Autumn

C Em F Driven through by her own sword C Em G F Summer died last night, alone Em G F Am Even the ghosts huddled up for warmth C Em G F Autumn has come to my hometown C Em F Friendly voices, dead and gone C Em G F Singing, Star of the country down Em G F Am (Even the ghosts help raise the barn C Em G F Here now in my hometown) D When out of the massing C G F A D that bodes and bides, In the cold West C G F A D Flew a waxwing who froze and died against my breast D C G F A D And all the while, rain, like a weed in the tide, swans and lisps C G F A D Down on the gossiping lawns, saying, "tsk, tsk, tsk" C Em I may have changed G F It's hard to gauge C Em G F Time won't account for how I've aged Em G F Am Would I could tie your lying tongue C Em G F Who says that leaving keeps you young C Em G F And I have got no control C Em G F Over my heart, over my mind Em G F Am Over the hills, the rainclouds roll C Em G F I'll winter here, wait for a sign D C G To cast myself out over the water F A D Riven like a wishbone You'd hardly guess D C G I was my own mother's daughter F A D I ain't naturally given to roam. D C And I lay low when I return G F A D And I move like a gurney whose wheels are squeaking D C Alone in a home G And I laugh when you speak F A D Of my pleasure-seekin' C G F G Among the ta - ll pines D C G F Along the le-y lines C G F G Here, where the lo-on keens. D C G F There, where the mo-on leans C G F G There, where I know my violent love lays D C G F A D down, in a row of silent dove-grey days C G F G Here in a row of silent dove-grey days C Em G F Wherever I go, I am snow-bound C Em G F By thoughts of him whom I would shun Em G F Am I love them all, one by one C Em Cannot gain ground G F Cannot outrun C Em G F But time marches along C Em G F You can't always stick around Em G F Am But when the final count is done C Em G F I will be in my hometown C G F C I will be in my hometown