Intro:

Am F C F x2 

Verse:

Am          F                        C    F
A moon-piece to fetch up the golden cup 
Am          F               C                  F
A snow-piece to avoid the great heat of the sun 
    Am              F                         C      F
Is kept in the night and by the light of the moon 

Am F C F

   Am       F                   C           F
An ice-piece so as they seem forever fallen 
Am            F                  C                          F
A night-piece of the dismal supper and strange entertainment 

Am F C F

              Am    F            C                 F
A rare chance-piece, a handsome piece of deformity 
Am                 F                  C                   F
The skin of a snake bred out of the spinal marrow of a man 

Am F C F 

Am F

       C                            F
With stones and illegible inscriptions found about great ruins 

Am F

C                               F                Am
Pictures of three remarkable steeples, or towers 
                 F     C                        F           Am     
Built purposely awry, so as they seem eternally tipping and falling 

F C F

    Am                F              C              F
A transcendent perfume made of the richest odorates 
Am                        F       C  F
Kept in a box of translucent scale 

Am F C F 

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A glass of spirits made of ethereal salt, hermetically sealed up 
          Am                    F                   C        F
Kept continually in quicksilver, of so volatile a nature 
               Am                     F  C  F
That it will scarcely endure the light 
Am                                F   C   F
And therefore only shown in winter 
                          Am   F            C   F
Or by the light of a carbuncle, or a firefly 

Am F C F 

      Am     F   C  F
And batwings 
      Am     F   C  F
And batwings 
      Am                 F         C   F
And batwings sing this limnal hymn 
Am               F            C F          Am                       F  C  F      
A wideness opening and closing   to keep the darkness sealed within 
Am                                 F  C  F
To keep the darkness sealed within 
Am                                 F  C  F
To keep the darkness sealed within 
Am                                 F  C  F
To keep the darkness sealed within 
Am                                 F  C  F
To keep the darkness sealed within 
Am          F          C                F
A moon-piece to fetch up the golden cup 

Am F C F
[Singing in a mysterious language]