Lay Down Your Weary Tune-Tim O'Brien

[ti:Lay Down Your Weary Tune] [ar:Tim O'Brien] [al:Red On Blonde] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.79]Lay Down Your Weary Tune - Tim O'Brien [00:02.99]Lay down your weary tune lay down [00:05.60] [00:06.51]Lay down the song you strum [00:09.23] [00:09.84]And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings [00:13.93] [00:14.52]No voice can hope to hum [00:17.84]Struck by the sounds before the sun [00:22.24] [00:23.20]I knew the night had gone [00:26.36] [00:27.00]The morning breeze like a bugle blew [00:30.60] [00:31.33]Against the drums of dawn [00:35.17]Lay down your weary tune lay down [00:39.95]Lay down the song you strum [00:43.21]And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings [00:47.76]No voice can hope to hum [00:51.62]The ocean wild like an organ played [00:56.27]The seaweed's wove its strands [00:59.82]The crashin' waves like cymbals clashed [01:04.06]Against the rocks and sands [01:07.97]Lay down your weary tune lay down [01:12.54]Lay down the song you strum [01:16.03]And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings [01:20.70]No voice can hope to hum [01:24.86] [01:40.68]I stood unwound beneath the skies [01:45.16] [01:45.96]And clouds unbound by laws [01:48.82] [01:49.39]The crying rain like a trumpet sang [01:52.79] [01:53.63]And asked for no applause [01:57.26]The last of leaves fell from the trees [02:01.19] [02:02.44]And clung to a new love's breast [02:04.92] [02:05.47]The branches bare like a banjo played [02:09.69]To the winds that listened best [02:13.85] [02:29.52]I gazed down in the river's mirror [02:33.65] [02:34.60]And watched it's winding strum [02:37.23] [02:38.22]The water smooth ran like a hymn [02:41.40] [02:42.41]And like a harp did hum [02:45.56]Lay down your weary tune lay down [02:50.22]Lay down the song you strum [02:53.90]And rest yourself neath the strength of strings [02:58.41]No voice can hope to hum [03:01.97]Lay down your weary tune lay down [03:06.49] [03:07.21]Lay down the song you strum [03:10.12]And rest yourself neath the strength of strings [03:14.64]No voice can hope to hum