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