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A Girl I Once Did Own

Capo 4th/5th fret


G   G7   C/G   G

G   G7   C/G   G


  G               G7      C/G                 G
A girl I once did own has took her things and gone,
G7              C/G              G
Left me without word and without warning.
        G               G7      C/G             G
And the vision that she drew is hidden from the view
       G7                   C/G           G
Of her friends who ask me, "When is she returning?"
          C                 D/F#           G             C
Where she is is where she's found, in some long deserted town
       G                                    D/F#
In the mountains where the trees are softly humming.
       C             D/F#          G               C
She is gone, forever banned, under bridge's silent span
          G                   D/F#                  G - G7 - C/G - G
Where the river's strings can soothe her with their strumming.

If only I could touch and tell her of the time
And the hours I have spent in endless wonder.
As the thoughts flow through my mind, it's seldom I can find
A friend to break the spell that I am under.
And I find myself possessed by an empty restlessness,
And a voice I cannot touch, I cannot name,
Keeps saying to my mind, "You're falling way behind.
There's nothing here; there's nothing more to gain."

If only I could say to that girl who went away,
There really is no need in my demanding.
So just turn to your task, and all that I ask
Is to speak when we meet and meet me standing.
And to live in our own time is to remain as we are.
The past is just a mask and nothing more.
Your mind is all you own, and the rest is all unknown,
Just a stone adrift upon a pebbled shore.

(Words and music by Patrick Sky, 1965)

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