Hợp âm The Girl Who Slept for Scotland
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I tried to
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sleep upon my back so I could hold her all night long as in my
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Arms she slept, alas, but no I couldn’tAnd when
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daybreak came and found her at the far side of the bed I tried to
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Wake her, tried to stir her, but she wouldn’t In her
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fug she lay like someone deadAnd even when I’d tug her head and
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press and nip and agitate and
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shake herOr
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call her name or whisper it against her ear,My breath warm, there were
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no words in this universe would
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wake her The girl who slept for
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Scotland
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The girl who slept for
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Scotland
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The girl who slept for
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Scotland It
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took me time to comprehend this state of play extended unto
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All her working, waking, shaking hoursFor
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when she finally woke, deep in the day still she did sleepwalk Like a
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hollow ghost a-float in haunted towers And though she
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heard she didn’t see and though she saw she didn’t hear,Attending
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only to what seemed precise
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and kindFor she was
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settled in her dream, a shopping list of small illusions,Pretty
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stories that she told her drowsy
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mind The girl who slept for
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Scotland
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The girl who slept for
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Scotland
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The girl who slept for
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Scotland Yet I re
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member a day by a river wildWhen she
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clung to me hard like a darling childAnd a
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night in the sheets of a Dublin bedWhen she
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moaned like a woman and gave sweet head When we
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sang in tongues together and our
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synchronised guitarsPlayed
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music to the rafters made
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love among the starsAnd our
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bodies beat like light in love’s
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beautiful embraceAs her
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tiny kisses burst like
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popping suns a
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round my
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face But then
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drift, recline, collapse, the lights went out, she fell asleep againBe
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fore my kiss-wet face was even dryI
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need another haircut she’d say, talking in her sleep, the sleep-motes
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Gathered in the dust-bowls of her eyeShe tee
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tered down the road apiece, she and her man, from dozy bedsit landTo
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junkshop, with her sleeping clothes
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in sacksAnd when I’d
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gone she teetered down the road again, yawning as she went,And
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went and brought the bloody damn things
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back The girl who slept for
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Scotland
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The girl who slept for
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Scotland
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The girl who slept for
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Scotland
