[Intro]
G

[Verse 1]
G
When I wake up yeah I know I'm gonna be
C D G
I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
G
When I go out yeah I know I'm gonna be
C D G
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you

G
If I get drunk yes I know I'm gonna be
C D G
I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
G
And if I haver yeah I know I'm gonna be
C D G
I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you


[Chorus]
G
But I would walk 500 miles
C D
And I would walk 500 more
G C
Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles
D
To fall down at your door


[Verse 2]
G
When I'm working yes I know I'm gonna be
C D G
I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
G
And when the money comes in for the work I'll do
C D G
I'll pass almost every penny on to you

G
When I come home yeah I know I'm gonna be
C D G
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you
G
And if I grow old well I know I'm gonna be
C D G
I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you


[Chorus]
G
But I would walk 500 miles
C D
And I would walk 500 more
G C
Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles
D
To fall down at your door
G
Da da da (da da da) Da da da (da da da)
C D G
Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da
G
Da da da (da da da) Da da da (da da da)
C D G
Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da


[Verse 3]
G
When I'm lonely yes I know I'm gonna be
C D G
I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you
G
When I'm dreaming well I know I'm gonna dream
C D G
I'm gonna dream about the time when I'm with you.
G
When I go out, well I know I'm gonna be
C D G
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
G
And when I come home, yes I know I'm gonna be
C D Em
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home with you
Am D G
I'm gonna be the man who's coming home with you


[Chorus]
G
But I would walk 500 miles
C D
And I would walk 500 more
G C
Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles
D
To fall down at your door
G
Da da da (da da da) Da da da (da da da)
C D G
Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da
G
Da da da (da da da) Da da da (da da da)
C D G
Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da

G
Da da da (da da da) Da da da (da da da)
C D G
Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da
G
Da da da (da da da) Da da da (da da da)
C D G
Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da

G
And I would walk 500 miles
C D
And I would walk 500 more
G C
Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles
D G
To fall down at your door

[Verse 1]
G D Am C
Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
G D Am C
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
G D Am
She was looking kinda dumb with her finger and her
C G D Am C
Thumb in the shape of an "L" on her forehead

G D
Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
Am C
Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running
G D
Didn't make sense not to live for fun
Am C
Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb

G D
So much to do so much to see
Am C
So what's wrong with taking the back streets
G D
You'll never know if you don't go
Am C
You'll never shine if you don't glow

[Chorus]
G C C#dim C
Hey now you're an All Star get your game on, go play
G C C#dim C
Hey now you're a Rock Star get the show on get paid
G C C#dim
And all that glitters is gold
C G F C
Only shooting stars break the mold

[Verse 2]
G D
It's a cool place and they say it gets colder
Am C
You're bundled up now but wait 'til you get older
G D
But the meteor men beg to differ
Am C
Judging by the hole in the satellite picture

G D
The ice we skate is getting pretty thin
Am C
The waters getting warm so you might as well swim
G D
My world's on fire how about yours
Am C
That's the way I like it and I never get bored

[Chorus]
G C C#dim C
Hey now you're an All Star get your game on, go play
G C C#dim C
Hey now you're a Rock Star get the show on get paid
G C C#dim
all that glitters is gold
C G F C
Only shooting stars break the mold

[Instrumental]
G C C#dim C x4

[Chorus]
G C C#dim C
Hey now you're an All Star get your game on, go play
G C C#dim C
Hey now you're a Rock Star get the show on get paid
G C C#dim
And all that glitters is gold
C G F
Only shooting stars

[Verse 3]
G D Am C
Somebody once asked, could I spare some change for gas
G D Am C
I need to get myself away from this place
G D Am C
I said yep what a concept I could use a little fuel myself
G D Am C
And we could all use a little change

G D
Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
Am C
Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running
G D
Didn't make sense not to live for fun
Am C
Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb

G D
So much to do so much to see
Am C
So what's wrong with taking the back streets
G D
You'll never know if you don't go, go
Am C
You'll never shine if you don't glow

[Chorus]
G C C#dim C
Hey now you're an All Star get your game on, go play
G C C#dim C
Hey now you're a Rock Star get the show on get paid
G C C#dim
And all that glitters is gold
C G F C
Only shooting stars break the mold
G C C#dim
And all that glitters is gold
C G F C
Only shooting stars break the mold

[Verse 1]
G
I'm gonna tell all you fascists, and you may be surprised:
C G
The people in this world are getting organized.
D G
You're bound to lose, you fascists, bound to lose.

[Chorus]
C G
All you fascists bound to lose! (I said!)
C G
All you fascists bound to lose! (Yessir!)
C G
All you fascists bound to lose!
D G
You're bound to lose! You fascists, bound to lose!

[Verse 2]
G
There's people of every nation, marching side by side.
C G
Marching 'cross these fields where a million fascists died.
D G
You're bound to lose, you fascists, bound to lose.

[Chorus]
C G
All you fascists bound to lose! (Yessir!)
C G
All you fascists bound to lose!
C G
All you fascists bound to lose!
D G
You're bound to lose! You fascists, bound to lose!

[Verse 3]
G
Race hatred cannot stop us. This one thing I know.
C G
Your poll tax and Jim Crow greed have got to go
D G
You're bound to lose, you fascists, bound to lose.

[Chorus]
C G
All you fascists bound to lose! (I said!)
C G
All you fascists bound to lose! (Yessir!)
C G
All you fascists bound to lose!
D G
You're bound to lose! You fascists, bound to lose!

[Verse 4]
G
I'm going into this battle. Take my union gun.
C G
We'll end this world of slavery before this battle's won.
D G
You're bound to lose, you fascists, bound to lose.

[Chorus x 2]
C G
All you fascists bound to lose! (Yessir!)
C G
All you fascists bound to lose!
C G
All you fascists bound to lose!
D G
You're bound to lose! You fascists, bound to lose! (I said!)

C G
All you fascists bound to lose! (Yessir!)
C G
All you fascists bound to lose!
C G
All you fascists bound to lose!
D G
You're bound to lose! You fascists, bound to lose!

[Verse 1]
G
If you ever lent me your coat, I appreciate'cha
G D D7
If you ever kept me afloat, I appreciate'cha
G G7
If you were patient beyond your term
C A7
And my habits made you squirm
D D7 G
If your couch was warm and firm, I appreciate'cha


[Verse 2]
G
If you tolerated my noise, I appreciate'cha
G D D7
If I was your awful employee, I appreciate'cha
G G7
If any solace can be found
C A7
It's never long that I'm around
D D7 G
You set ‘em up I'll knock ‘em down, I appreciate'cha

A

[Verse 3]
A
Workers of the world, I appreciate'cha
A E E7
For your poorly compensated toil, I appreciate'cha
A A7 D D7
If the coal you dug today keeps the lights on far away
E E7 A
Overdrafted and underpaid, I appreciate'cha

G

[Verse 4]
G
Though you live on tabs and tips, I appreciate'cha
G D D7
For this modern world we're not equipped and I appreciate'cha
G G7 C A7
If it ain't just, it ain't a law worth obeying for any of y'all
D D7 G
Turn us loose and let it fall, I appreciate'cha

A

[Verse 5]
A
You did your best when I was at my worst and I appreciate'cha
A E E7
You cared for me though I'm kinda cursed and I appreciate'cha
A A7 D D7
Look that gift horse in the eye or be unbroken by-and-by
E E7 A
Hang my hat and have a cry, I appreciate'cha

G

[Verse 6]
G
If this land is your land, I appreciate'cha
G D D7
If abolition was your stand, I appreciate'cha
G G7 C A7
Kings and dollars, stars and bars, crosses, swastikas, and tsars
D D7 G
If you are skeptical of all, I appreciate'cha

A

[Verse 7]
A
If you're doing your damned best, I appreciate'cha
A E E7
If every new day is a test, I appreciate'cha

(rit. til the last line)
A A7 D D7
Do-si-do and do-re-mi, so far so good, yet we're far from free
E
If you refuse to let it be
E7
If you don't call the cops on me, oh-oh-ohh
A
I appreciate'cha

[Verse]
G D7 G
I've traveled 'round this country
C G
From shore to shining shore
D7 G
It really made me wonder
C D G
The things I heard and saw.

[Verse]
G D7 G
I saw the weary farmer
C G
A-plowing sod and loam
D7 G
I heard the auction hammer
C D G
A-knocking down his home

[Chorus]
G
But the banks are made of marble
D G
With a guard at every door
G
And the vaults are stuffed with silver
D G
That the farmer sweated for

[Verse]
G D7 G
I saw the seaman standing
C G
Idly by the shore
D7 G
I heard the bosses saying
C D G
"Got no work for you no more."

[Chorus]
G
But the banks are made of marble
D G
With a guard at every door
G
And the vaults are stuffed with silver
D G
That the seamen sweated for

[Verse]
G D7 G
I saw the weary miner
C G
Scrubbing coal dust from his back
D7 G
I heard his children crying
C D G
Got no coal to heat the shack

[Chorus]
G
But the banks are made of marble
D G
With a guard at every door
G
And the vaults are stuffed with silver
D G
That the miner sweated for

[Verse]
G D7 G
I've seen my brothers working
C G
Throughout this mighty land
D7 G
I prayed we'd get together
C D G
And together make a stand

[Chorus]
G
Then we might own those banks of marble
D G
With a guard at every door
G
And we'd share those vaults of silver
D G
That we have sweated for

[Verse 1]
C * G C
Oh, the year was seventeen seventy-eight
* F C G (*)
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
C G C *
A letter of marque came from the king
* * G F
To the scummiest vessel I'd ever seen

[Chorus]
G C * F
God damn them all, I was told,
C F C F
We'd cruise the seas for A-merican gold
G C G F (*)
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
C F C F
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
* * G C
The last of Barrett's Priva-teers

[Verse 2]
C * G C
Well, Elcid Barrett cried the town
* F C G (*)
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
C G C *
For twenty brave men, all fishermen, who
* * G F
Would make for him the Antelope's crew

[Chorus]
G C * F
God damn them all, I was told,
C F C F
We'd cruise the seas for A-merican gold
G C G F (*)
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
C F C F
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
* * G C
The last of Barrett's Priva-teers

