The Tune Lingers On

Lyrics: נתן אלתרמן Music: נפתלי אלטר So the tune lingers on Though you cast it aside And the way waits winding before you And the cloud in her sky And the rain through the pines Wait only for you As you ramble
So the wind it will rise, And with a flash in the dark the skies crack with lightning above you And the lamb and the doe They both watched you go Blindly down to the valley below you
When with empty hands and miles from your home Many times you’ve knelt at the altar Of the grove painted green And a girl’s smile you’ve seen ‘Neath the brow of a tree bending heavy with water
So the tune lingers on Though you cast it aside And the way waits winding before you And the cloud in her sky And the rain through the pines Wait only for you As you ramble