Eclipse

Words and Music by John Denver
from Back Home Again (1974)


     G              C             G         C
The sun is slowly fading in the western sky
 G                    C         G          C
Sometimes it takes forever the day to end
     Am           
Sometimes it takes a lifetime
     C                                 G       C  G  C
Sometimes I think I'll never see the sun again

           G             C              G         C
There's a heavy smog between me and my mountains
       G                C                 G         C
It's enough to make a grown man sit and cry
       Am           
It's enough to make you wonder
       C                                   G   C  G  C
It's enough to make the world roll up and die

    Am                  C             D                 G  
I think it's kind of interesting the way things get to be
     Em             C                      G
The way the people work with their machines
   Am           C       D          G
Serenity's a long time coming to me
            Em                A7                 D  D7
In fact I don't believe that I know what it means

       G              C               G         C
In the east a shaded moon is hanging lazily
   G            C                G         C
I do believe I saw the old man smile
   Am           
I do believe I did
   C                              G           C  G  C
I do believe he's been laughing all the while

    Am                  C             D                 G  
I think it's kind of interesting the way things get to be
     Em             C                      G
The way the people work with their machines
   Am           C       D          G
Serenity's a long time coming to me
            Em                A7                 D  
In fact I don't believe that I know what it means
    D7
Anymore

     G              C             G         C
The sun is slowly fading in the western sky
     G              C             G         C
Sometimes it takes forever the day to end
     Am           
Sometimes it takes a lifetime
     C                                 G       C 
Sometimes I think I'll never see the sun again
     G       C       G  C  G  C  G  C  G  
The sun again, sun again woo oo oo . . .