Biography:
Bill Staines is an American songwriter and folk singer from New England, well known for composing children's songs as well as folk songs with a timeless quality. In the early 1960s he started his professional career in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. Staines began touring nationwide a few years later. In 1975 he won the National Yodeling Championship at the Kerrville Folk Festival. He performs about 200 times a year and has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, and The Good Evening Show.
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Coyote
by Bill Staines
D
Here in the dawn,
A Bm Bm/A
You got me listenin' to your song once again;
G A D
I love how it climbs and it hangs upon the wind.
D
Here in the dawn,
A Bm Bm/A
You got me dreamin' to your song once again.
G A D
We all get to dreamin' now and then-
G A D D7
So that's all right, coyote, my old friend
G D
How come you call so lonesome?
F# Bm
How come you sound so blue?
G
Is there somethin' inside,
D
That you just can't hide?
F# Bm
Has somethin' come over you?
G A D
That's all right, we all get lonesome too.
D
Here in the dawn
A Bm Bm/A
You got me listenin' to your song once again;
G A D
I love how it climbs and it hangs upon the wind.
D
Here in the dawn,
A Bm Bm/A
You got me cryin' to your song once again,
G A D
We all get to losin' now and then,
G A D
So that's all right, coyote, my old friend.
by Bill Staines
D
Here in the dawn,
A Bm Bm/A
You got me listenin' to your song once again;
G A D
I love how it climbs and it hangs upon the wind.
D
Here in the dawn,
A Bm Bm/A
You got me dreamin' to your song once again.
G A D
We all get to dreamin' now and then-
G A D D7
So that's all right, coyote, my old friend
G D
How come you call so lonesome?
F# Bm
How come you sound so blue?
G
Is there somethin' inside,
D
That you just can't hide?
F# Bm
Has somethin' come over you?
G A D
That's all right, we all get lonesome too.
D
Here in the dawn
A Bm Bm/A
You got me listenin' to your song once again;
G A D
I love how it climbs and it hangs upon the wind.
D
Here in the dawn,
A Bm Bm/A
You got me cryin' to your song once again,
G A D
We all get to losin' now and then,
G A D
So that's all right, coyote, my old friend.
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