Magdalene My Regal Zonophone

Bb    Eb

Cm                           F
Though I know the night has fallen
         Bb                  Eb
and the sun's sailed out to sea
Cm                        F
I will wait here for the band to play
      Bb         Eb
the trumpet voluntary
          Eb7              Ab
And with one foot on the seashore
        Fm
and the other in the sand
         Bb
I will stand here plaiting daisies
            Eb       Bb   Eb
whilst you play the piano-grand

Caprice, your bugle blew away
the cobwebs from my ears
and for once I stood quite naked.
Unashamed, I wept the tears
which I tried to hide inside
myself from me, I mean from you
but the shame I found too painful
and the pain it only grew