Rolling Down the Hole
(J. R. R. Tolkien)

D G C D 

  D         G 
Roll-roll-roll-roll,
  C                A7 
Roll-roll-rolling down the hole
  D          G 
Heave ho! Splash plump!
  C             A        A7 
Down they go, down they bump!
  D                    C 
Down the swift dark stream you go
  D                 C 
Back to lands you once did know!
  Em                    A 
Leave the halls and caverns deep,
  Em                  A 
Leave the northern mountains steep,
  D               C 
Where the forest wide and dim
   D               C 
Stoops in shadow grey and grim!
   Em              A 
Float beyond the world of trees
 Em              A 
Out into the whispering breeze,
  D               C 
Past the rushes, past the reeds,
  D               C 
Past the marsh's waving weeds,
   Em                   A(?) 
Through the mist that riseth white
 Em               A 
Up from mere and pool at night!
   D              C 
Follow, follow stars that leap
 D              C 
Up the heavens cold and steep;
  Em                  A 
Turn when dawn comes over land,
 Em          A 
Over rapid, over sand,
 D               G 
South away! and South away!
  C                A 
Seek the sunlight and the day,
   D              G 
Back to pasture, back to mead,
   C                 A 
Where the kine and oxen feed!
 Em             F#7 
Back to gardens on the hills
  Em             F#7 
Where the berry swells and fills
  H7             Em 
Under sunlight, under day!
  G              A7 
South away! and South away!
 D                    C 
Down the swift dark stream you go
 D                 C 
Back to lands you once did know!