After Eliot chords by
Johnny Flynn 
Key: D major•
Intro 1
D
A
D
A
D
A
Em
G
D
A
Verse 1
D
We shared
Bm
D
the experience of being alive
G
D
G
And then we took some tea
D
Em
Bm
D
We finished up and all on a whim
A
G
We talked as it was free
Verse 2
A
G
When we went to get the bill
D
A
The lady looked us over
G
She told us, 'now you stay quite still
D
A
And I'll fetch in some clover'
Verse 3
Bm
A
G
And all of the yellow melancholy
Bm
A
G
The world about grew stark
Bm
A
G
Bm
The only sound in all of the place
A
Was the singing of a lark
G
Verse 4
Bm
A
G
D
It sang Holly go lightly bright as the day
Bm
A
G
Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay
Bm
A
G
D
Cold as the window frozen with frost
Bm
A
G
You never been seen and you never
D
been lost
A
G
D
Verse 5
A
G
D
Em
A
D
And lost I was for all of the time
G
We never shared there after
D
Em
Bm
D
Closing my books and chilling my feet
Em
G
The air blew in much darker
Verse 6
A
Four boys they've been
G
laughing at me
D
A
The fold s of my skin are frayed
G
I'm the oldest man I know by now
D
A
I was the young est yes terday
Verse 7
Bm
A
D
G
Bm
What did I lose to mourn so long
A
G
A worm in the heart has stained me
Bm
A
G
Laying to rest in a ventricle
Bm
A
G
Stirs when I take my tea
Verse 8
Bm
A
G
D
Holly go lightly bright as the day
Bm
A
G
Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay
Bm
A
G
D
Cold as the window frozen with frost
Bm
A
G
You never been seen and you never been
D
Asus4
A
lost
Interlude 1
D
Asus4
D
A
Em
D
Verse 9
D
I saw her once and she came
G
D
upon the mid day
G
And gave me both her hands
D
Em
D
It seemed while I was still
Bm
D
dreaming of the waves
Em
G
That she lived a while on land
A
Slipping through a stream
Verse 10
G
of dark
D
A
The streets laid out a way
G
Stayed above the level
D
A
Kept my wondering heart at bay
Verse 11
Bm
A
G
In the s- - a feeling in the land
Bm
I was daily deal ing
A
G
There's a turn of a twisting smile
Bm
A
G
Cheap is your time now tea
Bm
don't taste so fine
A
How are you, it's been a while
G
Verse 12
Bm
A
G
D
Holly go lightly bright as the day
Bm
A
G
Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay
Bm
A
G
D
Cold as the window frozen with frost
Bm
A
You never been seen and
G
D
you never been lost
Verse 13
Bm
A
G
D
Holly go lightly bright as the day
Bm
A
Cold as the moon and
G
Bm
stale as the hay
A
G
D
Fresh as the window frozen with frost
Bm
A
You never been seen and you
G
D
never been lost
Outro 1
A
G
D
A
G
D
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