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