ARTIST: Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer
TITLE: Merlin's Lament
Lyrics and Chords


Intro: / C F C G /

In a castle keep, in a vault of stone
In a house at the end of the lane
And old man weeps in his door alone
And he sings out this mournful refrain

/ C G F C / C G C G / 1st / C G C - /

   She will not come back, she will not come back
   Though the mountains fall down to the sea
   And the sky burns to cinders and the rivers run black
   She will not come back to me

   / F C G C / F C G - / F C G Am / F G C G /

No lightning rede from his books of lore
And the staff in the corner, no fire
And the crystal ball always bright before
Is grey as the dust of desire

   She will not come back, she will not come back
   Though we call on the powers that be
   They will cipher this message in his cold zodiac
   She will not come back, she will not come back
   She will not come back to me

   / " / " / " / F C G Am / " /

And joy my love was a dancing spring
And life was the touch of her lips
And a brook ran mad to my cave downstream
From the miracle hills of her hips

   She will not come back, she will not come back
   Though the stars hang their tears in the trees
   And tireless Orion lies spent in his tracks
   She will not come back, she will not come back
   She will not come back to me
   She will not come back to me

   / ... / F G Am F... / C G C - /

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