Autumn
Joanna Newsom
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C Em F Driven through by her own swordC Em G F Summer died last night, aloneEm G F Even the ghosts huddled up forAm warmthC Em G F Autumn has come to my hometownC Em F Friendly voices, dead and goneC Em G F Singing, Star of the country downEm G F Am (Even the ghosts help raise the barnC Em G F Here now in my hometown)D When out of the massingC G F that bodes and bides, In the coldA D WestC G Flew a waxwing who froze and diedF A D against my breastD C And all the while, rain, like aG F A D weed in the tide, swans and lispsC G Down on the gossiping lawns,F A D saying, "tsk, tsk, tsk"C Em I may have changedG F It's hard to gaugeC Em G F Time won't account for how I've agedContinues after the adEm G F Am Would I could tie your lying tongueC Em G Who says that leaving keeps youF youngC Em G F And I have got no controlC Em G F Over my heart, over my mindEm G F Am Over the hills, the rainclouds rollC Em G F I'll winter here, wait for a signD C G To cast myself out over the waterF A D Riven like a wishbone You'd hardly guessD C G I was my own mother's daughterF A D I ain't naturally given to roam.D C And I lay low when I returnG And I move like a gurney whoseF A D wheels are squeakingD C Alone in a homeG And I laugh when you speakF A D Of my pleasure-seekin'C G F G Among the ta - ll pinesD C G F Along the le-y linesC G F G Here, where the lo-on keens.D C G F There, where the mo-on leansC G F There, where I know my violentG love laysD C G F down, in a row of silentA D dove-grey daysC G F G Here in a row of silent dove-grey daysC Em G F Wherever I go, I am snow-boundC Em G F By thoughts of him whom I would shunEm G F Am I love them all, one by oneC Em Cannot gain groundG F Cannot outrunC Em G F But time marches alongC Em G F You can't always stick aroundEm G F Am But when the final count is doneC Em G F I will be in my hometownC G F C I will be in my hometown