Key: E minor•
Verse 1
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F#m
E
A
D
All about the slack end of the year
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F#m
E
When the winter sun's declining
A
D
There comes on earth a birth of birds
Em
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All other births outshining
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F#m
All other births un shining
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A
E
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D
An d then at last, a death of deaths
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F#m
All other deaths undo ing
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D
Between birth and death, there spans a life
Em
A
All others redefining,
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F#m
E
F#m
D
all others redefining
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F#m
E
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D
And when a tree -star lady's face
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F#m
In the lily -flower embody
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Bm
D
In stem and seed, in word an d deed
Em
A
Her ageless blood was flooding
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F#m
Her ageless blood was flooding
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F#m
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D
And when I marked the maker's hand
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F#m
In the wall upon the kernel
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D
It's then I came to understand
Em
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that learning is eternal,
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F#m
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F#m
D
that learning is etern al.
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F#m
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Oh yesterday my bed was grey and I lay low
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G
I lost my face in hollow clay
Bm
B
on a frame board
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F#m
Tomorrow let my bed be
G
B
My form of fighting then marble shinin' through the gloom
Bm
Em
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Em
Am
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G
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Em
G
Am
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Em
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Em
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Em
Oh, lucky,
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Em
Am
lucky youth with room to spread
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G
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And the means to reach un guarded
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Em
G
Am
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No call to rue, a squandered breath,
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Em
or any boon discarded.
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Em
C
Oh, may ye turn away
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Em
Am
from fu neral games,
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turn from dying into living,
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Em
G
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And spurn all mean and baseless claims
Em
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Bm
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B
To tenancy of heaven
Em
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Em
Oh, every living age
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G
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And to blame their ill -being getters
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G
Greed she may bother,
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born unbound,
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Em
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She'd have to die in fetters.
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Em
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G
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Em
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