Lyrics:

''Meadowlark''**lf****lf**When I was a girl, I had a favourite story**lf**Of the meadowlark who lived where the rivers wind**lf**Her voice could match the angels'' in its glory,**lf**But she was blind,**lf**The lark was blind.**lf****lf**the king of the rivers took her to his palace,**lf**Where the walls were burnished bronze and golden braid,**lf**And he fed her fruit and nuts from an ivory chalice and he prayed**lf****lf**''Sing for me, my meadowlark**lf**Sing for me of the silver morning.**lf**Set me free, my meadowlark**lf**And I''ll buy you a priceless jewel,**lf**And cloth of brocade and crewel,**lf**And I''ll love you for life if you will**lf**Sing for me.''**lf****lf**Than one day as the lark sang by the water**lf**The god of the sun heard her in his flight**lf**And her singing moved him so, he came and brought her**lf**The gift of sight,**lf**He gave her sight.**lf**And she opened her eyes to the shimmer and the splendour**lf**Of this beautiful young god, so proud and strong**lf**And he called to the lark in a voice both rough and tender,**lf**''Come along,**lf****lf**Fly with me, my meadowlark,**lf**Fly with me on the silver morning.**lf**Past the sea where the dolphins bark,**lf**We will dance on the coral beaches,**lf**Make a feast of the plums and peaches,**lf**Just as far as your vision reaches,**lf**Fly with me.''**lf****lf**But the meadowlark said no,**lf**For the old king loved her so,**lf**She couldn''t bear to wound his pride.**lf**So the sun god flew away and when the king came down that day,**lf**He found his meadowlark had died.**lf**Every time I heard that part I cried.**lf****lf**And now I stand here, starry-eyed and stormy.**lf**Oh, just when I thought my heart was finally numb,**lf**A beautiful young man appears before me**lf**Singing ''Come**lf**Oh, won''t you come?''**lf**And what can I do if finally for the first time**lf**The one I''m burning for returns the glow?**lf**If love has come at last it''s picked the worst time**lf**Still I know**lf**I''ve got to go.**lf****lf**Fly away, meadowlark.**lf**Fly away in the silver morning.**lf**If I stay, I''ll grow to curse the dark,**lf**So it''s off where the days won''t bind me.**lf**I know I leave wounds behind me,**lf**But I won''t let tomorrow find me**lf**Back this way.**lf****lf**Before my past once again can blind me,**lf**Fly away.**lf****lf**And we won''t wait to say goodbye,**lf**My beautiful young man and I.**lf**