Key: A major•
Intro 1
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Bm
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Verse 1
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I could see by the gilt of the cloud
s, the burnish on the bay,
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A ring of effusia settled on the city
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A good feeling
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And it only happens now and then -
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Out of the mouth of a black dog,
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Out of the terrors of 3 am,
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Out of the dark and whispering fen,
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Verse 2
So I hollered up to Jill,
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I dreamed you like you dreamed me,
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O the bomb dreamed the fuse and
the drowner dreamed the sea",
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What a strange feeling...
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And it only happens now and then -
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Out of the mouth of a black dog,
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Out of the terrors of 3 am,
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Out of the dark and whispering fen,
Verse 3
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Most of the Aegean Sea rushes in
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C#m
The hills of Gallipoli all throw up
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their bones for my industry,
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So I build from the charnel the ale house,
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I build from the tomb a palace of dreams,
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That old barren rockface got silver seams
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Bm
for a miner of middling means,
My penny whistles,
Interlude 1
lo!
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Bm
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Verse 4
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Now I summon up Jack, sat up on the hill,
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Impotent as a potato but still
Verse 5
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A portrait of Jack, a study in sin,
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well I knew of myself before I knew of him,
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"Give it up Mary, but not by degrees,
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Give it up Mary, your virtue, please..."
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Verse 6
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Into the mouth of a black dog - I go
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Into the terrors of 3 am - I go
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Into the dark and whispering fen - I go
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I was blind then blind again
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Into the mouth of a black dog - I go
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Into the terrors of 3 am - I go
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Into the dark and whispering fen - I go
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my finishing youth?
Outro 1
My penny whistles low.
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Bm
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsA D Bm C#m E
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