Elizabeth Childers chords by Richard Buckner

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Dust of my dust,
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And dust with my dust,
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O, child who died as  you
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entered the world,
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Dead with my death!
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knowing breath,

though you tried so hard,

With a heart that beat when you lived with me,

And stopped when you left me for life

Verse 3
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It is well, my child
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For you never traveled
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The long, long way that begins
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with school days,
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When little   fingers blur
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under the tears
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That fall     on the crooked
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letters

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And the earliest wound,
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when a little mate
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Leaves you alone for another,
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And sickness, and the face of fear by the bed,
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The death of a father or mother
Or shame for them,
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Or poverty
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The maiden
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sorrow of school days ended
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And eyeless  nature that
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makes you drink
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From the cup      of love,
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Though you know it's poisoned,
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To whom     would your flower-face have
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have been lifted?
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Botanist, weakling?
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Cry of what blood to yours?
Pure or foul,
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for it makes no matter,
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It's blood that calls to our blood
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And then     your children?
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Oh, what might they be?
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And what your sorrow?
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Child! Child!
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Death is better   than life