. I imagined living my life in many of the ways the main character, "Grizzly Adams," lived.

In retrospect, the show had meaning because it reflected many of the same values that I had already developed even as a young teenager. Over the weekend, I stumbled across a few of the episodes posted online. It's sugary sweet by today's television standards where children's shows are often rife with "adult" situations. But it still resonates.

When I die, cast my ashes to the wind and think of this song.

Maybe
performed by Thom Pace in 1979 and 2008

Deep inside the forest
Is a door into another land
Here is our life and home
We are staying, here forever
In the beauty of this place all alone
We keep on hoping

Maybe
There's a world where we don't have to run
And maybe
There's a time we'll call our own
Living free in harmony and majesty
Take me home
Take me home

Walking through the land
Where every living thing is beautiful
Why does it have to end
We are calling, oh so sadly
On the whispers of the wind
As we send a dying message

Maybe
There's a world where we don't have to run
Maybe
There's a time we'll call our own
Living free in harmony and majesty
Take me home
Take me home

(Maybe)
There's a world where we don't have to run
Maybe
There's a time we'll call our own
Living free in harmony and majesty
Take me home
Take me home

(Maybe)
There's a world where we don't have to run
Maybe
There's a time we'll call our own
Living free in harmony and majesty
Take me home
Take me home

(Maybe)
Maybe there's a world where we don't have to run
Maybe
There's a time we'll call our own
Living free in harmony and majesty
Take me home
Take me home (fade)
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