Paper Wings

© 1989 Stephen Savitzky. CC-by-nc-sa.

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	G	C	G
	She sits alone by candle-light and	sings a wistful	song

	D7	D6	D7	D	D7	D6	D	G
Of	freedom from a world	where	she	will	nev	er	quite	belong

	D5	(G)	D5	C	G
She	takes a square of paper	and	she	folds it as she	sings;

	D7	D6	D7	D	C	G	D	G
A	tiny dragon lifts	its	head	and	spreads	its	pa	per wings.

D5 (G) D5 G

Listen to the song she sings

D C G

so late into the night

D Dsus4 D Dsus2

She folds the tiny pap er wings

D C G Gsus4 G

and dreams of dra gon flight

C D7 D5 G C G6

Dra gon flight dragon flight

D7 D6 G9\,G

dragon flight dra gon flight

She recalls the pretty legend that they told in days gone by

If you fold a thousand paper cranes then you may never die.

A tiny dragon perches on a chip of crystal stone;

Would a thousand paper dragons have a magic of their own?

She folds them through the autumn rains and silent winter snow:

A thousand squares of paper by the candle's quiet glow.

She sings her songs of dragon-flight; the night is soft and deep;

And paper dragons watch her bed to guard her in her sleep.

At last upon a rose-red dawn the day breaks clear and warm;

A thousand tiny dragons whirl around her like a storm.

She watches them in wonderment 'til like the song she sings,

She rises with them free to fly away on paper wings.

(x) -- just play the note x, no chord.

This was commissioned by Cathy Cook and Carolly Hawksdottir, inspired by Fred Small's song ``Cranes Over Hiroshima'' and Carolly's origami dragons.