Babel/Kings [de la Mare poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2021-11-06

Babel (de la Mare)
D/A D/G# D/G D/F#
The sea washes England,
Am7 Bm7
Where all men speak
A Em
A language rich
A Em C
As Ancient Greek

Em Am
The wide world over
C G B7
Man with man
Em Am
Has talked his own tongue
B7 C G F G E7
Since speech began.

Yet still must sorrow
Move the mind,
He understands
But his own kind.

The voices lovely,
Hollow, drear,
Of beast and bird
Beat on his ear:

Am
Eye into eye
Em
Gaze deep he may;
F G
Yet still through Babel
B7
Gropes his way.

Kings

Em A-C-B
King Canute
Em A-C-B
Sat down by the sea,
Em B7
Up washed the tide
Em C-B
And away went he.

Good King Alfred
Cried, 'My sakes!
Not five winks,
And look at those cakes!'

A7
Lackland John
Dm G
Were a right royal Tartar
A7
Till he made his mark
C#7
Upon Magna Carta:

D A C#7
Ink, seal, table,
D A
On Runnymede green,
G A
Anno Domini
D C#7
12-15



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