How sweet to be a cloud, floating in the blue.
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Lying awake, late the other night
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Heard above me a trembling,
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I looked up, it was a little cloud,
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From which a gold string was dangling;
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You know, I gave the string a little pull,
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Just to see what was on the other end.
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Just then a voice came down to me, says,
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"Hey, now, don't you want to be my friend,
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And float with me to distant lands,
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wondrous and fair;
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Float with me to distant lands wondrous and fair?
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You see I'm just a happy little cloud,
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I laugh and float and sing my song,
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But the other clouds don't like me none.
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They say I am behaving very wrong.
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You see a cloud's supposed to be sad,
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To cry and weep and tear its hair and all,
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And don't matter how hard I try,
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I can't get the first little tear to fall."
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And float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair;
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Float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair;
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I said, "Hey, I like you little cloud,
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You are a nice little fellow, yes."
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"You making some, kind of a joke?", said the cloud,
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"Now can't you see I'm wearing such a pretty dress?
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You see I am the prettiest little chick cloud
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That you'd find anywhere up above.
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I just dropped in on you awhile
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To see if you could give me some kind of love."
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And float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair;
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Float with me to distant lands wondrous and fair;
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Just then the chief cloud come into view
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And says, "Hey, girl, now what you think you're doing there?
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I told you so many times before
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You just don't seem at all to care.
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You know you should be floating up above, now
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Don't let me catch you down here again."
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And as my cloud pulled out of view,
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There come failing down a gentle shower of rain.
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Happy rain come failing down,
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Red, green, blue and golden.
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And every drop, as it fell, it smiled
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And, throwing back its head, began singing,
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"Oh float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair;
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Float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair."
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Little Cloud
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| The Incredible String Band |
