The Song of Purple Summer

(Bb)Listen to what's in the heart of a child:

a (F)song so big in one so small.

(Ab6)Soon you will hear where beauty lies.

You'll (Cm)hear and you'll recall...

The (Bb)sadness, the doubt, all the loss,

the grief, will (F)belong to some play from the past,

as the (Ab6)child leads the way to a dream,

a belief, a (Cm)time of hope through the land...

(G)A summer's day,

a mother sings

a (Dm)song of purple summer through the heart (C)of ev'rything.

(G)And Heaven waits,

so close it seems, to (Dm)show her child the wonders of a world (C)beyond her dreams.

(Dm7)The (Cm)earth will wave with (G)corn;

(Gsus2)the (Cm)days so wide, so (G)warm.

(Gsus2)And (Cm)mares (Dm)will (Cm)neigh (F)with (G)stallions (F)that they (Eb)mate,

foals (Bb)they've (C)borne.

And (Bbsus)all shall know the (F)wonder

of purple (G)summer.

And so I wait.

The swallow brings a (Dm)song of what's to follow,

the (C)glory of the (Dm7)spring...

(G)The fences sway,

the porches swing.

The (Dm)clouds begin to thunder, crickets (C)wander,

(Dm7)murmuring. The (Cm)earth will wave with (G)corn.

(Gsus2)The (Cm)days so wide, so (G)warm.

(Gsus2)And (Cm)mares (Dm)will (Cm)neigh (F)with (G)stallions (F)that they (Eb)mate,

foals (Bb)they've (C)borne.

And (Bbsus)all shall know the (F)wonder.

I will sing the song (G)of purple (Gsus2)summer.

(Bbsus)All shall know the (F)wonder.

I will sing the song (G)of purple (Gsus2)summer.

(Bbsus)All shall know the (F)wonder of purple (G)summer.