When Blues Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

[Verse 1] Sing on, Sing on, You blue-black bird! Pour your chant from the bushes, From the swamps, the recesses! [Pre-Chorus] Limitless, out of the dusk - out of the cedars and pines [Chorus (raw, shouted)] Sing on, sister! Sing on, sister! Reedy song, human woe, Loud and wild, let it go! Sing on [Verse 2] Liquid and free, tender and wild, Loose to my soul—wondrous singer! I only hear you— But the star, the star holds me - but will soon depart! [Bridge (short, jagged)] Yet the blues, the blues, The odor, the blues O shades of night O moody, tearful night! O helpless soul of me! [Pre-Chorus] Hold me—hold me close! It holds me [Chorus (again, faster / shouted)] Sing on, sister! Sing on, sister! Reedy song, human woe, Loud and wild, let it go! Sing on Sing on [Outro] Sing on… Rave on, rave on! Rave on, sister! You blue-black bird, Tell me not to be lonely Sing on with me Rave on till the night is gone.