🎸 Can She Excuse My Wrongs chords by Sting

Can she excuse my wrongs      John Dowland

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Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak?
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Shall I call her good, when she proves unkind?
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Are those clear fires which vanish into smoke?
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Must I praise the leaves, where no fruit I find?

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No, no: where shadows do for bodies stand
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Thou may'st be abus'd, if thy sight be dim.
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Cold love is like to words written on sand
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Or to bubbles which, on the water swim.

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Wilt thou be thus abused still
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Seeing that she will right thee never?
A
If thou canst not o'ercome her will
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Thy love will be thus fruitless ever.

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Was I so base, that I might not aspire
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Unto those high joys, which she holds from me?
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As they are high, so high is my desire:
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If she this deny, what can granted be?

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If she will yield to that which Reason is,
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It is Reason's will, that Love should be just,
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Dear, make me happy still by granting this,
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Or cut off delays, if that I die must.

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Better a thousand times to die,
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Than for to live thus still tormented:
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Dear, but remember it was I
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Who for thy sake did die contented.

F
Better a thousand times to die,
G
Than for to live thus still tormented:
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Dear, but remember it was I
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