I Wish I Was A Painter - Greg Brown

In these hills is every color

Every one but one or two

If I knew how to paint pictures

Just think of what I could do

I wish I was a painter

And could mix red, green and blue

Oh, I wish I was a painter-

I’d paint a picture for you

Blue sky is such a companion

If you had some to hang on your wall

Then could you ever be sorry

When night came nightly at all?

And the seasons turning colors

If I could paint Summer for you

Then in the deep of the Winter

You could have some Summer too

Here in the hills of the Ozarks

I’ve seen almost every hue

And I just wish I could catch them

I’d turn your wall into a view