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