Tonart: D major
Intro 1
A
G
A
G
Am
G
Am
A
Am
G
Verse 1
Am
G
another week gone
Am
G
And consider how my light was spent
Gm
G
A
And where it was that
Gm
G
Dm
Em
I asked a wise man for advice
F
G
Am
I told him once and I told him twice;
C
G
My life is one long damage
D
He smacked me hard around the head
Bm
He handed me a card that read:
D
A
Living in the early days of
Bm
Gm
a better nation
D
A
Living in the early days of a
Bm
A
Bm
A
better nation
Am
G
Play that tune again! I cried
A
G
It's dead and gone the band replied
Am
A
Am
G
But as they slowly tried it through
A
The hands remembered what
G
Gm
they had to do
Dm
Em
Give it poke and give it licks
F
The name of the tune is
G
Am
C
G
Em
Laying The Bricks
D
I Stood outside the Albert Hall
Bm
Gm
And wept, and wrote upon the wall;
Work like you were
D
A
Living in the early days of
Bm
Gm
a better nation
D
A
Living in the early days of a better na
Bm
A
Bm
A
Bm
A
Bm
A
tion
Bm
A
Em
A
Am
We take the water to the tree
A
Asus4
She says, Now do the same for me
A
It takes your sweat as well as art
Asus4
A
To dig a channel for the human heart
Am
Dm
There is no garden of delight
Em
F
G
Am
Unless you weed it day or night
C
Don't leave your life a
G
Em
lifelong long vacation
D
I hear her whisper when we meet
Bm
And when I crawl between the sheets,
G
D
A
Bm
Gm
she says;
Work like you were
D
A
Living in the early days of a better
Bm
Gm
D
A
Bm
nation
Gm
D
A
Living in the early days
Bm
A
of a better nation.
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