Chords for In The Bleak Midwinter

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_ _ _ My [E] father played the [A] melodion outside at [Bm] our gate
There were stars in the morning [E] East and they danced to his [A] music
[E] across [C#m] the [G#m] wild bogs
His [F#m] melodion called to the [Bm] Lenin's and the Callens as I [A] pulled on my trousers in a hurry
I [Bm] knew some strange thing had [C#m] happened
[D] _ _ [F#m]
Outside the [C#m] cow house my [C#] mother [D] she made the music of milking
[G#m] _
[A] The light of her [E] stable lamp [A] was a [E] star and [F#m] the frost of Bethlehem [Bm] made it twinkle [E] [D] a
[A] _ water hand screeched in the bog
[C#m] Mass going [E] feet [F#m] crunched the wafer ice [B] on the potholes
[C#] [F#m] Somebody [D] wistfully twisted [E] the bellows wheel
[A] _ [E] My [A] child [E] poet picked out the letters on [A] the gray stone [Bm] in
Silver the wonder of a [A] Christmas townland the winking glitter [Bm] of a frosty dawn
[C#m] _ [D] _ _
Cassiopeia was [C#m] over Cassidy's hanging [Bm] Hill
I looked and three [G#m] wind bushes [B] rolled [A] across the horizon [A] the three [E] wise kings
[F#m]
an [Bm] [G#] old man passing said [A] can she make it talk that melodion I
hid in the [G#m] doorway and I tightened [F#m] my belt on [B] my box pleated coat and I
[E] Nicked six nicks on the doorpost [A] with my [A] penknives big blade
[E] There was [F#m] a little one [A] for cutting [Bm] tobacco and I was [A] six Christmases of age
[Bm] My father [C#m] he [D] played the melody and my mother [C#m] she milked the [C#] cows
[Bm] And I had a prayer
[G#m] Like a white rose [A] pin [C#m] on the Virgin Mary's blouse as the [F#m] Christmas talent from [Bm] Patrick Cavanaugh from County, [E] Monaghan
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_ [Am] _ Mary Cougan
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