Skellig Chords

SKELLIG (The Book of Secrets - 1997)
 
[Intro]
Am   G   F G Am   x4, Am
 
  Am                 G
O light the candle, John
     F           G      Am
The daylight has almost gone
                          G
The birds have sung their last
    F          G      Am
The bells call all to mass
 
 
Am       G     Am
Sit here by my side
                 G    Am
For the night is very long
                  G      Am
There's something I must tell
  F      G     Am
Before I pass along
 
 
  Am                G
I joined the brotherhood
   F          G      Am
My books were all to me
                       G
I scribed the words of God
    F       G    Am
And much of history
 
 
Am     G        Am
Many a year was I
                 G   Am
Perched out upon the sea
                G       Am
The waves would wash my tears,
F            G   Am
The wind, my memory
 
 
   Am              G
I'd hear the ocean breathe
  F     G       Am
Exhale upon the shore
                     G
I knew the tempest's blood
    F       G       Am
Its wrath I would endure
 
 
Am         G          Am
And so the years went by
          G     Am
Within my rocky cell
            G        Am
With only a mouse or bird
   F       G            Am
My friend; I loved them well
 
 
    Am            G
And so it came to pass
    F            G   Am
I'd come here to Romani
                   G
And many a year it took
     F         G         Am
Till I arrived here with thee
 
 
Am       G       Am
On dusty roads I walked
         G         Am
And over mountains high
               G       Am
Through rivers running deep
   F        G       Am
Beneath the endless sky
 
 
  Am                  G
Beneath these jasmine flowers
   F         G       Am
Amidst these cypress trees
                  G
I give you now my books
     F        G    Am
And all their mysteries
 
 
Am           G   Am
Now take the hourglass
         G         Am
And turn it on its head
             G         Am
For when the sands are still
     F           G       Am
'Tis then you'll find me dead
 
 
  Am                 G
O light the candle, John
     F           G      Am
The daylight has almost gone
                           G
The birds have sung their last
     F         G       Am
The bells call all to mass
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