Key: F
Introduction: 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
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