[Verse 3]
C * G C
The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight
* F C G (*)
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
C G C *
She'd a list to the port and her sails in rags
* * G F
And the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags

[Chorus]
G C * F
God damn them all, I was told,
C F C F
We'd cruise the seas for A-merican gold
G C G F (*)
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
C F C F
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
* * G C
The last of Barrett's Priva-teers

[Verse 4]
C * G C
On the King's birth-day we put to sea
* F C G (*)
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
C G C *
We were ninety-one days to Mon-tego Bay
* * G F
Pumping like madmen all the way

[Chorus]
G C * F
God damn them all, I was told,
C F C F
We'd cruise the seas for A-merican gold
G C G F (*)
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
C F C F
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
* * G C
The last of Barrett's Priva-teers

[Verse 5]
C * G C
On the ninety-sixth day we sailed a-gain
* F C G (*)
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
C G C *
When a bloody great Yankee hove in sight
* * G F
With our cracked four-pounders, we made to fight

[Chorus]
G C * F
God damn them all, I was told,
C F C F
We'd cruise the seas for A-merican gold
G C G F (*)
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
C F C F
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
* * G C
The last of Barrett's Priva-teers

[Verse 6]
C * G C
The Yankee lay low down with gold
* F C G (*)
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
C G C *
She was broad and fat and loose in stays
* * G F
But to catch her took the Antelope two whole days

[Chorus]
G C * F
God damn them all, I was told,
C F C F
We'd cruise the seas for A-merican gold
G C G F (*)
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
C F C F
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
* * G C
The last of Barrett's Priva-teers

[Verse 7]
C * G C
Then at length we stood two cables a-way
* F C G (*)
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
C G C *
Our cracked four-pounders made an awful din
* * G F
But with one fat ball the Yank stove us in

[Chorus]
G C * F
God damn them all, I was told,
C F C F
We'd cruise the seas for A-merican gold
G C G F (*)
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
C F C F
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
* * G C
The last of Barrett's Priva-teers

[Verse 8]
C * G C
The Antelope shook and pitched on her side
* F C G (*)
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
C G C *
Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs
* * G F
And the main-truck carried off both me legs

[Chorus]
G C * F
God damn them all, I was told,
C F C F
We'd cruise the seas for A-merican gold
G C G F (*)
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
C F C F
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
* * G C
The last of Barrett's Priva-teers

[Verse 9]
C * G C
So here I lay in me twenty-third year
* F C G (*)
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
C G C *
It's been six years since we sailed a-way
* * G F
And I just made Halifax yester-day

[Chorus]
G C * F
God damn them all, I was told,
C F C F
We'd cruise the seas for A-merican gold
G C G F (*)
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
C F C F
But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
* * G C
The last of Barrett's Priva-teers

Bear in the Darkness

She pulls a scarf over wind-battered hair

And the foxfires glow in the midst of the gloom

Coats of fur in the starlight loom, and shadows of whispers and prayers

Sought refuge from rain and the dark twisting air

A candle illumines the glass of the windowpanes

The lightning, it glances across hazel eyes

She prowls the night, disguised, but the bear in the darkness remains

She wanders the meadows through wind and through rain

Moonlight, it broke through the storm and made silver a shore carved with caves

Where seabirds, they nest and the ocean, it rests beneath rock-hewn waves

And she sits beside me, the wide water turns to blue mist in the dawn

I sing while she strums of the dark autumn nights, forgotten, forgone

And when I am with her, the sunbeams do part the gray curtains of rain

And when our lips touch I can feel the great rush of the moon as it wanes

And time passes slowly yet all in an instant the hourglass fades

How brief is the night when we lie side by side neath the starlight parade

She pulls a scarf over rain-dampened hair

Her eyes calm the tempest, the eyes of the bear

Hearts that are broken you cannot trade as you can tokens away

And souls that are crushed can never be rushed as the dusk from the day

Yet still I hang onto the dream as the dewdrop does gleam on the web

Or the shearwaters ride on the swell of the tide that now heralds the ebb

[Intro]
C G C

[Verse 1]
C G C
One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning
C G C
Down the track came a hobo hiking and he said, "Boys, I'm not turning"
F C F C F C G
I'm headed for a land that's far away besides the crystal fountains
C G C
So come with me, we'll go and see the Big Rock Candy Mountains

[Verse 2]
C F C
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains there's a land that's fair and bright,
F C F G
where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
C F C
Where the boxcars all are empty and the sun shines every day
F C F C F C
on the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, the lemonade springs where the
F C G C
bluebird sings in the Big Rock Candy Mountains

[Verse 3]
C F C
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains all the cops have wooden legs,
F C F G
and the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
C F C
The farmers' trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
F C F C F C
Oh, I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow, where the rain don't fall,
F C G C
the wind don't blow in the Big Rock Candy Mountains

[Verse 4]
C F C
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains you never change your socks,
F C F G
and the little streams of alcohol come a trickling down the rocks
C F C
The brakemen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind
F C F C F C
There's a lake of stew and of whiskey too, you can paddle all around 'em in a
F C G C
big canoe in the Big Rock Candy Mountains

[Verse 5]
C F C
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains the jails are made of tin,
F C F G
and you can walk right out again as soon as you are in
C F C
There ain't no short-handled shovels, no axes, saws or picks
F C F C
I'm a gonna stay where you sleep all day, where they
F C F C
hung the jerk that invented work
G C
in the Big Rock Candy Mountains

[Instrumental]
C F C
F C F C

[Outro]
F C F C G C
I'll see you all this comin' fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountains

I am so weary

I’m as glum as I can be

All y’all have lost it

I meet your madness with pity
G G7
I Don’t blame you for being scared
G
But its the wrong direction that your teeth are bared

C
We’re fully busted

We know the ship has run aground

The things you trusted

They burned the farm and moved to town
G G7
And though I might eat all of my steaks rare
G
I never sold my soul to a billionaire


[Chorus]
C G C
I keep the door
C G C C7
Open for you
F
Bound and determined, oh
C G C
You can’t lie to me
G
Bound and determined, oh
C G7
To ruin everything


[Verse 2]
C
You say you’re country

You lay a claim unto the soil
C
If you were country

You’d save your land from being spoiled
G
Do you drink water?
G7
Do you breathe air?
G
I think if you were really country you would fucking care

C
I’d be just like you

If I were fed the things you’re fed

I’m just as frightened
C
We’re off the rails

We’re in the red
G
You’ve got opinions
G7
But your proof, it lacks
G
And only one of us is dealing in alternative facts


[Chorus]
C G C
I keep the door
C G C C7
Open for you
F
Bound and determined, oh
C G C
You can’t lie to me
G
Bound and determined, oh
C G7
To ruin everything



[Verse 3]
C
Do you love freedom?

Or security in dreams

Is life worth living if there’s lead in the last stream?
G G7
To a glutton what’s allegiance worth
G
If the meek like me are to inherit the earth?

C
It's not oppression

To ask for basic decency
C
You’ll learn your lesson

While you’re repeating history
G
And if this song gets me shot

At least my voice, it wasn’t silent
C
You’ll forget me not


[Chorus]
C G C
I keep the door
C G C C7
Open for you
F
Bound and determined, oh
C G C
You can’t lie to me
G
Bound and determined, oh
C
To ruin everything
G C
To ruin everything
G C
To ruin everything

N.C.
You'll ruin everything

[Verse 1]

G C G C Em D C G
Charlie boy, don't go to war, first born in forty-four
G C G C Em D C G
Kennedy made him believe we could do much more


[Chorus]

G Em C G
Oooh-Oh-Oooh-Oh-Oooh-Oh-ooooh
G Em C G
Oooh-Oh-Oooh-Oh-Oooh-Oh-ooooh


[Verse 2]

G C G C Em D C G
Lillian, don't hang your head, love should make you feel good
G C G C Em D C G
In uniform you raised a man, who vol-un-teered to stand


[Chorus]

G Em C G
Oooh-Oh-Oooh-Oh-Oooh-Oh-ooooh
G Em C G
Oooh-Oh-Oooh-Oh-Oooh-Oh-ooooh


[Bridge]

C Em G D
Play the bugle, play the taps and
C Em G
Make your mothers proud
C Em G D
Raise your rifles to the sky boys
C Em G
Fire that volley loud


[Verse 3]

G C G C Em D C G
News was bad on Upland Ave, metuchen and mourn our loss
G C G C Em D C G
Sons rebelled, while fathers yelled, and moth-ers clutched the cross


[Chorus]

G Em C G
Oooh-Oh-Oooh-Oh-Oooh-Oh-ooooh
G Em C G
Oooh-Oh-Oooh-Oh-Oooh-Oh-ooooh


[Outro]

C Em G D
Play the bugle, play the taps and
C Em G
Make your fathers proud
C Em G D
Raise your rifles to the sky boys
C Em G
Fire that volley loud

She floats atop the water

But her feet don’t pierce the waves

The deep blue mirror beneath her

Clear as the night, cold as the grave

And above her shines a halo

Gilded in the sweltering sun

She tips a silvery chalice

From its rim the tears do run

For when the silver moon was younger

And when she wandered in twilight

Where the shore was bent like a hunter’s bow

Where the razorbills alight

There were ripples in the ocean

And there stars upon the sky

Was a stranger swimming the coldest water?

She was shivering at the sight

And who is there?

Who is the swimmer in the sea?

Oh who is there?

And will nobody swim to me?

And in the morning in the garden,

When her love was by her side

What made him pull the sweetest rose

Changed the color in his eye

So she went up on the mountain,

In the shades of reverie

She tapped the venom of wicked roots

Beneath the poison tree

And who is there?

And who shall die beneath the sea

Oh who is there?

And will nobody die for me?

And when the shadows turned to needles

In the gold midsummer sun

The labyrinth of tangled words

How she wove and how she spun

And as the poison streamed beneath her

And the howling shapes appeared

The stranger sank in the coldest water

As the ocean filled with tears

And who is there?

And who is sinking in the sea?

Oh who is there?

And will nobody sink to me?

But as she glided o’er the ocean

With an empty chalice held

She spied her love on the darkened shore

As the tide began to swell

With his eyes fixed on the swimmer

With her gills in deepest blue

He threw himself in the coldest water

As his fins the waters hewed

And who is there?

