Eb                       Ab
I'll learn to love the fallow way
     Eb                       Bb
When winter draws the valley down
     Ab                       Eb/G
And stills the rivers in their storm
     Ab                       Bb
And freezes all the little brooks

     Eb                       Ab
Time when our steps slow to the song
     Eb                       Bb
Of falling flakes and crackling flames
     Ab                       Eb/G
When silver stars are high and still
     Ab                       Bb
Deep in the velvet of the sky

     Ab                       Eb
The crystal time the silence times
     Ab                       Eb
I'll learn to love their quietness
     Ab                       Eb/G
While deep beneath the glistening snow
     Ab                       Bb
The black earth dreams of violets
     Ab                       Eb
I'll learn to love the fallow time

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     Eb                       Ab
I'll learn to love the fallow way
     Eb                       Bb
When all my colors fade to white
     Ab                       Eb/G
And flying birds fold back their wings
     Ab                       Bb
Upon my anxious wonderings

     Eb                       Ab
The sun has slanted all her rays
     Eb                       Bb
Across the vast and harvest plains
     Ab                       Eb/G
My memories mingle in the dawn
     Ab                       Bb
I dream a joyful vagabonds

     Ab                       Eb
The crystal time the silence times
     Ab                       Eb
I'll learn to love their quietness
     Ab                       Eb/G
While deep beneath the glistening snow
     Ab                       Bb
The black earth dreams of violets
     Ab                       Eb
I'll learn to love the fallow time

--
     Bbm                      Eb
No drummer comes across the plains
     Bbm                      Eb
To tell of triumph or of pain
     Bbm                      Eb
No word far off battle's cry
     Bbm                      Eb
To draw me out or draw me nigh

--

     Eb                       Ab
I'll learn to love the fallow way
     Eb                       Bb
And gather in the patient fruits
     Ab                       Eb/G
And after autumn's blaze and burn
     Ab                       Bb
I'll know the feel of still, deep roots

     Eb                       Ab
That nothing seem to know or need
     Eb                       Bb
That crack the ice in frozen ponds
     Ab                       Eb/G
And slumbering in winter's folds
     Ab                       Bb
Have dreams of green and blue and gold

     Eb                       Ab
I'll learn to love the fallow way
     Eb                       Bb
And listening for blossoming
     Ab                       Eb
Of my own heart once more in spring

     Ab                       Eb
As sure as time, as sure as snow
     Ab                       Eb
As sure as moonlight, wind and stars
     Ab                       Eb/G
The fallow time will fall away
     Ab                       Bb
The sun will bring an April day
     Ab                       Eb
And I will yield to Summer's way