Intro: Am G F F Am G F F C C Brown eyes and I were tired We had walked and we had scrambled Through the moors and through the briars Through the endless blue meanders Am G F In the blue August Moon Am G F In the cool August Moon C Over the nights and through the fires We went surging down the wires Through the towns and on the highways Through the storms in all their thundering Am G F In the blue August Moon Am G F In the cool August Moon C Then we rested in a desert Where the bones were white as teeth sir And we saw St. Elmoʼs fire Splitting ions in the Ether Solo over: Am G F F x4 C x4 Am G F F x2 Am G F In the blue August Moon Am G F In the cool August Moon Am G F In the blue August Moon Am G F In the cool August Moon Outro: C
