Haymaking/Quack!/The Tent [DE LA MARE poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2022-03-13

Haymaking (Walter de la Mare)
E D
Bill's on the hay-wain
A E
Sam's below,
B7
And Simon's up on the stack;
E
Jeremy Joe
F#m 
Is behind- and so
B
He must be at the back!
F#m
Tiny Tim,
B
By the horse (that's him),
Bm F#m G
Gives him a wisp to munch;
F#m G
But little boy Blue
F#m G
We can't see you-
Em Bm
Snuggled asleep, maybe, under a wall,
D A C#7
Cows and sheep far out to call,
F#m Bm C#7
Or Eyeing what's there, lunch

Quack!

F/D G
The duck is whiter than whey is,
F/D G
His tail tips up over his back,
Dm C
The eye in his head is as round as a button,
Bb C Dm
And he says, Quack! Quack!

C Dm
He swims on his bright blue mill-pond
F C E7
By the willow tree under the shack,
Am G
Then stands on his head to see down to the bottom,
Dm C Dm
And says, Quack! Quack!

When Mollie steps out of the kitchen,
For apron - pinned round with a sack;
He squints at her round face, her dish, and what's in it,
And says, Quack! Quack!

He preens the pure snow off his feathers
In the sun by the what-straw stack;
At dusk waddles home with his brothers and sisters,
And says, Quack! Quack!

F/D: xx0565

The Tent

Amaj7 E*
How cool a tent!
D* C*
How leafy a shade!
A** E**
And, near at hand, a heap of sticks.
Bm7
The kettle waits,
The cloth is laid-
With fruit and bread and Banbury cakes.
Cows rove the meadows; in woods afar
Steals out a listening fox:
D A Em G
I wonder where the campers are:
Bm
And what's in that box.

Amaj7: x0x69x
E*: 0xx07x
D*: xx067x
C*: xx045x
A**: x0x67
E**: 0xx45x
Bm7: x2023x



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