A Song for Teddy (with lyrics and chords)

C/Em/F/Am
Em/F/Am

(Am) Memories
(G) Wash (Em) over (F) me (F/E)
(Am) Like the (G) salty (Em) waves
(F) We were born on the (C) ground
So the (D) sea will not (Am) take us down
(C) In its (G) water (D) embrace

(C) Grass will (F) grow
From the (Am) sockets of our eyes
And (Em) worms
Will (F) live in our (Am) chests,
There's no (C) Heaven or (F) Hell
For the (Dm) likes of us
Not even the (Am) fields of Fiddler's Green (F)

Last farewells denied
I'm mythologizing your death
There were you, swollen fingers
And the hope for the things to come
On that hospital bed

Remember, we lay on the hill
Or can you remember at all
The moment had stopped when our lips almost met
And then it just passed away

Grass will grow in the sockets of our eyes
And worms will live in our chests
There's no Heaven or Hell for the likes of us

Not even the fields of Fiddler's Green

April 2015