The Road Of Silk

|C / / |Dm7 / / |C / / |Dm7 / / |Gm7 / / |Am7 / / |C7 / / |

C7    Bbmaj7                             Fmaj7  
And still his dreaming eyes are full of sails

      Bbmaj7                                 Eb    Db
The tree-house leaves the peach-tree like a bird

    C7                F                 F7    Bb
In time the swelling bark takes in the nails

            Bdim   C         Dm7     C      Dm7   C7
Of those adventures nothing more is heard

Bbmaj7
Easy

          Fmaj7    F7
Let him sleep now

       Bb    Bdim
Not a word

|C / / |Dm7 / / |C / / |Dm7 / / |Gm7 / / |Am7 / / |C7 / / |

C7    Bbmaj7                          Fmaj7  
He's losing what he hardly knew was there

     Bbmaj7                              Eb   Db
The lead dragoons pack up and quit the tray

    C7               F            F7    Bb
The early snowfalls lift into the air

             Bdim  C        Dm7              C    Dm7    C7
The Road of Silk     rolls backward from Cathay

Bbmaj7
Easy

          Fmaj7    F7
Let him sleep now

       Bb    Bdim
Come away

|C / / |Dm7 / / |C / / |Dm7 / / |Gm7 / / |Am7 / / |C7 / / |

C7   Bbmaj7                           Fmaj7
His fondest memories have left their mark

     Bbmaj7                         Eb    Db
For just so long as lipstick on a glass

     C7               F                     F7    Bb
The highway scatters jewellery through the dark

     Bdim   C           Dm7            C     Dm7    C7 
The circus    leaves a circle on the grass

Bbmaj7
Easy

          Fmaj7    F7
Let him sleep now

        Bb    Bdim
Let it pass

|C  / / |Dm7 / / |C / / |Dm7 / / |Gm7 / / |Am7 / / |C7 / / |

|C7 / / |Bb / / | / / / | / / / | / / / |F

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