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