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