I tried to [Am]sleep upon my back so I could hold her all night long as in my
[C]Arms she slept, alas, but no I couldn't
And when [Am]daybreak came and found her at the far side of the bed I tried to
[C]Wake her, tried to stir her, but she wouldn't
In her [Fm]fug she lay like someone dead
And even when I'd tug her head and [C]press and nip and agitate and [G]shake her
Or [Fm]call her name or whisper it against her ear,
My breath warm, there were [C]no words in this universe would [G]wake her
The girl who slept for [F]Scotland [C] [G]
The girl who slept for [F]Scotland [C] [G]
The girl who slept for [F]Scotland
It [Am]took me time to comprehend this state of play extended unto
[C]All her working, waking, shaking hours
For [Am]when she finally woke, deep in the day still she did sleepwalk
Like a [C]hollow ghost a-float in haunted towers
And though she [Fm]heard she didn't see and though she saw she didn't hear,
Attending [C]only to what seemed precise [G]and kind
For she was [F]settled in her dream, a shopping list of small illusions,
Pretty [C]stories that she told her drowsy [G]mind
The girl who slept for [F]Scotland [C] [G]
The girl who slept for [F]Scotland [C] [G]
The girl who slept for [F]Scotland
Yet I re[Am]member a day by a river wild
When she [C]clung to me hard like a darling child
And a [Fm]night in the sheets of a Dublin bed
When she [Am]moaned like a woman and gave sweet head
When we [F]sang in tongues together and our [G]synchronised guitars
Played [C]music to the rafters made [G]love among the stars
And our [F]bodies beat like light in love's [G]beautiful embrace
As her [C]tiny kisses burst like [G]popping suns a[Fm]round my [G]face
But then [Am]drift, recline, collapse, the lights went out, she fell asleep again
Be[C]fore my kiss-wet face was even dry
I [Am]need another haircut she'd say, talking in her sleep, the sleep-motes
[C]Gathered in the dust-bowls of her eye
She tee[Fm]tered down the road apiece, she and her man, from dozy bedsit land
To [C]junkshop, with her sleeping clothes [G]in sacks
And when I'd [Fm]gone she teetered down the road again, yawning as she went,
And [C]went and brought the bloody damn things [G]back
The girl who slept for [F]Scotland [C] [G]
The girl who slept for [F]Scotland [C] [G]
The girl who slept for [F]Scotland