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Sleeping in Her Evening Gown

from Coyote Wings by Zoe Mulford

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A love-song for a city at night

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She is sleeping in her evening gown
blue velvet sewn with copper sequins
Glittering rivers stitched on by hand
follow her curves, give you the lay of the land
Oh, tread softly, don't make a sound
She's sleeping in her evening gown

She is sleeping in her evening gown
Every night, it takes so long to dress
She puts on her jewels and lies back down
just for a moment - just to stay fresh
and oh, she'd blush to know she's been found
here sleeping in her evening gown

Don't disturb her, just observe her
in her shimmering crazy quilt
Hovering above her, it's so easy to love her
She's so beautifully built

(She's sleeping - shhhhh)

The vision revolves and slowly resolves
into the street map of your home town
The plane touches down
and she's just the same old city, she's gritty and loud
but wasn't she pretty from up in the clouds
when you could see for miles around
when she was a goddess in a beaded bodice
sleeping in her evening gown
sleeping in her evening gown

© 2012 Zoe Mulford/ SquashFlower (ASCAP)

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from Coyote Wings, released January 1, 2013

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Zoe Mulford Manchester, UK

American songwriter Zoe Mulford is best known for "The President Sang Amazing Grace," which has been covered by Joan Baez and the Kronos Quartet and was the International Folk Awards Song of the Year in 2018.

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