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I GIVE YOU THE MORNING
Tom Paxton

1. Ever again the morning creeps across your shoulders.
Through the frosted window pane the sun grows bolder.
Your hair flows down your pillow. you're still sleeping.

CHORUS: I think I'll wake you now and hold you,
Tell you again the things I've told you.
Behold, I give you the morning. I give you the day.

2. Through the waving curtain wall the sun comes streaming.
Far behind your flickering eyelids, you're still dreaming.
You're dreaming of the good times, and you're smiling. CHORUS

3. Close beneath the window sill the earth is humming.
Like an eager Christmas child, the day is coming.
Listen to the morning song it's singing. CHORUS

4. Like an antique ballroom fan, your eyelids flutter.
Sunlight streams across your eyes through open shutters.
Now I think you're ready for the journey. CHORUS


[Sung by Tom Paxton on "Things I Notice Now" (1969), "Even a Gray Day" (1983), "Storyteller" (1989), "Live in Concert" (1998), and "American Troubadour" (2003).

[Also sung by Jim McCann on "Seems like a Long Time: A Jim McCann Retrospective" (2004).]