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