Red and Gold chords by Fairport Convention
Verse 1
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Gold would be
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worthless if it didn't require
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Such heartbreak to seek,
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to find it and mine it
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Things remain precious the
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more that they're rare
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If gold could be found lying
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round everywhere
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Could be the lowliest of metals,
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too soft for serious use
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It's pretty, of course,
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and warm to the touch
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But no longer will you ring when
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you've handled so much
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The lowest of the doors
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Will you come with me
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Through the ice and the snow
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She thought for a moment
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Then she said, let's go
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I rode behind her
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And she'd hold her head
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And all through that winter
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I'd lose her and find her
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Rations ran out
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Horses were dead
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She forgot what gold was
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And I had to remind her
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The loneliest of metals
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Too soft for serious use.
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Pretty of course, warm to the touch,
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But no longer will you ring,
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When you've handled so much,
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The lowliest of letters.
In a prospector's shack,
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she lay out of her mind
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Describing how simple
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gold is to find
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Just under the surface, in zigzagging planes
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It lies there like branches
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amidst all the lightning
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You just open a hole in
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the crust of the flame
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You reach in, she said,
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and it's there for the taking
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The lowliest of metals
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So blind and starving, I sat by her side
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As the fever raged in her,
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and the storm raged
outside
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She said, now we are rich, I told her the
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Well, gold that we'd found
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would not crown a tooth
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She said, these things I
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know without being told
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We are rich in each other,
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now what good is gold?
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It's the loneliest of the
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blues
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Now sometimes I dream that the world is reversed
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I dream that accountants are rarer than po ets
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That things will get better if they
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can 't get any worse
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But a rich man has nothing
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but dirt in his purse
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Gold is the lowliest of metals
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It's too soft for serious use
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It's pretty, of course,
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warm to the touch
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But no longer will your ring, if you've handled too much,
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the lowliest of metals.
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Red and Gold
Fairport Convention
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