Winter Birds Ray LaMontagne
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It's the Widow now that owns that angry plow,
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The Spartan Mule and The Crippled Cow.
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The fal low field that will yield no more.
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as the fox lay sleeping 'neath her kitchen floor.
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[D]The stream can't contain such the [G]withering rain,
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The clouds crack and growl like some great cat on the prowl.[G]
Crying out, "[C]I am, I am" [D]over and over again.
The days grow short as the nights grow long.
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[Dmaj7] The kettle sings its tortured son[Gm]gs.
[Dmaj7] A many petaled kiss I place upon [Gm]her brow.
Oh, my lady, lady I am loving you now.
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The Winter Birds have come back again.
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Here the sprightly chickadee, gone now is the Willow Wren.
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[Gmaj7]In passing, greet each other as if old, old friends. [C]And to the voiceless
[Gmaj7]trees, it is their own they will le[D]nd.
The days grow short as the nights grow long.
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[Dmaj7] The kettle sings its tortured song[Gm]s.
[Dmaj7] A many petaled kiss I place upon her bro[Gm]w.
Oh, my lady, lady I am loving you now.
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Though
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all these things will
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change,
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the memo[Gmaj7]ries will re[D]main.
As green to gold and gold to brown,
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[A7] the leaves will fa[G]ll to feed the grou[D]nd.
[A7] And in their fall[G] ing make no sou[D]nd.
[C]Oh, my la [G] dy, [C]lady I [G5]am loving y[D]ou now.
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[D] I've gathered all my money and I'[Gmaj7]m goin' to town
[C] to buy my lady a long and [D]flowing gown.
'Cause come tomorrow morn[G]ing we're off to the county fair.
[C]I'll find a yel[G]low flower and I will [D]lace it in her hair.
Oh, my la dy, lady I am loving you now.
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