The Barber's/Then [DE LA MARE poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 09/08/2018

The Barber's

    By Walter De La Mare 


    Dm
Gold locks, and black locks,
F C
        Red locks and brown,
A7
    Topknot to love-curl
Dm Gm
        The hair wisps down;
A7
    Straight above the clear eyes,
G A7
        Rounded round the ears,
Dm A7
    Snip-snap and snick-a-snick,
A7 Dm C Dm
        Clash the Barber's shears;
    Us, in the looking-glass,
        Footsteps in the street,
    Over, under, to and fro,
        The lean blades meet;
    Bay Rum or Bear's Grease,
        A silver groat to pay -
    Then out a-shin-shan-shining
        In the bright, blue day.

Then


F Em7
Twenty, forty, sixty, eighty
Dm7 C
        A hundred years ago,
Bb F
    All through the night with lantern bright
Gm C
        The Watch trudged to and fro,

    And little boys tucked snug abed
        Would wake from dreams to hear -
    'Two o' the morning by the clock,
                                               A7
        And the stars a-shining clear!'

    Or, when across the chimney-tops
        Screamed shrill a North-East gale,
    A faint and shaken voice would shout,
                                              C
        'Three! And a storm of hail!'


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