Paul Kelly – Eight Hours Sleep (Guitar)

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All I want is eight hours sleep

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What I'd give for eight hours sleep

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On my feet a-gain

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At the window pane

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Watching the cold moon riding on the deep

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Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care

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Help for hurt minds, sore labour's repair

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Every day's sweet death

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Every night's dear breath

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Deep balm for worries and despair

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Oh, I have money enough, food on the table

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Books on the shelf and a body still able

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All that I love and my dear ones to hold and to keep

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But they can't give me eight hours sleep

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Oh, the dark holds things

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It blooms and sings

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And it's travelled by dark feet and dark wings

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Now here comes the light, the dawn's on its way

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I just don't know how I'm gonna get through today

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Night after night I'm counting every second as they creep

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You can teach me the spells of Merlin in Avalon

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Show me the hanging gardens of Babylon

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Bring me sunken treasure from the bottom of the ocean deep

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But can you give me eight hours sleep?