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