Intro: C

C
Hail the blest atomic morn
Unto the earth a bomb is born
    Am
The pebble bed reactor core
Up to the sky ascends.

C
Hail the blest atomic sea,
Its mouth in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
      Am
Whose lips untouched with blasphemy
Our glowing eyes attend

C Am

C
Bishops wrapped in Bedford cloth
Said pride would cast our victories off,
    Am
The Deep Blue to our Kasparov
Our moral thoughts impart.

C
Time will fill the rubbish yards
The Hospitals, the funeral yards
    Am
But neither time nor I
Can hold your 1985 Chernobyl heart

F
Brightest and best
                        C
Are the children of the morning.
F
Dawn on our darkness
                  C
And lend us thine aid

C
In unmysterious ways
We re-enacted closet plays
     Am
From charming, Magic Lantern days
For the android whales below

C
You'd be cast as the Nazarene
In the unrepenting desert scene
        Am
Near to me, your Mary Magdalene,
Our Lady of the Snow,

F
Brightest and best
                        C
Are the children of the morning.
F
Dawn on our darkness
                Am
& lend us thine aid

F                        C
Star of the west horizon deforming,
(Too many humans under the brown fog of winter)
F
Come dawn in our darkness.
              C
Lend us thine aid

F                                  C   Am
Guide where our infant redeemer is laid
F                                  C   Am
Guide where our infant redeemer is laid
F                                         C  Am
Come dawn in our darkness & lend us thine aid