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