MT AIRY SONG CIRCLE - SONG BOOK ! MT AIRY SONG CIRCLE rd(or 4th) Monthly 3 Saturday 3 -5 pm Town Hall (or Wildwood Pk) All styles of music, All levels of ability Everyone is Welcome! [email protected] [email protected] MT AIRY SONG CIRCLE - SONG BOOK ALL IS QUIET TONIGHT - Lowen & Navarro Intro G D Am C G Chorus: D Am C G All is quiet tonight The stars are in their places D Am C G The moon will give us light To see into each others' faces D Am C G D Am And I know the road is hard But if we carry on together We will get by End: All is quiet tonight, All is quiet tonight, All is quiet tonight We will get by, All is quiet tonight We will get by, All is quiet tonight Verse: D G 1. We live our lives In the eye of a hurricane D G We cast our fates On seas of indifference C D But all along the shoreline We look for a chance to believe Bm C G The darkness will fade And the promise will survive Until I hear you say: D G 2. We make our way Through streets full of danger D G We build up the walls To keep us inside C D But oh, they keep us apart 'Till we become Bm C G The worst kind of stranger who stands with open arms and barricades the heart.Still I hear you say: Repeat Chorus 2x: THE AUTUMN LEAVES by Jacques Prevert (French) Em7 F#7 Bm7 Em7 A7 D Gmaj7 Em7 F#7 Bm The autumn leaves drift by the window, the autumn leaves of red and gold. Em7 A7 Dmaj7 Gmaj7 Em7 F#7 Bm I see your lips, the summer kisses, the sunburned hands I used to hold. F#7 Bm7 Em7 A7 Dmaj7 Gmaj7 Since you went away, the days grew long. And soon I’ll hear old winter’s song. C#dim F#7 Bm G F#7 Bm But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall. Instrumental (with harmony) Em7 A7 D Gmaj7 Em7 F#7 Bm Em7 A7 Dmaj7 Gmaj7 Em7 F#7 Bm F#7 Bm7 Em7 A7 Dmaj7 Gmaj7 Since you went away, the days grew long. And soon I’ll hear old winter’s song. C#dim F#7 Bm G F#7 Bm But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall. MT AIRY SONG CIRCLE - SONG BOOK AINT NO GRAVE Crooked Still CHORUS: Dm G Dm There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down. There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down. Dm G Dm When I hear that trumpet sound I’m gonna get up out of the ground. F A7 Dm There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down. Dm 1. Go down yonder Gabriel put your foot on the land and sea. G Dm A7 Dm Oh Gabriel don’t you blow your trumpet until you hear from me. Dm I looked way over yonder and what you do think I see? G Dm A7 Dm I see a band of angels and they’re coming after me. Dm Then I looked way down the river saw the people dressed in white G Dm A7 Dm I knew it was God’s people ‘cause I saw them doing right. CHORUS Dm 2. Going down to the river Jordan and I’m gonna bury my knees in the sand, G Dm A7 Dm Hollar “Ah, hosanna” till I reach the promised land. Then I looked way over yonder and what do Dm G Dm A7 Dm you think I see? I see a band of angels and they’re coming after me. Dm So meet me King Jesus meet me won’t you meet me in the middle of the air G Dm A7 Dm If these wing should carry me, I won’t need another pair. CHORUS END: There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down. ANGEL FROM MONTGOMERY John Prine G C G C G C D G I am an old woman named after my mother, My old man is another child that’s grown old. C G C G C D G If dreams were lightning and thunder were desire, this old house would’ve burned down a long time ago. CHORUS:G F C G F C G Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery. Make me a poster of an old rodeo. F C G F C G CGCG Just give me one thing that I can hold on to. To believe in this living is just a hard way to go. G C G C G C D G When I was a young girl I had me a cowboy. He wa’rn’t much to look at, just a free ramblin’ man C G C G C D G But that was a long time, and no matter how I try, the years just flow by like a broken-down