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Tales

Uriah Heep
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From: WetStone@compuserve.com Daniel S. Fisher
Title : Tales
By: Uriah Heep
From: The Magician's Birthday (1972)
[Intro] [w/Pedal Steel Guitar]
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / ...
       

Verse 1

We told our tales as we
sat under mornin's sleepy
sky  
   
   
With all the colours of the
sunrise shining in our
eyes  
   
   
One, then another with a
story of yesterday's
lives  
   
   
or of a lover who had
gone in a moment of
strife  
[Pedal Steel Guitar solo over the same chords]

Verse 2

No thought of sleep ever
dwells upon the wise man's
mind  
   
   
Some task or audience
stealing every moment of his
time  
   
   
Thus we have learned to live while
mortal man lies waiting to
die  
   
   
How can we do what must be
done in just one short
life?  

Bridge

And if you ask, then you should
know, if you still doubt you should be
told, it was not we that made it
so, it was by those who went
before...
   
   

Chorus

And there you sit tomorrow's
child, so full of love so full of
life, but you must rise to meet the
day, lest you become another
tale, and there you sit tomorrow's ...(repeat CHORUS and FADE)
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I remember singing this at my high school talent show. That was in 1979 and
I got some very nice complements on it.
DSF

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