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Cold are the Crabs

from Lear and Carroll by Toby Darling

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Poem by Edward Lear

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Cold are the Crabs (Edward Lear)
Em G D Em
Cold are the crabs that crawl on yonder hills,
G D Am D
Colder the cucumbers that grow beneath,
G Am D
And colder still the brazen chops that wreathe
Em D C D Em
The tedious gloom of philosophic pills!
Em G D Em
For when the tardy film of nectar fills
G D Am D
The simple bowls of demons and of men,
G Am D
There lurks the feeble mouse, the homely hen,
Em D C D Em
And there the porcupine with all her quills.
G Em D
Yet much remains - to weave a solemn strain
Am C D Bm Em
That lingering sadly - slowly dies away,
Am Em D
Daily departing with departing day
Am C D Bm Am
A pea-green gamut on a distant plain
D Am C Bm
When wily walrusses in congresses meet –
C D Em
Such such is life -

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from Lear and Carroll, released June 22, 2015

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Toby Darling Penang, Malaysia

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