Tonart: B major
Verse 1
Bb
There is grey in your hair.
C
D
Young men no longer suddenly
C
Bb
catch their breath when you are passing.
C
D
But maybe some old gaffer mutters a blessing,
C
because it was your prayer recovered him upon the bed of death.
D
C
D
For your soul's sake, that all hearts' ache have known,
C
and given to others all hearts' ache,
D
C
from meager girlhoods putting on
burdensome beauty.
Bbm
C
B
For your soul's sake,
E
heaven has put away the
B
C
stroke of her doom.
C#
C
So great her portion in that
piece you make
by merely walking in a room.
Bb
Your beauty can but leave among
D
C
nothing but memories.
D
C
A young man, when the
old men are done talking,
will say to an old man.
D
Tell me of that lady the poet stubborn
C
with his passion sang us
C#
Ebm
when age might well have chilled
B
C
Bb
C
Vague memories, nothing but memories.
But
Ebm
in the grave all,
Eb
D
all shall be renewed.
B
The certainty that I shall see that lady leaning
C
D
or standing or walking in the first loveliness
C
of womanhood and with the
fervor of my youthful eyes has
D
set me muttering like a fool.
beautiful than anyone and
D
yet your body had a flaw.
C
Bb
Your small hands were not
C
D
beautiful and I am afraid that you will run
C
and paddle to the wrist in that mysterious
C#
C
Em
always brimming lake where those that have
C
B
obeyed the holy law paddle and are perfect.
C
D
Bb
B
Leave unchanged the hands that
I have kissed for all sake's sake.
C
Em
C
D
Em
B
Bb
The last stroke of midnight dies, all day in the one chair,
D
from dream to dream and
C
D
rhyme to rhyme, I have ranged in rambling talk with an image of air,
vague memories,
nothing but memories.
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