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[Verse]
                  D
Oh, my fair North Star
       Em          C
I have held to you dearly
      G            C
I had asked you to steer me
         G               D
'Til one cloud-scattered night
      G          D
I got lost in my travels
      Em      C
I met Leo the Lion
      G              C
Met a king and met a giant
           G      D        D7
With their errant knight

[Chorus]
            Em           Bm
There's the wind and the rain
        C
And the mercy of the fallen
        G            D                    Em      C
Who say they have no claim to know what's right
            G            D
There's the weak and the strong
        Em                C
And the beds that have no answer
           G           D              Em      C
And that's where I may rest my head tonight

[Verse]
N.C.  G              D
I saw all the bright people
   Em                   C
In imposing flocks they landed
         G               C
And they got what they demanded
         G                D
And they scratched at the ground
          G             D
Then they flew, and the field
        Em              C
Grew as sweetly for the flightless
        G              C
Who had longing yet despite this
           G          D        D7
They could hear every sound

[Chorus]
            Em           Bm
There's the wind and the rain
        C
And the mercy of the fallen
        G            D                    Em      C
Who say they have no claim to know what's right

[Instrumental]
G  D  Em  C  (x2)

[Verse]
            G              D
And if your sister or your brother
     Em                 C
Were stumbling on their last mile
     G              C
In a self-inflicted exile
               G             D
You'd wish for them a humble friend
      G        D
And I hope someday
         Em                 C
That the best of Falstaff's planners
        G                C
Give me seven half-built manors
          G               D             Em    D
Where her half-dreams may dream without end

[Chorus]
            Em           Bm
There's the wind and the rain
        C
And the mercy of the fallen
          G                D                    Em       C
Who say, "Hey, it's not my place to know what's right"
            G            D
There's the weak and the strong
        Em              C
And the many stars that guide us
        G            C          G  D  G
We have some of them inside us