Who are these creatures in the sea?

Who is there?

And will nobody swim to me?

[Intro]
G

[Verse]
G
I was Cleopatra, I was young and an actress
D
When you knelt by my mattress, and asked for my hand
G
But I was sad you asked it, as I laid in a black dress
D
With my father in a casket, I had no plans

[Break]
G

[Pre-chorus]
G C G
And I left the footprints, the mud stained on the carpet
D
And it hardened like my heart did when you left town
G C G
But I must admit it, that I would marry you in an instant
D
Damn your wife, I'd be your mistress just to have you around

[Chorus]
G D C G C G D
But I was late for this, late for that, late for the love of my life
G D C G C G D
And when I die alone, when I die alone, when I die I'll be on time

[Break]
G

[Pre-chorus II]
G C G
While the church discouraged, any lust that burned within me
D
Yes my flesh, it was my currency, but I held true
G C G
So I drive a taxi, and the traffic distracts me
C G D
From the strangers in my backseat, they remind me of you

[Chorus]
G D C G C G D
But I was late for this, late for that, late for the love of my life
G D C G C G D
And when I die alone, when I die alone, when I die I'll be on time

[Bridge]
Em G C D Em
And the only gifts from my Lord were a birth and a divorce
G Em C D G
But I've read this script and the costume fits, so I'll play my part

[Break]
G

[Pre-chorus II]
G C G
I was Cleopatra, I was taller than the rafters
D
But that's all in the past now, gone with the wind
G C G
Now a nurse in white shoes leads me back to my guestroom
C G
It's a bed and a bathroom
D
And a place for the end

[Chorus]
G D C G C G D
I won't be late for this, late for that, late for the love of my life
G D C G C G D
And when I die alone, when I die alone, when I die I'll be on time

[Ending]
D G

[Intro]

F C Am C C
I wish I was a slave to an age-old trade
F C Am C C
Like ridin' around on railcars and workin' long days
F C C
Lord have mercy on my rough and rowdy ways
F C C
Lord have mercy on my rough and rowdy ways

[Intro Again]


[Verse]

F C
Call it one drink too many
Am C C
Call it pride of a man
F C Am C
But it don't make no difference if you sit or you stand
F N.C. C
'Cause they both end in trouble and start with a grin
F N.C. C
Yeah they both end in trouble and start with a grin


[Pre-Chorus]

F C Am C
We do it over and over and over again
F C Am C
We do it over and over and over again

F Am C G
Oh -oh -oh -oh (slow) (straight strumming)
F Am C
Oh -oh -oh -oh (build)
F Am C G
Oh -oh -oh -oh


F Am
I know there's California, Oklahoma
C G
And all of the places I ain't ever been to but


[Chorus]

F
Down in the valley with
Am
Whiskey rivers
C G
These are the places you will find me hidin'
F Am
These are the places I will always go (not slow)
F C
These are the places I will always go (not slow)

F
I am on my way (slow)
Am
I am on my way (slow)
F C
I am on my way back to where I started


[Bridge]

F Am C G (build)

F Am C G
Oh -oh -oh -oh (straight strumming)

F Am C G
Oh -oh -oh -oh (build) (continued in the background)


F Am
One more for the stars and the eyes of the walls

C G
I hail your face, and then I saw you standing out

F ............................... Am ............ (build)

C G
I saw your face in the crowd and you came out

F ................... Am ............ (build)

C G
You saw me crossing the valley and you came in

F Am
There was a sign on the door and it reads to me

C G
Just like the grass and the sign when you walked in


F Am C G
Oh -oh -oh -oh (straight strumming)


F Am C G
Oh -oh -oh


F
I am on my way (slow)
Am
I am on my way (slow)

F C
I am on my way back to where I started

F Am
California, Oklahoma
C G
And all of the places I ain't ever been to but


[Chorus]

F
Down in the valley with
Am
Whiskey rivers
C G
These are the places you will find me hidin'
F Am
These are the places I will always go (slow)
F C
These are the places I will always go (slow)
F C
So I wish I was a slave to an age-old trade
F C
Lord have mercy on my rough and rowdy ways

G G
Where you go so late said the knight on the road
G G D7
I'm going to meet my god said the child as he stood
C G C G
And he stood and he stood and it was well that he stood
G D7
I'm going to meet my god said the child as he stood


How will you go by land said the knight on the road
With a strong staff in my hand said the child as he stood
And he stood and he stood and it was well that he stood
With a strong staff in my hand said the child as he stood
C G C G
Oh oh oh oh...
G G
How will you go by sea said the knight on the road
G G D7
With a good boat underneath said the child as he stood
C G C G
And he stood and he stood and it was well that he stood
G D7
With a good boat underneath said the child as he stood

I think I hear a bell said the knight on the road
It's ringing you to hell said the child as he stood
And he stood and he stood and it was well that he stood
It's ringing you to hell said the child as he stood

Where you go so late said the knight on the road
I'm going to meet my god said the child as he stood
And he stood and he stood and it was well that he stood
I'm going to meet my god said the child as he stood

Oh oh oh oh...

[Verse 1]
G D C G
When it seems that everyone is worried for themselves
C G D
Buying plans for fallout shelters, stocking up the shelves
G D C G
Living in the fast lane, and staying high at night
C G D G
Thinking that by accident we'll blow out all the lights

[Verse 2]
G D C G
Look, now, at the potter whose wheel is spinning 'round
C G D
Shaping with her hands the past and future from the ground
G D C G
Cups that will be filled and drunk, so warm in wintertime
C G D G
Plates and bowls for dinner served with candlelight and wine

[Chorus]
G D
She believes, she believes
Em C D
By her work it's so easy to see
Em C G C
That the future is more than the following day
G D G
It's fashioned securely in the clay

[Verse 3]
G D C G
Look now at the farmer working in his field
C G D
Hoping that the sun and rain will guarantee his yield
G D C G
Like a seed, the wind has blown to unfamiliar ground
C G D G
He waits to see what fate will bring as each year rolls around

[Chorus]
G D
He believes, he believes
Em C D
By his work it's so easy to see
Em C G C
That the future is more than the following day
G D G
It's fashioned securely in the clay

[Verse 4]
G D C G
Elsewhere, there are lovers in a warm embrace
C G D
Happy with their plans to carry on the human race
G D C G
Now the baby cries and wonders if it's all alone
C G D G
Softly voices reassure there'll always be a home

[Chorus]
G D
They believe, they believe
Em C D
By their work it's so easy to see
Em C G C
That the future is more than the following day
G D G
It's fashioned securely in the clay

[Verse 5]
G D C G
So, if you had been worried that tomorrow wouldn't come
C G D
Look to see the ones whose lives are following the sun
G D C G
And the hope that springs so clearly from the work they do
C G D G
Will spread a little further when it finds a place in you

[Chorus]
G D
We believe, we believe
Em C D
By our work it's so easy to see
Em C G C
That the future is more than the following day
G D G
It's fashioned securely in the clay
Em C G C
That the future is more than the following day
G D G
It's fashioned securely in the clay

C G C
I'll swim and sail on savage seas
G C
With ne'er a fear of drowning.
C G Am
And gladly ride the waves of life
F G Am
If you will marry me.


[Chorus]
F C
No scorching sun, nor freezing cold
F C G
Will stop me on my journey
F C G Am
If you will promise me your heart.
F G
And love me for eternity.


[Verse 2]
C G C
My dearest one, my darling dear,
G C
Your mighty words astound me.
C G C
But I've no need of mighty deeds
F G C
When I feel your arms around me.

C G C
But I would bring you rings of gold,
G
I'd even sing you poetry!
C F G Am
And I would keep you from all harm
G C
If you would stay beside me!


[Chorus]
F C
I have no use for rings of gold,
F C
I care not for your poetry.
F C G Am
I only want your hand to hold...
F C G C
I only want you near me!


[Bridge]
D A D
To love and kiss, to sweetly hold!
D A D
For the dancing and the dreaming!
D A D
Through all life's sorrows and delights,
G A Bm
If you will marry me...
G A D
If you will marry me!

Foundling Bird

The sun is always low here, we will walk in mountain's shade

With foreign stars above

And crooked footsteps falling in a haunted glade

What do you know of love?

Runes and ancient words

Whispered by the foundling bird

Your skin is growing greener, your sweet voice has turned to gold

Still I don’t know your name

Take your woolen cloak now, sing with me, join the fold

And sacred tongues of flame

Will yet rest, unheard,

Gathered ‘round the foundling bird

Will you be my chapel? I will be your chandelier,

I hear a hunter’s horn,

Turn me a rosebush, scarlet petals to appear

And cover me with thorns

Have I grown absurd?

Am I still your foundling bird?

Will you yet forsake me, now that our journey’s done?

I’ll never forsake you,

And till our dreams are drowning underneath a sinking sun

A world that’s steeped in dew

The creatures that have stirred

The echoes of the foundling bird

[Intro]
| C | Dm | G | C |
| C | Dm | G | G

[Verse 1]
C Dm
I think I'll go out to Alberta
G C
Weather's good there in the fall
C Dm G C F G F
I've got some friends that I can go working for
C Dm
Still I wish you'd change your mind
G C
If I ask you one more time
Dm F G C F G F
But we've been through that a hundred times or more

[Chorus 1]
C Dm
Four strong winds that blow lonely
G C
Seven seas that run high
C Dm
All those things that don't change,
G C F G F
come what may
C Dm
If the good times are all gone
G C
Then I'm bound for moving on
Dm F G C F G F
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way

[Verse 2]
C Dm
If I get there before the snow flies,
G C
And if things are looking good
C Dm G C F G F
You could meet me if I sent you down the fare
C Dm
But by then it would be winter
G C
Not too much for you to do
Dm F G C F G F
And those winds sure can blow cold way out there

[Chorus 2]
C Dm
Four strong winds that blow lonely
G C
Seven seas that run high
C Dm
All those things that don't change
G C F G F
come what may
C Dm
If the good times are all gone
G C
Then I'm bound for moving on
Dm F G C F G F
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way

[Instrumental]
C Dm G Dm F G C Dm G

[Verse 3]
C Dm
Still I wish you'd change your mind
G C
If I ask you one more time
Dm F G C F G F
But we've been through that a hundred times or more

[Chorus 3]
C Dm
Four strong winds that blow lonely
G C
Seven seas that run high
C Dm
All those things that don't change
G C F G F
come what may
C Dm
If the good times are all gone
G C
Then I'm bound for moving on
Dm F G C F G F
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way

[Outro]
Dm F G
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way

Winter’s child, from her garden exiled

Lost in shadows blue

Face wind-battered, robe torn and tattered

So long the evenings grew

Lost in pondering, across the tundra wandering,

In moonlight her footsteps stirred

In dusk so fleeting, broken hearts beating,

Quivering like frightened birds

Drops now of scarlet flow

Through her fingers upon the snow

“Who in this deep sacred moonlight does go

With the eyes of a snowy owl perching?

