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[Verse 1]
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To all the poets I have known
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Who saw the beauty in the common place
                     A
Saw incarnation in a Baby's face
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And in a drop of rain the stars
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When there was mud and blood and tears
                             G
You sang a song at night to calm our fears
                         A
You made a moment last a thousand years
                          D
You are the poets I have known

                         D
To all the poets I have known
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You built a kingdom out of sea and sand
                            A
You conquered armies with a marching band
                         D
You carved a galaxy in stone
                        F#m
You built an altar out of bread
                               G
And spent your soul to see the children fed
                             A
You wove your heart in every story read
                            D
Thank God for poets I have known


[Chorus]
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And you keep on dreamin'
                   D
When the dreams all fade
                G
When friends desert you
                    Bm     A
You're the ones who stayed
             Em           D                    G
To write the prayers when every prayer had been prayed


[Verse 2]
                          D
You are the poets I have known
                             G
You turned your tears into a string of pearls
                              A
You held your sorrow high to light the world
                          D
When I thought I was alone
                    F#m
In every man you saw the boy
                                 G
The hidden heart the dark could not destroy
                                A
Slipped past the dragons with a tale of joy
                            D
Thank God for poets I have known


[Chorus]
                 G
'Cause you keep on dreamin'
                   D
When the dreams all fade
                G
When friends desert you
                    Bm     A
You're the ones who stayed
             Em           D                    G
To write the prayers when every prayer had been prayed


[Verse 3]
                         D
You walking wounded of my life
                           G
Who bled compassion in the heat of strife
                               A
You stood between my heart and satan's knife
                            D
With just the armour of a song
                      F#m
You are the heroes and the brave
                           G
Who with a slender pen our passions save
                      A
And chisel epitaphs upon the graves
                          D
Of all the poets I have known


[Outro]
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So keep on dreamin'
        D
Keep on dreamin'
          G
So keep on dreamin'
        D
Keep on dreamin'
        G        D
Keep on dreamin'
        G
Keep on dreamin'