The Listeners chords by Norman Dello Joio
Verse 1
B
G
Achtung! Achtung!
Gaug
G
Bdim
G#m
B
G
a and his horse in the silence
F#
G
champed the grasses of the forest's
F#
D
A
D
ferny floor.
D
And a bird flew up out of a turret
B
Bm
upon the traveller's head.
D
G
And he smote upon the
G#m
door a second time.
F#
G#m
Is there anybody
D#
Cm
there? he said.
D#
D
D#
But no one descended to the traveller,
Cm
D#
C#m
No head from the leafed fringe -sail,
D#
G
C#m
B
D#
Leaned over and looked
Gaug
into his grey eyes,
G
where he stood perplexed
D#
D#m
D#
Gaug
D#
and still.
G#m
D#
G#
D#
But only a host of phantom listeners
G#m
D
D#
that dwelt in the lone house
G#
G#m
G
G#m
then stood listening in
the quiet of the moonlight
D#
Gaug
G
to that voice from the world
Gaug
G#m
G
G#m
Bm
of men.
D
G#m
C#m
They stood throng
D#
D
ing the moonbeams
C#m
D#
on the dark stair
G
G#m
D#
Gaug
That goes down to the empty hall,
C#m
G
Harkening in an air stirred and shaken
D#
Ebm
Em
G
G
F#m
C#m
By the lonely trav eller's call,
A
G
Gaug
G
He felt in his heart their strangeness,
B
G
D
Their stillness answering his cry.
While his horse moved
B
cropping the dark turf
Bm
D
Bm
F#
neath the stardand leafy sky,
G
F#m
For he suddenly slowed on the door
F#
F#m
F#
F#aug
even louder and lif
G
D
ted his head.
F#dim
D
Tell them I came and no one answered,
Tell them that I kept my word,
F#m
G
D
he said.
C#m
F#m
Never the leaster made
D
C#m
the listeners,
F#m
G
F#m
Though every word he spake
G
B
C#m
Fell like a wing from the shadows
G
of the still house
G#m
B
G
D
G
From the one man left awake.
F#m
Why they heard his foot
G#m
C#m
upon the sternum,
G#m
And the sound of iron on stone,
G#m
C#m
G
And how the silence
G
surged softly backward
C#m
When the plunging hoofs were gone.
The Listeners
Norman Dello Joio
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