{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2777785,"song":"Around The Beggar From Luossa","artist":"Dan Andersson","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11536455-around-the-beggar-from-luossa-chords-by-dan-andersson/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2777785?type=chord","rating":0.15076,"votes":0,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]            [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nRound the beggar from Luossa people gathered in a ring,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E7[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nby the campfire they sat and heard his song.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd of wayfarers and mendicants and every wondrous thing[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]E7[/ch]                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nand of his longing he sang to them all night long.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 1]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\n“There is something beyond mountains, beyond flowers, beyond singing,[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]E7[/ch]                                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nthere is something there behind the star, behind my burning heart.[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHearken, something goes there whispering, goes there calling me and praying[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E7[/ch]                                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\n‘come to us, for of this earthly kingdom you are not a part.’[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                                   [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nI have listened to the tranquil waves that roll against the beach,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E7[/ch]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nto dream of wild seas’ rest has been my lot.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd in spirit I have hastened towards the formless lands[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]E7[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nwhere the dearest thing we knew shall be forgot.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 2]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTo a wild, eternal longing we were born by pallid mothers,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E7[/ch]                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nfrom the labour pains of troubles rose our first and anguished cry.[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]                                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe were thrown on plains and mountains then, to play with all our brothers,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E7[/ch]                                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nand we played there elk and lion, beggar, god and butterfly.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nI sat silent by her side, she whose heart was like to mine,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E7[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nwith hands so soft she tended to our nest.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut I heard my heart then calling: ‘what thou ownest is not thine’[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E7[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nand the spirit came and bore me off to rest.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 3]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhat I love is far away beyond, concealed in distant darkness,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E7[/ch]                            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nand high and wonderful is my true way.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd amid this clamour I am called to pray before the Heavens:[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E7[/ch]                                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhat no-one has I want to own, take all the earth away![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A[/ch]                                [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nFollow, brother, beyond mountains, to the cool and peaceful rivers,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E7[/ch]                                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nwhere in beds of mountain garlands all sea slowly goes to sleep.[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSomewhere there beyond the heavens is my home, I have my mother,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E7[/ch]                                            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nin the golden-sprinkled mists, dressed in rosy mantle deep.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 4]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMay the black and salty waters cool the cheeks that burn with fever,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E7[/ch]                                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nlet’s be miles away from life before the morning breaks above![/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nNot of this world was I, brother; hardships without end I suffered[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E7[/ch]                                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nfor the sake of worries, faithlessness and of my burning love.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                                      [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nBy a shore all dressed in seashells stands a gate of roses heavy,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E7[/ch]                                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\ntherein sleep the mouldered shipwrecks, and the tired men find rest.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSongs unheard and high there sing like violins in distant echoes[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E7[/ch]                                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nunder arches where eternal children live forever blessed.[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]","chords":["A","E7","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]}}}