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<P><CENTER><I><STRONG>Cygnet</STRONG><BR>
Words and Music by Beth Hudson Wheeler<BR>
Inspired by <I><B>The Sorceress and the Cygnet</B></I> by Patricia McKillip<BR>
8/15/08<BR>
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  C        D         G       C
Children dance in a ring of song
  C        D            G      C
Chanting rhymes to the stars above
 C      D       G        C  
You and I will always belong
  C           D       C        D 
Close to the simple things we love

     Em            D      C    D
But legend comes shining into day
 Em       D        C        D
Falling brilliant from the sky
 G           D        C      Em
What is too heavy a price to pay?
 C         D         C        D
What lies under the Cygnet’s eye?

Birds that burn in a house of dreams
Mirrors show what lies within
Naught is ever as it seems
What must I release to win?

Free the King from his chains of gold
Loose the Weaver’s ancient thread
Free the Dancer from the cold
Cede the Warlock’s star of red

Em       D            C       Em
And the black swans still fly on
 Em     D     C       D
Winging dark into the dawn

Tangled web of power and time
Gathered here from out of night
Conjured by a smallfolk rhyme
Shadowing the Cygnet’s flight

What I know I never learned
Chosen guardian from the start
Destiny can yet be turned
How can I find the Cygnet’s heart?
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