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Joan Baez
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(Music by Joan Baez, Lyrics by Nina Duscheck)
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When I was young then all my boughs
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were thickly hung with glittering hopes.
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But one by one they've blown away
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and only one remains today.
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It flutters out upon the air,
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one hope all pinned on gossamer.
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What are all lives but gossamer
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in one lacy cobweb crossed?
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Yet strand by strand we tear at it
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until the pattern's lost.
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And one by one hopes blow away
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till only one remains today.
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I hope the forest will return
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to climb the mist-hung morning slopes.
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Where falling leaves deep-banked in fern
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may meet the water ouzel's hopes.
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But one by one they've blown away
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and only one remains today.
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And when the condor opens flight
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on crystal air not cracked or stained
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by any fallen angel's flight,
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these glittering hopes may be regained.
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When I was young then all my boughs
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were thickly hung with glittering hopes.
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But one by one they've blown away
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and only one remains today.
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It flutters out upon the air,
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one hope all pinned on gossamer.
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