Standard (EADGBE)

Dawn, like an angel, lights on the step

Muting the morning she heralds

Dew on the grass like the tears the night wept

Gone long before the day wears old

(xx0111)

Time stills the singing a child holds so dear

 Amd I'm just beginning to hear

Gone are the pathways the child followed home

Gone, like the sand and the foam

Pressed in the pages of some aging past

Lies an old lily, crumbling

Marking a moment of childish respects

Long since betrayed and forgotten

(xx0111)

Time stills the singing a child holds so dear

 Amd I'm just beginning to hear

Gone are the pathways the child followed home

Gone, like the sand and the foam

then:

Gone, like the sand... (gone like the sand)

Gone, like the sand and the fo----am