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Autumn Leaves
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Joan Baez
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It's only when the high winds blow
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That I wish my hair was long
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Sailing through the autumn leaves
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Singing an ancient song
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Or falling in love in the streets at night
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At the edge of a local square
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It's only that I'm here tonight
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Thinking I was there
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There are high winds on the pier tonight
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My soul departs from me
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Striding like Thalia's ghost south
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On the murky sea
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And into midnight's tapestry she fades
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Ragged and wild
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Searching down her ancestry
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In the costume of a Persian child
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And gulf winds bring me flying fish
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That shine in the crescent moon
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Show me the horizon
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Where the dawn will break anew
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And cool me here on this lonely pier
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Where the heron are flying low
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Echo the songs my father knew
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In the towns of Mexico
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When I was young my eyes were wise
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My father was good to me
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Instead of having a flock of sons
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He had two other girls and me
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And if we had used our Spanish names
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Here's the way they'd run
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Thalia, Margarita and Juanita
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I'm the middle one
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The screen door kept the demons in
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As we moved from town to town
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It's hard to be a princess in the States
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When your skin is brown
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And mama smoothed my worried brow
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As I leaned on the kitchen door
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Why do you carry the weight, she said
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Of the world and maybe more?
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And gulf winds bring me flying fish
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That shine in the crescent moon
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Show me the horizon
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Where the dawn will break anew
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And cool me here on this lonely pier
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Where the heron are flying low
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Echo the songs my father knew
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In the towns of Mexico
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My grandfathers were ministers
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And it came on down the line
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My father preached in his parents
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Church when he was ten years and nine
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And mama dressed in parishioner's
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Clothes and didn't believe in hell
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Her daddy fought the DAR
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If he'd lived I'd have known him well
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They said go find a Sunday School
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We must have tried them all
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I never stole from the silver plate
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My sisters had more gall
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One preacher said sing out loud and clear
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It's the only life you've got
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And the next one said be good on earth
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You've another life at the feet of God
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And gulf winds bring me flying fish
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That shine in the crescent moon
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Show me the horizon
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Where the dawn will break anew
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And cool me here on this lonely pier
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Where the heron are flying low
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Echo the songs my father knew
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In the towns of Mexico
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My father turned down many a job
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Just to give us something real
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It's hard to be a scientist in the States
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When you've got ideals
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And mama kept the budget book
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She kept the garden, too
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Bought fish from the man on Thursday
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Fed all of us and strangers, too
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But time will pass and so, alas
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Will most of what we know
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Though tonight my memory's eye is
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Clear as the story's being told
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And I'll play ball with the underdog
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And sit with the child who's wrong
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Be still when the earth is silent
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And sing when my strength is gone
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And gulf winds bring me flying fish
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That shine in the crescent moon
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Show me the horizon
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Where the dawn will break anew
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And cool me here on this lonely pier
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Where the heron are flying low
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Echo the songs my father knew
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In the towns of Mexico
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Now father's going to India
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Sometime in the fall
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They tried to stay together
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But you just can't do it all
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I'll think about him if he goes
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There's a little gray in his hair
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Though not much because he's Mexican
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They don't age, they just prepare
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And if he goes to India
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I'll miss him most of all
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He'll see me in the mudlarks' face
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Hear me in the beggar's call
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And mama will stay home, I guess
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And worry if she did wrong
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And I'll say a prayer for both of them
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And sing them both my song
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And gulf winds bring me flying fish
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That shine in the crescent moon
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Show me the horizon
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Where the dawn will break anew
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And cool me here on this lonely pier
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Where the heron are flying low
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Echo the songs my father knew
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