Tuning: Standard Capo: 4 C5 G5 F5 C5 We Shared the experience of being alive C5 G5 F5 And then we took some tea C5 G5 F5 C5 We finished up and all on a whim C5 G5 F5 We talked as it was free A5 G5 When we went to get the bill F5 C5 The lady looked us over C5 G5 She told us, 'now you stay quite still F5 And I'll fetch in some clover' C5 G5 F5 C5 And all of the yellow melancholy C5 G5 F5 The world about grew stark C5 G5 F5 C5 The only sound in all of the place C5 G5 F5 Was the singing of a lark C5 G5 A5 F5 Holly go lightly bright as the day C5 G5 F5 C5 Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay C5 G5 A5 F5 Cold as the window frozen with frost C5 G5 F5 C5 You never been seen and you never... been lost And lost I was for all of the time We never shared thereafter Closing my books and chilling my feet The air blew in much darker Four boys they've been laughing at me The folds of my skin are frayed I'm the oldest man I know by now As the youngest yesterday What did I lose to mourn so long A worm in the heart has - me Laying to rest in a ventricle Stirs when I take my tea Holly go lightly bright as the day Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay Cold as the window frozen with frost You never been seen and you never been lost I saw her once and she came upon the midday And gave me both her hands It seemed while I was still dreaming of the waves That she lived a while on land Slipping through a stream of dark The streets laid out a way Stayed above the level Kept my wondering heart at bay In the s--a feeling in the land I was daily dealing There's a turn of a twisting smile Cheap is your time now tea don't taste so fine How are you, it's been a while Holly go lightly bright as the day Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay Cold as the window frozen with frost You never been seen and you never been lost Holly go lightly bright as the day Cold as the moon and stale as the hay Fresh as the window frozen with frost You never been seen and you never been lost