Kiri's Piano chords by James Keelaghan

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Verse 1
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Of
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all of Kiri Ito's joys,
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the thing she loved the best
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Was to play her prized piano
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when the sun had gone to rest
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I used to hear the notes drift down
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along the silent water
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As Kiri played the notes and scales for
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her dear sons and daughters
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Now me I played piano though
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not as good as  Kiri
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She went in for that long haired
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stuff but my she played it pretty
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The old piano had a tone
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would set my heart to aching
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It always sounded sweetest though when
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it was Kiri playing
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In December when the seventh fleet
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was turned to smoke and ashes
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The order came to confiscate
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their fishing boats and caches
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And Kiri's husband forced to go
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and work in labour camps
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And Kiri left alone to fend and
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hold the fort as best she can
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But the music did not drift as often
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from up the cove at Kiri's house
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And when it did it sounded haunted
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played with worry played with doubt
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For Kiri knew that soon she too would
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be  compelled to leave
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And the old upright would stay behind
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and Kiri she would grieve
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I loaded Kiri on the bus
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with stoic internees
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The crime that they were guilty of
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was that they were not like me
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And if I was ashamed I did
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n't know it at the time
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They were flotsam on the wave of
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war they were no friends of mine
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I went up to Kiri'shouse to
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tag all their belongings
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And set them out for auctioneers
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who'd claim them in the morning
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One piece that I thought I'd keep
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and hold back for myself
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Was that haunting ivory upright that Kiri
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played so well
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But Kiri had not left it there
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for me to take as  plunder
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She'd rolled it down onto  the
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dock and on into the harbor
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That old upright in strangers' hands
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was a thought she couldn't bear
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So she consigned it to the sea
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to settle the affair
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So many years have come and
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gone since Kiri's relocation
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I look back now upon that time
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with shame and resignation
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For Kiri knew what I did not that
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if  we must be free
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Then sometimes we must sacri
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fice to gain our dignity
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Yes Kiri knew what I did not that
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if  we must be free
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Then sometimes we must sacri
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fice to gain our dignity