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