Dar Williams - Crystal creek

You, so fleet and youthful, must have ^Fsplit a thousand apples Oh, I ^Amwatched you as you steadied first your^F heart then your breath ^CVenturing out, you scanned a ^Fthousand blades of grass And when you ^Amdrew your bowstring, it was a ^Fswift and cordial death ^Dm

As you stood in the ^Fwilderness ^DmDid you feel the silence in the ^Fstillness? That was ^Cme, with you ^Emin the for^Gest For you ^Cknew the balances, the balan^Emces before us ^FI was guarding Crystal, Crys^Ctal ^AmCreek ^G

Oh, a ^Ctree, it's a record, a ^Fhome of memories And every ^Ambird springs from an old master's ^Fcanvas, full in flight And the ^Cpond I go to, sparkles ^Fin a vast estuary ^AmAnd those men saw nothing, staring ^Fdrunken through their sites ^Dm

The one who spied me out as ^Fgoods to plunder I ^Dmhad to show the world that he was ^Fnot a true hunter That was ^Cme, when he ^Emsaw me naked ^GHe was ^Cinterrupting something^Em sacred ^FI was guarding Crystal, Crys^Ctal ^AmCreek ^G

And the ^Cnewsmen circled, leaving ^Ftrails of cigarette butts Machine-^Amlike up the ^Fhill to Crystal Creek ?^C??James,” she said, “who ^Fwould do this thing I've seen today. I ^Amcannot hold my mic, my hands are shaking, ^Fknees are weak.”^Dm

“They found a man and he wa^Fs wrapped in a deerskin, ^DmRiddled through with boxes of his ^Ffriends' ammunition. Turn the ^Dmcamera off,” she said^G. That was ^Cme, oh, my ^Emnoble animals You must ^Cact with reverence, with reverence, ^Emnot like cannibals ^FI was guarding Crystal, Crys^Ctal ^AmCreek ^{G C}