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White Chalk Tab

by Pj Harvey


                                       
White chalk hills are all I've known

                                     
White chalk hills will rot my bones

                                   
White chalk sticking to my shoes

                                
White chalk playing as a child with you

        
Oooh ooh ooooh

               
Oooh ooh ooooh

                                  
White chalk stands against time

                                 
White chalk cutting down the sea at night

                             
I walk the valleys by the surf

                                   
On a path cut fifteen hundred years ago

                                       
And I know these chalk hills will rot my 

                                 
Bones   

                                


                                


                                     


                                  
Dorset's cliffs meet at the sea

                                  
Where I walked our unborn child in me

                                  
White chalk, poor scattered land

          
Scratch my palms

                     
There's blood on my hands