Mysterious People Chords by Val Doonican

_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Fm] _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] Children [Cm] are people [Fm] who live in a [Bb] land made [Eb] of raindrops [Cm] and puddles and [F] pebbles [Bb] and streams,
[Gm] _ [Cm] solemnly watching [Fm] a twig as [D] it sails [Eb] on a clear crystal [Fm] pool to an island [Eb] of dreams.
[Cm]
There go [F] a pair [Cm] who have just [F] built a city [Cm] of mud, _ [F] and it's _ real.
[Dm] They know [G] that mud [Dm] doesn't look [G] very pretty, [Dm] but [F] ooh, [Bb] how it _ feels.
_ [Eb] This _ little boy greets the snow [F] with a _ [Bb]
smile.
_ [Fm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Fm] That [Bb] _ [D] little girl [G] has discovered an isle made up [F] of _ [Bb] pillows.
[Eb] _ One _ [Cm] little fellow [Bbm] is friends with the [Eb] wind.
[Ab] In the _
_ [B] willows, [Eb] all of them children [Cm]
and all are [F] mysterious [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Eb] people.
_ [Db] _ _ [Dbm] I can remember [Gbm] when I was a boy [E] that my bed [Dbm] was a ship that [Gb] I sailed [Gbm] through the night,
[Abm]
and I [Dbm] remember the [Gbm] world as [B] a place [Abm] that was eager [Dbm] and loving [Gbm] and shiny and bright.
Where is the [Gb] boy who was friends [Gb] with the rainbow [Dbm] and once [Gb] rode upon?
_ _ _ [Ebm] Where is [Ab] that shy [Ebm] and [Ab] mysterious person?
[Ebm] Oh, where _
_ [Dbm] have [Gbm] I gone? _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [E] _
I [Abm] can [E] remember I once [Gbm] said my _ [B] _ [Gbm] prayers, _ _
[B] _ [Gbm] but now [B] I [Eb] stand by while [Ab] my children [Db] say theirs,
[Dbm] watching [Gb]
them [Gbm] kneeling, _ [E] _ [Abm] and I could [Gbm] cry that one day [E] they'll forget all that [A] they're _ [Am] feeling. _ _
[E] Oh, what a shame [Dbm] that our children should [Gb] grow _ into [B] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [B] _ people.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _