Lirik Dan Kunci Gitar James Keelaghan - Kiris Piano

INTRO: C   G   C   G   C

                          Cadd9 Am                         F    
Of all of Kiri Ito's joys,         the thing she loved the best
       C                Am           D7               F    C
Was to play her prized piano when the sun had gone to rest
                                   Cadd9 Am                  F     C
I used to hear the notes drift down         along the silent water
                  Am                   D7                F           C
As Kiri played the notes and scales for her dear sons and daughters

                  C   Cadd9 Am                       F     C
Now me, I played piano,         though not as good as Kiri
                    Am                     D7               F       C
She went in for that long haired stuff, but my she played it pretty
             C          Cadd9 Am                       F       C
The old piano had a tone,         would set my heart to aching
                 Am                     D7          F       
It always sounded sweetest, though, when it was Kiri playing

INTERLUDE: G   C  F  G

     C              C                 Am                  F     C
In December when the seventh fleet was turned to smoke and ashes
                 Am               D7                F       C
The order came to confiscate their fishing boats and caches
                  C                Am                F    C
And Kiri's husband forced to go and work in labour camps
                      Am       D7               F             
And Kiri left alone to fend and hold the fort as best she can

        C            C              Cadd9 Am                F            C
But the music did not drift as often,         up the cove at Kiri's house
                  Am               D7                   F     
And when it did it sounded haunted, played with worry, played with doubt
    C             C           Cadd9   Am                F
For Kiri knew that soon she too  would be compelled to leave
        C                Am              D7                F  
And the old upright would stay behind and Kiri she would grieve

INTERLUDE: F   G   C  F  G

  C          C               Am         F      C
I loaded Kiri on the bus with stoic internees
                        Am                 D7                 F    C
The crime that they were guilty of was that they were not like me
             C                Am              F
And if I was ashamed, I didn't know it at the time
          C             Am                D7                 F     C
They were flotsam on the wave of war, they were no friends of mine

                C           Cadd9 Am                    F         C
And I went up to Kiri's house         to tag all their belongings
                    Am                D7                   F     C
And set them out for auctioneers who'd claim them in the morning
                C               Cadd9 Am              F
One piece that I thought I'd keep and  hold back for myself
         C             Am           D7             F     G   C   F   G   C
Was that haunting ivory upright that Kiri played so well

INTERLUDE: G   C   F   G   C

            C            Cadd9 Am                   F        C
Kiri had not left it there         for me to take as plunder
                      Am              D7          F       C
She'd rolled it down onto the dock and on into the harbour
                   C                      Am                   F     C
That old upright in strangers' hands was a thought she couldn't bear
                   Am            D7            F    
So she consigned it to the sea to settle the affair

   C              C            Cadd9 Am                  F      C
So many years have come and gone         since Kiri's relocation
                 Am                D7             F       
I look back now upon that time with shame and resignation
    C             C        Cadd9 Am            F
For Kiri knew what I did not that if we must be free
     C                Am           D7       F        C
Then sometimes we must sacrifice to gain our dignity
     C             C        Cadd9 Am            F
Yes, Kiri knew what I did not that if we must be free
     C                Am           D7       F    
Then sometimes we must sacrifice to gain our dignity