I'll Fly Away

The first time I ever heard this song was at a church retreat in Interlaken, Switzerland. This sweet girl, Marina Woods, sang it in harmony with a couple of others--she had the voice of an angel. I had a big ole crush on Marina, but she was the archetypal good Christian girl, and beautiful, with long, curly hair, and I was a long-haired, grungy, guitar-playing freak. Then, on the last day of the last retreat we were on together before we both moved back to the States, she came up and gave me a big hug and said something sweet. So we wrote to each other for a while, but of course she met someone at college and fell in love, and got married, and that was that. Still think of her every time I hear this song, though.