The Little Old Cupid/The Penny Owing [DE LA MARE poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2018-09-04

The Little Old Cupid

    By Walter De La Mare 

Am G    
 'Twas a very small garden;
Am D
    The paths were of stone,
Am G
    Scattered with leaves,
Am
    With moss overgrown;
    And a little old Cupid
    Stood under a tree,
    With a small broken bow
    He stood aiming at me.

Dm7   
 The dog-rose in briars
E7
    Hung over the weeds,
Am F C G
    The air was aflock
E7
    With the floating of seed,
Am E7
    And a little old Cupid
    Am D 
Stood under a tree,
Am G
    With a small broken bow
Am
    He stood aiming at me.

    The dovecote was tumbling,
    The fountain dry,
    A wind in the orchard
    Went whispering by;
    And a little old Cupid
    Stood under a tree,
    With a small broken bow
    He stood aiming at me.

The Penny Owing

D* G - C
Poor blind Tam, the beggar man,
Dsus4 D Em C
I'll give a penny to as soon as I can.
Em Am Em Am
Where he stood at the corner in his rags, and cried,
B7 Em
The sun without shadow does now abide.

Safe be my penny till I come some day
To where Tam's waiting. And then I'll say,
"Here is my ghost, Tam, from the fire and dew,
B7 C G Am
And the penny I grudged kept safe for you."


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