Scorn Not His Simplicity 
(Words and music by Phil Coulter and Bill Martin)
Intro: 

C 
  
  

See the child 

With gold-en hair, 

     Dm/C 

yet eyes that show the emp-ti-ness inside. 

G/B 

          Do we know? 
  

G                                               C       Dm/C                              C 

          Can we un-der-stand just how he feels, or have we ___ real-ly tried? 

See him now 

                                       Dm/C 

as he stands a-lone, and watch-es child-ren play ____ a child-ren's game. 

G/B 

          Simple child, 

G                                                   C                   Dm/C            C 

          He looks al-most _ like the oth-ers, yet they know he's not the same. 

G/B          Am                     Fm                                     C                 F/C                   C 

                        Scorn not            his sim-pli-ci-ty, __ but rat-ther try _ to love him all _____ the more. 

G/B          Am                     Fm                                      Gsus4         G 

                         Scorn not          his sim-pli-ci-ty, __ oh _ no,      oh ____ no. ___ 

See him stare 

                                       Dm/C 

not re-cog-nis-ing the kind face that on-ly yes-ter-day he loved 

G/B 

          the lovoing face. 

G                                        C         Dm/C                                C 

         of a mo-ther who can't un-der-stand what she's been _ guil-ty of. __ 

How she cried 

                                    Dm/C 

tears of hap-pi-ness the day the doc-tor told her, "it's a boy." 

Now she cries 

G                                                 C                    Dm/C              C 

          tears of help-less-ness, and thinks of all the things he can't en-joy. 

G/B          Am                     Fm                                     C                 F/C                   C 

                        Scorn not            his sim-pli-ci-ty, __ but rat-ther try _ to love him all _____ the more. 

G/B          Am                     Fm                                      Gsus4         G 

                         Scorn not          his sim-pli-ci-ty, __ oh _ no,      oh ____ no. ___ 

C 

Dm/C 

G/B         G           C         Dm/C 

C 

                                                             Dm/C 

On-ly he knows how to face _ the fut-ure hope-ful-ly sur-round-ed by _____ des-pair 

G                             G                                    C                     Dm/C                C 

         He won't ask           for your pi-ty or your sym-pa-thy, but sure-ly you _____ should care. 

G/B          Am                     Fm                                     C                 F/C                   C 

                        Scorn not            his sim-pli-ci-ty, __ but rat-ther try _ to love him all _____ the more. 

G/B          Am                     Fm                                   Gsus4              G                                  C 

                         Scorn not          his sim-pli-ci-ty, __ oh _____ no, oh ____ no, ___________ oh no.