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"The Cloud Naming Ceremony" Style: F major, 176 BPM, Bluegrass with Appalachian old-time undercurrent, mood: earnest and ceremonially tender, close-mic male tenor vocal with slight nasal twang and warm emotional weight, lead banjo (cla Lyrics: Banjo tuned to morning, string by string Every year my uncle climbs the water tower stairs With a notebook full of cloud names only he declares Cumulonimbus Rex, the Wandering Gray Bride Names the county never voted on, but no one's ever tried We gather at the bottom, ##we gather## Calling up to someone ##counting up above## The unofficial record of the skies we're given Is a kind of love, ##is a kind of love## He's been at it thirty seasons, two notebooks filled with names The weatherman in Roanoke says his system has no claims But the farmers check his ledger before they plant their rows There's a science in the naming of the things that no one knows Let the record show the Widow Cloud at noon Let the record show we watched it, we were ther
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