HAND-CARVED HEART -Tom Russell 

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There’s an old Spanish oak bent over a country road 

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If it could tell all that it knows of a hand-carved heart 

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Once two lovers slept in its shade, his hands weaving thru her dark braids 

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They shared the edge of a blade, carved their names in the bark 

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Chorus: The heart it has darkened with the weather of years 

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It may never fade away, washed clean with her tears 

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The human heart breaks with a hurt that runs deep through the blood 

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I wish it was made out of wood, like a hand carved heart 

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Then he rode away down that old country road 

Away from the old Spanish oak and the hand-carved heart 

He said she’d be back one day, she waited, she wept and she prayed 

She vowed he would never betray the hand-carved heart 

Chorus: The heart it has darkened with the weather of years 

It may never fade away, washed clean with his tears 

The human heart breaks with a hurt that runs deep through the blood 

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I wish it was made out of wood, like a hand carved heart 

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I wish it was made out of wood, like a hand carved heart 

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