Artist:     King Crimson
Song:       The Letters
Album:      Islads
Tabbed by:  Wiktor R. Kołowiecki
E-mail:     victoriumist@gmail.com
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Intro: gently Fm

E|----4-4-4-|
B|---1-2-1--|
G|----------|
D|--3-------|
A|-3--------|
E|----------|

Verse:

Fm
With quill and silver knife
                    Bbm
She carved a poison pen
                      Fm
Wrote to her lover's wife:
C                              Fm
"Your husband's seed has fed my flesh".

As if a leper's face
That tainted letter graced
The wife with choke-stone throat
Ran to the day with tear-blind eyes.

interlude:

Fm.......Abm..Bbm
Fm........
Fm.......Abm..Bbm....

variations on Fm

Verse:

Impaled on nails of ice
And raked with emerald fire
The wife with soul of snow
With steady hands begins to write:

"I'm still, I need no life
To serve on boys and men
What's mine was yours is dead
I take my leave of mortal flesh"

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Lublin, Poland
18.08.09