Eyolf Østrem

A . Bbo . Bm7 . E  E7
A . Bbo . Bm7 . E

Eo     E7
By and by,
                         A  .  .  .  | .  .  Co
I'm breathing a lover's sigh.
      .   Bm7               Bbo
Well, I'm sitting on my watch
         Bm7   E7
So I can be on time
    A7/g           D/f#
I'm singing love's praises
     Dm/f         E
With sugar-coated rhyme.
Eo     E7
By and by,
                      A  .  .  .  | .  .  Co
On you I'm casting my eye.

    .            E7
I'm paintin' the town,
Swingin' my partner around
Well, I know who I can depend on,
I know who to trust
I'm watchin' the roads,

Em
You took a part of me that I really miss

I keep asking myself how long it can go on like this
    A7
You told yourself a lie
                                     Em
Thats alright mama I told myself one too
  B7                        A7                         Em
I try to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you

You took the silver, you took the gold
You left me standing out in the cold
People asked about you, I didn't tell them everything I knew
Well I try to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you

I'm driftin in and out of dreamless sleep

       Eb
Now, I try, oh so awf'ly strong
      Ab          Eb
And I just try to be.
         Eb
And now, oh it's [an isle]*)
         Bb7
But it's free.
           Eb         (Eb7)
Yes, but I know in my head
           Ab        Eb
That we're all so misled,
              Eb              Bb
And it's that ol' sign on the cross
             Eb
That worries me.

Now, when I was just a bawlin' lad,
I saw what I wanted to be,
And it's all for the sake
Of that I should see.
But I was lost on the land
As I heard that front door slam,

A
. . . Crocogator (see you later crocogator)

After a while, smockawhile (see you later, Allen Ginsburg)
                  D
See you later alligator (see you later, crocogator)
                    A
After a while, crocodile (in a while, Allen Ginsburg)
                    E
see you while, crocogator (see you later crocogator)
                    A
After a while, crocodile (in a while, crocodile)

Allen Ginsburg, later gator (see you later, Allen Ginsburg)
Later later, Allen Ginsburg (see you while, alliquile)
Allen Ginsburg, later later (later, later on the Nile)

G

                    G    C/g G                              C/g G
On the banks of the river       where the willows hang down
                       Em                        G      C/g G
And the wild birds all warble with a low moaning sound
            Em                          G        C/g G
Down in the hollow where the water runs cold
                     C                    /b   /a  G     C/g G
It was there I first listened to the lies that you told

Now I lie on my bed and I see your sweet face
The past I remember time cannot erase

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D

  D      G  D                  G   D
A hungry feeling, came o'er me stealing
       G    A    D               Em'    G  A
As the mice were squealing in my prison cell
         D   A  G  D        D  A   G  D
And that old triangle, went jingle jangle
    G         D            A       D
All along the banks of the Royal Canal.

To begin the morning, with the water boiling
Get out of bed, clean up your cell
And the old triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal.

        Bb
Well, I looked as far as I could see, baby
                                F
I looked as far as I could see, baby
        Bb
Well, I looked as far as I could see,
Eb
All mankind in misery,
Bb    F               Bb
Baby, won't you be my baby?

Well, I looked east, I looked west, baby
I looked east, I looked west, baby
Well, I looked east, I looked west
There was nothing I could see that I liked the best
Baby, won't you be my baby?

[Go down the land], drop your heavy load, baby

Take #1

D
Old man sailin' in a dinghy boat Down there
                                  A
Old man down is baitin' a hook On there
      D
Gonna pull man down on a suckling hook
      G                                     D      A     D
Gonna pull man into the suckling brook*) Oh yeah!

Now, he's underneath that apple  suckling tree, Oh yeah!
Under that apple suckling tree, Oh yeah!
That's underneath that tree
There's just gonna be you and me
Underneath that apple suckling tree, Oh yeah!

Basement version

G   C/g  G

G                            Am
They say ev'rything can be replaced,
Bm        Am              G
Yet ev'ry distance is not near.
G                   Am
So I remember ev'ry face
Bm       Am             G
Of ev'ry man who put me here.

G                    C *)            *) Am in subsequent
 I see my light come shining            verses
Bm        D *)          G
 From the west unto the east.
G            Am
 Any day now, any day now,
Bm D/a        G
 I shall be released.