Lorena Chords by John Hartford

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Oh, the years creep slowly [A] by, Lorena.
[B] Snow is on the [E] ground again. _
The sun's low down the sky, [Am] _ Lorena.
[B] The frost gleams where the [E] flowers have been. _ _
[C#m] But the heart beats on as [G#] warmly now _
As when the summer [C#m] days were [B] nice.
[E] Oh, the sun can never dip so low
[F#m] To [B] be down in affection's [E] cloudless sky. _ _
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A hundred months passed, [A] _ [E] Lorena.
[B] Since last I held that [E] hand in mine _
And felt the pulse beat fast, [A] _ Lorena.
[B] Oh, my, indeed, fast and far [E] were thine. _
[C#m] A hundred months t'was [G#] flowery May _ _
When up that hilly [C#m] slope we'd fly
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[E] To watch the dying [A] of the [F#] day _
[B] And hear the distant church [E] bells chime. _ _
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We loved each other then, [A] _ Lorena,
[B] Far more than we ever [E] dared to tell. _
And what we might have [A] been, _ Lorena,
[B] Had our love [E] prospered well. _ _
[C#m] _ Then t'is part the years, [G#] oh, long. _ _
I'll not call up their [C#m] shadowy forms.
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[E] I'll say, them lost years sleep [F#] on, _
[C#] [B] sleep on,
Where heat-lights [E] pelted the storms. _ _
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