Key: Ab major
Verse 1
Bb
Ab
Bb
There was a saviour rarer than radium,
Commoner than water,
crueler than truth.
Children kept from the sun,
assembled at his tongue,
Ab
To hear the golden note turn in a groove.
Bb
F
of his keyless smiles.
Bb
Ab
Bb
The voice of children says from a lost wilderness there
was calm to be done in his safe unrest.
Cm
Bb
When hindering man hurt, man, animal or bird,
Ab
Bbm
Bb
we hid our fears in that murdering breath.
Am
Bb
Silence, silence to do when
Am
Ab
earth grew loud in lairs
There was glory to hear in
Bb
Gm
Under his downy arm
F
Bb
you sighed as he struck.
Oh, you who could not cry onto
Bb
put a tear for joy in the unearthly flood,
and laid your cheek against a
Eb
Bb
cloud -formed shell.
Eb
Db
Bb
there is only yourself and myself,
Eb
Bb
Two proud black brothers cry,
Ab
Bb
Ab
To this inhospitable hollow year.
Gb
Bb
one lean sigh,
and fire, neighbor,
Gm
Bb
Eb
Bb
but wailed and nested in the sky -blue wall.
Eb
Bb
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.
Bbm
Cm
Bb
Now see alone in us our own true strangers
Cm
Bb
dust ride through the doors of
our unentered house.
Bb
Bb
Exiled in us we arouse the soft,
and rough love that breaks all rocks.
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