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    Dm            Am        Dm     C   Bb
The wine it was drunk, the ship it was sunk,
    F           Am            Bb           Bm
The shot it was dead, all the sorrows were drowned.
    Dm              Am          Dm     C       Bb    F
The birds they were clouds, the brides and the shrou-ouds
    Dm         A         Bb      C    Dm
And as we drew south the mist it came down.

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    Dm        Am         Dm    C   Bb
The wooded ravine to the wandering stream,
    F          Am         Bb           Bm
The serpent he moved, but no one would say.
    Dm            Am          Dm     C        Bb      F
The depths of the waters, the bridge which distraught us
    Dm            A               Bb  C     Dm
And brought to me thoughts of the ill-fated day.

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Then Solo Over Verse

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    Dm           Am              Dm    C      Bb
The temples were filled with the strangest of creatures
    F            Am         Bb           Bm
One played it by ear on the banks of the sea.
Dm            Am           Dm     C         Bb F
That one was found but the others they went under.
       Dm               A         Bb         C    Dm
Oh the tears which are shed, they won’t come from me.

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    Dm         Am           Dm     C       Bb
The methods of madness, the pathos and the sadness,
    F        Am       Bb         Bm
God help you all, the insane and wise.
    Dm            Am         Dm       C      Bb  F
The black and the white, the darkness of the ni- ight,
  Dm       A              Bb  C     Dm
I see only smoke from the chimneys arise.

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    Dm       Am       Dm         C       Bb
The pilot he flew all across the sky and woke me.
F          Am         Bb      Bm
He flew so low on the mercury sea.
    Dm            Am         Dm       C          Bb F
The dream it came back, all about the tall brown people,
    Dm           A           Bb      C
The sacred young herd on the phosphorous

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sand.