Elias

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You raise your head, beat the sun
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But your boys they lie, so close to
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 you
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Do you dare get up? And wake the two
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Oh Elias, I see you there, at work 
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in the daytime do you think you 
could,
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answer all the questions of the 
world
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In just one word, I think you could.
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If you die will i get word that 
you're gone
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Or will i hear it in passing 
  E      D
conversation
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Will i stop short and, fall to 
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the ground
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Distance is short when your hand
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 carries what your eye found
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Hold my hand just one more time,
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 to see if you're really gonna meet 
me
A         E                  Fm 
Hold my hand just one more time,
                     E           D
 to see if you're really gonna meet 
me
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Honest and Manuel well you know, 
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they're at school now
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Getting the chance that, their 
father's never seen
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See whats beyond, section 17
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And in 10 years, when you look back
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 at your boys
well you know they've grown, way 
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taller than the tallest sugar cane 
in the
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field
A       E          Fm    E   D
If you die will i get word that 
you're gone
A          E            
Or will i hear it in passing 
Fm     E    D
conversation
A       E               Fm   E  
Will i stop short and, fall to the 
D
ground
A             E              Fm 
Distance is short when your hand
    E      D
 carries what your eye found
A          E                Fm  
Hold my hand just one more time,
                     E         D
 to see if you're really gonna meet 
me
A          E
Hold my hand just one more time

Hold my hand just one more time
A          E                 Fm 
Hold my hand just one more time,
                      E         D
 to see if you're really gonna meet 
meee.
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And I see your wife, she stands, 
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stooped over by the fire outside
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And I see your boys, and when 
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they look up, you know i think 
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they've got their
mother's eyes
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Cause she looks so proud, she 
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looks so happy, she looks so proud, 
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she looks so

happy,
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yeaahhh If you die will i get word 
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that you're gone
A           E           
Or will i hear it in passing 
Fm     E   D
conversation
A             E          Fm  E  
Will i stop short and, fall to the 
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ground
A              E              Fm
Distance is short when your hand
    E      D
 carries what your eye found
A          E               Fm   
Hold my hand just one more time,
                     E         D
 to see if you're really gonna meet 
me
A          E               Fm   
Hold my hand just one more time,
                     E         D
 to see if you're really gonna meet 
me
A          E               Fm   
Hold my hand just one more 
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tiiiime (Aya, Aya, Ayaahah)
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Hold my hand ,one more time 
                     E         D
(Aya, Aya, Ayaahah)
A          E               Fm   
Dayah ya ya, yah yah yah, yah 
                     E         D
yah yah (Aya, Aya, Ayaahaha)
A          E               Fm   
Hold my hand just one more time,
                     E         D
 to see if you're really gonna meet 
me