Irish Songs With Easy Chords & Lyrics
If Those Lips Could Only Speak
Intro: A-A-A-D
| D |
He | stood in a beautiful mansion |
| A |
Surrounded by riches un | told |
As he gazed at a beautiful picture
| D |
That hung in a frame of | gold |
| G | D |
T'was a picture | of a | lady |
| Em |
So beautiful young and | fair |
| Em7 | A |
To this | beautiful childlike | vision |
| D |
He mourned in sad des | pair |
| D | G | D |
If those | lips could | only | speak, |
| G | Em |
If those eyes could | only | see |
| A |
If those | beautiful golden tresses, |
| G | D |
Could I only | take your | hand, |
| Em7 | Em |
As I did when you | took my | name |
| A |
But it's | only a beautiful picture, |
| D |
In a beautiful golden | frame |
He stood there and gazed on that picture
And slumbering forgetting all pain
For there in that mansion of fancy
She stood by his side again
His lips then softly murmured
The name of his once sweet bride
With his eye fixed on that picture
He awoke from his sleep and he cried
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