Key: F major
Verse 1
F
Dm
Bb
C
Dm
C
Dm
C
Gm
Csus4
Gm
Am
Bb
C
Bb
C
Dsus4
Dm
C
Stooping men with small round caps,
Gm
Dm
Gm
C
Ladies in white or big bold hats,
Gm
C
Bb
C
Bearded worthies bowing low
Dsus4
C
Am
Gm
F
Bb
under tall white towers
Gm
Bb
Dm
F
Children stuck in stiff white collars
Dm
F
Dm
F
listening to earnest scholars
Dm
F
Waiting for the music,
C
Dsus4
Dm
Bb
Dm
looking at the flowers
F
C
In the great cathedrals
Gm
C
Dm
under big round domes
Eb
Cm
Gm
Before arcs and statues
Dm
C
in our public homes
Dm
C
F
Csus4
We put on our smiles,
C
Gm
pack away our wiles
C
Bb
Smarten up our styles
C
Gm
Eb
One day a week, one day a week
Am
D
Dm
Gm
We get all meek
Dm
C
Dsus4
C
Fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers
Dm
Gm
C
Shaking hands with all the others
Gm
C
Bb
C
Fellow fellows bound together
Dm
Dsus4
C
Gm
F
Bb
in a sacred way
Gm
Bb
Dm
Gm
F
Bow their heads in saintly rows
Gm
F
Confident that heaven knows
C
F
Am
When a humble servant
Gm
C
Dsus4
Am
Bb
Dm
knits his brows to pray
Am
F
In the great cathedrals
C
Gm
C
Dm
under big round domes
Eb
Cm
Gm
C
Csus4
before oxen statues.
Gm
Eb
Gm
Now one little boy alone in his pew
Gm
Bb
Bored to death with the hereafter
F
Bb
Looking up and stifling laughter
Am
Em
Spies a bird up by her after
C
Am
Gm
That little bird, that tiny bird
He sees that little bird once free
Dm
F
Is every bit as trapped as he
Dm
Bb
C
Dm
Bm
Am
Esus4
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