And here in these vast

bitter countries of snow

Does this poor weary traveler go searching?

And what are you looking for?”

White as plaster, coats of alabaster

All bounding o’er the snow

Eyes of starlight searching the far night

For bleeding hearts all aglow

Are these hearts then

doomed to break apart when

These lungs draw their final breath?

Hold them near, it’s only your warm spirit

That saves from the frost of death

Knowing not who they are,

Chasing the wandering star

“One was a child lost, alone upon the earth

The second was a poet and a lover

The first sleeps in silence

by the blazing of the hearth

With silver threads I took and bound the other

“For whose fragile heart

did you journey out and seek,

And traverse o’er the snowy frozen ocean?

Or is there some secret

that you alone can keep?

And what spurs you onward but devotion?

What are you looking for?”

What nameless face do I see when I’m asleep

I cannot say

Ten thousand brushstrokes across the canvas

Yet all is gray

And who shall guide me across the icy sea?

What wandering star?

Does this enchantress

my heart keep from the cold

night black as tar?

Oooooooo…

[Intro]

C Am C \ Am 4x

[Verse]

F
Come a little bit closer
C C Am C \ Am (2x)
Hear what I have to say
F
Just like children sleepin
C C Am C \ Am
We could dream this night away.
F
But there's a full moon risin
C C Am C \ Am
Let's go dancin in the light
F
We know where the music's playin
C C Am C \ Am
Let's go out and feel the night.

F G
Because I'm still in love with you
Dm
I want to see you dance again
F G
Because I'm still in love with you
C C Am C\ Am
On this harvest moon.

F
When we were strangers
C C Am C \ Am
I watched you from afar
F
When we were lovers
C C Am C \ Am
I loved you with all my heart.
F
But now its gettin late
C C Am C \ Am
And the moon is climbin high
F
I want to celebrate
C C Am C \ Am
See it shinin in your eye.

F G
Because I'm still in love with you
Dm
I want to see you dance again
F G
Because I'm still in love with you
C C Am C \ Am C Am C \ Am
On this harvest moon.

[Verse 1]
E
I was raised up believing
A
I was somehow unique
B
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes
A E
Unique in each way you can see

[Verse 2]
E
And now after some thinking
A
I'd say I'd rather be
B
A functioning cog in some great machinery
A E
Serving something beyond me

[Chorus]
E A
But I don't, I don't know what that will be
E A E
I'll get back to you someday soon you will see

[Verse 3]
E
What's my name, what's my station
A
Oh just tell me what I should do
B
I don't need to be kind to the armies of night
A E
That would do such injustice to you

[Verse 4]
E
Or bow down and be grateful
A
And say "Sure take all that you see"
B
To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls
A E
And determine my future for me

[Chorus]
E A
And I don't, I don't know who to believe
E A E
I'll get back to you someday soon you will see

[Verse 6]
E
If I know only one thing
A
It's that every thing that I see
B
Of the world outside is so inconceivable
A E
Often I barely can speak

Yeah I'm tongue tied and dizzy
A
And I can't keep it to myself
B
What good is it to sing helplessness blues?
A E
Why should I wait for anyone else?

[Chorus]
E A
And I know, I know you will keep me on the shelf
E A E
I'll come back to you someday soon myself

[Short Instrumental]
E

[Choral Section]

[Verse]
E A
If I had an orchard
E A (Aadd9)
I'd work till I'm raw
A6 E
If i had an orchard
A Asus4 A
I'd work till I'm sore

E A
And you would wait tables
E A Asus4 A
And soon run the store

E A
Gold hair in the sunlight
E A (Aadd9)
My light in the dawn
A6 E
If I had an orchard
A Asus4 A
I'd work till I'm sore

E A
If I had an orchard
E A Asus4 A
I'd work till I'm sore

Harmony Verse - follow same chord pattern as before...

E A
Someday I'll be
E A
Like the man on the screen

[Outro]
A - Asus4 - A - E

[Verse]
D
I don't want your millions, Mister
G D
I don't want your diamond ring
G D
All I want is the right to live, Mister
A D
Give me back my job again

[Verse 2]
D
Now, I don't want your Rolls-Royce, Mister
G D
I don't want your pleasure yacht
G D
All I want's just food for my babies
A D
Give to me my old job back

[Verse 3]
D
We worked to build this country, Mister
D G
While you enjoyed a life of ease
D G
You've stolen all that we built, Mister
A D
Now our children starve and freeze

[Chorus]
D
So, I don't want your millions, Mister
G D
I don't want your diamond ring
G D
All I want is the right to live, Mister
A D
Give me back my job again

[Verse 4]
D
Think me dumb if you wish, Mister
G D
Call me green, or blue, or red
G D
This one thing I sure know, Mister
A D
My hungry babies must be fed

[Verse 5]
D
Take the two old parties, Mister
D G
No difference in them I can see
D G
But with a Farmer-Labor Party
A D
We could set the people free

[Chorus]
D
So, I don't want your millions, Mister
G D
I don't want your diamond ring
G D
All I want is the right to live, Mister
A D
Give me back my job again

[Intro]
C Em F G
C Em F G
C Em F

[Verse 1]
G C Em F G C Em F
If I had a ha_a__mmer, I'd hammer in the mo_or__nin'
G C Em F G
I'd hammer in the e__ev'_nin' all over this land
C Am
I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out warnin'
F C F C
I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters
F C G C Em F G C Em F
A__a__all over this la_aa__aa_and Oo oo oo

[Verse 2]
G C Em F G C Em F
If I had a be_e___ell, I'd ring it in the mo_or__nin'
G C Em F G
I'd ring it in the e__ev'_nin' all over this land
C Am
I'd ring out danger, I'd ring out warnin'
F C F C
I'd ring out love between my brothers and my sisters
F C G C Em F G C Em F
A__a__all over this la_aa__aa_and Oo oo oo

[Verse 3]
G C Em F G C Em F
If I had a so_o___ong, I'd sing it in the mo_or__nin'
G C Em F G
I'd sing it in the e__ev'_nin' all over this land
C Am
I'd sing out danger, I'd sing out warnin'
F C F C
I'd sing out love between my brothers and my sisters
F C G C Em F G C Em F
A__a__all over this la_aa__aa_and Oo oo oo

[Verse 4]
G C Em F G C Em F
Well, I got a ha_a__mmer and I got a be_e___ell
G C Em F G
And I got a song to sing all over this land
(song to sing)
C Am
It's the hammer of justice, it's the bell of freedom
F C F C
It's the song about love between my brothers and my sisters
F C G C Em F
A__a__all over this la_and

[Outro]
G C Am
It's the hammer of justice, it's the bell of freedom
F C F C
It's the song about love between my brothers and my sisters
F C G Am G C
A__a__all over this la__a__and

[Verse]
C
Every night I saw you there
F
In your old wicker chair
C F
Singing, ooh
C
You were wrong, I was right
F C F
Didn't matter in a fight, ooh

C
Coffee mug filled it up
F
Always knew what it was
C F
Sing, ooh
C
Been on your side for years
F C F
You could never love without crying

Dm F C
Is she dead, is she fine
Dm F
Every day, every night

C F x2

C F C F
Fate has dealt me a lonely blow, I said, ooh
C
Tried to help, only hurt
F C F
In the end I made it worse, ooh

Dm F C
Is she dead, is she fine
Dm F C
Every day, every night

[Instrumental]
C F x4

C F
Give back my keys, give back my chair
C F
Take back those clothes you always left on the floor

C F x2

C F
You drove me wild, drove me insane
C F
Drank the whole bottle, forgot my name

[Pre-Chorus]
Dm G
All I ever wanted was a mother for the first time
Dm G G7
Finally I could see you as the leader of the landslide

[Chorus]
C E Am F C
She left, she left, the writing's on the wall
E Am F C
Please believe me, I smell the alcohol
E Am F C
The only thing I know is that we're in too deep
E Am F
And maybe when she's dead and gone I'll get some sleep

C F x2

C F
You blamed it all on your kids
C F
We were young, we were innocent
C F
You told me a lie, fuck you for that
C F
Fuck all your pride and fuck all your prayers

[Pre-Chorus]
Dm G
And all this time I waited like a fool and for the first time
Dm G G7
Finally I can see you as the leader of the landslide

[Chorus]
C E Am F C
She left, she left, the writing's on the wall
E Am F C
Please believe me, don't answer when she calls
E Am F C
The only thing I know is that we're in too deep
E Am F
And maybe when she's dead and gone I'll get some sleep

C F x2

C Em
Out there on my own I was feeling so alone
Am F
Like a poltergeist in the afterlife
C Em
Fading by degrees, I was shaking in the knees
Am F
In the aftermath of this broken glass

[Outro]
F C G Am
Ah ah ah ah
F C G Am Asus A
Ah ah ah ah
F C G Am F
Ah ah ah ah ah

[Chorus]
D
Put your dreams away for now, I wont see you for some time
G
I am lost in my mind, I get lost in my mind
D
Mama once told me, youre already home when you feel loved
G D
I am lost in my mind, I get lost in my mind
G D G
Ooh Ooh, Ooh Ooh, Ooh Ooh

[Verse]
D G
Oh my brother, your wisdom is older than me
D G
Oh my brother, dont you worry about me
A G D
Dont you worry, dont you worry, dont worry bout me
G D G
Ooh Ooh, Ooh Ooh, Ooh Ooh

[Pre-Chorus]
D
Hows that brick layin coming? Hows your engine runnin?
G
Is that bridge getting built? Are your hands getting filled?
D G D
Wont you tell me my brother, cause there are stars up above.
G D G
We can start, moving forward.
D G D G
Ooh Ooh, Ooh Ooh, Ooh Ooh, Ooh Ooh

D
Hows that brick layin coming? Hows your engine runnin?
G
Is that bridge getting built? Are your hands getting filled?
D G D
Wont you tell me my brother, cause there are stars up above.
G D Bm A
We can start, moving forward.
G
Two... Three...

