Emmylou Harris    Michelangelo written by Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris   acoustic guitar
Ethan Johns      guitar
Malcolm Burn    bass, drum


Ab
Last night I dreamed about you

I dreamed that you were older

You were looking like Picasso
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With a scar across your shoulder
         Db
You were kneeling by the river

You were digging up the bodies
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Buried long ago
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Michelangelo
Ab
Last night I dreamed about you

I dreamed you were a pilgrim
   
On a highway out alone to find
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The mother of your children
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Who were still unborn and waiting

In the wings of some desire
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Abandoned long ago
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Michelangelo
          Fm
Were you there at Armageddon
    Eb
Was Paris really burning
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Could I have been the one to pull you
         Db
From the point of no returning
Db
And did I hear you calling out my name
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Or was it forgotten long ago
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Michelangelo    oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Ab
Last night I dreamed about you

I dreamed that you were riding

On a blood red painted pony
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Up where the heavens were dividing
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And the angels turned to ashes

You came tumbling with them to earth
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So Far below
    Ab
Michelangelo
Ab
Last night I dreamed about you

I dreamed that you were dying

In a field of thorn and roses
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With a hawk about you crying
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For the warrior slain in battle

From an arrow driven deep inside you
Ab       Db       Ab
Long ago   Michelangelo
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Did you suffer at the end
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Would there be no one to remember
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Did you banish all the old ghosts
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With the terms of surrender

And could you hear me calling out your name
                         Ab         Db
Well I guess that I will never know
      Ab
Michelangelo
Ab
Last night I dreamed about you

I dreamed that you were weeping

And your tears poured down like diamonds
      Fm
For a love beyond all keeping
       Db
And you caught them one by one
                                           Ab      Db
In a million silk bandanas that I gave you long ago
      Ab
Michelangelo



From Emmylou Harris "Red Dirt Girl"
Nonesuch Records 2000
Poodlebone Music(ASCAP)