Standard (EADGBE)

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)

I remember singing this at my high school talent show. That was in 1979 and

I got some very nice complements on it.