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Song Of The Cradle by Stan Rogers

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SONG OF THE CANDLE (1972) - Stan Rogers

capo second fret
                            
G                         C
I took up my pen tonight, I ...

G                   Em       C
It's like I got religion, ...

G                 Em             C                 A
An old woman once ...
          C              G     C                  D
She said "Taken from the ...

Em                                    Bm
a candle might not keep ....

C                                Bm
But buy another candle son, ...

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

CHORUS 1

   Em                     Bm
Tonight in a room ...

C                                 G
Another cup of ashes ....

      Em                    D
And at times it gets ...

C                               Bm
Knowing one more simple song ...

       C                                            G      C G C
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
ab008@chebucto.ns.ca