Key: E major
Intro 1
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Dsus4
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Bm
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Verse 1
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There's an old cathedral, Mother Dyer
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It's a girl with a child in her shawl
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Oh, show the poor soul in
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my dear Marianne
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Don't leave her to freeze in the hall
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I pray you'll be kind, Mother Dyer
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To this babe, never asked to be born
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Oh, be more than kind,
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his frail cries I will bind
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And he'll laugh with the
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angels adorned
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did you wrap them up warm?
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Angel maker
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Those girls have no choice, Mother Dyer,
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These girls have no choice
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since they've taken their voice
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and stolen their children away
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This baby needs food, mother dyer,
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but the quietness makes her so small
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In the still of the night,
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one more angel takes flight,
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where the motherless children must go.
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did you lock her to sleep?
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Angel maker, her sweet soul to keep.
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Angel maker.
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Mother Dyer,
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child of its bread?
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Did you cry in your sleep
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for the women who weep,
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For you shed not a tear at their dead?
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You're the weapon of chance, mother dyer,
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nation's neglect.
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Through the hospital doors,
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to the deep haven gorge,
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A young mother goes to be next.
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does he haunt you at night?
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did he burn up your fight?
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did you wrap them up warm?
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did you rock her to sleep?
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Bm
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Hey, Maker You
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