Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Lay down, lay down your weary tune, lay downLay down the song you strumAnd rest yourself ’neath the strength of stringsNo voice can hope to hum
Struck by the sounds before the sunI knew the night had goneThe morning breeze like a bugle blewAgainst the drums of dawn
Lay down your weary tune, lay downLay down the song you strumAnd rest yourself ’neath the strength of stringsNo voice can hope to hum
The ocean wild like an organ playedThe seaweed’s wove its strandsThe crashin’ waves like cymbals clashedAgainst the rocks and sands
Lay down your weary tune, lay downLay down the song you strumAnd rest yourself ’neath the strength of stringsNo voice can hope to hum
I stood unwound beneath the skiesAnd clouds unbound by lawsThe cryin’ rain like a trumpet sangAnd asked for no applause
Lay down your weary tune, lay downLay down the song you strumAnd rest yourself ’neath the strength of stringsNo voice can hope to hum
The last of leaves fell from the treesAnd clung to a new love’s breastThe branches bare like a banjo playedTo the winds that listened best
I gazed down in the river’s mirrorAnd watched its winding strumThe water smooth ran like a hymnAnd like a harp did hum
Lay down your weary tune, lay downLay down the song you strumAnd rest yourself ’neath the strength of stringsNo voice can hope to hum