The Lampolier chords by Grover Anderson
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Intro 1
(A minor)
Verse 1
There (A minor) was a poor old
Lampolier
Who’d corner (D major) any man (D minor) drawn (A minor) near
Soli (E major) cit, grinning ear to
ear, his (A minor) time
“Dear Citizen, entrepreneur
“Bourgeois (D minor) ie or raconteur
(D major) (E major) “Permit me the chance to
fill your mind (A minor)
“With my travelled, torrid tale
“No broken (D minor) hearts or (D major) angels ailing
(E major) “In some foreign castle in decline
(A minor) “If you’ll sit a minute please
“I’ll (D minor) tell you how
your own two knees (A minor)
(E major) “Cancarry you to hold
the brightest light (A minor)
“Ever to shine”
Now most men over five and twenty’d
(D major) Long since learned to make their money
Pour (E major) ing iron or pressing fact’ry stamp (A minor)
But me, I’d gone by many names
(D major) I’d brought my parents aught but shame
Dis (E major) honorably they’d cast
me out a tramp (A minor)
“Sit, I’ll tell you crystal (D major) clear”
To me said the Lampolier
Cold, (E major) glazed piercing eyes once red
and damp (A minor)
“Days a’walk from this cold city
(D major) “Hides a cave, old, dark, & gritty
(E major) “And inside’s the light that outshines
anything
“I’ve ever burned inside
my (A minor) (C major) lamp”
The Lampolier
Tell my mother it was the (D minor) (B flat major) (D minor)
(A minor) Lampolier
“Three days out Route 49
(D major) “Y ou’ll find a town in deep decline
(E major) “Left abandoned by all
but the fools (A minor)
“Then go up walking in
the hills (D major)
“Wander where the light it wills
(E major) “But don’t you trouble rations,
maps or (A minor) tools”
I had to stop the (D major) Lampolier
“Mister you’ve not made
it clear (E major)
“Exactly the value of the (A minor)
light”
“Young man,” said the old
(D major) lampmaker
“Love your God and
don’t forsake Her
(E major) “But this light’s the very
holy source that gives
Your soul its (A minor) (C major) life”
The Lampolier
Tell my mother it was the (D minor) Lampolier
If you find (A minor) my body here
Carry it into the sun (G major) (F major) (E major) (A minor)
Well I obeyed the man’s directions
Brought (D major) no map but found
the sections
(E major) Perfectly the Lam
(A minor) polier’d described
I crawled headfirst in that hole
(D major) Lost my grip and cracked my skull
And (E major) in the waning moment before I died (A minor)
I recognized a well- dressed stranger
(D major) Eyes ablaze, I’d played his game to
(E major) Watch him stoke his cold
and glorious fire (A minor)
He held a shiny lamp towards me
And (D major) rather than my soul set free
(E major) Now I make his flame burn all
the brighter (A minor) (E major) (C major)
The Lampolier
Tell my mother it was the (D minor) Lampolier
If you find my (A minor) body here
Carry it into the sun (G major) (E flat major) (Fsus4) (F major) (E major) (A minor)
Now chil (A minor) dren do not
fear the dark
You’ve no idea (D minor) who lit the spark
That (E major) you believes keeps
demons far at (A minor) bay
Late at night when lamps are burning
Next to you he could be lurking
The Lampolier could always use more prey
The Lampolier
Grover Anderson
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