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  Words on the Wind
  Added on May 2, 2005

  Traditional folksong.

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  The wind blows softly in the cool dawn air
  Drawing the sands along, not caring where
  I cannot follow it, can only stare
  As it leaves, racing towards my lover fair
  
  Fly faster along the road, wind, be fleet,
  Wrap my final words in your song so sweet
  Carry them to my lover's distant street
  So that she may know why we will not meet
  
  Oh, wild wind, obey me only in this --
  Bring my love news of all that went amiss
  And I shall lie in peace, and only miss
  The chance to bestow my last dying kiss
  
  The wind blows softly in the cool dawn air
  Drawing the sands along, not caring where
  
  I cannot follow it, can only stare
  As it leaves, racing towards my lover fair

  The wind blows softly in the cool dawn air
  

  Drawing the sands along, not caring where
  

  I cannot follow it, can only stare
  

  As it leaves, racing towards my lover fair
  

  
  

  Fly faster along the road, wind, be fleet,
  

  Wrap my final words in your song so sweet
  

  Carry them to my lover's distant street
  

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