Key: F major
Verse 1
E
C#m
A
B
C#m
B
C#m
B
F#m
Bsus4
F#m
G#m
A
B
A
B
C#sus4
C#m
B
Stooping men with small round caps,
F#m
C#m
F#m
B
Ladies in white or big bold hats,
F#m
B
A
B
Bearded worthies bowing low
C#sus4
B
G#m
F#m
E
A
under tall white towers
F#m
A
C#m
E
Chil dren stuck in stiff white collars
C#m
E
C#m
E
listening to earnest scholars
C#m
E
Waiting for the music,
B
C#sus4
C#m
A
C#m
looking at the flowers
E
B
In the great cathedrals
F#m
B
C#m
under big round domes
D
Bm
F#m
Before arcs and statues
C#m
B
in our public homes
C#m
B
E
Bsus4
We put on our smiles,
B
F#m
pack away our wiles
B
A
Smarten up our styles
B
F#m
D
One day a week, one day a week
G#m
C#
C#m
F#m
We get all meek
C#m
B
C#sus4
B
Fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers
C#m
F#m
B
Shaking hands with all the others
F#m
B
A
B
Fellow fellows bound together
C#m
C#sus4
B
F#m
E
A
in a sacred way
F#m
A
C#m
F#m
E
Bow their heads in saintly rows
F#m
E
Confident that heaven knows
B
E
G#m
When a humble servant
F#m
B
C#sus4
G#m
A
C#m
knits his brows to pray
G#m
E
In the great cathedrals
B
F#m
B
C#m
under big round domes
D
Bm
F#m
B
Bsus4
before oxen statues.
F#m
D
F#m
Now one little boy alone in his pew
F#m
A
Bored to death with the hereafter
E
A
Looking up and stifling laughter
G#m
D#m
Spies a bird up by her after
B
G#m
F#m
That little bird, that tiny bird
He sees that little bird once free
C#m
E
Is every bit as trapped as he
C#m
A
B
C#m
Bbm
G#m
D#sus4
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