INTRO: D C G D C G D
CG
The book I bought yesterday
D
I started to read
CG
I found a small marigold
D
Pressed between leaves
CG
And in that small marigold
D
Well, I found a note
CG
Saying, "Please won't you write to me
D
'Cause I'm so alone"
CHORUS:
CGD
So, I'm going to write back today
CGDD
Yes, I'm going to write right away____
CG
I started, 'Dear Marigold'
D
Not knowing her name
CG
I just had to write to you
D
'Cause I feel the same
CG
You sound like that marigold
D
That I found today
CG
The beauty was there to be found
D
But fading away
CHORUS:
CGD
So, I'm writing to you today
CGDD
Yes, I'm writing to you right away____
CG
As I started writing
D
Well, what can I say?
CG
I got to thinking
D
Where are you today?
CG
Brown leather cover
D
Ripped, tattered and torn
CG
It's been such a long, long time
D
Since the flower was born
CHORUS:
CGD
There's no need to write back today
CGDAm
I'm not going to write right away____
G
Just like a swan she is gliding
FEAm
Drifting from here unto there
G
She has no thoughts of dying
FEAm
Winter does not mean despair
G
Warm summer nights left behind her
FEAm
Thinking of things that she's done
G
Once were her friends all around her
FEAm
But now she is only one
BRIDGE:
AF#m
Swan, swan keep your feet off the ground
BmE7
Keep flying around, it's lonely you've found
AF#m
You were left on your own
BmE7
You didn't do right, not to take off and fly
FAm
When your friends left that night
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BRIDGE:
AF#m
Swan, swan keep your feet off the ground
BmE7
Keep flying around, it's lonely you've found
AF#m
You were left on your own
BmE7
You didn't do right, not to take off and fly
FAm
When your friends left that night
G
Someday I know you'll see something
FEAm
That will bring back the memories of gold
G
You'll meet the friends that did leave you
FEAm
No more to be left in the cold
G
And just like a swan, you'll be gliding
FEAm
Drifting from here unto there
G
You'll have no thoughts of dying
FEAm
'Cause winter did not mean despair