The Hollies – Marigold Gloria Swansong (Guitar)

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The book I bought yesterday

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I started to read

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I found a small marigold

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Pressed between leaves

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And in that small marigold

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Well, I found a note

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Saying, "Please won't you write to me

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'Cause I'm so alone"

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So, I'm going to write back today

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Yes, I'm going to write right away____

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I started, 'Dear Marigold'

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Not knowing her name

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I just had to write to you

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'Cause I feel the same

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You sound like that marigold

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That I found today

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The beauty was there to be found

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But fading away

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So, I'm writing to you today

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Yes, I'm writing to you right away____

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As I started writing

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Well, what can I say?

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I got to thinking

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Where are you today?

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Brown leather cover

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Ripped, tattered and torn

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It's been such a long, long time

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Since the flower was born

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There's no need to write back today

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I'm not going to write right away____

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Just like a swan she is gliding

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Drifting from here unto there

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She has no thoughts of dying

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Winter does not mean despair

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Warm summer nights left behind her

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Thinking of things that she's done

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Once were her friends all around her

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But now she is only one

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Swan, swan keep your feet off the ground

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Keep flying around, it's lonely you've found

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You were left on your own

    Bm                      E7
You didn't do right, not to take off and fly

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When your friends left that night

A                    F#m
Swan, swan keep your feet off the ground

     Bm                  E7
Keep flying around, it's lonely you've found

A        F#m
You were left on your own

    Bm                      E7
You didn't do right, not to take off and fly

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When your friends left that night

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Someday I know you'll see something

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That will bring back the memories of gold

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You'll meet the friends that did leave you

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No more to be left in the cold

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And just like a swan, you'll be gliding

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Drifting from here unto there

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You'll have no thoughts of dying

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'Cause winter did not mean despair