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White Dove

from A Game of Swans by Nancy K Dillon

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White Dove © 2018 Nancy K. Dillon (BMI)

Old-timey secular gospel song about freedom & redemption – and it's a crooked tune for you fiddlers.

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White Dove
© 2018 Nancy K. Dillon (BMI)

I have been burdened and laden with chains
Lost in a prison without any name
Locked up so long now each year seems the same
But I’m gonna fly tonight
When the moon turns to flame

CHORUS

As a White Dove I’ll fly
Over water so wide and so deep
Straight into your strong arms
For I know they will keep me safe
Into the bright morning
Through the dimming of day
Then you’ll watch o’er my dreaming
Till again we shall wake

Hard knocks and troubles have haunted my door
My body is tired, it’s weak and it’s sore
Climbing this mountain, I don’t know what for
I think I will fly tonight
When the moon lights the shore

CHORUS

White dove gonna fly
Over water so wide and so deep
Straight into your strong arms
For I know they will keep me safe
Into the bright morning
Through the dimming of day
Then you’ll watch o’er my dreaming
Till again we shall wake

credits

from A Game of Swans, released January 20, 2018
Personnel:
NKD – acoustic guitar/vocal
Stacy Phillips – resonator guitar (dobro)
Michael Connolly – fiddle
Ollie Collins – acoustic bass

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Nancy K Dillon Seattle, Washington

On her albums, Nancy K. Dillon maps the road West; the dusty highways that conjure up images like Kerouac's road trips, traveling dustbowl carnivals, and free-spirited 70s hipsters. Inspired by Oklahoma & Texas troubadours Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and Kevin Welch, Dillon's songs are short stories about characters that populate true American life. ... more

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