Joan Baez – Caruso (Guitar)

G7
Infinity gives me chills

F
So could the waters of Iceland

              G
But there's a difference in finding diamonds in rust

    Am
And rhinestones in a dishpan

G
Miracles bowl me over

    F                  C
And often will they do so

Am
Now I think I was asleep till I heard

    F            G       C
The voice of the great Caruso

Dm
Bring infinity home

         C
Let me embrace it one more time

Dm
Make it the lilies of the field

   G             C
Or Caruso in his prime

G7
A friend of mine gave me a tape

      F
She'd copied from a record disc

       G
It was made at the turn of the century

    Am
And found in a jacket labeled "misc."

          G
And midst cellos, harps and flugelhorns

            F                         C
With the precision of a hummingbird's heart

        Am
Was the lord of the monarch butterflies

         F            G        C
One-time ruler of the world of art

Dm
Bring infinity home

         C
Let me embrace it one more time

Dm
Make it the lilies of the field

   G             C
Or Caruso in his prime

         G
Yes, the king of them all was Enrico

      F
Whose singular chest could rival

  G
A hundred fervent Baptists

       Am
Giving forth in a tent revival

G
True he was a vocal miracle

    F                C
But that's only secondary

         Am
It's the sould of the monarch butterfly

     F        G          C
That I find a little bit scary

Dm
Bring infinity home

         C
Let me embrace it one more time

Dm
Make it the lilies of the field

   G             C
Or Caruso in his prime

G
Perhaps he's just a vehicle

   F
To bear us to the hills of Truth

       G
That's Truth spelled with a great big T

    Am
And peddled in the mystic's booth

          G
There are oh so many miracles

         F             C
That the western sky exposes

Am
Why go looking for lilacs

            F          G      C
When you're lying in a bed of roses?

Dm
Bring infinity home

         C
Let me embrace it one more time

Dm
Make it the lilies of the field

   G             C
Or Caruso in his prime