Key: B major
Verse 1
Bb
There is grey in your hair.
C
D
Young men no longer suddenly
C
Bb
catch their breath when you are passing.
C
D
But maybe some old gaffer mutters a blessing,
C
because it was your prayer recovered him upon the bed of death.
D
C
D
For your soul's sake, that all hearts' ache have known,
D
C
from meager girlhoods putting on
burdensome beauty.
Bbm
C
B
For your soul's sake,
B
C
stroke of her doom.
C#
C
So great her portion in that
piece you make
by merely walking in a room.
D
C
nothing but memories.
D
C
A young man, when the
old men are done talking,
will say to an old man.
C#
Ebm
when age might well have chilled
B
C
Bb
C
Vague memories, nothing but memories.
But
Eb
D
all shall be renewed.
B
The certainty that I shall see that lady leaning
C
D
or standing or walking in the first loveliness
fervor of my youthful eyes has
beautiful than anyone and
C
Bb
Your small hands were not
C
D
beautiful and I am afraid that you will run
C#
C
Em
always brimming lake where those that have
C
B
obeyed the holy law paddle and are perfect.
C
D
Bb
B
Leave unchanged the hands that
I have kissed for all sake's sake.
C
Em
C
D
Em
B
Bb
The last stroke of midnight dies, all day in the one chair,
C
D
rhyme to rhyme, I have ranged in rambling talk with an image of air,
vague memories,
nothing but memories.
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ChordsBb C D Bbm B...
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