[Break]
D G D G

[Chorus]
D
Lost in my mind, lost in my mind,
G D
I get lost in my mind, lost I get lost I get lost in my mind
G D G
Lost in my mind, I get lost in my mind, lost I get lost I get lost
D G D
Oh I get lost, Oh I get

[Intro]

C


[Verse]
C G C
And in the middle of the night, I may watch you go
C G C
There'll be no value in the strength of walls that I'll have grown
F Am Am G F
There'll be no comfort in the shade of the shadows thrown
G C G C
But I'll be yours if you'll be mine

C F C
Stretch out my life and pick the seams out
C F G Am
Take what you like, but close my ears and eyes
F C G C G C
Watch me stumble over and over

C F C
I had done wrong, you build your tower
C F G Am
But call me home and I will build a throne
F C G C G C
And wash my eyes out never again


[Chorus]

C F
But love the one you hold
G
And I'll be your goal
Am
To have and to hold
C
A lover of the light


[Verse]

C F C
Skin too tight and eyes like marbles
C F G Am
You spin me high so watch me as I glide
F C G C G C
Before I tumble homeward homeward

C F C
I know I've tried, I was not stable
C F G Am
Flawed my pride, I miss my sanguine eyes
F C G C G C
So hold my hands up, breathe in an' breathe out


[Chorus]

C F
So love the one you hold
G
And I'll be your goal
Am
To have and to hold
C
A lover of the light


[Bridge]
C Am (x2) C

C G C
And in the middle of the night, I may watch you go
C G C
There'll be no value in the strength of walls that I'll have grown
F Am Am G F
There'll be no comfort in the shade of the shadows thrown
F Am Am G F
You may not trust the promises of the change I'll show
G C G C
But I'll be yours if you'll be mine


[Solo]

C C C C Am C Am G Am C F G Am C


[Chorus]

C F
So love the one you hold
G
And I will be your goal
Am
To have and to hold
C
A lover of the light

C F
So love the one you hold
G
And I will be your goal
Am
To have and to hold
C
A lover of the light

[Verse 1]
D G
I've been cheated by you since I don't know when
D G
So I made up my mind, it must come to an end
D5 D+5
Look at me now, will I ever learn?
D6 D7 G
I don't know how but I suddenly lose control
G A
There's a fire within my soul

[Pre-Chorus]
G D A
Just one look and I can hear a bell ring
G D A
One more look and I forget everything, o-o-o-oh

[Chorus]
D
Mamma mia, here I go again
G
My my, how can I resist you?
D
Mamma mia, does it show again?
G
My my, just how much I've missed you
D A
Yes, I've been brokenhearted
Bm F#m
Blue since the day we parted
G A
Why, why did I ever let you go?
D Bm
Mamma mia, now I really know,
G A
My my, I could never let you go.

[Verse 2]
D G
I've been angry and sad about things that you do
D G
I can't count all the times that I've told you "we're through"
D5 D+5
And when you go, when you slam the door
D6 D7 G
I think you know that you won't be away too long
G A
You know that I'm not that strong

[Pre-Chorus]
G D A
Just one look and I can hear a bell ring
G D A
One more look and I forget everything

[Chorus]
D
Mamma mia, here I go again
G
My my, how can I resist you?
D
Mamma mia, does it show again
G
My my, just how much I've missed you?
D A
Yes, I've been brokenhearted
Bm F#m
Blue since the day we parted
G A
Why, why did I ever let you go?
D Bm
Mamma mia, even if I say
G A
"Bye bye, leave me now or never"
D
Mamma mia, it's a game we play
G
"Bye bye" doesn't mean forever
D
Mamma mia, here I go again
G
My my, how can I resist you?
D
Mamma mia, does it show again
G
My my, just how much I've missed you?
D A
Yes, I've been brokenhearted
Bm F#m
Blue since the day we parted
G A
Why, why did I ever let you go?
D Bm
Mamma mia, now I really know
G A
My my, I could never let you go

[Outro]
D D+5 D D+5
(repeat and fade)

(You can play the intro part for D and Gm * throughout the song)

[Verse]
C
A heart that's full up
Fmaj7/A
Like a landfill
Dm G Gsus4
A job that slowly kills you, bruises that won't
C Fm *
Heal

C
You look so tired, unhappy
Fmaj7/A
Bring down the government
Dm G Gsus4
They don't, they don't speak for
C Fm *
Us

C
I'll take a quiet life
Fmaj7/A
A handshake of carbon monoxide and


[Chorus]
Dm G Gsus4
No alarms and no surprises
Dm G Gsus4
No alarms and no surprises
Dm G Gsus4
No alarms and no surprises
C Fm *
Silent
C Fm *
Silent


[Bridge]
C
This is my final fit
Fmaj7/A
My final bellyache with


[Chorus]
Dm G Gsus4
No alarms and no surprises
Dm G Gsus4
No alarms and no surprises
Dm G Gsus4
No alarms and no surprises
C Fm *
Please


[Instrumental]
G Fm
G Fm
Dm Fm


[Bridge]
C
Such a pretty house and
Fmaj7/A
Such a pretty garden


[Chorus]
Dm G Gsus4
No alarms and no surprises
Dm G Gsus4
No alarms and no surprises
Dm G Gsus4
No alarms and no surprises
C Fm *
Please


[Outro]
C Fm * C (single strum)

[Verse 1]

G Cadd9 G *
Nobody knows how to say goodbye,
Em Cadd9 G *
It seems so easy 'til you try,
Em Cadd9 G *
Then the moment's passed you by,
Em Cadd9 G *
Nobody knows how to say goodbye.


[Verse 2]

G Cadd9 G *
Nobody knows how to get back home,
Em Cadd9 G *
And we set out so long ago,
Em Cadd9 G *
Searched the heavens and the earth below,
Em Cadd9 G *
Nobody knows how to get back home.


[Verse 3]

G Cadd9 G *
Through the darkness to the dawn,
Em Cadd9 G *
When I looked back you were gone,
Em Cadd9 G *
Heard your voice leading me on
Em Cadd9 G *
Through the darkness to the dawn.


[Verse 4]

G Cadd9 G *
Love is deep as the road is long,
Em Cadd9 G *
It moves my feet to carry on,
Em Cadd9 G *
Beats my heart when you are gone,
Em Cadd9 G *
Love is deep as the road is long.


[Outro]

G Cadd9 G *
Nobody knows how the story ends,
Em Cadd9 G *
Live the day, do what you can,
Em Cadd9 G *
This is only where it began,
Em Cadd9 G *
Nobody knows how the story ends,
Em Cadd9 G *
Nobody knows how the story ends.

Oracle of Mercy

O my love, You spin your silk so fine

O my love, Beneath some darkened shrine

Do you recall, the days beneath the sun?

Before the walls in cracks of thunder came undone

The dust above the road sank

As the smoke obscured my sight

Are we so forgotten

That the ghosts fear not the light?

Carve an ancient circle,

Hear the ravens shriek and shout

Oracle of mercy,

Cast away my fear and doubt

Drops of rain, above these catacombs

Shapes arcane, incantations, dusty tomes

Are lives so brief, so full of hunger, full of fear?

Days of grief, nights of wonder, passing years

The creaking of the water wheel

The tearing of the silk

I’ll hold you as the dayspring turns the

Clay-cold sea to milk

If not for those weeping eyes

To light the lamps ahead

Our lives would be forgotten,

Endless paths, more tears to shed

Set for me a table,

Pour to me a glass of wine

Dark as ink or sable deep

While needle-point stars shine

Now arise, Fear not the ghostly dawn

Rosy skies Hang over Babylon

C Am F G
Come over the hills my bonnie Irish lass
C Am F C
Come over the hills to my darl-ing
F C F G
You choose the road love and I'll make the vow
C F C G C
And I'll be your true love for-ever


CHORUS
Am F G
Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows
C Am F C
Fair is the lily of the val-ley
F C F G
Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne
C F C G C
But my love is fair-er than any

Am F G
Twas down by Killarney's green woods that we strayed
C Am F C
The moon and the stars they were shin-ing
F C F G
The moon shone its rays on his locks of golden hair
C F C G C
He swore he'd be my love for-ever

Repeat Chorus

Am F G
It's not for the parting that my sister pains
C Am F C
It's not for the grief of my mo-ther
F C F G
Tis all for the loss of my bonnie Irish lass
C F C G C
That my heart is breaking for-ever

[Verse 1]

C Am C
a year from now we'll all be gone
Am F C
all our friends will move away
Am F C
and they're going to better places
Am F C
but our friends will be gone away

C Am C
nothing is as it has been
Am F C
and i miss your face like hell
Am F C
and i guess it's just as well
Am F C
but i miss your face like hell


[Chorus]

C Am C
ohhhhh ohhhh oh
Am F C
ohhhhhhhhh ohhhhh

C Am C
ohhhhh ohhhh oh
Am F C
ohhhhhhhhh ohhhhh


[Verse 2]

C Am C C
been talking bout the way things change
Am F C C C
and my family lives in a different state
Am F C
and if you don't know what to make of this
Am F C
then we will not relate
Am F C
so if you don't know what to make of this
Am F C
then we will not relate


[Chorus]

C Am C
ohhhhh ohhhh oh
Am F C
ohhhhhhhhh ohhhhh

C Am C
ohhhhh ohhhh oh
Am F C
ohhhhhhhhh ohhhhh

C Am C
ohhhhh ohhhh oh
Am F C
ohhhhhhhhh ohhhhh

C Am C
ohhhhh ohhhh oh
Am F C
ohhhhhhhhh ohhhhh


[Outro]

(repeat as many times as you want, start quiet and build it up)

C
rivers and roads
Am C
rivers and roads
Am F C
rivers 'til i reach you

Out in the creeks where the marsh hens are calling

And the cordgrasses sway and they bend

There’s a light o’er the sea though the sun it is falling

Where the whimbrels all soar on the wind

I’ve lived such a good life, I’ve done what was asked me,

I’ve wandered the salt meadow hay

And now it does seem that my years have rushed past me

As my days like the sand slip away

And if only I could I would run to the forest,

I’d climb a persimmon tree,

And like some opossum I’d sleep in the darkness,

And who would remember me?

