Intro: A5 D5 A5 D5 B5 D5 B5 A5 x2 D5 Meet me at St. Nicholas Among the oaks Behind the church E5 That sway like pig-tailed girls As summer wind whistles D5 Around your bare-skin knees A5 And the forsythia leaves D5 In the shade Lay with me Tickled by The feather reed E5 That's where the trees grow old Under the ivy's hold D5 As you in my two arms A5 Equally safe from harm E5 And in a hazy day dream G5 Our bodies married the stream B5 A5 And we grow down into pebbles and silt E5 The water ran from the fields G5 Until the oceans we filled D5 A5 And found the sea-bed the comfiest quilt E5 G5 There was more life in the weeds than in the few hundred seats B5 A5 In rows from transept to chancel to nave E5 G5 And when their anger had paused, I turned and answered their calls B5 A5 With your just audience, I'm the applause E5 G5 We take on the burden of all these sad-eyed children B5 A5 With lilies bunched in our hands E5 G5 We fake our concern and speak softly as the surgeon B5 A5 Tells wife to cancel her plans E5 G5 Take a body to water, take a body to tundra B5 A5 Just take me with you as well