LITTLE PERENNIALS (Amy Ray)
No Capo
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Back in the long stretch of loneliness
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I have come to call a living,
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I'm getting something for all this love's labor,
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even when I am forgetting.
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Oh we oh oh little perennials
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where'd you come from?
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Daughter of my father's second cousin,
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loyalties, I got em by the dozen.
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We share a past, we share a blood relation
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and that's as good as an invitation.
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Oh we oh oh little perennials
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where'd you come from?
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I'm in the North Carolina Mountains,
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just to the west of where I met my calling.
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If you look south to the foothills of these mountains rising,
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that's the place where it feels good falling.
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That's the place that I know.
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I look for words to fill the empty spaces,
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all the life revealed in these back stages.
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I reach for names like little puzzle pieces;
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oh perennial, come to me.
Cm
Oh we oh oh little perennials
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where'd you come from?
Enjoy!