Artist: The Decemberists
Album: The Crane Wife
Song: The Crane Wife 2
Tabbed by: ttiot8
Intro
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My crane wife arrived at my door in the moonlight
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All star bright and
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tongue-tied, I took her in
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We were married and bells rang sweet for our wedding
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And our bedding
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was ready, we fell in
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Sound the keening bell
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And see it's painted red
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Soft as fontenelle
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The feathers in the thread
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And all I ever meant
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to do
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was to keep you
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My crane wife
My crane wife
My crane wife
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There's a bend in the wind and it
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rakes at my heart
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There is blood in the thread and it
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rakes at my heart
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It rakes at my heart
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