Key: C minor•
Verse 1
Little lips too young and pure to talk
Little faded grass tufts, root and stalk
I lie here utterly alone
Amid pure ashes
my wild ashes mingle
A drowned man with a name unknown
A homeless wave tossed
by the drifting shingle
Gm
Cm
to so strange a shrine?
Little feet too young and soft to walk
Little lips too young and pure to talk
Little faded grass tufts,
rude and stalk
Sometimes a woman comes
across the grass
Barefooted with pit pattering,
scarcely heard
Sometimes the grazing cattle slowly pass
Or on my turf sings loud some mating bird
Gm
Cm
to so strange a shrine
Little feet too young and soft to walk,
little lips too young and pure to talk,
little faded grass tufts rude
Fm
Cm
Fm
and stark.
Cm
Fm
Alone and forgotten from
Cm
Csus4
F
a long sleeping,
Cm
Gm
in the heart of age, a child woke weeping.
Cm
Fm
Cm
Fm
Cm
No invisible
mother was nigh him there,
laughing and nodding in
F
Gm
F
Cm
No elfin comrades came at his call,
Gm
Cm
and the earth and the air
Gm
Cm
Fm
Cm
Fm
were as blank as the wall.
Cm
Fm
The darkness thickened,
Cm
F
upon him creeping
Gm
Cm
Fm
Fm
a child lay weeping
Cm
Little faded grass tufts, root and stalk.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsCm F Gm Fm Csus4
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