Hymn for the Children chords by
Barclay James Harvest 
Key: G major•
Intro 1
G
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
C
Gsus4
G
Em
Verse 1
D
Their spirits soar on high
G
Em
C
They wing with birds that float on by
G
D
Em
Your love and mine
D
Their spirits with the breeze
G
C
That gently plays the summer leaves
G
D
Your love and mine
Verse 2
Em
D
Life is a bird in the sky
Em
D
Life is the breeze blowing by
Em
Time picked the words
C
Time picked the songs
D
But we sang them wrong
Verse 3
Em
D
Their spirits with the rain
G
That feeds the wheat and
C
weeds the same
G
D
Your love and mine
Verse 4
Em
D
The sun their spir its light
G
That feels and warm s
C
both black and white
G
Your love and mine
D
Verse 5
Em
D
Life is the rain from on high
Em
D
Life is the sun in the sky
Em
Time picked the words
C
Time picked the songs
Am
We were the choir
D
But we sang them wrong
Interlude 1
G
C
D
G
C
G
C
D
C
Gsus4
G
Em
Verse 6
D
Their spirits bless the cruel
C
G
C
The intel lec tual, the fool
G
Your love and mine
D
Verse 7
Em
D
Their spirits point the way
G
C
But who has no ticed, who will say
G
D
Your love or mine?
Verse 8
Em
D
Life is a soft lul laby
Em
D
Soothing a child as it cries
Em
But it cries in pain
C
Time wrote the songs
Am
We hear the cry
D
And still we sing wrong
Outro 1
G
C
D
C
G
C
D
C
Am
C
G
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG Gsus4 C Em D...
G
Gsus4
C
Em
D
Am
Capo: No capo
Transpose: 0
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