Zuly

(início)

INTRO: C  F  C  F
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And the good earth shook, the day that Jesus was reborn
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In Anchorage, March the twenty-seventh, nineteen sixty-four
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When he came back this time though, it was as a baby girl
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Her parents said her mission was the same, to save the world
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God looked down and said, "Oh, the times they are a'changing.
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I will send my only daughter, as soon as I complete the staging"
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All the land shook and rolled and split, there was no warning
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Except Gabriel had told the mom, she'd arrive Good Friday morning
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And so it came to pass, that her parents named her Zuly
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A bright and happy child, also wilful and unruly
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The birds would come and visit her, they wished they could take her with them
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When they left their roosts for winter, she would always miss them
BRIDGE:
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Zuly won a scholarship, though the classes mostly bored her
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She loved the other students though and the teachers all adored her
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"We learned more from her" they said, "than we could ever teach her
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But, there were times when we just could not reach her"
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She said, "We are here to love each other, that is all"
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And organized religion, that's comparatively small"
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Not that I don't love all those so-called holy ones"
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Why are there so few daughters among the leaders of my sons?"
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Now she runs a charter boat on Resurrection Bay
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She takes tourists to see the wild creatures, every summer's day
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In fall she teaches bush kids, at the boarding school in Sitka
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On those long December nights, she is the light of winter