Tabbed by: Horacia

Tuning: Standard


E5 D5 x4

    E5                        D5
The conversation of prayers about to be said
E5                                    D5
By the child going to the bed and the man on the stairs
    C5                           D5
Who climbed to his dieing love in her high room
    C5                             D5
The one not caring to whom in his sleep he will move
        G5     D5       G5          D5           E5
And the other full of tears that she will be dead

E5 D5 x4

Turns in the dark on the sound they know will arise
Into the answering skies from the green ground
From the man on the stairs and the child by his bed
The sound about to be said in two prayers
For the sleep in a safe land and the love who dies

E5 D5 x4

(Let ring)
Will be the same grief flying. Whom shall they calm
Shall the child sleep unharmed or the man be crying
The conversation of prayers about to be said
Turns on the quick and the dead and the man on the stairs
To night shall find no dying but alive and warm

( E5 D5 x4
D5 A5 D5 D5
D5 A5 G5 G5
D5 A5 D5 D5
D5 D5 E5 E5 )
x2
E5 D5 x4

In the fire of his care his love in the high room
And the child not caring to whom he climbs his prayer
Shall drown in a grief as deep as his true grave.
And mark the dark eyed wave through the eyes of sleep
Dragging him up the stairs to the one who lies dead

E5 D5 x4