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Sing Goodbye

from Pretty Bird by Cosy Sheridan

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I wrote this in the weeks after I learned that TR was ill. If I am overwhelmed emotionally, I often pick up my guitar and sing. I sing when I don’t know / I sing to hold on and I sing to let go

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Sing Goodbye

I read your letter
The big goodbye
The train will come
We are born and we die
Is there a beautiful reason
Is it a beautiful sight
The nightbird flies into the morning light

I heard about
All the pain you’re in
I saw your picture
You are looking very thin
I am looking for the muscle
That makes happiness
I like things neat
And this is a mess

CHORUS:
I sing when I don’t know
I sing to hold on
And I sing to let go
I sing as you fall from the sky
I sing I’m sorry,
I sing goodbye

In all this loss
Something found
I dreamed last night I found gold in the ground
Beneath the tree we had planted
That did not survive
You lifted up that tree and you held it high

CHORUS:
I sing when I don’t know
I sing to hold on
And I sing to let go
I sing as you fall from the sky
I sing I’m sorry,
I sing goodbye


© Cosy Sheridan, Cosyng Music 2013 BMI

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from Pretty Bird, released February 14, 2014

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Cosy Sheridan Harrisville, New Hampshire

Cosy Sheridan has been called “one of the era’s finest and most thoughtful songwriters.” Her CD "My Fence & My Neighbor" was in the Top 10 of 2018 on folk radio. "Pretty Bird" was listed among Sing Out Magazine’s Great CDs of 2014. “You can't make it into double digits, and continue touring for twenty or so years, unless you know what you're doing, and do it well,” - The Chicago Examiner. ... more

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