Batwings A Limnal Hymn

Intro:

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Verse:

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A moon-piece to fetch up the 
    C    F
golden cup
Am          F               C   
A snow-piece to avoid the great 
               F
heat of the sun
    Am              F         
Is kept in the night and by the 
                C      F
light of the moon

Am F C F

   Am       F                   C
An ice-piece so as they seem 
           F
forever fallen
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A night-piece of the dismal 
C                          F
supper and strange entertainment

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              Am    F         
A rare chance-piece, a handsome 
   C                 F
piece of deformity
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The skin of a snake bred out of 
     C                   F
the spinal marrow of a man

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Am F

       C                 
With stones and illegible 
           F
inscriptions found about great ruins

Am F

C                          
Pictures of three remarkable 
     F                Am
steeples, or towers
                 F     C       
Built purposely awry, so as they 
                 F           Am
seem eternally tipping and falling

F C F

    Am                F           
A transcendent perfume made of the
   C              F
 richest odorates
Am                        F       
Kept in a box of translucent scale
C  F


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Am                F   C         
A glass of spirits made of 
        F         Am            F
ethereal salt, hermetically 
     C   F
sealed up
          Am                    F 
Kept continually in quicksilver, 
                  C        F
of so volatile a nature
               Am               
That it will scarcely endure the 
      F  C  F
light
Am                                
And therefore only shown in winter
F   C   F

                          Am   F  
Or by the light of a carbuncle, or
          C   F
 a firefly

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      Am     F   C  F
And batwings
      Am     F   C  F
And batwings
      Am                 F         
And batwings sing this limnal hymn
C   F

Am               F            C 
A wideness opening and closing  
F          Am                    
 to keep the darkness sealed 
   F  C  F
within
Am                                 
To keep the darkness sealed within
F  C  F

Am                                 
To keep the darkness sealed within
F  C  F

Am                                 
To keep the darkness sealed within
F  C  F

Am                                 
To keep the darkness sealed within
F  C  F

Am          F          C        
A moon-piece to fetch up the 
        F
golden cup

Am F C F
[Singing in a mysterious language]