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Date: 10/24/99; 6:10:53 PM
From: phil.roach@icl.com (Phil)
Subject: CRD:1917                Emmylou Harris/Linda Ronstadt           Chords/lyrics

from Phil.Roach@icl.com

Emmylou Harris        1917         Written by David Olney 
Linda Ronstadt
 

Gm                        Cm
The strange young man who comes to me
D7             Gm
A soldier on a three day spree
Gm                         Cm
He needs one night's cheap ecstasy 
D7                    Gm
And a woman's arms to hide him
Gm                  Cm
He greets me with a courtly bow
D7                    Gm
And hides his pain by acting proud
Gm                        Cm
He drinks too much and he laughs too loud
D7        Gm
How can I deny him.

[ Gm F7 - 1 strum each - ]

Bb             F
Let us dance beneath the moon
Cm                Gm
I'll sing to you 'Claire de Lune'
Bb                 F
The morning always comes too soon
D7                     Gm
But tonight the war is over
Gm                 Cm
He speaks to me in schoolboy French
D7                 Gm
Of a soldiers life inside a trench
Gm                           Cm
Of the look of death and the ghastly stench
D7              Gm
I do my best to please him
Gm                Cm
He puts two roses in a vase
D7              Gm
Two roses sadly out of place
Gm                            Cm
Like the gallant smile on his haggard face
D7          Gm
Playfully I tease him
Bb                F
Hold me neath the Paris skies
Cm                Gm
Let's not talk of how or why
Bb              F
Tomorrow's soon enough to die
D7                     Gm
But tonight the war is over
Gm               Cm
We make love too hard too fast
D7                  Gm
He falls asleep his face a mask
Gm                              Cm
He wakes with the shakes and he drinks from his flask
D7            Gm
I put my arms around him
Gm                                Cm
They die in the trenches and they die in the air
D7                        Gm
In Belguim and France the dead are everywhere
Gm                             Cm
They die so so fast there's no time to prepare
D7                 Gm
A decent grave to surround them
Bb              F
Old world glory old world fame
Cm                  Gm
The old worlds gone gone up in flames
Bb                F
Nothing will ever be the same
D7                 Gm
And nothing lasts forever
Gm                  Cm
Oh I'd pray for him but I've forgotten how
D7                                   Gm
And there's nothing nothing that can save him now
Gm                                    Cm
There's always another with the same funny bow
D7                   Gm
And who am I to deny them

Lux aeterna Luce-at e-is
 
Domine cum sanctic tu-is in aeternum

Qui-a pius es

Requiem aeternaum dona e-is Domine

Qui-a pius es

Requiem aeternaum dona e-is Domine

Qui-a pius es

Et lux perpetua luce-at- e-is Cum sancris tu-is in

Aeternum qui-api-us es
D7                 Gm
Tonight the war is over