Chords for OMNIA - The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe)

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_ _ _ Once, upon a [F] midnight dreary, while [E] I pondered, weak and [B] _ weary, over many a quaint and curious
[F] volume of forgotten lore, [G] _ while I nodded, [E] nearly napping, _ [G] suddenly there [Ab] came a tapping,
as of someone [N] gently rapping, tapping, at my chamber door.
[D] _ "'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, _ [A] tapping out my chamber door.
[G] Only this, _ [Gb] and nothing more. _ _ _ _
[D] Ah, [G] distinctly I remember it was in a bleak [D] December, [G] and each separate [D] dying ember wrought
its ghost upon the floor.
_ Eagerly I wished the morrow, vainly I had sought to borrow from my books surcease of
sorrow, _ sorrow for the lost Lenore, _
[Am] for the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name
Lenore, _ [C] nameless here _ _ forevermore.
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_ _ And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling [C] of each purple curtain thrilled [D] me, filled me
with fantastic [C] terrors never felt before. _
_ [D] Presently, to still the beating of [F] my heart, I stood repeating, [Bb] "'Tis some visitor entreating
entrance [C] at my chamber door.
_ [Am] Some late visitor entreating entrance [Bb] at my chamber door.
_ [C] Merely this, _ and [D] nothing more."
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Out [D] into the darkness peering long [A] I [C] stood there wandering, fearing, _ [A] doubting, dreaming
dreams no mortal ever [Am] dared to dream before.
[D] But the silence was unbroken, [F] and the stillness gave no token, and [Bb] the only word there spoken
was [C] the whispered word, Lenore.
[A] This I whispered, and a nickel murmured back [Bb] the word, Lenore.
[C] Merely this, _ and [D] nothing more. _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] Back into the chamber turning, [A] all my [C] soul within me burning.
[D] Soon again I heard a tapping, somewhat [Am] louder than before.
Surely [D] said I, surely that is someone [F] at my window lattice.
[Bb] Let me see then what they're at is, and this [C] mystery explore. _
Let [A] my heart be still a moment, and [Bb] this mystery explore.
[C] "'Tis the wind, and nothing [D] _ _ [Dm] more." _ _
_ _ _ Open wide I flung the shutter, when with [C] many a flirt and flutter, [Gm] in there stepped
a stately [Bb] raven [Am] of the saintly days of yore.
[D] Not the least, O best, since [Dm] made he not [F] a minute stop or stady, but [Bb] with mean of lord
or lady, [C] perched above my chamber door.
_ [Am] Perched upon a bust of heiress, just [Bb] above my chamber door.
_ [C] Perched and sat, _ and nothing [D] more.
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Soon [D] that ebony bird beguiling my [C] sad fancy into smiling, by [A] the graven stern decorum
of the _ [C] countenance at war.
[D] Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, [F] thou, I said, art sure no craven. _
[Bb] Ghastly grim and ancient raven, [C] wandering on the nightly shore.
[A] Tell me what thy lordly name is, on this [Bb] night's plutonian shore.
[C] Quoth the raven, _ _ [D] nevermore.
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_ _ _ _ _ Now [D] the raven sitting lonely on that [C] placid bust spoke only [Gm] that one word as if his [D] soul
in that one [Am] word he did outpour.
_ [D] Nothing further than he uttered, [F] not a feather than he fluttered, till I [Bb]
scarcely more than
muttered, [C] other friends have gone before.
[A] On the morrow he will leave me, as [Bb] my hopes have flown before.
_ [C] Quoth the raven, _
_ _ _ [D] nevermore.
_ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ Then [D] methought the air grew denser, perfumed by [C] an unseen censer, swung [Bb] by seraphim whose
footfalls tinkled [Am] on the tufted floor.
[D] Once more on the velvet sinking, I [F] betook myself to linking, [Bb] fancy on to fancy thinking,
[C] what this ominous bird of yore, what this [A] grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt [Bb] and ominous
bird of yore, [C] meant in croaking, _ _
_ [D] nevermore.
_ _ _ [C] Sheep.
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [D] Prophets said I ain'think of evil, [C] prophets still have heard or doubt.
[Bb] Whether tempter, scent or weather, tempests [Am] tossed the eerie shore, _ _
[D] desolated all and
daunted on this [F] desert island, chanted on this [Bb] home by horror haunted, [C] tell me truly
I implore, [A] is there, is there, bomb and gilead, [Bb] tell me, tell me I implore, _ [C]
quoth the raven,
_ _ _ [D] nevermore. _
_ Prophets said I [Dm] ain'think of evil, [C] prophets still have heard or doubt.
By that [Bb] heaven stretched above us, [A] by that God we both adore, [D] till this soul is sorrow
laden, [F] if within the distant Aden, it shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom [C] the angels name
Lenore, [Am] clasp a rare and radiant maiden, [Bb] whom the angels name Lenore, [C] quoth the raven, _ nevermore.
[D] _ _ _ Be that word or sign imparting, bird [C] or fiend I shriek of starting, get [Bb] thee back into the
tempest and the [Am] night's plutonian shore, [D] leave no black plume as a token of [F] that lie thy
soul hath spoken, [Bb] leave my loneliness unbroken, [C] quit the bust above my door, take [A] thy beak
from out my heart and take [Bb] thy form from off my door, [C] quoth the raven, _ _ [D] nevermore.
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_ _ Now the raven never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting on [Bb] the pallid bust of Eris,
just above [D] my chamber door, and his eyes of all the seeming of a [F]
demon's that is dreaming,
and the [Bb] lamplight o'er him streaming [C] throws his shadow on the floor, [Am] and my soul from
out that shadow [Bb] that lies floating on the floor [C] will be lifted, _ _ _ and if it still [D] lift,
bird or devil, [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ the heaven that bends [Bb] above us by that god we both [C] adore, _ tell this [Dm] soul,
_ soul that is [F] within the distant Aden, _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [C] shall _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ clasp [Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] _
[C] a sainted maiden.
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