A Lost Chord

Pub dom *rewrite, arrangement copyright 2018 ustaknow (alias) all rights reserved.

Basis, idea of the music and lyric from the poem by Adelaide Anne Procter "A Lost Chord", published in 1858 in The English Woman's Journal. Public Domain.

And, as well, fyi: first set to music - "The Lost Chord", Arthur Sullivan 1877 Public Domain, 19 years later; and now again, but different, 'cause it "me", -- 160 years later!

C c Bflat b
Seated all day at the alter
F f
I grew weary and ill at ease
C c Bflat b
My fingers they wandered wildly
F f
Over its noisy strings

C c Bflat b
I knew not what I was playing
F f
Or-what-I-was dreaming then
C c Bflat b
But I struck one chord of music
\Aflat d# c \F c Aflat F
Like-the-sound-of a chorused wind ; sound-of a chorused wind

C Bflat F Aflat… ^ v
My lost chord, life like chord, chord of life so rarely hear-rd

C c Bflat b
It quieted all pain and sorrow
F f
Like love over-coming strife
C c Bflat b
It seemed a har-monious echo
F f
Towards-a-dis-connected life

C Bflat
It-left-as-it came so secretly
F
And now I have sought, and seek it vainly
C Bflat
That one lost chorused divinity
\ Aflat c F d# c Aflat c F d# c
Which-came --from the soul of me plainly ; from the soul of me plainly

-CHORUS-

C Bflat
It may be that lifes forge anvil
F
Will speak to me that chord again
C Bflat
It may be that only in Heaven
F
Shall I hear, that-great-again

C \Bflat
Maybe my lost chord of life again
F
Is not so lost... after all
C Bflat
Maybe it was all my future songs
Aflat c Bflat d F c sus
Reaching out to me ... ..., from echoed halls … … futured chords