Chords for June Tabor sings Lili Marlene

_ _ This next song too _
_ Began its life in one way and then took on an entire new meaning for a new generation who discovered [G] it
_ Was written originally _ as a poem [Ab] _
by a German Jewish soldier _ serving _
in the first world war
[G] _ _
And that's the way it stayed until just [N] before the outbreak of the second war when it was turned into a song
But _ it was [Gm] only
_ _ [Ab] When it began [Gm] to be broadcast by Radio [G] Belgrade
_ that _ it became _ contentious
_ Because _ it wasn't just German soldiers who were listening to it and whistling it and singing it
[Gm] British troops in North Africa started to tune in
_ and of course
_ That couldn't happen could it?
You couldn't have British soldiers listening to German radio.
They might get ideas
_ _ So suddenly a new English translation had to be rushed out and a French one
So [G] that the Allied soldiers could sing their own versions
_ _ So what was so special about this song?
_ Like so many other songs dear to soldiers it spoke of love _ and tenderness
It spoke of a love enduring _ _ beyond _
The soldier being sent away far from the woman he loved
_ And that's why
_ [Ab] It spoke _ across
_ _ Languages and nationalities [Gm] and to my mind still does now
This is of course _ Lily Marley
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Fm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [Fm] By their _ [Eb] _ [Ab] _ _ [F] _ _ [Eb] Volvish _ thing
[Fm] _ _ _ [Bb] Lily _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Eb] Marley
_ _ [Fm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ Underneath _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ the lot
_ [Ab] by the [Bb] _ barricade [Fm] I
_ _ [Eb] Remember [Ab] the way you used [Eb] to wait
_ [Ab] _
Still I do
_ _ [Cm] _ _
But tenderly [F] but you [Eb] love me _ you'd always _ be [Fm] my
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Eb] My
_ _ [Fm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
Time _ _ [Bb] _ [Fm] _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ would come [Gm] for all [Eb] _ [Fm] time for [Eb] us to part
[Fm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] You and press [Eb] you to my heart
_ [Ab]
There are not far [Gm] off land [Cm] to light
[Fm] I'd hold [Eb] you tight
With [Ab] kiss good _ [Eb] night
[Bb] my Lily of [Ab] the land
[Eb] _ My _ [Fm] _ _ own Lily [Eb] _ Marley _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ [Cm] _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Orders came for sailing
_ [Fm] somewhere over [Bb] there
_ [Fm] All confined [Eb] to [Ab] barracks it was [Bb] more than I [Eb] could bear [Ab] knew you _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Cm] Street
_ _ _ [Fm] _ Your [Eb] feet [Bb] but could not [Eb] _ meet my [Fm] _ Lily
[Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] _ My
[Fm] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Eb] Own _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ [Cm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Resting at the _ billet [Fm] [Eb] just behind [Bb] the line [Fm] _
_ [Eb] I
[Ab] Remember your [Bb] sweet lips [Ab] close [Eb] to mine
[Ab] _ There are not far off
[Gm] _ lanterns [Cm] _ beam
your [Fm] sweet face
[Cm] _
Seems [Eb] to haunt my _ dreams [Fm] my
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] Lily
_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The _ cassette
[F] my _ [Bb] grosset
_ [Fm] And _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _
stitch [Eb] another [Ab] _ _ [Eb] [Ab] vote sore floor beyond [Gm] the _ _ [Cm] redesigned _ [Fm] by
The eyes of the _
[Eb] _ stars [Bb] _ want to [Eb] confess _
_ How once [Fm] _ [Bb] he loved _ [Cm] me alone
_ _ [Eb] How _ _
[Fm] once he [Bb] loved me [Eb]
alone
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ How [Fm] _ once _ _ he loved me alone
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _