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Pennywhistle chords by 
Augie March
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Intro 1
G
C
G
C
G
C
Am
C
Verse 1
G
Just an ordinary day,
C
I knew that autumn was on it's way,
G
C
I could see by the gilt of the cloud
s, the burnish on the bay,
G
C
A ring of effusia settled on the city
Am
like a vision of the future
C
Before the scales fell away,
Am
A vision of the future looking
C
more than just okay,
G
C
A good feeling
G
Yes, just a good feeling
C
Am
C
G
C
And it only happens now and then -
G
C
Out of the mouth of a black dog,
G
C
Out of the terrors of 3 am,
G
C
Out of the dark and whispering fen,
Am
I was blind then I could see,
C
now I'm blind again.
G
Verse 2
So I hollered up to Jill,
C
"Come down from the mountain,
G
your ears are 'a burning,
C
My speech is a fountain,
G
it's been an other long year
C
But you know I'm not counting,
Am
C
I dreamed you like you dreamed me,
Am
C
O the bomb dreamed the fuse and
the drowner dreamed the sea",
G
C
What a strange feeling...
G
Yes, it's a strange feeling
C
G
C
And it only happens now and then -
G
C
Out of the mouth of a black dog,
G
C
Out of the terrors of 3 am,
G
C
Out of the dark and whispering fen,
Am
I was blind then I could see,
C
now I'm blind again.
Verse 3
G
C
G
Most of the Aegean Sea rushes in
C
to my bedroom and glitters for me,
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,
C
Singing poems of dissolution and schemes -
My penny whistles,
Interlude 1
lo!
G
C
G
C
G
C
Am
C
Verse 4
G
C
Now I summon up Jack, sat up on the hill,
G
The wrong kind of music,
C
the wrong kind of pill,
G
C
Impotent as a potato but still
Am
pleading "Give it up Mary,
C
But not by degrees..."
Verse 5
G
C
A portrait of Jack, a study in sin,
G
C
well I knew of myself before I knew of him,
G
Now even I couldn't tell ya
C
just who it is asking
Am
C
"Give it up Mary, but not by degrees,
Am
C
Give it up Mary, your virtue, please..."
D
Verse 6
G
C
Into the mouth of a black dog - I go
G
C
Into the terrors of 3 am - I go
G
C
Into the dark and whispering fen - I go
Am
C
I was blind then blind again
G
C
Into the mouth of a black dog - I go
G
C
Into the terrors of 3 am - I go
G
C
Into the dark and whispering fen - I go
Am
O what beast has my name
C
on it's snaggle tooth,
Am
And eternal slobber for
C
D
my finishing youth?
Outro 1
My penny whistles low.
G
C
G
C
G
C
Am
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