Tonalità: Gb major•
Verse 1
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B
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When I
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was a girl,
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I had a favourite story
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Of the meadowlark who lived
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where the rivers wind
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Her voice could match the
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D#m
angels' in its glory
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But she was blind
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B
C#sus4
The lark was blind
Verse 2
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The king of the rivers took
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her to his palace
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Where the walls were burnished
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bronze and golden braid
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E#m
And he fed her fruit and nuts from an ivory
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B
C#
chalice and he prayed
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"Sing for
Verse 3
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B
me, my meadowlark
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B
Sing for me of the silver morning
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B
Set me free, my meadowlark
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D#m
B
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And I'll buy you a priceless jewel
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B
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And cloth of brocade and crewel
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B
And I'll love you for life
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C#m
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if you will
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Sing for me."
Verse 4
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Than one day as the lark
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sang by the water
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The god of the sun heard her
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in his flight
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E#m
And her singing moved him so,
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he came and brought her
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The gift of sight
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He gave her sight
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And she opened her eyes to the
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shimmer and the splendour
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Of this beautiful young god,
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so proud and strong
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And he called to the lark in a voice
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both rough and tender
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Fly with
Verse 5
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B
me, my meadowlark
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B
Fly with me on the silver morning
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B
Past the sea where the dolphins bark
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D#m
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C#
We will dance on the coral beaches
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B
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Make a feast of the plums and peaches
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Just as far as your vision reaches
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D#m
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Fly with me."
Verse 6
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E
But the meadowlark said no
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E
For the old king loved her so
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She couldn't bear
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to wound his pride
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E
So the sun god flew away and when the
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E
king came down that day
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A#m
He found his meadowlark had died
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Every time I heard that part,
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C#sus4
I cried
Verse 7
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And now I stand here,
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starry- eyed and stormy
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Oh, just when I thought my
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heart was finally numb
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E#m
A beautiful young man ap
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D#m
pears before me
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C#sus4
Singing "Come, oh,
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won't you come?"
C#sus4
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And what can I do if
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finally for the first time
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E
The one I'm burning for returns the glow?
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E#m
If love has come at last,
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it's picked the worst time
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Still I know I've got to go
Verse 8
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B
Fly away, meadowlark
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B
Fly away in the silver morning
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B
If I stay, I'll grow to curse the dark
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So it's off where the days won't bind me
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B
C#
I know I leave wounds behind me
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C#m
But I won't let tomorrow find me
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E
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Back this way
Verse 9
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B
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Before my past once again
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C#m
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can blind me
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Fly away
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Verse 10
And we won't wait to
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C#
D#m
say goodbye
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G#m
A#m
C#sus4
My beautiful young man an
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C#sus4
d I
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