Alice Day (or "New Song")

[catsittingstill]

So, Alice day rolls around again, and the new song today is:

SwanMay  (mp3 is here)
lyrics and melody by Catherine Faber 2011

*/G    D        /G   D        C          D
Sweet Swanmay, your notice I courted at length
   G              D           C             D
I asked, and was given, your sweetness and strength;
     C            G            C              D
Why thrust in my arms, in the first light of dawn
 /G   D        /G    D             G           D
Your shirt of white feathers that makes you a swan?

   C                         G
Forever can never be given away;
      C          G          Em        D
It's chosen and re-chosen, day after day,
    C                      G           D
As footstep by footstep a mountain we climb--
    C         G         Em       D
We walk to forever one day at a time--
    C         G         C /Em/Am   G  G4  G  G4
We walk to forever one day at a time.

To lock up your choices and give me the key
Makes a prisoner of you, and a captor of me.
The caged bird could never my whole heart command--
Like the wild bird that chooses to come to my hand.

Forever can never be given away;
It's chosen and re-chosen, day after day,
As footstep by footstep a mountain we climb--
We walk to forever one day at a time--
We walk to forever one day at a time.

Wherever you go, my heart follows your charms,
So here is your feather-shirt, laid in your arms.
For truly, what love would ask more than do I?
A sweetheart who's mistress of water, and sky!

Forever can never be given away;
It's chosen and re-chosen, day after day,
As footstep by footstep a mountain we climb--
We walk to forever one day at a time--
    C       G           C         C
We walk to forever, we swim to forever, 
      C        G         C /Em/Am G
--we fly to forever one day at a time!

*/G means it's a G chord that occurs on the third (last) beat of the measure.  Here at the start it is acting like a pickup (and matches the pickup in the vocals.)  So the first line would go | (2 silent beats), G | D D G | D D D | C C C | D D D |