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by Uriah Heep



Title  : Tales
By: Uriah Heep

INTRO [w/Pedal Steel Guitar]

1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   1
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / ...
                      

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)


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I remember singing this at my high school talent show.  That was in 1979 and
I got some very nice complements on it.

DSF