Key: D major
Intro 1
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E
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G#m
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E
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F#
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G#m
E
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Verse 1
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By
throbbing waves long undermined,
G#m
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E
how no one knew.
F#
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E
B
obedient to the wind,
F#
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B
Might see it from the mossy shore,
to severed float upon the lake,
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G#m
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float with its crest of trees ad orned,
F#
G#m
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B
their pastime take.
F#
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Food, shelter, safety, there they fight
Their berries ripen, flowerbeds bloom
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F#
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The insects live their lives and die
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F#sus4
in size a tiny room
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And thus, through many seas and space
This little island may survive
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G#m
But nature, though we
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mark her not,
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F#
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Will take away, may cease to give
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Perchance when you are
Upon some vacant sunny day
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G#m
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Without an object, hope or fear
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The isle is passed away
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F#
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Buried beneath the glittering lake
Its place no longer to be found
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Yet the lost fragments shall re main
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F#
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To fertilize some oth er ground
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB E G#m F# F#sus4
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