Magic Lantern Days

	  		Intro: C 

C 
Hail the blest atomic morn 
Unto the earth a bomb is born 
    Am 
The pebble bed reactor core 
Up to the sky ascends. 

C 
Hail the blest atomic sea, 
Its mouth in Oak Ridge, Tennessee 
      Am 
Whose lips untouched with blasphemy 
Our glowing eyes attend 

C Am 

C 
Bishops wrapped in Bedford cloth 
Said pride would cast our victories off, 
    Am 
The Deep Blue to our Kasparov 
Our moral thoughts impart. 

C 
Time will fill the rubbish yards 
The Hospitals, the funeral yards 
    Am 
But neither time nor I 
Can hold your 1985 Chernobyl heart 

F 
Brightest and best 
                        C 
Are the children of the morning. 
F 
Dawn on our darkness 
                  C 
And lend us thine aid 

C 
In unmysterious ways 
We re-enacted closet plays 
     Am 
From charming, Magic Lantern days 
For the android whales below 

C 
You'd be cast as the Nazarene 
In the unrepenting desert scene 
        Am 
Near to me, your Mary Magdalene, 
Our Lady of the Snow, 

F 
Brightest and best 
                        C 
Are the children of the morning. 
F 
Dawn on our darkness 
                Am 
& lend us thine aid 

F                        C 
Star of the west horizon deforming, 
(Too many humans under the brown fog of winter) 
F 
Come dawn in our darkness. 
              C 
Lend us thine aid 

F                                  C   Am 
Guide where our infant redeemer is laid 
F                                  C   Am 
Guide where our infant redeemer is laid 
F                                         C  Am 
Come dawn in our darkness & lend us thine aid