F#
You raise your head, beat the sun
C# B
But your boys they lie, so close to you
Dm C#
Do you dare get up? And wake the two
F# C#
Oh Elias, I see you there, at work in the daytime do you think you could,
B
answer all the questions of the world
Dm C#
In just one word, I think you could.
F# C# Dm C# B
If you die will i get word that you're gone
F# C# Dm C# B
Or will i hear it in passing conversation
F# C# Dm C# B
Will i stop short and, fall to the ground
F# C# Dm C# B
Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found
F# C# Dm C# B
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
F# C# Dm C# B
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
F# C#
Honest and Manuel well you know, they're at school now
B
Getting the chance that, their father's never seen
Dm C#
See whats beyond, section 17
F# C#
And in 10 years, when you look back at your boys
B Dm
well you know they've grown, way taller than the tallest sugar cane in the
C#
field
F# C# Dm C# B
If you die will i get word that you're gone
F# C# Dm C# B
Or will i hear it in passing conversation
F# C# Dm C# B
Will i stop short and, fall to the ground
F# C# Dm C# B
Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found
F# C# Dm C# B
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
F# C#
Hold my hand just one more time
Hold my hand just one more time
F# C# Dm C# B
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet meee.
B F# B C#
And I see your wife, she stands, stooped over by the fire outside
B F# B C#
And I see your boys, and when they look up, you know i think they've got their
mother's eyes
B F# B C#
Cause she looks so proud, she looks so happy, she looks so proud, she looks so
happy,
F# C# Dm C# B
yeaahhh If you die will i get word that you're gone
F# C# Dm C# B
Or will i hear it in passing conversation
F# C# Dm C# B
Will i stop short and, fall to the ground
F# C# Dm C# B
Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found
F# C# Dm C# B
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
F# C# Dm C# B
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
F# C# Dm C# B
Hold my hand just one more tiiiime (Aya, Aya, Ayaahah)
F# C# Dm C# B
Hold my hand ,one more time (Aya, Aya, Ayaahah)
F# C# Dm C# B
Dayah ya ya, yah yah yah, yah yah yah (Aya, Aya, Ayaahaha)
F# C# Dm C# B
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me
Hold my hand just one more time, to see if you're really gonna meet me