Who among you has not laid his head
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beneath some holy awning
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Would think that such a night of tortured travelling
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Could bring such a glory morning
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And feel his heart sucked to his head
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His head so wide that all life says
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Has room to live and breathe and have its being - and more
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For such a scene of beauty
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For such a scene of beauty
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encompasses
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See the white bird on the water
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In beauty calm and still
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White bird, white bird, white bird
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Of the morning
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White bird, white bird,
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White bird, white bird, white bird
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Of the morning
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White bird, white bird,
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See he watches the white bird
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of the morning
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White bird, white bird,
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See he watches the white bird
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of the morning
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White bird, white bird,
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Warm in his ecstasy
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A shimmering gentle backward fall
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He leaves his body there so small and mirror black against the sun
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With deities for strength
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He sees his body wracked with pain
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And hears his voice so stained with sadness deep
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It asks the day to weep away
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Loved her so strong now
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She is gone
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My heart will break for ever
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Sun and moon change around
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Me the games seem so strange
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Walk in the light
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I shall never
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Walk in the light
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I will never
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White bird, white bird, white bird
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Of the morning
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White bird, white bird,
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White bird, white bird, white bird
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Of the morning
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White bird, white bird,
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White bird, white bird, white bird
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Of the morning
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White bird, white bird,
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White bird, white bird, white bird
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Of the morning
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White bird, white bird,
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Speak to me with your beauty
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oh white bird of the morning
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Oh he cried Oh he cried
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But stopped
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short
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Seeing not water but ice
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death not life
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dead white bird dead white bird
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Walking onward every day
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Sunshine in our faces
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Sun knows what goes on below
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But still our faces graces
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No disgraces
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No distastes
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Nothing wasted at all
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White bird, white bird, white bird
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Of the morning
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White bird, white bird
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White Bird
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| The Incredible String Band |