Such dreams, such dreams, such treacherous visions

What specters take root in your head?

An old devil cat, as black as a raven,

Crept over the foot of your bed

Its eyes were like flames, and how silver its whiskers,

And how did it get through the door?

In what strange tongue in your ear did it whisper?

And slipped through your keyhole once more

And then did the garden fill with wild swine,

To trample your cotton and corn?

And who is to blame when the golden light shines,

And the devil retreats in the morn?

Up in the trees were cawing the ravens,

My hands to my feet they were bound,

To face the dark weary depths of the Lynnhaven,

To be tossed in the tide or to drown

When shall I return to my home by the water

And breathe in the brimstone air

While marsh hens among the bent reeds all chatter,

By Grace, who shall answer my prayer?

Eight years, eight years, and the stones seem to harden

My hair grows thin and gray,

At last I will tend to my rosemary garden

By the marshes of salt meadow hay

C

(On my way, on my way)
F
(On my way, on my way)


[Verse 1]
(keep playing riff)

C Fadd9
I would like to reach out my hand I may see, I may tell you to run (On my way, on my way)
C
You-know-what-they-say-about-the-young
C Fadd9
Well pick me up with golden hands, Oh may see you, oh may tell you to run (On my way, on my
way)
C
you-know-what-they-say-about-the-young


[Chorus]

well...
Am G F G Am G
I would like to hold my little hand, how we will run, we will, how we will
F G
crawl we will

Am G F G Am G
I would like to hold my little hand, how we will run, we will, how we will
G
crawl....


[Post-Chorus]

C
Send me on my way (on my way)
C
Send me on my way (on my way)
F
Send me on my way (on my way)
F
Send me on my way (on my way)
C
Send me on my way (on my way)
C
Send me on my way (on my way)
F
Send me on my way (on my way)
F
Hmmmmmmm


[Instrumental]

C C F F
C C F F


[Verse 2]

C Fadd9
I would like to reach out my hand I may see, I may tell you to run (On my way, on my way)
C
You-know-what-they-say-about-the-young
C Fadd9
Well pick me up with golden hands, Oh may see you, oh may tell you to run (On my way, on my
way)
C
you-know-what-they-say-about-the-young


[Chorus]

well...
Am G F G Am G
I would like to hold my little hand, how we will run, we will, how we will
F G
crawl we will

Am G F G Am G
I would like to hold my little hand, how we will run, we will, how we will
G
crawl....


[Post-Chorus]

C
Send me on my way (on my way)
C
Send me on my way (on my way)
F
Send me on my way (on my way)
F
Send me on my way (on my way)
C
Send me on my way (on my way)
C
Send me on my way (on my way)
F
Send me on my way (on my way)
F
Hmmmmmmm


[Instrumental]

C C F F
C C F F


[Chorus]

Am G F G Am G
I would like to hold my little hand, how we will run, we will, how we will
F G
crawl we will

Am G F G Am G
I would like to hold my little hand, how we will run, we will, how we will
G
crawl....


[Post-Chorus 2]

Am Fmaj7 C G
Send me on my way send me on my way send me on my waaaay
Am Fmaj7 C G
On my way send me on my way send me on my waaaay

Am Fmaj7 C G
Ohh oooooh, oh ooooooooooooooooooh, oh oh, oh ohoooooooooooooo
Am Fmaj7 C G
On my way Ohh oooooh, oh ooooooooooooooooooh, oh oh, oh ohoooooooooooooo

C Fadd9
I would like to reach out my hand I may see, I may tell you to run (On my way, on my way)
Fadd9 C
You-know-what-they-say-about-the-young

[Yodel-Intro]
C F C
G7 C G7

[Verse 1]
C F C
Porch lights on distant ridges dark
G7 C G7
Rock lined valley singing with every bark
C F C
Black water bottom to windblown timber tall
G7 C G7
It’s my land of snakes and waterfalls

[Interlude]
C F C C
G7 G7 C G7

[Verse 2]
C F C
Sixteen score and seven years my blood's called home
G7 C G7
All the crimson clay and the old roads that I roam
C F C
This place might be cursed after all
G7 C
But it’s my land of snakes and waterfalls

[Chorus]
G7 F C
And I know that when a distant shore's before me
D G7
Oh how my poor heart aches for every hollow that I forsake

[Verse 3]
C F C
I’ve been trying to run since I could crawl
G7 C G7
But I’m bound to snakes and waterfalls

[Interlude]
C F C C
G7 G7 C G7
C F C C
G7 G7 C C

[Chorus]
G7 F C
And I know that when a distant shore's before me
D G7
Oh how my poor heart aches for every hollow that I forsake

[Verse 4]
C F C
Blue cave water and canebrakes forever call
G7 C G7
Me on home to snakes and waterfalls

[Outro]
C F C C
G7 G7 C G7
C F C C
G7 C

[Verse 1]
G
When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
C G D7
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
G B7 Em
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
Am D7 G
But the union makes us strong.

[Chorus]
G
Solidarity forever,
C G
Solidarity forever,
G B7 Em
Solidarity forever,
Am D7 G
For the union makes us strong.

[Verse 2]
G
Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite,
C G D7
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
G B7 Em
Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?
Am D7 G
For the union makes us strong.

[Chorus]
G
Solidarity forever,
C G
Solidarity forever,
G B7 Em
Solidarity forever,
Am D7 G
For the union makes us strong.

[Verse 3]
G
It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;
C G D7
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
G B7 Em
Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made;
Am D7 G
But the union makes us strong.

[Chorus]
G
Solidarity forever,
C G
Solidarity forever,
G B7 Em
Solidarity forever,
Am D7 G
For the union makes us strong.

[Verse 4]
G
All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone.
C G D7
We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone.
G B7 Em
It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own.
Am D7 G
While the union makes us strong.

[Chorus]
G
Solidarity forever,
C G
Solidarity forever,
G B7 Em
Solidarity forever,
Am D7 G
For the union makes us strong.

[Verse 5]
G
They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
C G D7
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
G B7 Em
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
Am D7 G
That the union makes us strong.

[Chorus]
G
Solidarity forever,
C G
Solidarity forever,
G B7 Em
Solidarity forever,
Am D7 G
For the union makes us strong.

[Verse 6]
G
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
C G D7
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
G B7 Em
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
Am D7 G
For the union makes us strong.

[Chorus]
G
Solidarity forever,
C G
Solidarity forever,
G B7 Em
Solidarity forever,
Am D7 G
For the union makes us strong.

Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
I could see the city light
Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night

He was something to observe
Came in close, I heard a voice
Standing, stretching every nerve
I had to listen, had no choice

I did not believe the information
Just had to trust imagination
My heart going "Boom-boom-boom"
"Son, " he said
"Grab your things, I've come to take you home"
Hey, back home

To keep in silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut

So I went from day to day
Though my life was in a rut
'Til I thought of what I'd say
Which connection I should cut

I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going "Boom-boom-boom"
"Hey, " he said
"Grab your things, I've come to take you home"
Hey, back home

When illusion spin her net
I'm never where I wanna be
And liberty, she pirouette
When I think that I am free

Watched by empty silhouettes
Who close their eyes but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
I will show another me

Today I don't need a replacement
I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant
My heart going "Boom-boom-boom"
"Hey, " I said
"You can keep my things, they've come to take me home"

I mourn the dead, forgotten birds,

The songs I’ll never hear

Whatever happened to them

Among these passing years?

Though once the skies were darkened

With the beating of their wings

Outside the sun is shining,

And I cannot hear a thing

The meadows seem so empty

The trees unburdened stay

No longer do the feathers green

Adorn the boughs in May

No longer do their ancient songs

Ring out among the trees,

Each note, to time, forgotten

Upon the summer breeze

What of all those lost memories,

The dead of ages past

Where shall their unsung prayers go?

Are any dreams to last?

Will every poem and song fade

That wasn’t inked in pen?

And even those recorded

Shall turn to dust again

Is any song eternal?

Does any story keep?

Do these pages lose their meaning

When the author drifts to sleep?

This moment lost in dreaming

Shall be my solemn vow

To listen to the songbirds

That sing and live for now

Capo:2nd fret

Fmaj7- X33210
Cmaj9- 320010

[Intro]
| Fmaj7 | C Cmaj9 |
| Fmaj7 | C Cmaj9 |
| C Fmaj7 | C |


[Verse 1]
C Fmaj7
Remember when our songs were just like prayers.
C Cmaj9 Am Fmaj7
Like gospel hymns that you called in the air.
C Fmaj7
Come down come down sweet reverence,
C Cmaj9 Am Fmaj7
Unto my simple house and ring...and ring.


[Instrumental]
C Fmaj7
C Fmaj7
C Fmaj7
C Cmaj9 Am Fmaj7
| C Fmaj7 | C |


[Chorus]
Fmaj7 C Fmaj7
Ring like silver, ring like gold
C Cmaj9 Am Fmaj7
Ring out those ghosts on the Ohio
Fmaj7 C Fmaj7
Ring like clear day wedding bells
C Cmaj9 Am Fmaj7
We’re we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell...we'll never tell.


[Instrumental]
| C Fmaj7 | C |
Fmaj7
C Cmaj9 Fmaj7
C Cmaj9 Am C Cmaj9
C


[Bridge]
Em Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 C
Come to me clear and cold on some sea
Em Fmaj7 C G
Watch the world spinning waves...like machines


[Verse 2]
C Fmaj7
Now I've been crazy couldn't you tell
C Cmaj9 Am Fmaj7
I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell.
C Fmaj7
Now I'm covered up in straw, belly up on the table
C Cmaj9 Am Fmaj7
Well I drank and sang, and passed in the stable.


