Gordon Bok – October Song (Guitar)

Capo 3
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Chords

[Intro] G [Verse]
              F      Am    G
I'll sing you this October song

         D7        G
There is no song before it

              F        Am         G
The words and tune are none of my own

       D7               G
For my joys and sorrows bore it
[Verse]
           F        Am      G
Beside the sea, the brambly briars

D7              G
In the still of evening

          F     Am       G
Birds fly out behind the sun

    D7                G
And with them I'll be leaving
[Verse]
           F           Am        G
The fallen leaves that jewel the ground

     D7              G
They know the art of dying

               F         Am        G
And leave with joy their glad gold hearts

       D7              G
In the scarlet shadows lying
[Verse]
            F        Am        G
When hunger calls my footsteps home

    D7              G
The morning follows after

           F        Am    G
I swim the seas within my mind

        D7                     G
And the pine trees laugh green laughter
[Verse]
          F          Am   G
I used to search for happiness

      D7             G
And I used to follow pleasure

              F      Am      G
But I found a door behind my mind

    D7                  G
And that's the greatest treasure
[Verse]
           F       Am       G
For rulers like to lay down laws

    D7             G
And rebels like to break them

                     F       Am      G
And the poor priests like to walk in chains

    D7              G           D   G
And god likes to forsake them
[Verse]
        F         Am       G
I met a man whose name was Time

       D7             G
And he said I must be going

             F     Am      G
But just how long ago that was

  D7             G
I have no way of knowing
[Verse]
            F       Am     G
Sometimes I want to murder Time

    D7                    G
Sometimes when my heart's aching

           F      Am      G
But mostly I just stroll along

    D7              G
The path that he is taking
[Outro] G F Am G D G