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City of Sleep (Kipling)

from Poetry and Music 2 by Toby Darling

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The City of Sleep

"The Brushwood Boy"
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Dm7+9 G*
Over the edge of the purple down,
Cmaj7 Am7-Bm7
Where the single lamplight gleams,
Dm7+9 G*
Know ye the road to the Merciful Town
Cmaj7 Am7-Bm7
That is hard by the Sea of Dreams --
Fm Bb
Where the poor may lay their wrongs away,
Fm Bb
And the sick may forget to weep?
Cm Gm
But we -- pity us! Oh, pity us!
Cm D7
We wakeful; ah, pity us! --
Gm-Dm-C-Gm
We must go back with Policeman Day --
F D7
Back from the City of Sleep!

Weary they turn from the scroll and crown,
Fetter and prayer and plough --
They that go up to the Merciful Town,
For her gates are closing now.
It is their right in the Baths of Night
Body and soul to steep,
But we -- pity us! ah, pity us!
We wakeful; ah, pity us! --
We must go back with Policeman Day --
Back from the City of Sleep!

Over the edge of the purple down,
Ere the tender dreams begin,
Look -- we may look -- at the Merciful Town,
But we may not enter in!
Outcasts all, from her guarded wall
Back to our watch we creep:
We -- pity us! ah, pity us!
We wakeful; ah, pity us! --
We that go back with Policeman Day --
Back from the City of Sleep!

Dm7+9 = x5755x
G* = 3x443x
Am7 - x0201x
Bm7 = x0402x

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from Poetry and Music 2, released April 20, 2016

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Toby Darling Penang, Malaysia

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Feel free to do anything you want with these tracks, I am not interested in making money from music.

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