Lay down your weary tune, lay down   Lay down the song you strum   And rest yourself 'neath 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 'neath the strength of strings   No voice can hope to hum      The ocean wild like an organ played   The seaweeds wove its strands   The crashin' waves like cymbals clashed   Against the rocks and the sands      Lay down your weary tune, lay down   Lay down the song you strum   And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings   No voice can hope to hum      I stood unwound beneath the skies   And clouds unbound by laws   The cryin' rain like a trumpet sang   And asked for no applause      Lay down your weary tune, lay down   Lay down the song you strum   And rest yourself 'neath 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 moaned   To the winds that listened best      I gazed down in the river's mirror   And watched its winding strum   The water smooth ran like a hymn   And like a harp did hum      Lay down your weary tune, lay down   Lay down the song you strum   And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings   No voice can hope to hum