The Blackberry Moon

C# G# D# G# C# G# D# Fm C# G# D# G# Coming down the thorny hill C# G# D# Fm Spinning through the color wheel C# G# D# G# It takes so long to understand C# G# D# Fm You can't hold on to everything Fm C# G# My father used to bring me in those waning summer days C# G# D# Fm When the vines were heavy with blackberries C# G# We'd fill the buckets over let 'em spill on the trail C# G# D# Fm Until the sun set low and the moon would prevail F# A#m G# How the days will pass F# A#m D# They didn't even ask C# G# D# G# Summer loving is cold and hot C# G# D# Fm You can't trust it ready or not C# G# D# G# Makes you long for the spring again C# G# D# Fm But the seasons they don't rescind F# A#m G# How the days will pass F# A#m D# They take you to task C# G# D# G# Makes you wonder what else there is C# G# D# Fm Makes you wonder why C# G# D# G# What makes a seashell sound how it does C# G# D# Fm What makes two people fall in love Fm C# G# A fisherman would say it's a flick of the wrist C# G# D# Fm A farmer would say it's the cool evening mist C# G# A lawyer would argue it's an airtight case C# G# D# Fm An artist would render the subtleties of a face F# A#m G# How the days will pass F# A#m D# Removing every mask, Ooohh C# G# D# G# Something's changing I'm not sure what C# G# D# Fm But there's clothes to mend and wood to chop C# G# D# G# In the garden, the roses blazing red C# G# D# Fm The wolves come now where they did not tread F# A#m G# Oh the Blackberry moon F# A#m G# Always a day too soon F# A#m G# Blackberry moon F# A#m G# Always a day too soon