Misc Originals – Dave Dershin - Oh Hear The Still (Guitar)

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The wild is my heartbeat the young girl sings,

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I am bound to this place.

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Come husband leap mountains with me,

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Our idyll is this grand space.”

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I am the bear and bald eagle high

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Glaciers and tundra, a brew,

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The whales, the puffin, the wild sheep,

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The salmon, and the dancing otters too.

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The salmon, and the dancing otters too.

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“Oh hear the still, listen,” she says,

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As she kneels in the sun.

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She bends to earth where the great moose passed,

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And picks ripe berries till they're gone.

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Sudden sighting her babe’s mouth chock-full,

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Ah! Sticks and fruit ragout.

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The bubbles that burble and juices that ooze,

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Are midnight, Alaska sky blue.

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She’s summer’s red fox, the light plays off,

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Honeyed silk hair, askew.

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Limber and lean, with delicate touch,

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Eyes of jade penetrate, so true.

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Her eyes of jade penetrate, so true.

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“Oh hear the still, listen,” she says,

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As she kneels in the sun.

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She bends to earth where the great moose passed,

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And picks ripe berries till they're gone.

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The air fills with laughter so gentle and kind,

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She gathers up buckets all filled,

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Head home, away we go.

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Mouths & Fingers stained blue.

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Mouths & Fingers stained blue.