39 Live Chords

Notes:
Brian May plays this solo on a 12-String acoustic.
 
[Intro]
    G/B      D      Em      C     G           D     C      G
e|---3-------2------0-------0-----3-----------2-----0------3------|
B|---3-------3------0-------1-----3--3p0------3-----1------0------|
G|---0-------2------0-----0-0-----0-----2p0---2-----0------0------|
D|---0-----0-0------2-/4----2-----0---------0-0-----2-0h2--0------|
A|---2-2h3----------2-------3-----2-------------0h2-3------2------|
E|--------------------------------3------------------------3------|
 
    G/B      D      Em     C   Cmaj7   D       G
e|---3-------2------0------0-----0-----2-------3-|
B|---3-------3------0------1-----0-----3-------3-|
G|---0-------2------0----0-0-----0-----2-0-----0-|
D|---0-----0-0------2-/4---2-----2-----0---4---0-|
A|---2-2h3----------2------3-----3-------------2-|
E|-------------------------------------------3-3-|
 
 
[Verse 1]
         D                         Em
In the   year of '39,    Assembled here the volunteers, in the
C         G          D             Em          Em7
days when lands were few   and the ship sailed out into the
C                        Dsus4    D          G
Blue and sunny morn  the Sweetest sight ever seen.
 
        D                           B7
And the night followed day, and the story tellers say
         Em    Em/F# Em/G    Am    Am  Asus2  Am        *Em bass notes slide up the 4th string
That the score brave souls inside
    G                         D
For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
C            Em    C     D       C     G    D
Ne'er looked back, never feared, never cried.
 
[Chorus]
          G                           C            G
Don't you hear my call, though you're many years away,
G                 C  G    D
Don't you hear me calling you
              G    B7     Em   Em7     C    G/B        Am
Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand
       G/B  G/C*      D    (/E/F#)** G                 *5th str 2h3 for the bass  **D notes on the 4 string
In the land that our grandchildren knew.
 
[Verse 2]
       D                  Em
In the year of '39 came a ship in from the blue
         C          G         D
The Volunteers came home that day
         Em         Em7       C
And they bring good news of a world so newly born
             Dsus4     D       G
Though their hearts so heavily weigh
        D                             B7
For the earth is old and grey, little darling we'll away
       Em       Em/F# Em/G  Am    Am  Asus2  Am        *Em bass notes slide up the 4th string
But my love this cannot     be
   G                    D
So many years have gone though I'm older but a year
C             Em   C         D    C      G    D
Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me.
 
[Chorus]
          G                           C            G
Don't you hear my call, though you're many years away,
G                 C  G    D
Don't you hear me calling you
              G    B7     Em   Em7     C    G/B        Am
Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand
       G/B  G/C*      D    (/E/F#)** G                 *5th str 2h3 for the bass  **D notes on the 4 string
In the land that our grandchildren knew.
 
[Last Chorus]
          G                          C            G
Don't you hear my call though you're many years away,
G                 C  G    D
Don't you hear me calling you
            G    B7     Em   Em7    C       G/B        Am
All your letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand
 
Am     Em
For my life
       D
Still ahead
     G
Pity me.
 
 
[Outro]
    G/B      D      Em     C   Cmaj7   D       G
e|---3-------2------0------0-----0-----2-------3-|
B|---3-------3------0------1-----0-----3-------3-|
G|---0-------2------0----0-0-----0-----2-0-----0-|
D|---0-----0-0------2-/4---2-----2-----0---4---0-|
A|---2-2h3----------2------3-----3-------------2-|
E|-------------------------------------------3-3-|
 
 
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| p  Pull-off
| h  Hammer-on
| /  Slide up
 
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