Just like the white winged dove

sings a song that sounds like she’s sing in’,

(Em)“Ooh,

ooh,

ooh.”

Just like the white winged dove

sings a song that sounds like she’s sing in’,

(Em)“Ooh, (ba by) ooh, (said) ooh.”

And the (C)days go by like a strand in the wind in the web that is my own.

I be gin a gain.

(C)Said to my friend, “Ba by,

noth in’ else mat (Em)tered.”

(C)He was no more

than a ba by then.

Well, he seemed bro ken heart ed,

some thing with in him.

But the mo ment

that I first laid

(Em)eyes

on

him,

all a lone on (C)the edge of

sev en teen,

Just like the white winged dove sings a song that sounds like she’s sing in’,

(Em)“Ooh, (ba by) ooh,

(said) ooh.”

Just like the white winged dove sings a song that sounds like she’s sing in’,

(Em)“Ooh, (ba by) ooh, (said) ooh.”

Just like the white

Well, I (C)went to day.

May be (D)I will go a gain

to mor row.

And the mu sic there, well, it was

haunt ing ly fa mil iar.

When I (C)see you do in’ what I try to to for me with the words from a po et and a voice from a choir and a (C)mel o dy,

noth in’ else mat (Em)tered.

Just like the white winged dove

sings a song that sounds like she’s sing in’,

(Em)“Ooh, (ba by) ooh, (said) ooh.”

Just like the white winged dove

sings a song that sounds like she’s sing in’,

(Em)“Ooh, (ba by) ooh, (said) ooh.”

Just like the white

The clouds

nev er ex pect (D)it

when it rains,

but the sea

chang es (C)col or, but the sea

does not change.

(Em)So

with the slow,

grace ful (C)glow

of age,

I went forth

with an age (D)old

de sire

to please,

on the edge

of

(D)sev en

teen.

Just like the white winged dove

sings a song that sounds like she’s sing in’,

(Em)“Ooh, (ba by) ooh, (said) ooh.”

Just like the white winged dove

sings a song that sounds like she’s sing in’,

(Em)“Ooh, (ba by) ooh, (said) ooh.”

Just like the white

Well, then (C)sud den ly

there was (D)no one left stand in’ in the hall,

yeah yeah,

in a flood of tears that

(D)no one real ly ev er heard fall at all.

Well, I went search in’ for an an swer up the stairs and down the hall,

(Em)not to find an an swer,

just to hear the call of a night bird

sing in’, “Come a way.

(Come a way.

Come a way.)” Just like the white winged dove

sings a song that sounds like she’s sing in’,

(Em)“Ooh, (ba by) ooh, (said) ooh.”

Just like the white winged dove

sings a song that sounds like she’s sing in’,

(Em)“Ooh, (ba by) ooh, (said) ooh.”

Just like the white

Well, I (Em)hear you

in the morn in’

and I (Em)hear you

at night fall.

And some times

to be near you

is to be

un a ble

to hear you,

my love.

I’m a few years old er than you,

my love.

Just like the white winged dove

sings a song that sounds like she’s sing in’,

(Em)“Ooh, (ba by) ooh, (said) ooh.”

Just like the white winged dove

sings a song that sounds like she’s sing in’,

(Em)“Ooh, (ba by) ooh, (said) ooh.”

Just like the white (Em)“Ooh.”