The Fallow Way chords by Judy Collins

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

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I'll learn to love the fallow way
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When winter draws the valley down
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And stills the rivers in their storm
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And freezes all the little brooks

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Time when our steps slow to the song
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Of falling flakes and crackling flames
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When silver stars are high and still
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Deep in the velvet of the sky

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The crystal time the silence times
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I'll learn to love their quietness
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While deep beneath the glistening snow
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The black earth dreams of violets
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I'll learn to love the fallow time

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   Eb MajorEb            AbAb
I'll learn to love the fallow way
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When all my colors fade to white
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And flying birds fold back their wings
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Upon my anxious wonderings

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The sun has slanted all her rays
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Across the vast and harvest plains
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My memories mingle in the dawn
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I dream a joyful vagabonds

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The crystal time the silence times
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I'll learn to love their quietness
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While deep beneath the glistening snow
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The black earth dreams of violets
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I'll learn to love the fallow time

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No drummer comes across the plains
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To tell of triumph or of pain
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No word far off battle's cry
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To draw me out or draw me nigh

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I'll learn to love the fallow way
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And gather in the patient fruits
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And after autumn's blaze and burn
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I'll know the feel of still, deep roots

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That nothing seem to know or need
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That crack the ice in frozen ponds
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And slumbering in winter's folds
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Have dreams of green and blue and gold

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I'll learn to love the fallow way
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And listening for blossoming
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Of my own heart once more in spring

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As sure as time, as sure as snow
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As sure as moonlight, wind and stars
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The fallow time will fall away
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The sun will bring an April day
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And I will yield to Summer's way