Key: Ab major
Verse 1
F
Eb
F
There was a saviour rarer than radium,
Commoner than water,
crueler than truth.
Children kept from the sun,
assembled at his tongue,
Eb
To hear the golden note turn in a groove.
F
C
of his keyless smiles.
F
Eb
F
The voice of children says from a lost wilderness there
was calm to be done in his safe unrest.
Gm
F
When hindering man hurt, man, animal or bird,
Eb
Fm
F
we hid our fears in that murdering breath.
Em
F
Silence, silence to do when
Em
Eb
earth grew loud in lairs
There was glory to hear in
F
Dm
Under his downy arm
C
F
you sighed as he struck.
Oh, you who could not cry onto
and laid your cheek against a
Bb
F
cloud -formed shell.
Bb
Ab
F
there is only yourself and myself,
Bb
F
Two proud black brothers cry,
Eb
F
Eb
To this inhospitable hollow year.
Db
F
one lean sigh,
and fire, neighbor,
Dm
F
Bb
F
but wailed and nested in the sky -blue wall.
Bb
F
Now break a giant tear
for the little -known fall,
for the drooping of homes that
did not nurse our bones,
brave deaths of only ones
but never found.
Fm
Gm
F
Now see alone in us our own true strangers
Gm
F
dust ride through the doors of
our unentered house.
F
F
Exiled in us we arouse the soft,
and rough love that breaks all rocks.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF Eb C Gm Fm...
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