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Lay Of The Sunflower

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F       C       Gsus/E              Dm       G       Dm/B

1       0       2              0       3       0

3       3       2              0       2       1

3       2       3              0       0       3

2       0       3              2       0       2

1       1       3              3       3       0

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VERSE 1

F                         C

I must leave you for a season

Gsus/E         C                 Dm

Go out logging that hardwood timber

F                  G

Hardwood timber that grows so low

C       Gsus                    Dm

In the forest of Fennario

F                          C

Tell me what you need to live, love

Gsus     C                 Dm

Do you ask that you might own

F                             G

Take my blue-eyed hound to guard you

Gsus C                     Dm

I will make my way alone

F             C

I will not return in winter

Gsus C                  Dm

If I be not back by fall

F                             G

Seek me when this small sunflower

Gsus    C             Dm

Grows above the garden wall

CHORUS

C    G            F

Fare you well and I would not weep

C                  Gsus             Dm

Bid you tend your prayers to keep

C    G                 F

Hill by dale now must I go

C        Dm/B     C     Dm

To the forest of Fennario

G     Gsus   C    Dm

VERSE 2

F                     C

Nine-month blew with sleeted rain

Gsus       C                          Dm

And still he came not back again

F                             G

Summoned she the hound to go

Gsus     C         Dm

To seek him in Fennario

F                           C

He came back the fated day

Gsus     C                    Dm

To find his lady gone away

F                                G

Made haste to follow in her track

Gsus                    C                      Dm

Where she could go but not turn back

F                                C

At her side the blue-eyed hound did bay

Gsus                  C               Dm

While fast her breath did fade away

F                                    G

She cried out: Turn, my love, and go

Gsus           C                          Dm

I would not have you see me so

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VERSE 3

F                      C

I shall not turn, I shall not yield

Gsus             C                      Dm

Oh, selfsame serpent sting my heel

F                                G

That bleeds my ladys blood away

Gsus         C                              Dm

Beside the blue-eyed hound to lay

F                  C

Angels sing their souls to sleep

Gsus           C                         Dm

Four winds grace their breath to keep

F                     G

Up above yon garden wall

Gsus         C                            Dm

Stands the sunflower, straight and tall

CHORUS