This Eve Of Parting Chords by John Hartford

_ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [C#] _ _
[F#] _ _ [A#m] _ _ [B] _ _ [C#] _
[F#] It's [A#m] hard to think [B] this [C#] eve of parting [F#] _ turns to sand [B] of [C#] summer gone
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] When both our [B] minds are [C#] warped with parting [F#] _
break the thought [B] of [C#] nights alone _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ Maybe [D#m] I
Should [C#] turn in [F#] silence
[A#m] Tell myself [B] I [C#] didn't care
_ Curse _ _ [F#] _ [A#m] the thought [D#] of your [C#] existence
[F#] _ Loving [B] every [C#] flaxen hair _ _ _ _ _ _
[G#m] Flesh cries out
[C#] Don't move.
Don't leave [G#m] me Conscience runs
Hill out of breath
[F#] _ [C#] sunrise pregnant
[B] With [C#] your leave
[F#] _ creeping in [B] like
[C#] certain death
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] the pattern [A#m] _ [B] of the
Bird of love [F#] that's wheeling [A#m] _ [G#m] on its dizzy [C#] way _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ [Fm] Tears me [B] down to [C#] basic sorrow
[F#] useless _ [B] for another [C#] day _ _ _ _
_ [F#] It's hard to think
[D#m] this [C#] eve of parting
[F#] _ [A#m] turns to sand [B] of [C#] summer gone _ _ _ _ _
[F#] When [A#m] both our [B] minds are [C#] warped with parting
[F#] _ break the thought [B] of [C#] nights alone
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G#m] Flesh cries out
[C#] Don't move.
Don't leave [G#m] me conscience runs
[C#] till out of breath
[F#] _
sunrise pregnant
[G#m] with [C#] your leave
[F#] _
creeping in [B] like [C#] certain death _ _
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