Poems, Prayers & Promises

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AllMusic	^[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	C^[2]

Poems, Prayers & Promises is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver. It was released in April, 1971. This album was Denver's commercial breakthrough, and contained several of his most popular songs, such as "Poems, Prayers, and Promises", "My Sweet Lady", "I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado", "Sunshine on My Shoulders", and "Take Me Home, Country Roads", which would become one of Denver's signature songs. "The Box", which concludes the album, is a poem by Kendrew Lascelles illustrating the futility of war.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Poems, Prayers and Promises"	Denver	4:04
2.	"Let It Be"	John Lennon Paul McCartney	3:38
3.	"My Sweet Lady"	Denver	4:23
4.	"Wooden Indian"	Denver	1:38
5.	"Junk"	McCartney	1:40
6.	"Gospel Changes"	Jack Williams	3:24

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Take Me Home, Country Roads"	Bill Danoff Taffy Nivert Denver	3:08
2.	"I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado"	Danoff Nivert	2:07
3.	"Sunshine on My Shoulders"	Denver Richard Kniss Mike Taylor	5:10
4.	"Around and Around"	Denver	2:16
5.	"Fire and Rain"	James Taylor	3:44
6.	"The Box"	Kendrew Lascelles	2:44

Personnel

John Denver – guitars, vocals

Charts

Chart (1974/75)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[3]	41

References

^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r5445
^ Christgau review
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 87. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

[1] ttps://www.allmusic.com/album/r5445

[2] Christgau review

[3] Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 87. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

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