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Lay down your weary tune, lay down

 Lay down the song you strum

 And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings

 No voice can hope to hum

Struck by the sounds before the sun

 I knew the night had gone

 The morning breeze like a bugle blew

 Against the drums of dawn

Lay down your weary tune, lay down

 Lay down the song you strum

 And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings

 No voice can hope to hum

The ocean wild like an organ played

 The seaweed wove it s strands

 The crashin waves like cymbals clashed

 Against the rocks and sands

Lay down your weary tune, lay down

 Lay down the song you strum

 And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings

 No voice can hope to hum

The last of leaves fell from the trees

 And clung to a new loves breast

 The branches bare like a banjo played

 To the winds that listened best

Lay down your weary tune, lay down

 Lay down the song you strum

 And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings

 No voice can hope to hum