Pearls Before Swine - There Was a Man

      
 
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 I think the song is originally played without a capo starting on an A# in stead of a G -
 it is, however, easier to play this way:
 
 Ph to Em7 on the Em in the end of each verse.
 
 Capo 3rd
 
       G     Am       G      C   
 There was a man came to our town
 C         D       Em 
 He wore a suit of red
 G        Am        G      C   
  He memorized with secret eyes
         G    D          Em  D 
 That he hid away in his head
 
    C      D     G       Em 
 He had a scar upon his head
              C      G     D   
 Where there used to be a crown
         G        Am          G         C 
 But he sold his robes at the five and ten
      G           D       Em  D 
 And lived on the edge of town
 
      G        Am         G      C  
 That fall he showed us a magic leaf
 C              D        Em  
 That he could change to snow
 G             Am     G        C    
  He bought it partly with his grief
      G     D        Em  D 
 And partly with his soul
 
     C         D            G    Em 
 He scattered seeds in the alley way
     C     G         D  
 He never seemed to rest
     G        Am      G        C 
 And when you went to ask him why
         G    D       Em D 
 All he ever said was yes
 
    G       Am        G      C   
 He made a swan from waving grass
 C         D       Em  
 Beside a crystal shore
 G         Am             G       C   
  And a sunrise spun from broken glass
     G           D        Em  D 
 And many things wondrous more
 
      C        D       G     Em  
 But then his hands began to burn
          C         G            D  
 When he heard the news from the war
          G      Am        G       C   
 When we cannot find each other he said
          Am         D       Em D 
 Then we can't run away any more
 
       G        Am     G        C  
 Next day with tears along his face
  C           D      Em  
 He passed us on the hill
 G         Am       G           C  
  No one thought to ask him to stay
        G          D        Em  D 
 And he knows that we never will
 
       G     Am       G      C   
 There was a man came to our town
 C         D       Em 
 He wore a suit of red
 G       Am        G      C   
 He memorized with secret eyes
         G    D          Em  D 
 That he hid away in our head
 
 Em