Cherishing The Lonesome Chords by Roy Harper

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Here comes the patter of rain on my window
I've woken again to the whirl on my pillow
Wondering how I can beg, steal or borrow a girl
Who won't fight me but quietly follow
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_ _ [D] _ _ as a die and as clear as a crystal
I come from a temple as charred as a footstool
To hide in a brothel inside a cathedral
A man in the mirror, the fool in the ideal _ _ _ _ _
_ Pulling apart with [Gm] a speechless [D] unweaving
_ Dignity reels in the [Gm] hearts [D] of the grieving _
[E] Walking the touchline, twixt [D] truth and deceiving
A tear in a smile and a wild wrenching leaving
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_ [A] _ help me now my long lost [D] love, the dark has drawn my soul
[A] _ _ Relish [D] in the autumn, _ _ [A] maybe it's the tragedy [D] in life
That I've lived, [G] _ _ [A] _ [D] cherish in the long summer
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[A] _ _ _ [D] I'd like to dance [C] and sing my [G] song upon a summer [A] mountain
[D] With just a quiet [C] girl along for [G] days if ever [A] counted
[D] To set ourselves [C] into the west, [G] the dream of our [A] _ [D] forebests
To wear the [Am] scissors at his back
_ _ _ [A] Gathering us lovers, oh help me [A] now my long lost [D] love
The dusk has drawn my soul, [A] _ _ _ [D] relish in the autumn _ _
[A] Maybe it's the tragedy in [D] loving that I've lived
[G] _ _ [A] _ [D] Cherish in the long summer
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You _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
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_ _ stand in the doorway [Gm] with tears in [D] your sorrow
Saying there [Em] must be some way [D] to tomorrow
Just for a [Em] few [D] hours I think I can borrow
A girl who won't [E] fight me but [D] quietly follows _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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