Skellig Chords by Loreena Mckennitt

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_ _ _ Oh, light the [Cm] candle, [Bb] John The _ [Ab] daylight [Bb] is almost [C] gone
The _ [Cm] birds have sung their [Bb] last The _ [Ab] bells [Bb] call out a [C] mass
_ _ Sit [Bb] here by [Cm] my side For the night [Gm] is very [Cm] long
_ There's [Bb] something I [Cm] must tell [Ab] Before _ [Bb] I pass [Cm] along
I _ _ _ _ _ joined the _ [Bb] _ Brotherhood [Ab] My books [Bb] were all to [Cm] me _
I scribed the [Bb] words of God [Ab] And [Bb] much of history
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Many _ [Bb] a year [Cm] was I Which dove [Bb] to pond and [Cm] sea
The waves would [Bb] wash my [Cm] _ tears [Ab] The wind [Bb] my [Cm] memory _
I'd _ _ _ _ hear the ocean [Gm] [Bb] breathe _ _ [Ab] Exhaled [Bb] upon the [Cm] shore
I _ knew the [Bb] tempest's blood Its [Ab] wrath [Bb] I would [Cm] endure
And so [Bb] the years [Cm] went by _ Within [Bb] my rocky [C] _ [Cm] _ self
But only [Bb] a mouse [Cm] or a bird [Ab] My friend [Bb] and love [Cm] were well
And _ _ _ _ so it came to [Bb] pass I'd [Ab] come here [Bb] to [Cm] Romany _
And many a year it [Bb] took Till [Ab] I arrived [Bb] here with [Cm] thee
On _ [Bb] dusty roads [Cm] I walked And [Bb] over mountains [Cm] high _
Through [Bb] rivers running [Cm] _ _
deep [Ab] Beneath [Bb] the endless [C] sky _
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_ Beneath these chasped [Bb] flowers _
_ [Ab] Amidst [Bb] these cypress [Cm] trees
I _ give you now [Bb] my books _ [Ab] And [Bb] told thee _ _ [Cm] mysteries
Now _ take [Bb] me, our [Cm] glad _ _ And turn [Bb] it on [Cm] you to read
When [Bb] the sun's [Cm] on its teeth _ [Ab] Just then you'll [Bb] find [C] me dead
O [Cm] night, [Bb] the candle [Cm] _
done The daylight [Gm] is sad but [Cm] most calm
The birds [Bb] have sung [Cm] their last _ [Ab] _ [Bb] Bells call [C] long to my mind _ _ _ _ _ _
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