Tonart: C major
Intro 1
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A
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Dm
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C
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Cm
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Verse 1
Cm
We ascended the foaming stair
To the mouth of the Hob
Db
thrush's cave
Eb
Ab
Undecanted the hot wine from
Db
Dm
C
And placed loaves on the greasy stones
Cm
Verse 2
Our baby's lips are blue
Db
Our baby's eyes grow dim
Eb
Ab
Take it off! Take it off! Take it off
Cm
- the whooping cough
Db
Dm
And we'd be your eternal
C
Cm
debtors
Verse 3
Eb
Ab
As the doorway drew near
Cm
C
our eldest appeared
G
Ab
Bb
Eb
With a bundle in her arms
Ab
It was clutching her tresses and
Bbsus4
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G
nuzz ling her breast
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Bb
G
And the colour was returned
Interlude 1
Cm
C
Cm
I used to hold him in
Verse 4
the palm of one hand
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Cm
Db
Now he's grown as tall as I am
Eb
With the face of his mother
Ab
Cm
veiled in downy gold
Db
Dm
C
On the broad shoulders of a man
Cm
He is
Verse 5
C
Cm
strong with the second sight
Db
In these parts held in some renown
Eb
Using words not his own he
Ab
veraciously foretold
Cm
Db
Of a drought when
Dm
C
the stream was bulging
D
C
Verse 6
Cm
Fm
Cm
When the pictures be come too real
Db
He buries his nose in the bush of my beard
Eb
Db
Eb
Ab
And gently pinches my earlobe between
Cm
thumb and forefinger
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Dm
G
Cm
C
Until the present is restored
Cm
Eb
Ab
At the murmur of dawn there's a
Verse 7
Cm
Ab
Bb
Eb
And a small man standing by
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He is wearing a dogshide and
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G
flies for a crown
Gm
Ab
Bb
Cm
G
One good eye a sparkling well in his brow
Cm
Ab
Eb
Ab
I'd already acquainted
Cm
Gm
myself of that voice
Ab
Bb
Eb
Before he'd even spoke:
Verse 8
Ab
"I have come to collect what
Bb
Bbsus4
G
is rightfully owed
Gm
Ab
Bb
Rouse the boy from slept
Cm
Gm
Get him bathed and dressed
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Bb
B
C
It is time he kept your end of the bargain"
Verse 9
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