If I Could-Gordon Lightfoot

[ti:If I Could] [ar:Gordon Lightfoot] [al:Classic Masters] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]If I Could - Gordon Lightfoot [00:08.59]If I could sing like the poets and kings of this world [00:13.43] [00:16.57]If I could rise like the wind or the tides of the sea [00:21.80] [00:25.75]I would sing you to sleep my love with sweet melody [00:31.17] [00:34.07]And let you dream away till the morning light [00:39.22]Returned again [00:41.28]To take you away from me [00:44.27] [00:49.84]If I could speak with the tongues of the masters of old [00:54.85] [00:57.84]If I could tame all the fleeting perceptions I hold [01:03.61] [01:07.02]Would I stand in the marketplace before you [01:12.23] [01:15.05]To be shouted down without any warning [01:19.48]At all to be stood by the wall [01:22.71]And shot by the man in blue [01:25.75] [01:35.44]If I could run with the grace of a Sun colored stallion [01:40.33] [01:43.68]If I could fly like the great silver jets in the morning [01:48.70] [01:52.37]If I caused the wind to change with one wave of my hand [01:57.64] [02:00.73]And if I could play the final symphony [02:05.16] [02:05.71]And set it free [02:07.70]Would it mean anything to you [02:11.14] [02:20.94]If I could stand like a rusty old man in his armor [02:25.96] [02:29.18]If I could ride the steed that he rode in his time [02:33.77] [02:37.98]I would turn his head away to the river [02:43.51] [02:46.47]And let him wander through the meadow grass [02:51.27] [02:51.97]Wild and free [02:53.77]For everyone to see [02:57.41] [03:06.35]If I could sing like the poets and kings of this world [03:11.70] [03:14.68]If I could rise like the wind or the tides of the sea [03:19.34] [03:23.51]I would sing you to sleep my love with sweet melody [03:28.96] [03:31.95]And let you dream away till the morning light [03:37.05]Returned again [03:39.09]To take you away from me