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Puck's Song

from Rudyard Kipling 3 by Toby Darling

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Puck's Song (Rudyard Kipling)




Em D
See you the ferny ride that steals
Em D
Into the oak-woods far?
Em D
O that was whence they hewed the keels
Em D
That rolled to Trafalgar.

C D
And mark you where the ivy clings
Em D
To Bayham's mouldering walls?
C D
O there we cast the stout railings
Em D
That stand around St. Paul's.

Bm Em
See you the dimpled track that runs
G A
All hollow through the wheat?
Bm Em
O that was where they hauled the guns
G A
That smote King Philip's fleet.

D F
(Out of the Weald, the secret Weald,
C G
Men sent in ancient years,
D F
The horse-shoes red at Flodden Field,
C G
The arrows at Poitiers!)

See you our little mill that clacks,
So busy by the brook?
She has ground her corn and paid her
Ever since Domesday Book.

See you our stilly woods of oak,
And the dread ditch beside?
O that was where the Saxons broke
On the day that Harold died.

See you the windy levels spread
About the gates of Rye?
O that was where the Northmen fled,
When Alfred's ships came by.

See you our pastures wide and lone,
Where the red oxen browse?
O there was a City thronged and known,
Ere London boasted a house.

D G
And see you after rain, the trace
C-G/B Am7
Of mound and ditch and wall?
D G
O that was a Legion's camping-place,
C-G/B D
When Caesar sailed from Gaul.

D G
And see you marks that show and fade,
C-G/B Am7
Like shadows on the Downs?
G Am
O they are the lines the Flint Men made,
Bm C-D
To guard their wondrous towns.

Trackway and Camp and City lost,
Salt Marsh where now is corn--
Old Wars, old Peace, old Arts that cease,
And so was England born!

She is not any common Earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye,
Where you and I will fare!

G/B=x2003x

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from Rudyard Kipling 3, released April 22, 2016

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