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