dam. CHORUS G C G C G C D G There’s flies in the kitchen I can hear ‘em there buzzing, but I ain’t done nothing since I woke up today. C G C G C D G But how the hell can a person go to work in the morning come home in the evenin’ & have nothing’ to say. CHORUS MT AIRY SONG CIRCLE - SONG BOOK ABDUL ABULBUL AMIR (Original Title: Abdulla Bulbul Ameer) Percy French 1877 A musical monologue written for a concert at Trinity College, Dublin. Three sequels were written as well. 1. The sons of the Prophet are brave men and bold, And quite unaccustomed to fear (D7 G C G) But the bravest by far in the ranks of the Shah Was Abdul Abulbul Amir (D7 G C D7 G) 2. If you wanted a man to encourage the van, Or harass the foe from the rear. Storm fort or redoubt, you had only to shout, For Abdul Abulbul Amir 3. Now the heroes were plenty and well known to fame, In the troops that were led by the Czar And the bravest of these was a man by the name Of Ivan Skavinsky Skavar. 4. One day this bold Russian, he shouldered his gun, And donned his most truculent sneer Downtown he did go where he trod on the toe, Of Abdul Abulbul Amir 5. "Young man," quoth Abdul, "Has life grown so dull, That you wish to end your career? Vile infidel know, you have trod on the toe, Of Abdul Abulbul Amir." 6. "So take your last look at the sunshine and brook, And send your regrets to the Czar For by this I imply, you are going to die, Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar." 7. "My friend, your remarks in the end, Will avail you but little, I fear For you ne'er will survive to repeat them alive, Mister Abdul Abulbul Amir" 8. Then this bold Mameluke drew his trusty skibouk, Singing, "Allah! Il Allah! Al-lah!" And with murderous intent he ferociously went, For Ivan Skavinsky Skavar. 9. They parried and thrust, they side-stepped and cussed, Of blood they spilled a great part The philologist blokes, who seldom crack jokes Say that hash was first made on the spot. 10. They fought all that night neath the pale yellow moon, The din, it was heard from afar And huge multitudes came, so great was the fame Of Abdul and Ivan Skavar 11. As Abdul's long knife was extracting the life, In fact he was shouting, "Huzzah!" He felt himself struck by that wily Calmuck, Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar. 12. The Sultan drove by in his red-breasted fly, Expecting the victor to cheer But he only drew nigh to hear the last sigh, Of Abdul Abulbul Amir 13. Czar Petrovich, too, in his spectacles blue, Sauntered up in his gold-plated car And arrived just in time to exchange a last line, With Ivan Skavinsky Skavar. 14. There's a tomb rises up where the Blue Danube rolls, And engraved there in characters clear Is, "Stranger, when passing, oh pray for the soul Of Abdul Abulbul Amir" 15. A splash in the Black Sea one dark moonless night, Caused ripples to spread wide and far It was made by a sack fitting close to the back, Of Ivan Skavinsky Skavar. 16. A Muscovite maiden her lone vigil keeps, Neath the light of the cold northern star And the name that she murmurs in vain as she weeps Is Ivan Skavinsky Skavar. MT AIRY SONG CIRCLE - SONG BOOK ANNIE’S SONG John Denver C D Em C G G/F# Em Bm C Bm Am You fill up my senses like a night in the forest, like the mountains in springtime, C D (x4) C D Em C G G/F# Em Like a walk in the rain. Like a storm in the desert, like a sleepy blue ocean. Bm C Bm Am D7 G Gsus4 G You fill up my senses, come fill me again. 2. Come let me love you, let me give my life to you. Let me drown in your laughter, Let me die in your arms. Let me lay down beside you. Let me always be with you. Come let me love you. Come love me again. BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Simon and Garfinkle G C G C F C G Am G C g When you’re weary, feeling small, when tears are in your eyes, I’ll dry them all.