Key: Ab major
Verse 1
all the young animals
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Am
must get their rest.
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G
An d when night falls over Wildwood Heart,
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Em
D
their nests.
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D
Em
Now to sleep, now to rest,
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Ebdim
Covers all, great and small
F#dim
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D
G
Till the new day is born
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Am
B
Em
Deep in the shadow
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Bm
Em
So to sleep slumber deep
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D
Ebdim
Let the self -righteous follow you
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Am
D
Mother's near, never fear
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G
Bm
G
She will keep you from harm
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Am
Lulled by the night wind
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Em
Close to her breast
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C
G
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Em
Now peacefully, lovingly
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G
C
Tenderly rest
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D
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D
Harry grew up thinking
Then, quite by accident,
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Eaug
she discovered the martin.
Eaug
Now,
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G
D
Martin is a large tree -climbing weasel.
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G
And it s favorite meal is a
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D
squirrel.
Em
B
Perry was exploring the ground
for the first time
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C
D
when she met the Martin face -to -face.
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D
B
The martin chased Perry back and forth.
Em
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G
B
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G
Ebm
C#m
G#
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B
and jumped in and swam as all squirrels do.
A martin hates water,
Perry escaped,
but she couldn't return to her home.
She was lost and alone
in a strange part of the forest.
And now a new danger threatened,
for this was the territory of
the wildcat.
Perry's life would have been over then and there,
but a warning cry from another squirrel
came just in time.
Perry escaped by running up the side
of a big pine snag
and popped in the nearest hole
and looked out.
Down below,
It was then that Perry saw the young
who had saved her life
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Bbaug
by warning her of the wildcat.
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E
and he lived in a small pine tree nearby.
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B
He spent all his spare time working on it,
Perry watched him
from the safety
Poro pretended he didn't see her,
and that chasing wildcats
away
was an everyday job.
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C
Then, much to his embarrassment,
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F#
the bottom fell out.
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D
Down below,
But Poro was a clever squirrel
and didn't waste time pouting.
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F#
He ran up an aspen tree
and moved into an abandoned
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F#
He heard a strange grinding
Bbdim
sound.
Bbdim
Poor Poro.
A beaver had selected this very
tree to cut down,
Well,
there was nowhere else for Poro to go
except under the ground.
It wasn't very dignified for
a pine squirrel,
but at least it was safe.
And, although he'd never admit it,
he was near Perry,
who spent all her time storing
pine cones
and nuts in the big ol' snag.
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