Stolen Child

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Where dips the rocky highland 
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Of Sleuth Wood in the lake 
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There lies a leafy island 
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Where flapping herons wake 
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The drowsy water-rats 
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There we've hid our faery vats 
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Full of berries 
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And of reddest stolen cherries 

       G             D 
Come away, O human child 
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To the waters and the wild 
        G              D 
With a faery, hand in hand 
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For the world's more full of weeping 
      Am     Bm     Em 
Than you can understand. 

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Where the wave of moonlight glosses 
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The dim grey sands with light 
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By far off furthest Rosses 
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We foot it all the night 
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Weaving olden dances 
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Mingling hands and mingling glances 
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Till the moon has taken flight 
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To and fro we leap 
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And chase the frothy bubbles 
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Whilst the world is full of troubles 
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And is anxious in its sleep. 

       G             D 
Come away, O human child 
        Am             Em 
To the waters and the wild 
        G              D 
With a faery, hand in hand 
         Em           G        C     Em 
For the world's more full of weeping 
      Am     Bm     Em 
Than you can understand. 

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           Em              Em 
Where the wandering water gushes 
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From the hills above Glen-Car 
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In pools among the rushes 
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That scarce could bathe a star 
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We seek for slumbering trout 
      Am                 Em 
And whispering in their ears 
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Give them unquiet dreams 
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Leaning softly out 
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From ferns that drop their tears 
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Over the young streams 

       G             D 
Come away, O human child 
        Am             Em 
To the waters and the wild 
        G              D 
With a faery, hand in hand 
         Em           G        C     Em 
For the world's more full of weeping 
      Am     Bm     Em 
Than you can understand. 

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  Em               Em 
Away with us he's going 
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The solemn-eyed 
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He'll hear no more the lowing 
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Of the calves on the warm hillside 
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Or the kettle on the hob 
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Sing peace into his breast 
    G                  D 
Or see the brown mice bob 
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Round and round the oatmeal chest. 

          G               D 
For here comes, O human child 
        Am             Em 
To the waters and the wild 
        G              D 
With a faery, hand in hand 
         Em           G        C     Em 
For the world's more full of weeping 
      Am     Bm     Em 
Than you can understand. 

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