Intro: D5 , G5 , D5 , A5 , D5 D5 G5 A5 D5 Oh where is your inflammatory writ G5 A5 D5 Your text that would inside a light be lit Our music deserving devotion unswerving Cried do I deserve her with unflagging fervour G5 A5 D5 Well no we do not if we cannot get over it G5 B5 But what?s it mean when suddenly we?re spent tell me true G5 B5 Ambition came and reared it?s head and went far from you G5 Even molluscs have weddings though solemn and leaden B5 But you dirge for the dead and take no jam on your bread D5 G5 A5 D5 Just a supper of salt and a waltz through your empty bed F5 A5 And all at once it came to me Bb5 F5 And I wrote in hunch til 4:30y C5 G5 A5 D5 But that vestal light it burns out with the night G5 D5 In spite of all the time that we spent on it Bb5 F5 On one bedraggled ghost of a sonnet G5 D5 While outside the wild boars root B5 A5 Without bending a bough underfoot C5 G5 Oh it breaks my heart I don?t know how they do it So don?t ask me D5 G5 A5 D5 And as for my inflammatory writ G5 A5 D5 I wrote it and I was not inflamed one bit G5 Advice from the master derailed that disaster B5 He said hand that pen over to me poetaster G5 While ?cross the great plains keening lovely and awful B5 You ulate the lost great American novels D5 G5 A5 D5 An unlawful lot left to stutter and freeze floodlit G5 A5 D5 A5 D5 But at least they didn?t run to their undying credit