GOLDEN MANSIONS
Utah Phillips
Kate Breslin Jody Stecher
Heart Songs of Utah Phillips CD
Lyrics from Sinsull Mudcat
Transcribed by:  Verne Garrison
Banjo tuned E, Capo 4, Key of G


   G                     C              G
Just like the flowers   that strew the hillside,
            C                G
With the world   at our command,
           C                 G
We were bound   to be true lovers,
           D7            G
Too young then   to understand.

CHORUS: 
         G         C           G
There will be    no golden mansions
         C                G
As our old   songs often tell,
          C                  G
For the mill   has torn your beauty
         D7                G
And the mine  my youth as well.

The careless promise   that was given,
It was never    meant to be,
For my heart   had blinded reason
As you gave   yourself to me. 
Chorus:
Instrumental

I have secrets   I could tell you.
You have secrets   of your own.
All the years   we've been together,
You and I  have lived alone.

One by one   the children parted,
Down the road   where we have been,
Without a simple   word of warning
Of a deadly   lesson there. CHORUS

And now beside the firelight dreaming
Of a far off peaceful shore,
Let there be a rolling hillside
Where our flowers may bloom again.

Let there be a golden mansion,
As our old songs often tell,
And from this world of broken promise,
Let us haste to say farewell;
And from this world of broken promise,
Let us haste to say farewell.