Cry of the Whippoorwill Lyrics

Banjo Intro:
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[Chorus]
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Now listen close and you can hear
Their mournful cries ring through the darkness
Lovers lost and all alone
Spirits two forever roam

[Verse 1]
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Like a nightbird's wail when the wind is still
The sound of river and a whippoorwill
Like the driving rain on a roof of tin
Her words of love call out to him

Fiddle Break:
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[Verse 2]
In the chill of the night through falling snow
Two hearts run wild nowhere to go
Crossing hills and valleys wide
To meet once more on the other side

[Chorus]

Guitar/Banjo Break:
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[Verse 3]
It's a bitter Wind that sings her song
About a love so right and yet so wrong
And promised hearts where passions dwell
No one can see no one can tell

[Verse 4]
Souls lost in time they were never found
Frozen in (? solid?) on the cold hard ground
Forever wild forever free
Wrapped in the arms of eternity

[Chorus]

Mando/Fiddle Break:
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[Chorus]

Vocal Ending:
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Lovers lost and all alone
Spirits two forever roam