The Three Signs


Dukkha, Anicca, Anatta 
The leaves are falling fast,
The reign of the rose is ended.
The sky is overcast.
The whole world is filled with sadness.
From city and jungle rise;
The cry of life's suffering children
The daylight slowly dies.

Our Lord looked with love and pity 
Upon every living being.
From the lowliest child of nature 
To the mightiest crowned king. 
For hatred, delusion, passion 
Still claim and enslave us all. 
And each alike on the wheel of change 
Must suffer, and rise, and fall.

Dukkha, Anicca, Anatta. 
Tho' every life knows pain; 
He who faithfully walks the Path 
Will not look for help in vain. 
The Law of the Tathagatha 
Forever will light the way; 
It is our moon to shine by night. 
Our sun to illume the day.

In Lord Buddha we take our refuge.
His Law of Good our Guide. 
To pilot us as we toss and drift 
On being's remorseless tide.
With th Dhamma's light to steer by,
Some day we'll fear rock no more,
But merit won, each will moor his barge,
On Nirvana's changeless shore.


Guitar Chord:

D A7 D
G A7 D
Bm F#m
Em A7
D A7 D
G A7 D
Em A7 F#m Bm
Em A7 D