Intro:
Em Em Em Em
Chorus:
C D
Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she”s singing
Em Em
Whoo… whoo… whoo…
C D
Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she”s singing
Em Em
Whoo… whoo… whoo…
Verse:
C D
And the days go by Like a strand in the wind…
Em Em
In the web that is my own I begin again
C D Em Em
Said to my friend, baby Nothin” else mattered
C D Em Em
He was no more… than a baby then
C D Em Em
Well he… seemed broken hearted Something within him
C D Em Em
But the moment that I first laid Eyes on him. all alone…
C D Em Em
On the edge of… seventeen
Chorus:
C D
Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she”s singing
Em Em
Whoo… whoo… whoo…
C D
Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she”s singing
Em Em
Whoo… whoo… whoo…
Verse:
C D Em Em
I went today… maybe I will go again… Tomorrow
C D Em Em
And the music there it was hauntingly…Familiar
C D
And I see you doing…What I try to do for me
Em Em
With the words from a poet…And the voice from a choir
C D Em Em
And a melody… nothing else mattered
Chorus:
C D
Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she”s singing
Em Em
Whoo… whoo… whoo…
C D
Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she”s singing
Em Em
Whoo… whoo… whoo…
Bridge:
Em Em Em
The clouds… never expect it…When it rains
Em C C C C
But the sea changes colours…But the sea…Does not change
Em Em Em Em
And so… with the slow…graceful flow…Of age
C C C C C C C
I went forth… with an age old…Desire… to please On the edge of… seventeen
Breakdown: go back to intro on A string
Chorus:
C D
Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she”s singing
Em Em
Whoo… whoo… whoo…
C D
Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she”s singing
Em Em
Whoo… whoo… whoo…
Verse:
C D Em Em
Well then suddenly there was no one left standin in the hall
C D Em Em
Yeah Yeah, in a flood of tears that no one really ever heard fall at all
C D
Well I went searchin for an answer up the stairs and down the hall
Em Em C D
Not to find an answer but just to hear the call of a night bird
Em Em
Singin come away, come away, come away
Chorus:
C D
Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she”s singing
Em Em
Whoo… whoo… whoo…
C D
Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she”s singing
Em Em
Whoo… whoo… whoo…
Bridge:
Em D Em D
Well I hear you in the mornin” and I hear you at nightfall
Em D Em D C D Em Em
And sometimes to be near you is to be unable to hear you my love
C D Em Em
I”m a few years older than you my love
Chorus:
C D
Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she”s singing
Em Em Em (hold)
Ooo baby..ooo…said ooo