From Halcyon Chords
by Will Varley
From Halcyon by Will Varley is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, B, Am, G, F, C7 and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C B Am G F C C
verse 1
C B Am G
I finished writing this song in the summer
F C
Now I'm watching the snow flakes fall
C B Am G
As the years go by I wonder if I
F G
Really like it here at all
C C7
I woke this morning in a strange town
F Dm
The truth is I thought I'd be dead by now
C G Am G
I guess I'll keep on going till they find me out
F G C
With love from Halcyon
verse 2
C B Am G
And I'm glad I stayed out drinking
F C
Put some medicine in my mind
C B Am G
To distract me from this grain of sand
F G
In the middle of space and of time
C C7
This morning my head is losing the war
F Dm
It's cold outside as I walk out the door
C G Am G
And I get the feeling this has happened before
F G C
With love from Halcyon
F C
And I can feel myself disappearing
Am G F
In the early morning sun
Am G F
And I fade with the road I'm walking on
Am G C
With love from Halcyon
verse 3
C B Am G
As the morning breaks over Southampton
F C
I'm wondering how long and how far
C B Am G
Still thinking about that old friend
F G
As the waitress trips on my guitar
C C7
See he stopped singing songs and he moved away
F Dm
Heard he's picking apples down near Rattlesnake bay
C G Am G
I can picture him now singing "Lowlands away"
F G C
With love from Halcyon
C B Am G
I remember early evening
F C
First time summer showed her face
C B Am G
We sat outside with a GB and wine
F G
Talking about the good old days
C C7
When we woke up in Paris all covered in dust
F Dm
And the man on the boat pulled a knife on us
C G Am G
If time is money then money isn't much
F G C
With love from Halcyon
F C
And I can feel us disappearing
Am G F
In the early morning sun
Am G F C
For we were just dead men walking
Am G C
With love from Halcyon
C B Am G
Well many years gone I've been travelling on
F C
Searching across this land
C B Am G
Now I don't know what I've been looking for yet
F G
Hope someday I'll understand
C C7
I'm just a copy of a copy my own version of time,
F Dm
I'll never see yours and you'll never see mine
C G Am G
But we still see the same sunsets and walk the same lines
F G C
With love from Halcyon
C B Am G
Started writing this song in the winter,
F C
Now I'm watching the spring blossom fall
C B Am G
Tell me how can the difference between hours and years
F G
Feel so endless and yet so small
C C7
I left that house about 4 this morning
F Dm
And I got a feeling they'll carry on going
C G Am G
Till the cigarettes freeze over and the whisky stops flowing
F G
They'll be singing "Lowlands away"
F G
And if Halcyon is the days gone by
C B Am
And she is the one that I love
F G
And if now is the place that I'm supposed to be
Am G F
Then it isn't long enough
F G
For someday soon I'll be a photograph
C B Am
Underneath my grandson's bed
Dm
But I heard there's
G
A universe somewhere
C
WHere this song
B
Wasn't written
Am G
Yet
F C
So if you feel yourself disappearing
Am G F
In the early morning sun
Am G F
Just smile and keep on walking
Am G C
With love from Halcyon
Am G C
With love from Halzephron