Johnny Flynn – Gypsy Hymn (Guitar)

    C         Am              C          Am
The ferry man brought me with mind open, dreaming,

   F        Em          G    C
we cut the depths with laughter.

    C          Am               C               Am
Stayed with my youth that God's tooth cut when weaning,

F       G     F
now and ever after.

    F
The will of the void is to shape and name forms...

    Am        C     Am    C
our dance was never done, then.

   F
I remember you well from before you were born,

   Am         C     Am   C
my chance was never won, then.

F
I burned the sports pages,

   F
as I already knew the score.

    C     F      Am  F
Put faith in the fire,

   C  F     Am   F
forever and ever more.

      C          Am
Your colours of autumn,

       C               Am
you're burnished with gold there,

    F        Em     G   C
and standing in the river.

     C          Am
The circle of trees and 

     C           Am
the full wish we told there,

F        G    F
truthful as a prison.

  F
I looked at the mystery and all she evoked,

   Am      C           Am   C
my patron saint stood near her.

        F 
But the mystery walked and the mystery spoke,

    Am          C     Am   C
my saint said, "never fear her".

    F
Now Mab is my queen, oh,

C   F     Am   F
Mab is my root now,

   C      F         Am            F
my strong trunk and branch to the leaf.

    C                   Am
The circle remains and still from its past;

    F             G           F           G
now waiting, now singing, now flying half-mast.

    C                        Am
She is and she's whole, I'll know love again.

     F            G          F      G
I'll know my song well, each dying refrain.

     C                         Am             
Each cadence and twist, well-observed in its harmony.

F             G
Silence come clean,

      F                Am
pull stillness for our lady.

Am        C
Gypsy hymn sing we slow,

     F       G           F             G
and tenderly bear me on your west wind blow... your

Am        C
gypsy hymn let me flow,

    F        G       F               Am
and sing me again before you got to go.

F        G          F              C
Sing me again before you got to go.