Key: D major
Verse 1
D
A
Socrates came to me
in a dream last night
G
Bm
A
I showed him a charcoal drawing
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A
F#m
Bm
of a folding bird in the sky,
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G
A
Bm
and he left me by myself in
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Bm
D
the night.
Copernicus came to me
G
A
I showed him my left hand, my glasses,
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D
F#m
Bm
and the shadow in the crease of the page,
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G
A
and he left me by myself
D
A
D
in the night.
Pythagoras came to me
A
D
reflected in the pools
A
Bm
I was left by the rain,
G
A
D
and he left me by myself in the night.
Mary Shelley, she came to me
A
D
and the novel that I have
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F#m
Bm
been trying to write
D
G
An d she left me by my
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D
self in the night
Bm
D
A
D
A
Abraham Lincoln, he came to me
in a dream last night
G
Bm
A
I told him a riddle that I'd read
Bm
A
D
A
Bm
on the back of a cereal box.
Bm
A
D
and he sat with me in the night.
Bm
A
D
And we sang,
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Abdim
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D
Glory, glory, hallelujah
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A
G
D
The truth goes marching on
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