Autumn Leaves Lyrics

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

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