How Sad How Lovely chords by Joan Shelley

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

     G          Em
How sad, how lovely,
      C          D
How short, how sweet,
     G       Em
To see the sunset
        C            G
At the end of the street.

         C         G
And the day closes in
    C         G
To one thin light
           G       Em
And the shadows rising
           C           G
From the brim of the night.

     Em       B
Too few, too few
          Em             C
Are the days that will hold
       Em       B
Your face your face
       C        D
In a blaze of gold.

     G          Em
How sad, how lovely,
      C          D
How short, how sweet,
     G       Em
To see the sunset
        C            G
At the end of the street.

      C          G
And lights going on
         C            G
In the shops and the bars,
          G       Em
And the lovers looking
          C           G
For the first little stars.

       C
Like life,
            Em
Like your smile,
           C         G
Like the fall of a leaf,
     G        Em           G
How sad, how lovely, how brief.