Judy Collins – King David (Guitar)

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King David was a sorrowful man

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No cause for his sorrow had he

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And he called for the music of a hundred harps

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To ease his melancholy

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They played till they all fell silent

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Played and play sweet did they

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But the sorrow that haunted the heart of King David

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They could not charm away

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He rose and in his garden

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Walked by the moon alone

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A nightingale hidden in a cypress tree

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Jargoned on and on

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King David lifted his sad eyes

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Into the dark-boughed tree

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"Tell me, thou little bird that singest

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Who taught my grief to thee?"

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But the bird in no-wise heeded

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And the king in the cool of the moon

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Hearkened to the nightingale's sorrowfulness

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Till all his own was gone