Intro: Cm Bb G# Bb Cm

   Cm               Bb
O light the candle, John
     G#      Bb        Cm
The daylight is almost gone
    Cm                    Bb
The birds have sung their last
    G#         Bb     Cm
The bells call all to mass

Cm          Bb  Cm
Sit here by my side
        G#     Bb     Cm
For the night is very long
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There's something I must tell
G#       Bb     Cm
Before I pass along

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I joined the brotherhood My books were all to me
   Cm         Bb        Cm
I scribed the words of God
    G#      Bb    Cm
And much of history

   Cm  Bb      Cm
Many a year was I
       G#    Bb      Cm
Perched out upon the sea
     Cm         Bb       Cm
The waves would wash my tears,
      G#    Bb    Cm
The wind, my memory

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I'd hear the ocean breathe
    G#     Bb      Cm
Exhale upon the shore
   Cm                Bb
I knew the tempest's blood
     G#     Bb      Cm
Its wrath I would endure

     Cm        Bb     Cm
And so the years went by
    G#     Bb     Cm
Within my rocky cell
    Cm      Bb       Cm
With only a mouse or bird
    G#       Bb         Cm
My friend; I loved them well

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And so it came to pass
    G#        Bb      Cm
I'd come here to Romani
    Cm             Bb
And many a year it took
     G#         Bb        Cm
Till I arrived here with thee

   Cm      Bb        Cm
On dusty roads I walked
     G#     Bb      Cm
And over mountains high
       Cm         Bb     Cm
Through rivers running deep
   G#        Bb     Cm
Beneath the endless sky

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Cm                    Bb
Beneath these jasmine flowers
   G#         Bb     Cm
Amidst these cypress trees
   Cm             Bb
I give you now my books
    G#        Bb     Cm
And all their mysteries

     Cm      Bb     Cm
Now take the hourglass
   G#       Bb      Cm
And turn it on its head
     Cm     Bb          Cm
For when the sands are still
     G#        Bb         Cm
'Tis then you'll find me dead

    Cm      Bb      Cm
O light the candle, John
     G#      Bb        Cm
The daylight is almost gone
    Cm         Bb         Cm
The birds have sung their last
    G#         Bb     Cm
The bells call all to mass

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