Skellig
Music and Lyrics Loreena McKennitt  This is one of the most haunting songs.... beautiful to perform and I would love to hear a nice tenor voice on this someday...

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     Am                       G
O light the candle, John
          F                  G          Am
The daylight has almost gone
        Am                                G
The birds have sung their last
          F           G       Am
The bells call all to mass
Am        Em      Am
Sit here by my side
                F         G    Am
For the night is very long
              Am          Em      Am
There's something I must tell
         F      G       Am
Before I pass along

 Am                           G
I joined the brotherhood
          F               G      Am
My books were all to me
  Am                               G
I scribed the words of God
            F        G    Am
And much of history
Am        Em      Am
Many a year was I
                  F     G         Am
Perched out upon the sea
         Am                Em         Am
The waves would wash my tears,
         F             G      Am
The wind, my memory

     Am                         G
I'd hear the ocean breathe
       F        G          Am
Exhale upon the shore
    Am                             G
I knew the tempest's blood
          F        G          Am
Its wrath I would endure
      Am        Em           Am
And so the years went by
       F         G      Am
Within my rocky cell
        Am       Em          Am
With only a mouse or bird
           F        G               Am
My friend; I loved them well

       Am                     G
And so it came to pass
          F                  G    Am
I'd come here to Romani
         Am                   G
And many a year it took
            F         G           Am
Till I arriv-ed here with thee
Am            Em       Am
On dusty roads I walked
          F      G              Am
And over mountains high
                Am    Em       Am
Through rivers running deep
          F           G          Am
Beneath the endless sky

         Am                              G
Beneath these jasmine flow'rs
         F              G          Am
Amidst these cypress trees
   Am                        G
I give you now my books
         F            G      Am
And all their mysteries
         Am          Em   Am
 Now take the hourglass
          F      G      Am
And turn it on its head
        Am             Em        Am
For when the sands are still
           F           G           Am
Tis then you'll find me dead
     Am        Em         Am
O light the candle, John
           F             G          Am
The daylight is almost gone
        Am             Em          Am
The birds have sung their last
           F          G       Am
The bells call all to mass

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