Love, the Magician
Love's Enchanting Journey: A Tale of Pride, Longing, and the Magic of Two Souls
Lyrics
She come down from oklahoma with her brown-eyed pride and joy
She comes from Oklahoma with her beloved brown-eyed pride and joy.
She come down from oklahoma with her brown-eyed pride and joy
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The fair-haired desdemona and her ramblin guitar boy
The fair-haired Desdemona and her traveling guitar-playing boy.
Well they kept to thorn-brake thickets 'cause her daddy was a log-chain man
They stuck to thorn-brake thickets because her father worked with log chains.
Yeah they kept to thorn-brake thickets 'cause her daddy was a log-chain man
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On a night as long and wicked as the scar on his tattooed hand
On a night as long and wicked as the scar on her father's tattooed hand.
Fly away, fly away little wildwood flower
Fly away, fly away little wildwood flower.
Lift your cares to the wind coyote and whine
Lift your cares to the wind, coyote, and whine.
Your rolling tears, your restless visions
Your rolling tears, your restless visions.
Rattle up to love, the magician
Rattle up to love, the magician.
Well, he tracked 'em by the muddy waters, and he trailed 'em by the lonely lake
He tracked them by the muddy waters and trailed them by the lonely lake.
Yeah he tracked 'em by the muddy waters, and he trailed 'em by the lonely lake
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But he only saw two young otters swimmin over by the farther bank
But he only saw two young otters swimming over by the farther bank.
Fly away, fly away ...
Fly away, fly away...
They stole through the head-high blossoms when he set his hound dogs run
They sneaked through the head-high blossoms when he set his hound dogs to run.
Yeah they stole through the head-high blossoms when he set his hound dogs run
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And they dogs treed two white possoms at the risin of an angry sun
And their dogs treed two white possums at the rising of an angry sun.
Fly away, fly away ...
Fly away, fly away...
When the old man come to find 'em there wasn't nothin for to meet the eye
When the old man came to find them, there was nothing for him to see.
When the old man come to find 'em there wasn't nothin for to meet the eye
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Just a pair of lovebirds risin in the blue and boundless sky
Just a pair of lovebirds rising in the blue and boundless sky.
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