Tono: G
Introducción:
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Verse: 1
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Girl sleeping on a mansion roof
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Under a wintery sky
D/F# C
Wrapped she is in her furs and sable
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Starlight in her eye
Verse: 2
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And what is the name of this creature?
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Where did she live and when?
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Who was she and why was it
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That Peter Lake - loved - Beverly Penn?
Verse: 3
C G
Four o'clock in a marble morning
C G
Water pouring on her skin
D/F# C
In fever, her life bursts open
G
And a hurricane blows in
Verse: 4
C G
When high from the dreams of this creature
C G
A thief on a horse descends
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It was dawn and it was December
C G
And Peter Lake - loved - Beverly Penn
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Verse: 5
C G
It was all of a windy day
C G
And the sky was full of crows
D/F# C
When her lovely soul ascended
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She just closed her heart and rose
Verse: 6
C G
And whither the soul of this creature?
C G
Tell me the story again
D/F#
Of scarves and songs and the skin of space
C G
And how Peter Lake - loved - Beverly Penn
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Verse: 7
C G
I would dive in a freezing river
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Set fire to a hundred men
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If I could, for just one time
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Love somebody the way that he loved Beverly Penn