Title : Tales By: Uriah Heep INTRO [w/Pedal Steel Guitar] 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / ... VERSE 1 We told our tales as we sat under mornin's sleepy sky With all the colours of the sunrise shining in our eyes One, then another with a story of yesterday's lives or of a lover who had gone in a moment of strife [Pedal Steel Guitar solo over the same chords] VERSE 2 No thought of sleep ever dwells upon the wise man's mind Some task or audience stealing every moment of his time Thus we have learned to live while mortal man lies waiting to die How can we do what must be done in just one short life? BRIDGE And if you ask, then you should know, if you still doubt you should be told, it was not we that made it so, it was by those who went before... CHORUS And there you sit tomorrow's child, so full of love so full of life, but you must rise to meet the day, lest you become another tale, and there you sit tomorrow's ...(repeat CHORUS and FADE) **** I remember singing this at my high school talent show. That was in 1979 and I got some very nice complements on it. DSF