Song of Durin - Clamavi de Profundis(capo 1)
1.
EmDC
The world was young, the mountains green
BmEm
No stain yet on the Moon was seen
DG
No words were laid on stream or stone
CDBmEm
When Durin woke and walked alone
CD
He named the nameless hills and dells
EmGCD
He drank from yet untasted wells
CAmGD
He stooped and looked in Mirrormere
AmG/BCD
And saw a crown of stars appear
EmDG
As gems upon a silver thread
AmBmEm
Above the shadows of his head
EmDG
The world was fair, the mountains tall
AmBmEm
In Elder Days before the fall
EmDAm
Of mighty Kings in Nargothrond
GCD
And Gondolin, who now beyond
EmCDG
The Western Seas have passed away
CAmBmEm
The world was fair in Durin's Day
3.
EmCG
A king he was on carven throne
EmDCD
In many-pillared halls of stone
EmCG
With golden roof and silver floor
CGCD
And runes of power upon the door
EmCGD
The light of sun and star and moon
AmCEmD
In shining lamps of crystal hewn
4.
EmDGC
Undimmed by cloud or shade of night
AmBmEm
There shone forever far and bright
5.
EmCG
There hammer on the anvil smote
EmCGD
There chisel clove, and graver wrote
EmCGEm
There forged was blade and bound was hilt
CGEmD
The delver mined, the mason built
EmCG
There beryl, pearl, and opal pale
AmCEmD
And metal wrought like fishes' mail
EmDGC
Buckler and corslet, axe and sword
AmBmEmCD
And shining spears were laid in horde
6.
CEmCD
Unwearied then were Durin's folk
EmGCG
Beneath the mountains music woke
EmDG/BC
The harpers harped, the minstrels sang
AmBmEm
And at the gates the trumpets rang
7.
EmDG
The world is grey, the mountains old
AmDBmEm
The forge's fire is ashen-cold
EmDG
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls
CDBmEm
The darkness dwells in Durin's halls
8.
CEmCD
The shadow lies upon his tomb
EmGCD
In Moria, in Khazad-dûm
CEmGD
But still the sunken stars appear
AmG/BCD
In dark and windless Mirrormere
EmDAm
There lies his crown in water deep
CDBmEm
Till Durin wakes again from sleep

