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