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Roads (Edward Thomas)

from Poetry and Music 7 by Toby Darling

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Roads
By Edward Thomas

Bm Am
I love roads:
C
The goddesses that dwell
G
Far along invisible
Dm
Are my favorite gods.

Bm Am
Roads go on
C
While we forget, and are
G
Forgotten like a star
E7
That shoots and is gone.

Am
On this earth 'tis sure
E7
We men have not made
C Dm
Anything that doth fade
E7
So soon, so long endure:

The hill road wet with rain
In the sun would not gleam
Like a winding stream
If we trod it not again.

They are lonely
While we sleep, lonelier
For lack of the traveller
Who is now a dream only.

From dawn's twilight
And all the clouds like sheep
On the mountains of sleep
They wind into the night.

Bm E7
The next turn may reveal
Bm C#m
Heaven: upon the crest
Bm C#m
The close pine clump, at rest
D A
And black, may Hell conceal.

Em Bm
Often footsore, never
Em Bm
Yet of the road I weary,
F#m C#m
Though long and steep and dreary,
D A
As it winds on for ever.

F#m Bm
Helen of the roads,
F#m Em
The mountain ways of Wales
C D
And the Mabinogion tales,
E7
Is one of the true gods,

Abiding in the trees,
The threes and fours so wise,
The larger companies,
That by the roadside be,

And beneath the rafter
Else uninhabited
Excepting by the dead;
And it is her laughter

At morn and night I hear
When the thrush cock sings
Bright irrelevant things,
And when the chanticleer

Calls back to their own night
Troops that make loneliness
With their light footsteps’ press,
As Helen’s own are light.

Now all roads lead to France
And heavy is the tread
Of the living; but the dead
Returning lightly dance:

Whatever the road bring
To me or take from me,
They keep me company
With their pattering,

F#m Bm
Crowding the solitude
F#m Bm
Of the loops over the downs,
Em Bm
Hushing the roar of towns
C D
and their brief multitude.

Opening Riff:
Bm x9970x
Am x7750x

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from Poetry and Music 7, released January 5, 2017

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