Deliver Us From the Elements

(Moulding)

Mummer

Recordings Art Lyrics Chords and Tablature

Recordings

1. Album version, 4'36.
   Released on Mummer.
   Steve Nye / mellotron

Art

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Lyrics

We can plant a seed
And watch it grow
Food enough to fill a table
Running water down an overflow
Eat as much as we are able
But would the fruit turn ripe
If the rains had never been?

Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
We at your mercy and your reverence
Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
We've no defence we are impotent

You can travel far to distant lands
Some so hot no man could bear
You can conquer peaks with winds of sand
Where Mother Nature didn't care
Would not our world turn cold
If the sun refused to shine

Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
We at your mercy and your reverence
Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
We've no defence we are impotent

And when the world grows old
And we know more than our brains can hold
Nature will be law
Well we're as helpless now as we've ever been before
Would not our world turn cold
If the sun refused to shine

Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
We at your mercy and your reverence
Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
We've no defense we are impotent

Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
We at your mercy and your reverence
Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
We've no defense we are impotent
Oh Lord deliver us from the elements

© 1983 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.

Chords and Tablature

Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:21:55 -0400
From: Kevin Brunkhorst <KB305 (at) aol dot com>
Subject: here's Mummer, plus some B-sides
Message-ID: <960726182155_246529032 (at) emout08 dot mail dot aol dot com>

Get your guitar, cue up the CD.
Proud to be on the website, looks good there.
What's next?

Deliver Us From the Elements

E9sus 0x2232
We can plant a seed
    E9 0x2132
And watch it grow
Food enough to fill a table
Running water down an overflow
Eat as much as we are able
A7
But would the fruit turn ripe
       D7              G
If the rains had never been?

Chorus:
Bm7/E                       E9
Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
We at your mercy and your reverence
Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
We've no defense we are impotent

You can travel far to distant lands
Some so hot no man could bear
You can conquer peaks with winds of sand
Where Mother Nature didn't care
Would not our world turn cold
If the sun refused to shine

Chorus
F#m            D           E7
  And when the world grows old
F#m    D         E7
And we know more than our brains can hold
F#m    D       E7
Nature will be law
F#m           D        Fmaj7             F7
Well we're as helpless now as we've ever been before

Would not our world turn cold
If the sun refused to shine

Chorus

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