Pennywhistle
by Augie March
Written by Glenn Richards
>Appears on the album Watch Me Disappear (2008)

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(D)     A (x02220@1)             DJust (xx0232@1)an ordinary day, I knew that autumn was on its way,
        A (x02220@1)                    DI (xx0232@1)could see by the gilt of the clouds, the burnish on the bay,
  A (x02220@1)             D (xx0232@1)                        BmA (x24432@1)ring of effusia settled on the city like a vision of the future
           DBefore (xx0232@1)the scales fell away,
  Bm (x24432@1)                         DA (xx0232@1)vision of the future looking more than just okay,
A (x02220@1)            DA (xx0232@1)good feeling
     A (x02220@1)                 DYes, (xx0232@1)just a good feeling
                                     A (x02220@1)       DAnd (xx0232@1)it only happens now and then -
           A (x02220@1)                   DOut (xx0232@1)of the mouth of a black dog,
           A (x02220@1)           DOut (xx0232@1)of the terrors of 3 am,
           A (x02220@1)                 DOut (xx0232@1)of the dark and whispering fen,
      Bm (x24432@1)               D (xx0232@1)                      AI (x02220@1)was blind then I could see, now I'm blind again.

So I hollered up to Jill,
"Come down from the mountain, your ears are 'a burning,
My speech is a fountain, it's been another long year
But you know I'm not counting,
I dreamed you like you dreamed me,
O the bomb dreamed the fuse and the drowner dreamed the sea",
What a strange feeling...
Yes, it?s a strange feeling
And it only happens now and then -
Out of the mouth of a black dog,
Out of the terrors of 3 am,
Out of the dark and whispering fen,
I was blind then I could see, now I'm blind again.

A (x02220@1)                D (xx0232@1)        A (x02220@1)                 DMost (xx0232@1)of the Aegean Sea rushes into my bedroom and glitters for me,
    A (x02220@1)              D (xx0232@1)   Bm (x24432@1)                     DThe (xx0232@1)hills of Gallipoli all throw up their bones for my industry,

     A (x02220@1)                    DSo (xx0232@1)I build from the charnel the ale house,
  A (x02220@1)                   DI (xx0232@1)build from the tomb a palace of dreams,
     A (x02220@1)                     D (xx0232@1)                Bm (x24432@1)              DThat (xx0232@1)old barren rockface got silver seams for a miner of middling means,

Singing poems of dissolution and schemes -
                   AMy (x02220@1)penny whistles, lo!

(A)   D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) Bm (x24432@1) D (xx0232@1)Now I summon up Jack, sat up on the hill,
The wrong kind of music, the wrong kind of pill,
Impotent as a potato but still pleading "Give it up Mary,
But not by degrees..."
  
  A (x02220@1)                 D (xx0232@1)                  A (x02220@1)                    DA (xx0232@1)portrait of Jack, a study in sin, well I knew of myself before I knew of him,
         A (x02220@1)                     DNow (xx0232@1)even I couldn't tell ya just who it is asking
Bm (x24432@1)                  D"Give (xx0232@1)it up Mary, but not by degrees,
Bm (x24432@1)                  D (xx0232@1)        EGive (022100@1)it up Mary, your virtue, please..."

Into the mouth of a black dog - I go
Into the terrors of 3 am - I go
Into the dark and whispering fen - I go
I was blind then blind again
Into the mouth of a black dog - I go
Into the terrors of 3 am - I go
Into the dark and whispering fen - I go
       Bm (x24432@1)                    DO (xx0232@1)what beast has my name on its snaggle tooth,
    Bm (x24432@1)                  D (xx0232@1)           EAnd (022100@1)eternal slobber for my finishing youth?
                  AMy (x02220@1)penny whistles low.