Key: Bb major
Verse 1
G
Eb
D
G
A young Indian
C
G
D
mother with anxious eyes,
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C
G
Sat by a cradle neath sullen skies.
C
G
Her warrior hunter had not returned,
D
G
C
G
But bravely to her babe she turned.
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C
my little Pa poose,
G
Em
Am
D
The bright apple falls from the bough.
C
Eb
The trembling leaf knows
G
C
the north wind's a thief,
G
C
G
But you will sleep somehow, somehow,
C
G
But you will sleep somehow.
G
D
the empty rack,
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G
and corn by the sack.
With fear in her heart
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G
D
she turned to the child,
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C
And as wolves closed in she
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G
High flies the goose, my little papoose,
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G
Em
The bright apple falls
Am
D
from the bough.
C
Eb
G
The trembling leaf knows
G
C
G
But you will sleep somehow, somehow,
C
G
But you will sleep somehow.
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D
from her tattered shawl
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C
Watched the brown -eyed child
The wolves would make
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G
D
certain he didn't know
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G
D
G
they would lie neath the snow
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G
C
High flies the goose, my little Papoose
G
Em
Am
The bright apple falls from the bough
D
C
Eb
The trembling leaf knows
G
C
the north wind's a thief,
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C
G
But you will sleep somehow, somehow,
C
G
But you will sleep somehow.
C
G
D
Then faint on the wind a hi -yi -o h,
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C
The clip -clop of Burroughs,
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G
Her warrior hunter at last had returned
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G
C
There was food, there were furs,
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G
C
High flies the goose, my little papoose
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Em
Am
D
The bright apple falls from the bough
C
Eb
The trembling leaf knows
G
C
the north winds a -thieve
G
C
G
But you will sleep somehow, somehow
D
G
But you will sleep somehow
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