[Small Instrumental]
C Fmaj7 C


[Bridge Instrumental]
Em Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 C
Em Fmaj7 C G


[Instrumental]
Fmaj7 C Cmaj9 Fmaj7 C Cmaj9 C Fmaj7 C

[Verse 1]
G C (Cadd9) G D
I believe submarines
G C (Cadd9) G D
Underneath deep blue seas
G C (Cadd9) G D
Saw the flags: Japanese
G C (Cadd9) G D
No one will believe me

[Bridge]
Em D
Ran back to the town bar and
G
I told the people how
Em D
I had seen the submarine and
C
Everyone laughed aloud

[Instrumental]
G C Cadd9 G D
G C Cadd9 G D

[Verse 2]
G C (Cadd9) G D
I did spy periscopes
G C (Cadd9) G D
Dead of night on the eastern coast
G C (Cadd9) G D
The police made them jokes
G C (Cadd9) G D
Told me I'd seen a ghost

[Bridge]
Em D G
Everyone thinks I'm a liar No one knows the truth
Em D C
If it was a bigger fire I would be on the roof

[Instrumental]
G C (Cadd9) Em D
G C (Cadd9) Em D
G C (Cadd9) G D
G C (Cadd9) G D

[Verse 3]
G C (Cadd9) Em D
Ships will rust in Baldwin Bay (Let me go!)
G C (Cadd9) Em D
No one trusts what I say (I don't know!)
G C (Cadd9) Em D
Oh my God, no one paid (Attention!)
G C (Cadd9) Em D
Overnight my hair turned gray (Oh oh oh!)

[Bridge]
Em D G
In the end it boils down to credibility
Em D C
I had none, so I will die with the secrets of the sea

[Instrumental]
G C (Cadd9) Em D
G C (Cadd9) Em D

Then this chord progression for the rest of it with the rests.
G C (Cadd9) G D
(Submarine! Can't find me! Submarine!)
Submarine...
(Submarine!)

[Chorus]
N.C. C C7
Look for the ...bare ne - cessities,
F F7
The simple bare ne - cessities,
C A7 D7
For - get about your worries and your strife,
G7 N.C. C C7
I mean, the ...bare ne - cessities,
F F7
Old Mother Nature's recipes,
C A7 D7 G7 C F7 C
That bring the bare ne - cessi - ties of life

[Verse 1]
N.C. G G7 C
Wherever I wander, ...wherever I roam,
G G7 C C7
I couldn't be fonder ...of my big home,
F Fm6
The bees are buzzin' in the tree...
C D7
To make some honey just for me,
Am7 N.C. A7 N.C.
When you look under the rocks and plants,
Dm7 N.C. D7 G7
And take a glance at the fancy ants,
C A7
Then maybe ...try a few,
N.C. Dm7 G7 C
The bare ne - cessities of life will come to you,
A7 Dm7 G7 C F7 C
They'll come to you

[Chorus]
N.C. C C7
Look for the ...bare ne - cessities,
F F7
The simple bare ne - cessities,
C A7 D7
For - get about your worries and your strife,
G7 N.C. C C7
I mean, the ...bare ne - cessities,
F F7
That's why a bear can rest at ease,
C A7 D7 G7 C F7 C
With just the bare ne - cessi - ties of life

[Verse 2]
N.C. G7 C
Now, when you pick a paw-paw, or a prickly pear,
G7
And you prick a raw paw,
C C7
Well, next time be - ware!
F Fm6
Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw,
C D7
When you pick a pear try to use the claw,
Am7 N.C. A7 N.C.
But you don't need to use the claw,
Dm7 N.C. D7 G7
When you pick a pair of the big paw - paw!
C C/B A7
Have I given you a clue?
N.C. Dm7 G7 C
The bare ne - cessities of life will come to you,
A7 Dm7 G7 C F7 C
They'll come to you
N.C. C N.C.
Oh, man, this is really living!

[Bridge]
N.C. G7/D G7 G7/D G7
So, just try and re - lax! Yeah,...cool it!
C C/G C/E Cdim7/D#
Fall apart ...in my back yard,
G7/D
'Cause let me tell you somethin', Little Britches,
G7 G7/D G7
If you act like that bee acts..
C C/G C C7
...Uh - uh, ...you're working too hard,
F Fm6
And don't spend your time looking a - round...
C A7
For something you want that can't be found...

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Am7 N.C. A7 N.C.
When you find out you can live without it,
Dm7 N.C. D7 G7
And go along not thinking a - bout it,
C C/B A7
I'll tell you something true,
N.C. Dm7 G7 C F7 C
The bare ne - cessities of life will come to you

[Chorus]
N.C. C C7
Look for the ...bare ne - cessities,
F F7
The simple bare ne - cessities,
C A7 D7
For - get about your worries and your strife,
G7 C C7
Yeah, man! I mean the ...bare ne - cessities,
F F7
That's why a bear can rest at ease,
C A7 D7 G7 C
With just the bare ne - cessi - ties of life,
A7 Dm7 G7
...Yeah!
C A7 D7 G7 C
With just the bare ne - cessi - ties of life,
F7 C
Yeah, man!

[Verse]
C Am
I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told
G
I have squandered my resistance
F C
For a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises
Am G F
All lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear
C G F Em Dm C
And disregards the rest m m m m ..

[Verse 2]
C Am
When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy
G
In the company of strangers
F C
In the quiet of a railway station, running scared
Am G F
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
C
Where the ragged people go
G F Em C
Looking for the places only they would know

[Chorus]
C Am G Am G F C
Lie la lie Lie la lie Lie la lie Lie la lie Lie la lie

[Verse 3]
C Am
Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job
G
But I get no offers
F C
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
Am G F
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
C
I took some comfort there

[Chorus]
G F C
Lie lie lie lie la

[Bridge]
C Am
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone
G F C
Going home where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me
Em Am G
Leading meeeeeeeeee to going home.

[Verse 4]
C Am
In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
G F
And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down
C Am
Or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame
G F
I am leaving, I am leaving
C
But the fighter still remains
G F Em Dm C
M m m m...

[Chorus]
C Am G Am G F C
Lie la lie Lie la lie Lie la lie Lie la lie Lie la lie..etc

[Verse 1] (Paul Clayton)
G C G
If you can answer my questions nine
G G
Sing ninety-nine and ninety
G Em
O' you're not god's, you're one of mine
D G
And the crow flies over the white oak tree


[Verse 2] (Paul Clayton)
G C G
O' what is higher than the tree?
G G
Sing ninety-nine and ninety
G Em
And what is deeper than the sea?
D G
And the crow flies over the white oak tree


[Verse 3] (Jean Ritchie)
G C G
O' heaven is higher than a tree
G G
Sing ninety-nine and ninety
G Em
And love is deeper than the sea
D G
And the crow flies over the white oak tree


[Verse 4] (Paul Clayton)
G C G
O' what is whiter than thе milk?
G G
Sing ninety-nine and ninety
G Em
And what is softer than the silk?
D G
And the crow flies over the white oak tree


[Verse 5] (Jean Ritchie)
G C G
O' snow is whiter than the milk
G G
Sing ninety-nine and ninety
G Em
And down is softer than the silk
D G
And the crow flies over the white oak tree


[Verse 6] (Paul Clayton)
G C G
O' what is louder than the horn?
G G
Sing ninety-nine and ninety
G Em
And what is sharper than the thorn
D G
And the crow flies over the white oak tree


[Verse 7] (Jean Ritchie)
G C G
O' thunder's louder than the horn
G G
Sing ninety-nine and ninety
G Em
And hunger's sharper than the thorn
D G
And the crow flies over the white oak tree


[Verse 8] (Paul Clayton)
G C G
O' what is heavier than the lead?
G G
Sing ninety-nine and ninety
G Em
And what is better than the bread?
D G
And the crow flies over the white oak tree


[Verse 9] (Jean Ritchie)
G C G
O' grief is heavier than the lead
G G
Sing ninety-nine and ninety
G Em
God's blessing's better than the bread
D G
And the crow flies over the white oak tree


[Outro]
(Paul Clayton)
G C G
Now you have answered my questions nine

(Jean Ritchie & Paul Clayton)
G G
Sing ninety-nine and ninety

(Paul Clayton)
G Em
O' you are God's you're none of mine

(Jean Ritchie & Paul Clayton)
D G
And the crow flies over the white oak tree

G Em C
I sense a runner in the garden
D
Although my judgement's known to fail
G Em C
Once built a steamboat in a meadow
D
Cos I'd forgotten how to sail


C D G
I know the runner's going to tell you
C D G
There ain't no cowboy in my hair
C D G
So now he's buried by the daisies
C D G
So I could stay the tallest man in your eyes, babe


G Em C
I sense a spy up in the chimney
D
From all the evidence I've burned
G Em C
I guess he'll read it in the smoke now
D
And soon to ashes I'll return


C D G
I know the spy is going to tell you
C D G
It's not my flag up in the pole
C D G
So now he's buried by the lilies
C D G
So I could stay forever more in your eyes, babe


G Em C
I sense a leak inside my phone now
D
From all the lies I have told
G Em C
I know he has your private number
D
And soon he'll make that vicious call


C D G
I know the leak is going to tell you
C D G
There ain't no puppy in your leash
C D G
So now he'll fertilize the roses
C D G
So I could stay the king you see


G C
In your eyes, babe
G C
In your eyes, babe


G Em C
So now we're dancing through the garden
D
And what a garden I have made
G Em C
And now that death will grow my jasmine
D
I find it soothing I'm afraid


C D G
Now there is no need for suspicion
C D G
There ain't no fraud kissing your hand
C D G
I won't be lying when I tell you
C D G
That I'm a gardener, I'm a man


G Em C D
In your eyes, babe
G Em C D
In your eyes, babe
G Em C Em
In your eyes, babe

[Verse 1]

Em C G D
Oh all the money that e'er I spent
Em C G D
I spent it in good company
Em C G D
And all the harm that e'er I've done
Em G D G
Alas, it was to none but me


[Chorus 1]

G C G D
And all I've done for want of wit
Am D Em D
To memory now I can't recall
Em C G D
So fill to me the parting glass
Em G D G
Good night and joy be with you all


