Merlins Lament

	  		
Intro: C  F  C  G 

     C      C/B        F              C 
In a castle keep, in a vault of stone 
                  F          C     G 
In a house at the end of the lane  
   C       C/B          F          C 
An old man weeps in his door alone  
                      F          C   
And he sings out this mournful refrain 


 
         F        C   
She will not come back 
         G        C 
She will not come back 
           F              C           G 
Though the mountains fall down to the sea 
        F            C               G           Am 
And the sky burns to cinders and the rivers runs black 
         F        G       C   G 
She will not come back to me 
 


   C         C/B           F             C 
No lightning reed from his books of lore 
                     F          C     G 
And the staff in the corner, no fire  
        C       C/B          F             C 
And the crystal ball, always bright before  
               F         C     
Is grey as the dust of desire 


 
         F        C   
She will not come back 
         G        C 
She will not come back 
          F           C           G 
Though we call on the powers that be 
          F           C              G        Am 
They will cipher this message in his cold zodiac 
         F        C     
She will not come back 
         G        Am 
She will not come back 
         F        G       C   G 
She will not come back to me  



Instrumental:  F  C  G  C  F  C  G  F  C  G  Am  F  G  C  G 


    C      C/B        F              C 
And joy my love was a dancing spring 
                 F            C     G 
And life was the touch of her lips  
      C         C/B       F        C 
And a brook ran mad to my cave downstream 
                 F            C    
From the miracle hills of her hips 


 
         F        C   
She will not come back 
         G        C 
She will not come back 
           F                C            G 
Though the stars hang their tears in the trees 
    F         C         G            Am 
And tireless Orion lies spent in his tracks 
         F        C     
She will not come back 
         G        Am 
She will not come back 
         F        G       Am  F 
She will not come back to me   
         C        G       C 
She will not come back to me