I'm Nobody/If I Should Die [Dickinson poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2024-02-26

I’m Nobody! Who are you? 
Emily Dickinson 1830 –1886

Am Dm Am C G 
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
G Am F C Dm
Are you – Nobody – too? 
F G Am
Then there’s a pair of us! 
F C Am Em F G
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog – 
To tell one’s name – the livelong June – 
To an admiring Bog!

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If I should die,
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And you should live,
Em
And time should gurgle on,
Bb Am
And morn should beam,
Dm Am
And noon should burn,
Eb Bb Cm
As it has usual done;
If birds should build as early,
And bees as bustling go,—
One might depart at option
From enterprise below!
’T is sweet to know that stocks will stand
When we with daisies lie,
Dm Am
That commerce will continue,
Dm Am
And trades as briskly fly.
F C
It makes the parting tranquil
Dm Ebmaj7
And keeps the soul serene,
Dm Am
That gentlemen so sprightly
Gm Dm
Conduct the pleasing scene!


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