Solar Waltz chords by Cosmo Sheldrake

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
Bbm Fm F# Fm

Verse 1:
      Bbm              Fm
Well time, she did as time, she does
      F#             Fm
She passed along her way
     Bbm                   Fm
And dawn she crept like a frightened girl
      F#                   Fm
Out from the night time’s sway
    Bbm           Fm
But in the merry month of May
    F#              Fm
A solemn fast does lurk
      Bbm                  Fm
For spring, it sprang as spring, it does
    Fm7             G#   Bbm
And put the bees to work

Fm F# Fm Bbm

Verse 2:
     Bbm
And work they must
     Fm
And work they shall
    F#                Fm
For all the things to grow
    Bbm                Fm
For if they don’t, as time, she knows
        F#            Fm
They’d wither on the bough
    Bbm                Fm
And what a shame such things would be
    F#               Fm
No wondrous wine for you and me
   Bbm             Fm
No cider too, nor mead nor soup
    Fm7            G#   Bbm
For us to all make merry

Fm F# Fm Bbm

Verse 3:
   Bbm               Fm
So rot, ferment and decompose
   F#                 Fm
So all the things can grow
    Bbm          Fm
Or wallow in a drinkless world
    F#             Fm
And wither on the bough


Bridge:
    Bbm
Oh, what a dusty burden
     Fm
That nectar and that pollen
     Bbm
Like Atlas with the heavens
       Cm
On the back of his head
    Bbm
And what if they should falter
     Fm
And shrug their little shoulders?
      Fm7                         G#   Bbm
Well, time, she’d pass all the same

Bbm Fm F# Fm