Chorus: C D Just like the white winged dove sings a song sounds like shes singin Em Ooh Ooh Ooh C D Just like the white winged dove sings a song sounds like shes singin Em Ooh Ooh Ooh Verse 1: C D And the days go by like a strand in the wind Em In the web that is my own I begin again C D Em Said to my friend, Baby, nothing else mattered C D Em He was no more than a baby then C D Well well he, seemed broken-hearted Em I was something within him
Chorus: C D Em But the moment that I first laid eyes on him C D Em All alone on the edge of seventeen Chorus: C D Just like the white winged dove sings a song sounds like shes singin Em Ooh Ooh Ooh C D Well just like the white winged dove sings a song sounds like shes singin Em Ooh Ooh Ooh Verse 2: C D Em Well I went today maybe I will go again tomorrow C D Em Well well, the music there well it was hauntingly familiar C D When I see you doin what I try to do for me Em With the words from a poet and a voice from a choir C D Em And a melody, nothin else mattered Chorus: C D Just like the white winged dove sings a song sounds like shes singin Em Ooh Ooh Ooh C D Just like the white winged dove sings a song sounds like shes singin Em Ooh baby Ooh said Ooh Bridge: Em D C D C The clouds never expect it when it rains but the sea changes color D C But the sea does not change C the sea does not change C It does not change. Dows it? Em D C D So with the slow graceful glow of age C D C D I went forth with an age old desire to please C D C D On the edge of seventeen Em C D Em Oooooooooooooooh Interlude: C D Em Em Chorus: C D Just like the white winged dove sings a song sounds like shes singin Em Ooh Ooh Ooh C D Just like the white winged dove sings a song sounds like shes singin Em Ooh baby Ooh said Ooh Verse 3: C D Em Well then suddenly there was no one left standin in the hall C D Em Well, well, in a flood of tears that no one really ever heard fall at all C D I went searchin for an answer up the stairs and down the hall Em C D But I did not find an answer but just to hear the call of a nightbird Em Singin come away, come now, come away Chorus: C D Just like the white winged dove sings a song sounds like shes singin Em Ooh baby Ooh said Ooh C D Just like the white winged dove sings a song sounds like shes singin to ya Em Ooh baby Ooh said Ooh Bridge: Em D C D Well I hear you in the mornin' and I hear you at nightfall Em D C D C D Em And sometimes to be near you is to be unable to hear you my love C D Im a few years older than you all Em (Im a few years older than you) Chorus: C D Just like the white winged dove sings a song sounds like shes singin Em Ooh baby Ooh said Ooh C D Just like the white winged dove sings a song sounds like shes singin to ya Em Ooh baby Ooh said Ooh Tag 1: C D Em I hear the call of a nightbird C D Em I hear the call of a nightbird C D Em I still hear the call of a nighbird oh oh he says C D Em I hear the call of a nightbird oh yeah Interlude: C D Em Em C D Em Em C D Em Em C D Em Em C D Em Em C D Em Em C D Em Em C D Em Em Tag 2: C D Em She says "I wont leave in the middle of the night baby, I think about you." Oh C D Em She says "I wont leave in the middle of the night baby, I think about you." C D She says "I know what it sounds like" Em "I know what it sounds like" C D Em "I know what it sounds like, it sounds like you" Outro: C D Em Em C D Em Em C D Em Em C D Em Em C D Em Em C D Em Em C D Em Em C D Em Em