Chords with lyrics
Intro: A augmentedA D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD B minorBm D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA x2
D MajorD
Meet me at
St. Nicholas
Among the oaks
Behind the church
E minorEm
That sway like pig-tailed girls
As summer wind whistles
D MajorD
Around your bare-skin knees
A augmentedA
And the forsythia leaves
D MajorD
In the shade
Lay with me
Tickled by
The feather reed
E minorEm
That's where the trees grow old
Under the ivy's hold
D MajorD
As you in my two arms
A augmentedA
Equally safe from harm
E minorEm
And in a hazy day dream
G+G
Our bodies married the stream
B minorBm A augmentedA
And we grow down into pebbles and silt
E minorEm
The water ran from the fields
G+G
Until the oceans we filled
D MajorD A augmentedA
And found the sea-bed the comfiest quilt
E minorEm G+G
There was more life in the weeds than in the few hundred seats
B minorBm A augmentedA
In rows from transept to chancel to nave
E minorEm G+G
And when their anger had paused, I turned and answered their calls
B minorBm A augmentedA
With your just audience, I'm the applause
E minorEm G+G
We take on the burden of all these sad-eyed children
B minorBm A augmentedA
With lilies bunched in our hands
E minorEm G+G
We fake our concern and speak softly as the surgeon
B minorBm A augmentedA
Tells wife to cancel her plans
E minorEm G+G
Take a body to water, take a body to tundra
B minorBm A augmentedA