Tom: F#m
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I was there upon
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A four poster there
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Mind touseled
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I came to bear
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Some thoughts from the past
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Amid a dash of influenza
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And then I came to see in baggage
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The memories of truncated souvenirs.
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The war years
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High moon I said
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High moon lighted
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High moon eye
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To my moon
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Far beyond the blue mist
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Enveloped lawn
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The blanketed night comes on
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The champagne is dead and gone
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The forest around sensitive sound forest primeval
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Through the panes cloud buttermilk
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War remains and twisted cross
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War refrains lunatic so
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High moon I said
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High moon lighted
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High moon eye
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To my moon
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Your age will most probably
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Carry away the letters enveloped in carrion
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Vague un-pleas-antries of the war
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May your son's progenitorship
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Of the state haphazardly help him to carry on
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God send your son safe home to you
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High Moon
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You're eye
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To my moon
