Song Of The Cradle chords by Stan Rogers

Chords with lyrics

SONG OF THE CANDLE (1972) - Stan Rogers

capo second fret

G+G             C majorC
I took up my pen tonight, I ...

G+G          E minorEm    C majorC
It's like I got religion, ...

G+G         E minorEm       C majorC         A augmentedA
An old woman once ...
     C majorC       G+G   C majorC         D MajorD
She said "Taken from the ...

E minorEm                  B minorBm
a candle might not keep ....

C majorC                B minorBm
But buy another candle son, ...

  C majorC                          G+G C majorC G+G C majorC
For one more try, and I had ...

CHORUS 1

  E minorEm           B minorBm
Tonight in a room ...

C majorC                 G+G
Another cup of ashes ....

   E minorEm          D MajorD
And at times it gets ...

C majorC                B minorBm
Knowing one more simple song ...

    C majorC                      G+G   C majorC G+G C majorC
And I'm left alone to hear the song ...


Coffee houses bother me, I cannot ....

TO CHORUS 1

The priest I found was nervous. He ....

TO CHORUS 1

One too many cigarettes, ....

CHORUS 2

Tonight I have burned all my ....


Enjoy!! Stan wrote some beauts - this is not the least of them.
It sounds great fingerpicking.

John van Gurp
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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