SOMETIMES WHEN I GET TO THINKIN'
(Buffy Saint-Marie)

Buffy Sainte-Marie - 1965



Sometimes I recall what others have said
Love is for lovers in love and full grown
Life's for the living and death's for the dead
And the depth of a heart is a fathom unknown

Sometimes when I get to thinkin' about you
And all the things that we've never said
To each other, it seems such a shame to go blue
When there's so many years to lie silent and dead

I know you know all about life
You know I know nothing at all
Still why should I ever feel blue
When the blink of your eye makes me glad I'm so small

Think of the years before we were a pair
Years lived apart we spent learning to farm
Sowing and growing and learning to care
For ourselves and preparing for each other's arms

Love is a flower, blooms when we're too young
Pluck it it's gone, tended it grows
We've been tending since the first sprout was sprung
To the most patient farmer the best harvest grows

Sometimes I recall what others have said
Love is for lovers in love and full grown
Life's for the living and death's for the dead
And the depth of a heart is a fathom unknown


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - April 2018)