Mermaid's Lament chords by Gerd Birsner

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Verse 1
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The world was young,
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the mountains green
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No stain yet on, the moon was seen
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No words were led on stream or stone
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when Durin woke and walked
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alone.
He named the nameless
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hills and dells.
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He drank from yet untasted wells.
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He stooped and looked in mirror, mirror,
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And saw a crown of stars appear,
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As gems upon a  silver thread,
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Above the shadows of his head.
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The world was fair, the mountains tall,
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In elder days before the fall
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Of mighty kings in Argoth, Rhond,
and Gondolin,
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Who now behold O 'er the west
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ern seas  that passed away
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The world was fair in Durin's day
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A king he was on coven throne
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In many pillared halls of stone
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With golden roof and silver floor
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And rose of power upon the dawn
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The light of sun and star
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And soothing shining glance
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of crystal moon
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And in  it by  cloud
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or shade of night
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There shone forever fair and bright
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Their hammer on the anvil smote
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Their chisel, clove, and grave erode
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Their forge was blade
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and bound was hilt
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The delver mined, the mason built
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Their beryl, pearl, and opal pale,
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And metal wrought like fishes' bale,
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Butler and corset, axe, and sword,
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And shining spears
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will they behold.
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All we read then were Durin's folk,
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Beneath the mountains
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music woke.
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The harpers harped, the minstrels sang,
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And at the gates the trumpets rang.
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The world is grey, the mountains old,
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The forges fire, it's ashen gold.
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No harp is rung,
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no ham mer falls,
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The darkness dwells  in Dur in's halls.
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The shadow lies upon his tomb,
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Imoria  in Khazad  -dûm
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But still the sunken stars appear,
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In dark and endless pyramid
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Their light is coming water deep
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Till the rain wakes again from sleep