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                            F
On Raglan Road on an autumn day
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I saw her first and knew
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That her dark hair would weave a snare
                     G
That I might one day rue

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  F               C
I saw the danger, yet I walked
                     G
Along the enchanted way
      C                             F
And I said, "Let grief be a falling leaf
       C       G      C
At the dawning of the day"

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                          F
On Grafton Street in November
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We tripped lightly along the ledge
     F                 C
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
                       G
The worth of passion's pledge

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    F                     C
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts
                 G
And I not making hay
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Oh, I love too much, and by such, by such
   C         G       C
Is happiness thrown away

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                        F
I gave her gifts of the mind
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I gave her the secret sign that's known
F                                  C
To the artists that have known the true
                  G
Gods of sound and storm

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    F              C
And good intent, I did not stint
                        G
For I gave her poems to say
         C                                 F
With her own name there and her long black hair
     C           G         C
Like clouds over fields of May

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                                   F
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
  C       G        C
I see her walking now
 F               C
Away from me, so hurriedly
                 G
My reason must allow

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     F                     C
That I had ruled, not as I should
                   G
A creature made of clay
         C                          F
When the angel woos, the clay he'll lose
    C            G       C
His wings at the dawn of day