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When You Are Old

from William Butler Yeats by Toby Darling

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When You Are Old (WB Yeats)

Verse1 instr

C Dm-C
WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep
C-G C=G
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
C Dm-C
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
C-G C=G
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

C-F C - G
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
Am-Em
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
Am-Em
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
Dm G-C
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

Verse 2 instr

Em-Am Dm-G
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Em-Am
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
Dm-Em
And paced upon the mountains overhead,
F-Dm
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

Verse3 instrx2 end on C

Note:C=G means play 3 beats on C and 1 beat on G

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from William Butler Yeats, released June 20, 2015
poem by Yeats
music by Toby Darling

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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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