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Gladdest Thing Tab

by Deb Talan


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			   Gladdest Thing - Deb Talan
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Tuning:  Standard, Capo III

: 200230

Strumming: Alternate hitting the base note and strumming the higher strings of the chord.

Intro:     
           


                    
I will be the gladdest thing
                    
Under the sun
                    
I will touch a hundred flowers
                    
And not pick one.

                    
I will look at cliffs and clouds
                      
With quiet eyes,
                       
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
                         
And the grass rise.

   
   

                              
Doesn't each of us have a place

Where we belong.

Could be a sidewalk crack

Or a sad song.

                       
Inside our searchings is desire
                        
To etch a silent thought in stone
                          
To make a tender heart known.

                    
I will be the gladdest thing
                    
Under the sun
                    
I will touch a hundred flowers
                    
And not pick one.

                    
I will look at cliffs and clouds
                      
With quiet eyes,
                       
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
                         
And the grass rise.

                         
And when the lights begin to show

Up from the town,
                                   
I will mark which must be mine,
                           
And then start down!

   

                              
Everybody wants to be a hero
                              
Or a savior of small things
                              
I want to be champion of evening
                                   
To forget not the beauty of the in-betweens.

                 
Every one of us an orphan
                               
Our bodies born from dust of the stars.
                  
We can comfort each other in this place
                   
I can look into your eyes
           
And see my own face.

   

                    
I will be the gladdest thing
                    
Under the sun
                    
I will touch a hundred flowers
                    
And not pick one.

                    
I will look at cliffs and clouds
                      
With quiet eyes,
                       
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
                         
And the grass rise.

                         
And when the lights begin to show

Up from the town,
                        
I will mark which must be mine,
                    
And then start down!
                  
And then start down
        
Start down