Ship of Stone
             Copyright 1981 Don Simpson.	All rights reserved

Am
Once there was a Ship of Stone
                  G6
That orbitted a mighty star
      Am G    Am             Em     Am
And from it flew the first ship's crew
                  Em  Am
Whose children we all are;
        C
And no matter how long 
        G6
We've drawn our track,
      Am                  Em
Still over our shoulder, looking back
             Am
Through the hydrogen's hiss 
            G6     Esus4
And the methane's moan,
          D5  G    C
Past the polymer clouds
G       C     G6      F
Of the dead stars' shrouds,
         C     G   Am              Em   Am
All our roads run back to the Ship of Stone.

  Am
There the first crew all were made
                     G6
And wakened from unknowing sleep
        Am   G    Am          Em    Am
By the boundless sight of Heaven's height
                   Em Am
And the fires on the deep;
        C
And no matter how strange 
     G6
the forms we wear,
     Am                   Em
How warped and wild, how rich and rare,
      Am                         G6    Esus4
How changed we've made the seed we've sown;
         D5  G    C     G  C  G6   F
We are blood of those who singing rose
          C G Am          Em   Am
From the body of the Ship of Stone.

  Am
There our own ships' frames were formed
                      G6
To grow blue glowing wings,
       Am    G   Am              Em   Am
And spread them wide to the farthest tide
                         Em  Am
Where the last, lone beacon sings;
        C                    G6
And no matter how tight the net they knot
        Am                     Em
Of our web where the wheel of light is caught,
       Am
How strange and lost,
            G6      Esus4
How grand they've grown,
      D5  G C   G    C  G6    F
They too desire all Heaven's fire:
        C G     Am            Em   Am
Our companions since the Ship of Stone.

    one verse instrumental
Am
Once there was a Ship of Stone,
       C            Am           G6
Clear-domed, broad-hulled, and clean,
          C     G     Am
Where the air shone blue,
                     Em     Am
Through whose holds birds flew,
             G6    Em      Am
Whose decks were growing green;
        C
And no matter how odd 
        G6
These things may seem,
    Am              Em
As madly mazed as shards of dream,

    no drum on these two lines
          Am                    G6    Esus4
They are not a dream that you dream alone--
      D5   G    C  G   C  G6   F
All ships, all men are of one kin;
          C   G  Am          Em   Am
We shall not forget the Ship of Stone.


If any of the songs we filkers are writing and singing now deserves to
be remembered a thousand years from now, this is it.  My all-time favorite.


Online:
    http://Steve.Savitzky.net/Songs/ship-of-stone/lyrics.chords.txt

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