Autumn keyboard

Autumn

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I made this on my ukulele, so it may be different for guitars. Let me know if there are any changes to make!

C                     Em  F
Driven through by her own sword
C           Em      G  F
Summer died last night, alone
 Em            G        F      Am
Even the ghosts huddled up for warmth
C          Em      G      F
Autumn has come to my hometown

C                Em       F
Friendly voices, dead and gone
C          Em        G        F
Singing, Star of the country down
  Em      G           F         Am
(Even the ghosts help raise the barn
C     Em    G   F
Here now in my hometown)

     D
When out of the massing
     C      G                F    A    D
that bodes and bides, In the cold West
          C              G                F    A     D
Flew a waxwing who froze and died against my breast
    D                C               G            F      A     D
And all the while, rain, like a weed in the tide, swans and lisps
            C             G           F    A    D
Down on the gossiping lawns, saying, "tsk, tsk, tsk"

  C        Em 
I may have changed
     G       F
It's hard to gauge
 C           Em        G         F  
Time won't account for how I've aged
Em           G          F       Am
Would I could tie your lying tongue
     C         Em      G         F
Who says that leaving keeps you young

C          Em    G    F
And I have got no control
C      Em        G       F
Over my heart, over my mind
Em      G           F          Am
Over the hills, the rainclouds roll
     C      Em        G      F
I'll winter here, wait for a sign

D                  C        G
To cast myself out over the water
             F       A    D
Riven like a wishbone

You'd hardly guess
D           C                 G
I was my own mother's daughter
        F         A        D
I ain't naturally given to roam.
              D       C
And I lay low when I return
                  G            F          A         D
And I move like a gurney whose wheels are squeaking
D          C
Alone in a home
      G  
And I laugh when you speak
      F        A       D
Of my pleasure-seekin'

C         G    F  G
Among the ta - ll pines
D         C  G  F
Along the le-y lines
C               G  F  G
Here, where the lo-on keens.
D                C  G   F
There, where the mo-on leans
C              G       F            G
There, where I know my violent love lays
D          C      G      F       A  D
down, in a row of silent dove-grey days
C         G      F      G
Here in a row of silent dove-grey days

C          Em    G       F
Wherever I go, I am snow-bound
C              Em       G        F
By thoughts of him whom I would shun
Em          G    F      Am
I love them all, one by one
C           Em
Cannot gain ground
G      F
Cannot outrun
C         Em  G   F
But time marches along
C          Em     G      F
You can't always stick around
Em           G     F         Am
But when the final count is done
C      Em    G      F
I will be in my hometown
C      G     F      C
I will be in my hometown

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