I like mornings on the beach in San Diego
I like evenings on the Gulf Coast
I’ll take a desert hike in beautiful Borrego
But in every place I go I drink a toast
To Life in the mountains
Adirondacks
To the clear blue waters
Of the Saranacs
I like afternoons on the Riverwalk in San Antonio
I love the city lights of Nashville Tennessee
Give me a small café on Houston Street down in Soho
But when it’s time to go home, I only want to be
Back in the mountains
Adirondacks
Back to the clear blue waters
Of the Saranacs
Take me back to the mountains
Adirondacks
And the clear blue waters
Of the Saranacs
I hear the Cascades call and the eagle cry above
This is the place I was born; this is the place that I love, the place that I love
(repeat chorus)
F. Raymond Agnew (Ray) is Vice President for College Advancement at Paul Smith’s College. He arrived on campus to assume this role in April of 2011. Ray is a graduate of the Crane School of Music, and is a member of ASCAP (the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers). He’s written music for such varied things as the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake placid in 1980, to corporate video soundtracks for the United Way and Sky Chefs, to radio and TV jingles, to a video soundtrack for the Book She: A Celebration of Greatness in Every Woman by Mary Ann Radmacher and Jane Kirkpatrick. He has three albums in Circulation – Faith, Love, Kids and Other Mysteries (2012), The Wonder in the Story (Christmas Music), and Ray Agnew (1989), plus the single releases “She,” and a song written as a fundraiser for the National Kidney Foundation called “Hope” (with help on the lyrics from Mary Ann Radmacher).