[Verse 2]

Em C G D
If I had money enough to spend
Em C G D
And leisure time to sit awhile
Em C G D
There is a fair maid in this town
Em G D G
That sorely has my heart beguiled


[Chorus 2]

G C G D
Her rosy cheeks and ruby lips
Am D Em D
I own she has my heart enthralled
Em C G D
So fill to me the parting glass
Em G D G
Good night and joy be with you all


[Instrumental]

Em C G D
Em C G D
Em C G D
Em G D G

G C G D
Am D Em D
Em C G D
Em G D G


[Verse 3]

Em C G D
Oh all the comrades that e'er I've had
Em C G D
They're sorry for my going away
Em C G D
And all the sweethearts that e'er I've had
Em G D G
They’d wish me one more day to stay


[Chorus 3]

G C G D
But since it falls unto my lot
Am D Em D
That I should rise and you should not
Em C G D
I'll gently rise and I'll softly call
Em G D G
Good night and joy be with you all


[Instrumental]

Em C G D
Em C G D
Em C G D
Em G D G


[Chorus 4/Outro]

G C G D
But since it falls unto my lot
Am D Em D
That I should rise and you should not
Em C G D
I'll gently rise and I'll softly call
Em G D G
Good night and joy be with you all

[Verse 1]

G Em C G
Come gather 'round people wherever you roam
G Am C D
And admit that the waters around you have grown
G Em C G
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
G Am D
If your time to you is worth savin'
D D7 D6 D
Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone,
G C D G
For the times, they are a-changin'


[Harmonica]

G Em C G


[Verse 2]

G Em C G
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
G Am C D
And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
G Em C G
And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
G Am D
And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
D D7 D6 D
For the loser now will be later to win
G C D G
For the times they are a-changin'


[Harmonica]

G Em C G
D C G D


[Verse 3]

G Em C G
Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
G Am C D
Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
G Em C G
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
G Am D
There's a battle outside and it's ragin'
D D7 D6 D
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
G C D G
For the times they are a-changin'


[Harmonica]

G D C D G


[Verse 4]

G Em C G
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
G Am C D
And don't criticize what you can't understand
G Em C G
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
G Am D
Your old road is rapidly agin'
D D7 D6 D
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
G C D G
For the times they are a-changin'


[Harmonica]

G Em C G
D C G D
G C D G


[Verse 5]

G Em C G
The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
G Am C D
The slow one now will later be fast
G Em C G
As the present now will later be past
G Am D
The order is rapidly fadin'
D D7 D6 D
And the first one now will later be last
G C D G
For the times they are a-changin'


[Harmonica]

G Em C G

(Fade out)

The Weaver (Half-Sick of Shadows)

Five in the morning and the sun is at the door

The night of weaving past, I don’t sleep anymore

Though I’m weary and my bones do creak and moan

Half-sick of shadows and reflections of the woods

A life of echoes I would leave it if I could

But since the locks are cast in iron and in bone

This tapestry of flowers I have sewn

And so shall my heart ache forevermore,

As my body turns to ashes and my feet crumble to stone

And let my earthen mound collapse beneath

The ancient tangles of the trees whose roots shall thirst eternally

A shining man at arms does gallop cross the vale

He holds aloft a lance beneath the moonlight pale,

Though he is but stitches on a woolen field

And yet I weave before him stars and stags and trees

Rivers, meadows full of flowers and of bees

Though these things, from me, shall be forever sealed

Silent needles, silver thimbles, all I wield

Blades of grass, drops of dew between my toes,

Cold creek water round my waist weighs down my clothes,

As the dragonflies all dart along the stream

The dance of fireflies, the passing of the rain

The rising of the moon, the worlds our hearts contain,

The songs forever lost within midsummer’s gleam

The moments of our lives shall pass eternally

From this curse of days are any of us free?

Or shall we ever rise, forsake these solemn dreams?

As our tapestries all wear about the seams

And so shall my heart dance forevermore,

As my body turns to flowers in the meadows we have sown

And let the leaves fall silent over me

Among the tangles of the trees whose children live eternally

[Refrain]
D G D A
They're here, and they're there, and they're everywhere
D G A D
They're here, and they're there, and they're everywhere
D G D A
They're here, and they're there, and they're everywhere
D G A D
They're here, and they're there, and they're everywhere


[Verse 1]
D G
We're taught that after the war
D A
the nazis vanished without a trace
D G
but batallions of fascists
A D
still dream of a master race
D G
The history books they tell of
D A
their defeat in '45
D G
why did they all come out of the woodwork
A D
on the day the nazi died


[Verse 2]
D G
They say the prisoner of Spandau
D A
was a symbol of defeat
D G
whilst Hess remained imprisoned
A D
then the fascists they were beat
D G D A
so the promise of an aryan world would never materialize
D G
so why did they all come out of the woodwork
A D
on the day the nazi died


[Refrain]
D G D A
They're here, and they're there, and they're everywhere
D G A D
They're here, and they're there, and they're everywhere
D G D A
They're here, and they're there, and they're everywhere
D G A D
They're here, and they're there, and they're everywhere


[Verse 3]
D G
the world is riddled with maggots
D A
the maggots are getting fat
D G
they're making a tasty meal
A D
of all the bosses and bureacrats
D G
they're taking over the board rooms
D A
and they're fat and full of pride
D G
and they all came out of the woodwork
A D
on the day the nazi died


[Verse 4]
D G
so if you meet with these historians
D A
I'll tell you what to say
D G A D
tell them that the nazis never really went away
D G
they're out there burning houses down
D A
and peddling racist lies
D G
and we'll never rest again
A D
until every nazi dies


[Outro]
|(D) G | D A |
| D G | A D |

| D G | D A |
| D G | A D

[Chorus]
G D
This land is your land, and this land is my land
A D
From the California, to the New York Island
G D Bm
From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream waters
A D
This land was made for you and me


[Verse 1]
G D
As I went walking that ribbon of highway
A D
I saw above me that endless skyway
G D Bm
I saw below me that golden valley
A D
This land was made for you and me


[Chorus]
G D
This land is your land, and this land is my land
A D
From the California, to the New York Island
G D Bm
From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream waters
A D
This land was made for you and me


[Verse 2]
G D
I've roamed and rambled, and I've followed my footsteps
A D
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
G D Bm
All around me a voice was sounding
A D
This land was made for you and me


[Chorus]
G D
This land is your land, and this land is my land
A D
From the California, to the New York Island
G D Bm
From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream waters
A D
This land was made for you and me


[Verse 3]
G D
When the sun comes shining as I was strolling
A D
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
G D Bm
The fog was lifting a voice came chanting
A D
This land was made for you and me


[Chorus]
G D
This land is your land, and this land is my land
A D
From the California, to the New York Island
G D Bm
From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream waters
A D
This land was made for you and me


[Verse 4]
G D
As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
A D
And that sign said "No trespassin'"
G D Bm
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
A D
Now that side was made for you and me!


[Chorus]
G D
This land is your land, and this land is my land
A D
From the California, to the New York Island
G D Bm
From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream waters
A D
This land was made for you and me


[Verse 5]
G D
In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
A D
Near the relief office - I see my people
G D Bm
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
A D
If this land's still made for you and me


[Chorus]
G D
This land is your land, and this land is my land
A D
From the California, to the New York Island
G D Bm
From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream waters
A D
This land was made for you and me


[Verse 6]
G D
Nobody living can ever stop me
A D
As I go walking that freedom highway;
G D Bm
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
A D
This land was made for you and me


[Chorus]
G D
This land is your land, and this land is my land
A D
From the California, to the New York Island
G D Bm
From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream waters
A D
This land was made for you and me

[Verse 1]
Am
Come all of you good workers
G Am
Good news to you I'll tell
Em Am
Of how the good ol' union
E7 Am
Has come in here to dwell


[Chorus]
Am
Which side are you on?
E7 Am
Which side are you on?


[Verse 2]
Am
My daddy was a miner
G Am
And I'm a miner's son
Em Am
And I'll stick with the union
E7 Am
'Til every battle's won


[Chorus]
Am
Which side are you on?
E7 Am
Which side are you on?


[Verse 3]
Am
They say in Harlan County
G Am
There are no neutrals there
Em Am
You'll either be a union man
E7 Am
Or a thug for J. H. Blair


[Chorus]
Am
Which side are you on?
E7 Am
Which side are you on?


[Verse 4]
Am
Oh workers can you stand it?
G Am
Oh tell me how you can
Em Am
Will you be a lousy scab
E7 Am
Or will you be a man?


[Chorus]
Am
Which side are you on?
E7 Am
Which side are you on?


[Verse 5]
Am
Don't scab for the bosses
G Am
Don't listen to their lies
Em Am
Us poor folks haven't got a chance
E7 Am
Unless we organize


[Chorus]
Am
Which side are you on?
E7 Am
Which side are you on?
Am
Which side are you on?
E7 Am
Which side are you on?

[Intro]

G

[Verse 1]

G G7
I was standing by my window
C G
On one cold and cloudy day
Em G
When I saw the hearse come rolling
Em C G
For to carry my mother away

[Chorus]

G G7
Will the circle be unbroken?
C G
By and by Lord, by and by
Em
There's a better home awaiting
G C * G
In the sky Lord, in the sky

[Instrumental]

G G7 C G Em G C G

[Verse 2]

G G7
I told the undertaker
C G
Undertaker, please drive slow
Em G
For this body you are haulin'
Em C G
How I hate to see her go

[Chorus]

G G7
Will the circle be unbroken?
C G
By and by Lord, by and by
Em
There's a better home awaiting
G C G
In the sky Lord, in the sky

[Verse 3]

G G7
I followed, close behind her
C G
Tried to hold up and be brave
Em G
But I could not hide my sorrow
Em C G
When they laid her in the grave

[Chorus]

G G7
Will the circle be unbroken?
C G
By and by Lord, by and by
Em
There's a better home awaiting
G C G
In the sky Lord, in the sky

[Instrumental]

G G7 C G Em G C G

[Chorus]

G G7
Will the circle be unbroken?
C G
By and by Lord, by and by
Em
There's a better home awaiting
G C G
In the sky Lord, in the sky