Calico Plains-Pam Tillis

[ti:Calico Plains] [ar:Pam Tillis] [al:Mandolin Rain] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Calico Plains - Pam Tillis (帕姆·泰丽斯) [00:13.20]Sweet Abilena looks out at the Midwestern sky [00:18.17] [00:23.28]Sweet seventeen with a faraway look in her eyes [00:28.32] [00:33.50]She said I feel like a bird in a cage [00:37.24] [00:38.73]Come September I'm flying away [00:42.37]I said I'm gonna miss you then I made her promise to write [00:48.95] [00:53.25]Since we were tall as the corn in the spring [00:57.33] [00:58.31]We shared every secret shared every dream [01:02.24] [01:03.01]So anxious to grow in the new summer rain [01:07.22] [01:08.37]And bloom like a rose on the calico plains [01:12.70] [01:24.33]How could she hear as we laughed on that warm summer night [01:29.00] [01:34.03]The tiny heart of the baby she carried inside [01:39.03] [01:44.01]I stood beside her when September came [01:47.85] [01:49.21]Watched her get married and caught the bouquet [01:53.02] [01:54.39]And down dresses she gave me [01:57.37]I made her dreams mine [01:59.54] [02:03.56]From a seat by the window on wings made of steel [02:07.95] [02:08.80]I stared at the patchwork over the fields [02:13.76]Where young tears that once fell like warm summer rain [02:18.01] [02:18.77]Were turning to snow on the calico plains [02:23.85] [02:53.69]Sweet Abilena looks out at the Midwestern sky [02:58.70] [03:03.74]Closer to thirty but farther away in her eyes [03:09.09] [03:13.75]She holds her babies like she holds her dreams [03:17.56] [03:18.77]Each night she kisses and rocks them to sleep while [03:23.26] [03:23.83]She reads the letters she makes me promise to write [03:29.43] [03:44.18]Sweet Abliena looks out at the Midwestern sky