A
You raise your head, beat the sun
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But your boys they lie, so close to you
             Fm           E
Do you dare get up? And wake the two 
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Oh Elias, I see you there, at work in the daytime do you think you could,
  D    
answer all the questions of the world
              Fm                E
In just one word, I think you could. 
A        E         Fm  E    D     
If you die will i get word that you're gone
A        E             Fm   E      D
Or will i hear it in passing conversation
A        E               Fm  E      D
Will i stop short and, fall to the ground
A             E              Fm E            D
Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found 
A         E                  Fm                      E          D
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
A         E                  Fm                      E           D
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me 
A                                               E   
Honest and Manuel well you know, they're at school now
                            D 
Getting the chance that, their father's never seen
            Fm             E
See whats beyond, section 17
        A                                     E
And in 10 years, when you look back at your boys
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well you know they've grown, way taller than the tallest sugar cane in the 
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field 
A       E          Fm    E   D
If you die will i get word that you're gone
A          E            Fm     E    D
Or will i hear it in passing conversation
A       E               Fm   E  D
Will i stop short and, fall to the ground
A             E              Fm     E      D
Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found 
A          E                Fm                       E         D
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
A          E             
Hold my hand just one more time

Hold my hand just one more time
A          E                 Fm                       E         D
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet meee. 
D                         A            D                   E
And I see your wife, she stands, stooped over by the fire outside
D                         A                 D                       E
And I see your boys, and when they look up, you know i think they've got their 
mother's eyes
D                          A                    D                   E
Cause she looks so proud, she looks so happy, she looks so proud, she looks so 

happy, 
         A      E           Fm  E  D            
yeaahhh If you die will i get word that you're gone
A           E           Fm     E   D
Or will i hear it in passing conversation
A             E          Fm  E   D
Will i stop short and, fall to the ground
A              E              Fm    E      D
Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found 
A          E               Fm                        E         D
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
A          E               Fm                        E         D
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me 
A          E               Fm                        E         D
Hold my hand just one more tiiiime (Aya, Aya, Ayaahah)
A          E               Fm                        E         D
Hold my hand ,one more time (Aya, Aya, Ayaahah)
A          E               Fm                        E         D
Dayah ya ya, yah yah yah, yah yah yah (Aya, Aya, Ayaahaha) 
A          E               Fm                        E         D
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me