I'll Try for the Sun

Donovan Leitch / Donovan: Fairytale (1965)

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	We	stood in the	win-	dy	city,

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The	gypsy	boy and	I.

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	We	slept on the	breeze	in the	midnight

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With	rain droppin'	tears in our	eyes.

We huddled in a derelict building,

And when he thought I was asleep,

He laid his poor coat round my shoulder,

And shivered there beside me in a heap.

We sang and cracked the sky with laughter,

Our breath turned to mist in the cold.

Our years put together count to thirty,

But our eyes told the dawn we were old.

Mirror, mirror, hanging in the sky,

Won't you look down what's happening here below?

I stand here singing to the flowers,

So very few people really know.

We stood in the windy city,

The gypsy boy and I.

We slept on the breeze in the midnight

With the rain droppin' tears in our eyes.