Name: Tiny Sparrow
Duration: P00H04M01S
Description: This track combines the two most popular versions of the song, as performed by Peter Paul and Mary, and The Carter Sisters.

Tiny Sparrow

from Wildwood Flower by Cory Goodrich

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This track combines the two most popular versions of the song, as performed by Peter Paul and Mary, and The Carter Sisters.

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Come all ye fair and tender maidens
Take warning how you court your men
They're like the stars on a summer's mornin'
First they'll appear and then they're gone

If I had known before I courted
What all his lyin' could have done
I'd have locked my heart in a box of golden
And never would have courted none

I wish I were a tiny sparrow
And I had wings and I could fly
I'd fly away to my own true lover
And all he'd ask I would deny

For love is handsome, love is charming
And love is pretty while it's new
But love grows cold as love grows old
And fades away like the mornin' dew
And fades away like the mornin' dew

Alas I'm not a tiny sparrow
I have not wings nor can I fly
And on this earth in grief and sorrow
I am bound until I die

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from Wildwood Flower, released August 2, 2016

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Cory Goodrich Chicago, Illinois

Cory Goodrich is a singer/songwriter with two award winning children's CDs, Hush and Wiggly Toes, a country album: W.O.M.A.N. The winner of the 2015 Cohen-Grappel Recording Endowment, Cory released Wildwood Flower. Her latest album, Long Way Around, produced by Ethan Deppe of The Quiet Regret, is companion piece to her best-selling memoir, Folksong: A Ballad of Death, Discovery, and DNA ... more

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