Wind up the world the other way...

From the pen of the late-Charlie 'Bird' Parker - a veritable musical genius and one of the world's greatest, most innovative saxophonists - comes an apologetic but undeniably poetic handwritten love letter, penned to long-term lover Chan Woods. Parker's adult life was a turbulent one, his musical brilliance often affected by his addiction to both heroin and alcohol, and he split with Woods in 1954 following the death of their two-year-old daughter. Tragically Parker passed away the next year, aged just thirty-four.

Transcript follows.

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Transcript

To you;

The way I thought was wrong, having not known, it was right. Here is the proof of my feelings, Don't hate me, love me forever: — — — —

Beautiful is the world, slow is one to take advantage. Wind up the world the other way. And at the start of the turning of the earth, lie my feelings for thou.

To you
Shame on me.
I love you.