I will daughter you
I will daughter you
follow you
wherever you may go
though ties may now be broken
love will not have it so
I will daughter you.
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You won’t be alone
I’ll come too
however hard the road
together we will walk it
we’ll share the heavy load
I will daughter you.
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Never take my freedom from me
by sending me away
though they make of me [...]
Autumn gold at four o’clock
leaves like snow starting to lay
yellowing mellow, well ripe fruit
watch scratchground squirrel stashing loot
the wind is teaching the trees to hymn
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Ramble bramble, berries black
fringed and dotted with rose hip red
it’s time to ponder and reflect
lonely collar turned up, chill protect
summer is slipping away from you
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Deepening shades and colours
piccolo piping, toning flute
songsters for winter prepare
a smell of maturing in the air
holding up, as seems, woodman’s smoke
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But the River Itchen swells
in boastful wisdom he tells us
“tis [...]
AND THE MUSIC BY ANDRE VIOLIN
With youtube link Luciano Pavarotti sings live from the opera.
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Mimi’s candle has blown out so she knocks on Rudolfo’s door for help to relight it, during which process she loses her key which Rudolfo finds but pockets, he doesn’t want her to leave, in this most beautiful of songs he tells her why.
What a cold little hand
let me warm [...]
