Key: F major
Verse 1
A
F#m
D
E
F#m
E
F#m
E
Bm
Esus4
Bm
C#m
D
E
D
E
F#sus4
F#m
E
Stooping men with small round caps,
Bm
F#m
Bm
E
Ladies in white or big bold hats,
Bm
E
D
E
Bearded worthies bowing low
F#sus4
E
C#m
Bm
A
D
under tall white towers
Bm
D
F#m
A
Children stuck in stiff white collars
F#m
A
F#m
A
listening to earnest scholars
F#m
A
Waiting for the music,
E
F#sus4
F#m
D
F#m
looking at the flowers
A
E
In the great cathedrals
Bm
E
F#m
under big round domes
G
Em
Bm
Before arcs and statues
F#m
E
in our public homes
F#m
E
A
Esus4
We put on our smiles,
E
Bm
pack away our wiles
E
D
Smarten up our styles
E
Bm
G
One day a week, one day a week
C#m
F#
F#m
Bm
We get all meek
F#m
E
F#sus4
E
Fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers
F#m
Bm
E
Shaking hands with all the others
Bm
E
D
E
Fellow fellows bound together
F#m
F#sus4
E
Bm
A
D
in a sacred way
Bm
D
F#m
Bm
A
Bow their heads in saintly rows
Bm
A
Confident that heaven knows
E
A
C#m
When a humble servant
Bm
E
F#sus4
C#m
D
F#m
knits his brows to pray
C#m
A
In the great cathedrals
E
Bm
E
F#m
under big round domes
G
Em
Bm
E
Esus4
before oxen statues.
Bm
G
Bm
Now one little boy alone in his pew
Bm
D
Bored to death with the hereafter
A
D
Looking up and stifling laughter
C#m
G#m
Spies a bird up by her after
E
C#m
Bm
That little bird, that tiny bird
He sees that little bird once free
F#m
A
Is every bit as trapped as he
F#m
D
E
F#m
Ebm
C#m
G#sus4
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