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The Last Butterfly by Lisa Glatzer Shenson
The Last Butterfly
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: G
[Chorus]
G D
The last, the very last,
C D D
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
G C D
Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing
G
against a white stone...
[Verse 1]
G C
Such, such a yellow
D G
Is carried lightly ‘way up high.
G C D
It went away I'm sure because it wished
G
to kiss the world goodbye.
[Chorus]
G D
The last, the very last,
C D D
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
G C D
Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing
G
against a white stone...
[Verse 2]
G C
For seven weeks I've lived in here,
D G D D
Penned up inside this ghetto But I have found my people here.
G C D G C
The dandelions call to me And the white chestnut candles in the court.
D G
Only I never saw another butterfly.
[Chorus]
G D
The last, the very last,
C D D
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
G C D
Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing
G
against a white stone...
[Outro]
G C
That butterfly was the last one.
C D G
Butterflies don't live in here,
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