Fallow Way Lyrics - Jimmy Webb

I will learn to love the fallow way 

When winter draws the valley down 

And stills the rivers in their storm 

And freezes all the little brooks 

Time when our steps slow to the song 

Of falling flakes and crackling flames 

When silver stars are high and still 

Deep in the velvet of the sky 

The crystal time, the silence times 

I'll learn to love their quietness 

While deep beneath the glistening snow 

The black earth dreams of violets 

I'll learn to love the fallow way 

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I'll learn to love the fallow way 

When all my colors fade to white 

And flying birds fold back their wings 

Upon my ancient wonderings 

The sun has slanted all her rays 

Across the vast and harvest plain 

My memories mingle with the dawn 

I dream of joyful vagabonds 

The crystal times, the silence times 

I'll learn to love their quietness 

While deep beneath the glistening snow 

The black earth dreams of violets 

I'll learn to love the fallow times 

No drummer comes across the plains 

To tell of triumph or of pain 

No word of far off battle's cry 

To draw me out or draw me nigh 

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I will hear the song of root and seed 

Beneath the ice in frozen ponds 

And slumbering in winter's folds 

Their dreams of green and blue and gold 

I will learn to love the fallow way 

And listen for the blossoming 

Of my own heart once more in spring 

As sure as time, as sure as snow 

As sure as moonlight and the stars 

The fallow time will fall away 

The sun will bring an April day 

And I will yield to summer's way