Paper Wings
           Copyright 1989 Stephen Savitzky. 	CC by-nc-sa/4.0.
                               For Carolly

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 never 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 paper wings.


    D5            (G)  D5  G
    Listen to the song she sings
    D  C             G
    so late into the night
        D              Dsus4D  Dsus2
    She folds the tiny pap  er wings
    D   C      G     Gsus4G
    and dreams of dragon  flight
       C   D7     D5     GCG6
    Dragon flight dragon flight 
           D7     D6 G9\,G
    dragon flight dragon 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.


Online:
    http://Steve.Savitzky.net/Songs/paper/lyrics.chords.txt

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