Lay Down Your Weary Tune

by The Byrds

From the album: Turn! Turn! Turn!

Track 4 of 18 on Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965).

Duration: 3:29

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Lyrics for Lay Down Your Weary Tune

Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum Struck by the sounds before the sun I knew the night had gone The morning breeze like a bugle blew Against the drums of dawn Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum The ocean wild like an organ played The seaweeds wove in strands The crashin' waves like cymbals clashed Against the rocks and sands Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum The last of leaves fell from the trees And clung to a new love's breast The branches bare like a banjo mourned To the winds that listened best Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum

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  2. It Won't Be Wrong
  3. Set You Free This Time
  4. Lay Down Your Weary Tune
  5. He Was a Friend Of Mine
  6. The World Turns All Around Her
  7. Satisfied Mind
  8. If You're Gone
  9. The Times They Are A-Changin'
  10. Wait and See
  11. Oh! Susannah
  12. The Day Walk (Never Before)
  13. She Don't Care About Time - Single Version
  14. The Times They Are A-Changin' - First Version
  15. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Version One
  16. She Don't Care About Time - version 1 - take 2; Previously Unissued
  17. The World Turns All Around Her - Alternate Mix; Previously Unissued
  18. Stranger in a Strange Land - Instrumental