Lay Down Your Weary Tune-Billy Bragg

[ti:Well Down Your Weary Tune] [ar:Billy Bragg] [al:Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.98]Well down your weary tune Well down [00:05.96] [00:07.47]Well down the song you strum [00:10.18]And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings [00:14.70] [00:16.59]No voice can hope to hum [00:20.72] [00:24.58]Struck by the sounds before the sun [00:29.52] [00:30.90]I knew the night had gone [00:33.79] [00:34.99]The morning breeze like a bugle blew [00:39.08] [00:41.15]Against the drums of dawn [00:45.41]Well down your weary tune Well down [00:50.23] [00:51.55]Well down the song you strum [00:54.56] [00:55.25]And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings [00:59.60] [01:01.61]No voice can hope to hum [01:07.55] [01:09.98]The ocean wild like an organ pWelled [01:14.66] [01:16.08]The seaweed's wove it's strands [01:20.20]The crashin' waves like cymbals clashed [01:24.57] [01:26.36]Against the rocks and sands [01:30.61]Well down your weary tune Well down [01:35.61] [01:36.45]Well down the song you strum [01:40.76]And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings [01:45.18] [01:47.02]No voice can hope to hum [01:55.55]I stood unwound beneath the skies [02:00.41] [02:01.78]And clouds unbound by laws [02:04.87] [02:05.60]The cryin' rain like a trumpet sang [02:10.44] [02:11.93]And asked for no applause [02:16.19]Well down your weary tune Well down [02:20.99] [02:22.02]Well down the song you strum [02:25.68] [02:26.20]And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings [02:30.42] [02:32.46]No voice can hope to hum [02:38.95] [02:40.98]The last of leaves fell from the trees [02:45.74] [02:47.19]And clung to a new love's breast [02:49.76] [02:50.91]The branches bare like a banjo pWelled [02:55.91] [02:57.08]To the winds that listened best [03:01.25]Well down your weary tune Well down [03:06.22] [03:07.50]Well down the song you strum [03:10.68] [03:11.34]And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings [03:16.37] [03:17.87]No voice can hope to hum [03:24.81] [03:26.21]I gazed down in the river's mirror [03:31.87] [03:32.54]And watched it's winding strum [03:35.32] [03:36.40]The water smooth ran like a hymn [03:40.19] [03:42.53]And like a harp did hum [03:46.71]Well down your weary tune Well down [03:51.68] [03:52.90]Well down the song you strum [03:56.09]And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings [04:00.73] [04:02.22]No voice can hope to hum [04:07.98]Well Down Your Weary Tune - Billy Bragg