Marigold Gloria Swansong

	  		Intro: D   C G D   C G D 

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The book I bought yesterday 
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I started to read 
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I found a small marigold 
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Pressed between leaves 


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And in that small marigold 
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Well, I found a note 
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Saying, "Please won't you write to me 
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'Cause I'm so alone" 



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So, I'm going to write back today 
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Yes, I'm going to write right away____ 


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I started, 'Dear Marigold' 
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Not knowing her name 
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I just had to write to you 
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'Cause I feel the same 


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You sound like that marigold 
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That I found today 
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The beauty was there to be found 
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But fading away 


 
        C          G     D 
So, I'm writing to you today 
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Yes, I'm writing to you right away____ 



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As I started writing 
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Well, what can I say? 
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I got to thinking 
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Where are you today? 


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Brown leather cover 
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Ripped, tattered and torn 
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It's been such a long, long time 
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Since the flower was born 


 
        C          G            D 
There's no need to write back today 
    C            G            D        C G D   C G  Am 
I'm not going to write right away____ 



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Just like a swan she is gliding 
F             E         Am 
Drifting from here unto there 
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She has no thoughts of dying 
F           E           Am 
Winter does not mean despair 


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Warm summer nights left behind her 
F           E                 Am 
Thinking of things that she's done 
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Once were her friends all around her 
    F       E       Am 
But now she is only one 


Bridge: 
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Swan, swan keep your feet off the ground 
     Bm                  E7 
Keep flying around, it's lonely you've found 
A        F#m 
You were left on your own 
    Bm                      E7 
You didn't do right, not to take off and fly 
          F                 Am 
When your friends left that night 


Instrumental: Am  G  F  E  Am  G  F E Am 


Bridge: 
A                    F#m 
Swan, swan keep your feet off the ground 
     Bm                  E7 
Keep flying around, it's lonely you've found 
A        F#m 
You were left on your own 
    Bm                      E7 
You didn't do right, not to take off and fly 
          F                 Am 
When your friends left that night 


                          G 
Someday I know you'll see something 
          F              E           Am 
That will bring back the memories of gold 
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You'll meet the friends that did leave you 
   F          E           Am 
No more to be left in the cold 


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And just like a swan, you'll be gliding 
F             E         Am 
Drifting from here unto there 
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You'll have no thoughts of dying 
       F          E           Am 
'Cause winter did not mean despair