Key: A major
Intro 1
A
F#m
Verse 1
Where witches went mad
Until this day
In dreams at least
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Squat and hugely tilts
E
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Upon the strand where
B
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granddad's house was built
E
A
And having stood the test of time
D
E
A
The starry gale the bloody tide
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B
And filled with books
A certain prophecy
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C#m
Before the world fulfilled
A
Verse 2
B
Bm
B
Now of these books in
granddad's keep
Some of them were new but
mostly they were old
A prophecy that read
B
A
When the riddle begins
Verse 3
And in the guise of destiny
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G#m
Grandad quit Cornwall
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A
G#m
My ship is charmed,
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and called Plutonia.
Verse 4
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B
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Stories on land, storms at sea
E
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'tween 1892 and '93
When grandad sailed
Interlude 1
for Mexico
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A
E
Verse 5
Bm
B
And when the sun proved false
As it always does
Bm
C#m
Some of them would be lost
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And some would sail back home
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B
F#m
But a magna of illusion
E
A
I mean by that
The mirror found
D
E
In the chamber of jade
Verse 6
F#m
D
E
So on and off again
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Verse 7
B
Bm
Through tears and smiles
Bm
B
The rods of broken crystal
Until his time had come
B
A
Late to the story that had been
Verse 8
F#m
A
B
August the first 1893
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B
Sailed like a ray into Cornwall
Verse 9
granddaughter
Would celebrate her birthday
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said the captain
E
B
From lost Christabel this night
F#m
To blast your rafters with my surprise!
E
F#m
Granddaughter,
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F#m
Taken from the jungle by crime!
Verse 10
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B
Stories on land, storms at sea
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F#m
When grandad sailed for Mexico
B
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Verse 11
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E
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And the party's over, it's all over
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E
I've warped the stuff of ground
F#m
Mine, granddaughter, proves a surprise
More light than sun
More dark than night then
E
F#m
More a snare than lust
E
Outro 1
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E
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