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The Vulture chords by 
Alice Gerrard
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Verse 1
Em
D
Em
I've been among those mighty Alps.
D
Em
I've wandered through their vales.
D
Em
I've heard the oldest mountaineers
D
Em
relate their dismal tales.
F#m
Em
whispering around the fire
in their cottage homes
D
Em
when their daily work was o 'er.
They would talk of those
who had disappeared
D
and their return no more.
Em
F#m
C#m
Em
It's there I, a shepherd,
Bbm
F#m
Em
learned a narrative of fear.
E
Em
F#m
D
Em
He told a mortal story there
F#m
D
Em
that mothers might not hear.
D
E
Oh, the tears were standing in his eyes,
D
Em
E
Em
his voice so low and hushed.
D
Oh, wiping all those tears away,
E
F#m
D
Em
he told his story thus.
E
Em
D
F#m
D
Amon g those mighty
Em
an d craggy rocks,
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D
Em
the raven ous vulture dwells.
D
C#
Em
He never fattens from a prey
F#m
D
till which afar he smells.
Em
F#m
D
Oh, it's patient wait ing,
Em
hours and hours,
D
Em
B
on some lonely rock.
D
Em
D
Em
Oh, then choosing out a tru ant lamb,
F#m
D
his vic tim from some flock.
Em
D
F#m
Em
It was on one clear
September morning,
E
Em
D
Em
the sun was rolling high,
D
when from my children
Em
D
Em
And on the green, I heard a dismal cry,
D
Em
F#m
oh, as if some awful deed were done,
D
E
Em
oh, a cry of grief and pain,
D
E
D
Em
oh, a cry I humbly pray to God.
E
F#m
Em
E
I ne 'er may hear again.
D
Em
I hurried out to learn the cause,
F#m
D
Em
E
Em
Though overcome with fright.
D
Em
D
Em
My infant shrieked in wild dis may
F#m
D
Em
went from my fren zied sight.
E
Em
D
Em
Oh, I miss the youngest of my babes,
D
Em
the darling of my care.
F#m
D
Oh, when something caught
Em
my searching eye,
D
Em
slow sailing through the air.
E
D
F#m
Now what a hard spectacle,
Em
E
F#m
D
oh, to meet a mother
Em
's eye .
D
E
My infant made of vultures' prey,
D
Em
just tasting or to die.
D
Em
To no less with bursting heart
D
Em
and with a manic grave.
D
No human power
Em
could not prevent
F#m
D
Em
this infant child to save.
D
Em
F#m
D
My in fant reached
E
his little hands,
F#m
D
Em
im ploring unto me, me.
D
Em
While struggling in those raptor clothes,
E
Em
D
Em
so vainly to get free,
E
Em
D
Em
I heard his ag onizing and cries as
D
Em
loud he shrieked and screamed
D
E
D
oh until upon that azure sky
Em
D
F#m
D
Em
a lasting spot he seen
D
F#m
The vulture flopped his sail
D
Em
like wings as heavenly he flew,
D
until upon that sun's broad face,
Em
D
Em
he came into my view.
D
Oh, it's once I thought I
Em
saw him swoop,
D
Em
D
oh, as if for to light.
Em
D
It was all but a deluded thought,
Em
D
Em
for all had vanished quite.
D
F#m
D
Long years went by
Em
with the rolling times
F#m
D
Em
this child was ne 'er forgot
until a daring hunter
Em
F#m
D
Em
climbed up to a lofty spot
F#m
D
Oh, and there upon that craggy old rock
Em
where the sun most ne 'er had reached,
there lay the bones of an infant
D
Em
one the elements had bleached.
I hurried up those craggy rocks.
Em
I could not stay awake.
I knew that was my infant's bones
just hasting to decay.
But the tattered garment,
it still remained,
Though tore to many a shred.
Oh, the crimsy cap that he wore that morn
Was still upon his head.
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