Misc Musicals – Spring Awakening - Left Behind (Ukulele)

G
You fold his hands and smooth his tie, you gently lift his chin.

C
Were you really so blind, and unkind to him?

Em
Can't help the itch to touch, to kiss, to hold him once again.

Am                                C
Now to close his eyes--never open them....

G                C                Am        C
A shadow passed, a shadow passed, yearning, yearning

Am                       C
For the fool it called a home.

G                           C
All things he never did are left behind.

                   Em
All the things his mama wished he'd bear in mind,

    Am                         C
And all his dad had hoped he'd know.

G
The talks you never had, the saturdays you never spent.

C
All the 'grown-up' places you never went.

Em
And all of the crying you wouldn't understand.

Am                                       C
You just let him cry, 'make a man out of him.'

G                C                Am        C
A shadow passed, a shadow passed, yearning, yearning

Am                       C
For the fool it called a home.

G                           C
All things he ever wished are left behind..

                   Em
All the things his mama did to make him mind,

    Am                         C
And how his dad had hoped he'd grow.

G                            C
All things he ever lived are left behind.

                   Em
All the fears that ever flickered through his mind.

        Am                        C
All the sadness that he'd come to own.

G                C                Am        C
A shadow passed, a shadow passed, yearning, yearning

Am                       C
For the fool it called a home.

    A7                                    C
And it whistles through the ghosts still left behind.

   A7                                C
It whistles through the ghosts still left behind.

   Em
It whistles through the ghosts still left behind