DESCRIPTION:
Artist: Mary Carpenter Chapin
Song: 10,000 Miles
Album: Party Doll and Other Favorites

Mary Chapin Carpenter's song 10.000 Miles was the soundtrack for the movie Fly Away Home, a 1996 film, directed by Carroll Ballard, about the daughter (Anna Paquin) of a divorcé (Jeff Daniels) who, with her father, leads a flock of Canada geese from Canada to a wildlife refuge in the US. The film was loosely based on the real-life experiences of Bill Lishman, a Canadian inventor, artist, and ultralight aircraft hobbyist. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Lishman openly wondered whether geese and similar birds could be taught new migration patterns by following ultralight aircraft onto which they had been imprinted. In 1993, after several years of logistical and bureaucratic setbacks, Lishman successfully led a flock of Canada Geese on a winter migration from Ontario, Canada, to Northern Virginia, United States, both in North America. All of the 16 birds that participated in the migration returned the following year entirely on their own.

Lyrics:
Fare thee well
My own true love
Farewell for a while
I'm going away
But I'll be back
Though I go 10,000 miles

10,000 miles
My own true love
10,000 miles or more
The rocks may melt
And the seas may burn
If I should not return

Oh don't you see
That lonesome dove
Sitting on an ivy tree
She's weeping for
Her own true love
As I shall weep for mine

Oh come ye back
My own true love
And stay a while with me
If I had a friend
All on this earth
You've been a friend to me