Key: Ab major
Verse 1
of the whippoorwill one night
walk quite a ways through a big field,
because the
song of the whippoorwill carried so
well in the wind he
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was. And on the way
He turned and saw the
boy and he said "Why
are you follow me?" The boy
was frightened and said "Well
the trail you made
happened to be a short
and easy way through this
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field. Then coyote asked
me then why are you here?"
sing." "Well do you not think my
"there good but I hear
you all the time. I much prefer
the songs of the
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whippoorwill" This made coyote
furious and he was
jealous of the whippoorwill's
song. He said "Listen to
my night song you might like
this one" And he pulled
back his head and yodeled
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out a tune. The boy
covered his ears and politely said,
"Thank you for the
song, but I must be going now." "Well",
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can show you a short cut to the whippoorwill boy,
and
where he sings is just over there."
Pointing his claw,
smiling out of the side of his mouth.
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looked around, he knew the night
was passing fast so
he agreed to follow coyote.
But coyote's trail was
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gopher holes along the way. Coyote
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turned around
to the boy. "Were almost
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there, hurry up." Coyote was at a
had just fallen again and hurt his
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knee. And by the time
he got to the place where the
singing all night,
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it was morning. Whippoorwill was
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gone. And so was coyote,
in fact he could hear
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coyote's songs in another field.
So the boy turned and
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misq bites and a
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skinned up knee. And it was
when the boy became a wiser
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man. And he realized,
there are no shortcuts
to find something you really
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in this life. So you must
stay true to your path,
and always keep and eye out
for coyote
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