Chords for Lizard Dreams (Oathbound)

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_ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] Deep within the Pinnacle [F] Hills, where [C] the land is thick with [G] magic,
[C] there lived a [F] lizard named Gervase, [C] whose life was [G] rather tragic.
[C] For he [F] had kindness, [C] wit, and speech, and he longed [F] to be [G] a wizard.
[C] But who would ever [F] think to teach high [C] magic to [G] a lizard?
[C] So [F] poor Gervase [C] would sit and dream, all [E] sighed there [Am] sadly rewing,
[F] the fate that kept him [C] ever from the good he could [G] be _ [C] _ doing.
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_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] One day [G] as he's [C] dreaming [F] [C] there all in the [G] forest sunning,
he [C] heard the noise [F] of horse and hound, [C] and sounds of two [G] feet running.
A [C] human [F] stumbled into [G] his blade, [C] a human [F] [G] worn and weary.
_ [C] Dressed in the shreds of [F] a wizard's robe, his eyes passed hope [G] and dreary.
[C] The [F] magic of [C] _ Earthplace Cave, [E]
Gervase the gift [Am] of speaking.
[F] So he _ hesitated [C] not [G] at all, but ran [F] to the [G] human [C] squeaking.
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_ [C] Hide human [G] hide, [C] hide [F] in my tree, [C] he danced and [G] pointed madly.
[C] The wizard stared, [F] the wizard gasped, then [C] hid himself [G] right gladly.
_ [F] Gervase laid [C] down at once in [G] the sun, [C] until [F] the hunt [G] came nigh him.
[C] Then like a [F] simple lizard fled, [C] as panic seemed to [G] try him.
[C] He [F] glowered in his [G] hollow tree, [E] and when they came [Am] to near him,
[F] he bit the dogs [C] upon the nose, until [F] they learned [G] to [C] fear _ [F] him.
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_ _ _ [C] _ [G] That wizard the hunter [F] snarled, [C] he slipped a tracking [G] neatly. _
The hounds have clearly [F] been misled, [C] they've lost the trail [G] completely.
[C] He whipped [F] the dogs [C] away from the [G] tree, and sent [F] them [G] homeward running.
_ [C] Never [F] guessing, he'd been tricked [C] by clever [G] lizard's cunning.
_ [C] The wizard [F] out [G] hiding cracked, [E] saying, much thanks [Am] I accord you.
[F] Is there some gift within [G] my power [C] with which [F] I can [G] reward [C] you?
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_ [G] _ _ I [C] want to be [C] a man [F] like you, [C] Gervase cried out _
[G] unblinking.
[C] A wizard [F] or a man replied [C] the mage who stood [G] unblinking.
[C] For I [F] can grant [C] you only [G] one, the form [F] of man [G] or power.
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Whichever wants [F] you swiftly, I must [C] leave within [G] the hour.
_ Gervase [F] thought [C] quickly who would [G] accept [E] a mage who was [Am] a lizard.
[F] But still he knew [C] his dream [G] had come true, [C] he chose [F] to be [G] a [C] wizard.
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[C] Now in [G] the councils [C] of the wise there sits a [G] welcome stranger.
[C] His word is sought [F] by high and low when [C] there is need [G] or danger.
He [C] [F] gives his help [C] to all [G] in need [C] and pledges to [G]
defend them.
[C] And every [F] helpless creature knows [C] he lives but to [G] defend them.
[C] Now no [F] one cares [C] whom he [E] wears, human, man [Am] or lizard. _ _
_ _ _ [F] Beloved by all, both [C]
great and small is Gervase, [F] the lizard [C] wizard.
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