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Chords for guitar accompaniment:
/ G D C G / C G C D / 1st /[1. 2nd :/[2. C G CD G /
/: D G C D / C - D - :/
/: Em D C G / " :/
/ G D C D / " / G D C G / C D G - /
/ G D C G / C G C D / 1st /[1. 2nd :/[2. C D G - /
When I was young in years forgotten
I made a dragon out of cotton
Stuffed with playful dreams and gleaming polyester
But now how old and now how gray
Is my pride of yesterday
Worn by play and tattered from adventure.
The trappings of childhood have lasted all these years
And I still cry for tragedies and injured knees and happy endings.
If I tried a while could I banish all these tears,
And would life still be worth living without fantasies and childish tendings?
Threadbare dragon, I’ve kept you all this time;
You’re my firelight in winter and my sun in summertime.
Years may drag on but childhood is mine
Through my dear threadbare dragon.
But seams come loose and wings will fray
When cloth grows weaker day by day.
It’s a deadly grip that clutches you too fondly.
But as your dying thread unwinds
You’re reborn a thousand times
In pencils, paint and patient origami.
For still I hear your nostalgic song
Like evening light on something gone.
Floating with me as years grow long
Comes something right to banish wrong.
Threadbare dragon, your music stays
Though shadows grow and cotton fades.
You’ll still give me my playful ways,
My dear threadbare dragon.
My dear threadbare dragon.