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Sun It Rises
Red squirrel in the morning
Red squirrel in the evening
Red squirrel in the morning
I'm coming to take you home
Sun risin' over my head
In the morning window
Hold me dear into the night
Sun it will rise soon enough
Sun risin', dangling there
Golden infant in the sky
Meadowlarks
Meadowlark, fly your way down
I hold a cornucopia and a golden crown
For you to wear upon your fleecy down
My meadowlark, sing to me
Hummingbird, just let me dive
Inside the broken ovals of your olive eyes
I do believe you gave it your best try
My hummingbird, sing to me
My hummingbird, sing to me
Don't believe a word that I haven't heard
Little children laughing at the boys and girls
The meadowlark singing to you each and every day
The arc light on the hillside and the market in the hay
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White Winter Hymnal
I was following the
I was following the
I was following the
I was following the
I was following the
I was following the
I was following the
I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads from falling in the snow, and I turned 'round and
there you go
And Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the
summertime
I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads from falling in the snow, and I turned 'round and
there you go
And Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the
summertime
I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads from falling in the snow, and I turned 'round and
there you go
And Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in
summertime |
Ragged Wood
Whoa-oh-oh
Come down from the mountain, you have been gone too long
The spring is upon us, follow my only song
Settle down with me by the fire of my yearning
You should come back home, back on your own now
(Whoa-oh-oh)
The world is alive now, in and outside our home
You run through the forest, settle before the sun
Darling, I can barely remember you beside me
You should come back home, back on your own now
(Whoa-oh-oh)
You should come back home, back on your own now
In the evening light, when the woman of the woods came by
To give to you the word of the old man
In the morning tide, when the sparrow and the seagull fly
And Johnathan and Evelyn get tired
Lie to me if you will,
at the top of Beringer Hill
Tell me anything you want, any old lie will do
Call me back to you
back to you
Lie to me if you will,
at the top of Beringer Hill
Tell me anything you want, any old lie will do
Call me back to
Back to you x5 |
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Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
Wanderers this morning came by
Where did they go, graceful in the morning light?
To banner fair
To follow you softly in the cold mountain air
Through the forest, down to your grave
Where the birds wait and the tall grasses wave
They do not know you anymore
More, more, more
Dear shadow, alive and well
How can the body die?
You tell me everything
Anything true
Into town, one morning I went
Staggering through premonitions of my death
I don't see
Anybody that dear to me
Dear shadow, alive and well
How can the body die?
You tell me everything
Anything true
Jessie, I don't know what I have done
I'm turning myself into a demon
I don't know what I have done
I'm turning myself to a demon |
Quiet Houses
Lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me down
Darkening
Darkening
Darkening
Darkening
Darkening
Darkening
Darkening
Darkening
Come to me
Come to me
Come to me
Come to me
Lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me down |
He Doesn't Know Why
Penniless and tired with your hair grown long
I was looking at you there and your face looked wrong
Memory is a fickle siren song
I didn't understand
In the gentle light as the morning nears
You don't say a single word of the last two years
Where you were or when you reached the frontier
I didn't understand, no
See your rugged hands and a silver knife
Twenty dollars in your hand that you hold so tight
All the evidence of your vacant life
My brother, you were gone
And you will try to do what you did before
Pull the wool over your eyes for a week or more
Let your family take you back to your
Original mind
There's nothing I can do
There's nothing I can do
There's nothing I can say
There's nothing I can say
I can say |
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Your Protector
She left a week to roam
Your protector's coming home
Keep your secrets with you, girl
Safe from the outside world
You walk along the stream
Your head caught in a waking dream
Your protector's coming home
Coming home
As you lay to die beside me, baby
On the morning that you came
Would you wait for me?
The other one would wait for me
As you lay to die beside me, baby
On the morning that you came
Would you wait for me?
The other one would wait for me
You run with the devil
You run with the devil
Tell your brother to be good
Tell your sister not to go
Tell your mother not to wait
Tell your father I was good
As you lay to die beside me, baby
On the morning that you came
Would you wait for me?
The other one would wait for me |
Blue Ridge Mountains
Lie down with me, my dear
Lie down
Under stormy night, tell nobody
My brother, where do you intend to go tonight?
I heard that you missed your connecting flight
To the Blue Ridge Mountains, over near Tennessee
You're ever welcome with me anytime you like
Let's drive to the countryside, leave behind some green-eyed look-alikes
So no one gets worried, no
So no one gets worried, no
But, Sean, don't get careless
I'm sure it'll be fine
I love you, I love you
Oh, brother of mine
In the quivering forest
Where the shivering dog rests
Our good grandfather
Built a wooden nest
And the river got frozen
And the home got snowed in
And a yellow moon glowed bright
Till the morning light
Terrible, am I, child?
Even if you don't mind
In the quivering forest
Where the shivering dog rests
Our good grandfather
Built a wooden nest
And the river got frozen
And the home got snowed in
And a yellow moon glowed bright
Till the morning light
Terrible, am I, child?
Even if you don't mind
No |
Oliver James
On the way to your brother's house in the valley deep
By the river bridge, a cradle floating beside me
In the whitest water on the bank against the stone
You will lift his body from the shore and bring him home
Oliver James washed in the rain
No longer
Oliver James washed in the rain
No longer
On the kitchen table that your grandfather did make
You, in your delicate way, will slowly clean his face
And you will remember when you rehearsed the actions of
An innocent and anxious mother full of anxious love
Oliver James washed in the rain
No longer
Oliver James washed in the rain
No longer
Walk with me down ruby beach
And through the valley floor
Love for the one you know more
Love for the one you know more
Back we go to your brother's house, emptier my dear
The sound of ancient voices ringing soft upon your ear
Oliver James washed in the rain
No longer
Oliver James washed in the rain
No longer |