Eyes Like the Morning

© 1990 Stephen Savitzky. CC-by-nc-sa.

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	A	Asus2	A	D	A
	She was sitting in the	coffeehous	e,	seventeen years	old;

	Esus4	D	Esus4
	Grey eyes like the morning sky,	lit with streaks of	gold;

	D	Dsus2	G	Em
I	had no way of	knowing	where it all would	end

	Asus2	D	Esus4
When I	looked into those sunlit eyes and	knew I'd found a	friend.

	A Asus4

D Dsus2 G^* D

Eyes like the morning, smile like the sun,

G D Dsus2 Em

Voice like the forest glades where rippling waters run;

D Dsus2 G Em

Love soft as starlight, deeper than the sea,

Asus2 Asus4 A Asus2 A D Em Asus2 Dsus2 D

When eyes like the morni ng look at me.

	A	Asus2	A	D	A
	Fifty years tog	ether		doesn't seem so	long:

	Esus4	D	Esus4
	Days of rain and roses; l	aughter, love, and	song;

	D	Dsus2	G	Em
	Mystery and	moonlight;	mornings when I	rise

	Asus2	D	Esus4
And	see myself reflected with the	sunrise in her	eyes.

	A Asus4

D Dsus2 G^* D

Eyes like the morning, smile like the sun,

G D Dsus2 Em

Voice like the forest glades where rippling waters run;

D Dsus2 G Em

Love soft as starlight, deeper than the sea,

Asus2 Asus4 A Asus2 A D Em Asus2 Dsus2 D

When eyes like the morni ng look at me.

Instrumental bridge -- verse + chorus

	A	Asus2	A	D	A
	Listen! the stars are c	alling,	with a	wild and distant	sound,

	Esus4	D	Esus4
	And there's no way to answer whe	n you're stuck down	on the ground,

	D	Dsus2	G	Em
But I s	ee our children	gazing at the	deep and starry	skies,

	Asus2	D	Esus4
	Looking past the darkness, with tom	orrow in their	eyes.

	A Asus4

D Dsus2 G^* D

Eyes like the morning, smile like the sun,

G D Dsus2 Em

Voice like the forest glades where rippling waters run;

D Dsus2 G Em

Love soft as starlight, deeper than the sea,

Asus2 Asus4 A Asus2 A D Em Asus2 Dsus2 D

When eyes like the morni ng look at me.

NOTE: \chord{G^* = D

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A Valentine's Day present for my wife, written when we only had one child and their eyes weren't as green as they are now.