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