1946
Heavenly Grass
Composed by 
Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles Text by 
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams Blue Mountain Ballads Song Collection
The first song in the cycle Blue Mountain Ballads, “Heavenly Grass” is an exquisite monologue in dialect of powerful poetic imagery.
Listen
“Heavenly Grass” (from “Blue Mountain Ballads”)
Thomas Hampson (baritone) & Wolfram Rieger (piano)2:17
“Heavenly Grass” (from “Blue Mountain Ballads”)
Robert Wesley Mason, baritone; Sarah Thune, piano2:30
Text
Heavenly Grass
by Tennessee Williams
My feet took a walk in heavenly grass.
All day while the sky shone clear as glass.
My feet took a walk in heavenly grass,
All night while the lonesome stars rolled past.
Then my feet come down to walk on earth,
And my mother cried when she give me birth.
Now my feet walk far and my feet walk fast,
But they still got an itch for heavenly grass.
But they still got an itch for heavenly grass.
Related Information
Sheet Music
Blue Mountain Ballads
Paul Bowles
1. Heavenly Grass
2. Lonesome Man
3. Cabin
4. Sugar in the Cane
2. Lonesome Man
3. Cabin
4. Sugar in the Cane