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