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While I Was Sleeping

from Understudy by The Great Park

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lyrics

while i was sleeping

bad news has come to town
bad news is carried
some say my love is dead
and some say she’s married

as i was pondering this well i took to weeping
they stole my love away while i was sleeping

i could have stayed at home
i could have remained in england
but i got the urge to roam
i had the need to leave there

and i never said goodbye and i never said i’ll see you
and now my love is lost while i was sleeping

so little did i think
so little did i wonder
that the storm was so close
the clouds so full of thunder

i drank until i slept and i didn’t wake for dreaming
and the nightmare came to stay while i was sleeping

Includes lyrics from ‘Brave Wolfe’ from Best Loved American Folk Songs,
collected and arranged by John and Alan Lomax, 1947.

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from Understudy, released December 17, 2017

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Stephen Burch. Problem folk, songs with words.

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