Tonart: Bb major
Verse 1
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Em
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They say that
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I never have written of love
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As a writer of songs should do
They say that I never could
touch the strings
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With a touch that is firm and true
They say I know nothing
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of women and men
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In the fields where love's roses grow
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I must write, they say,
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with a haunting pen
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Do you think that I do not know?
Verse 2
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My love burst came like an English spring
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In the days when our hair was brown
And the hem of her skirt
was a sacred thing
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Her hair was an angel's crown
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The shock when another man
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touched her arm
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Where the dancer sat in a row
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The hope and despair and
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the false alarm
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Do you think that I do not know?
Verse 3
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By the amber lights on
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the western farms
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You remember the question you put
While you held her warm in
your quavering arms
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You trembled from head to foot
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The electric shock from her fingertips
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The murmuring answer low
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The soft shy yielding of warm red lips
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Do you think that I do not know?
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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She was buried at Brighton,
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where Gordon sleeps
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When I was a world away
And the sad old garden its secret keeps
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She left a message for me to read
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Where the wild, wide oceans flow
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Do you know how the heart
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of a man can bleed?
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Do you think that I do not know?
Verse 5
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I stood by the grave where
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the dead girl lies
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When the sunlit scene was fair E7
'Neath the white clouds high
in the autumn skies
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I answered the message there
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But the haunting words of the dead to me
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Shall go wherever I go
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She lives in the marriage
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that might have been
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Do you think that I do not know?
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Do you think that I do not know?
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